I agree with all of this except that there is a grand scheme, it's just awful and pointless and cooked up by failed right wing radio hosts -- to destroy democracy - ThreadSky

brooklynmarie.bsky.social • 3 days ago

I agree with all of this except that there is a grand scheme, it's just awful and pointless and cooked up by failed right wing radio hosts -- to destroy democracy

Reposted from Ian Boudreau

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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sturmyweather.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes. It’s certainly not awful and pointless to *them* and that’s how it needs to be seen. Accepting that means finally taking a big, long-delayed first step in actually stopping them.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

A big hearty co-sign

kevlar.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think the grand scheme has more to do with what Putin holds over тяцмр

cdbrow1.bsky.social•3 days ago

That is what blows me away... in the past when Presidents did stuff I thought was crazy dumb they at least had a PLAN.

We invaded Iraq because they "had weapons of mass destruction"

We bailed out the banks because "they were too big to fail"

Why exactly are we DOING this?

crs1.bsky.social•3 days ago

let me have Chris Murphy explain it -- but think of this as a mafia with other outlets in other authoritarian states

everything going forward is a shakedown of one kind of another (see, Hiding in Plain Sight) https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m

cdbrow1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah I read that last night - really good.

What I mean is the President has not TRIED to dummy up a bogus reason for doing this.

crs1.bsky.social•3 days ago

He did, but "it has to hurt before it feels better" just wasn't selling so I think they decided not to even try to sell it

I look to Lutnick, and he's got nothing but, well, it will get better later & maybe countries wont retaliate

yeah it is such a bad tale they've given up even trying to sell it

crs1.bsky.social•3 days ago

On FOX & Friends they were saying, "why is everyone talking about this"

LULZ

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because we are under attack by people using our own government as cover, and officials who gleefully stripped power from the public at large for demanding the USA stand up for human rights don't have the tits to stop actual threats

cdbrow1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hard to put on a t-shirt - like "These are Freedom Fries now"

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

"I FUCKIN WARNED YOU BRO. I TRIED"

cdbrow1.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://mexicorelocationguide.com/retire-in-mexico/

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

That might be good for someone who didn't spend twenty years pissing off various Mexican administrations like I did!

cdbrow1.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Fuck it - I'm out"

dsullivan238.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's Project 2025. They're following the playbook to the letter.

realityred.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's a cash grab. Billionaires have no need for democracy.

notkaspeck.bsky.social•3 days ago

‪Sarah Kendzior, 2022

"They are stripping down the United States and selling it for parts and trying to convince ordinary Americans that it was their own idea."

derek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yep. I keep saying this too. This is chaos, and they are stupid, but the goal is destruction.

They want to prove the liberal democracy doesn't work, and the only way to do that is burn everything down.

crs1.bsky.social•3 days ago

they are collaborating, teaming up with all the shittiest people, because to do this, you want backup, and the world's other pariahs have their back

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

In other words: it's a global far right power grab

mostestghostess.bsky.social•3 days ago

They're acting out their solipsistic little thought experiments about being able to surf the wave of destruction.

felidana.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/felidana.bsky.social/post/3lltm7rzjhk24

vortexegg.com•3 days ago

Lmao

jennvg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly. A grand scheme based on delusion is not exactly screaming coherent Bobby Fischer strategizing.

alanneff.bsky.social•3 days ago

You just reminded me that, outside of chess, Bobby Fischer was also pretty crazy/delusional.

jennvg.bsky.social•3 days ago

Perhaps I should've gone with Kasparov.

vortexegg.com•3 days ago

Either way, I think people have a “rationalism fetish” in which many broadly assume that the default state of the mind without undue perturbance is reason, and therefore any action must come from a place of considered reason or otherwise the subject must have a mental disorder (stupidity, insanity)

estarianne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sadly the default state of the human mind is 7 cognitive biases in a trenchcoat pretending to be very objective.

alanneff.bsky.social•3 days ago

If only...

patri.xyz•3 days ago

There’s still some shitty Superman III plot beneath this to skim some money, though.

mbhastings.bsky.social•3 days ago

And to destroy gender equality. They want us to switch back to a manufacturing economy so men have a bigger economic advantage.

sivav.bsky.social•3 days ago

You are both right. Add crypto fantasies to it.

pewtergod.bsky.social•2 days ago

...in the name of unfettered Capitalism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/executive-order-independent-agencies-trump/

partialmitch.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rich assholes scheme to own everything.

Racist idiots scheme to divide everything.

Religious zealots scheme to rule everything.

The pillars of American conservatism.

erikas.online•3 days ago

I think you’re right, but I also don’t think they have any plan or agreement on what the post-democracy world looks like. They’re split between xian nationalists and neo-monarchists and tech libertarians and old-fashioned monopolists—which means that the only plan is “break everything.”

funranium.bsky.social•3 days ago

They each want to be a warlord Humungous-style, but aren't willing to put in the gym time to go with the HGH to be one.

essaywells.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's why Musk is such a very peculiar shape?

erikas.online•3 days ago

I’m sure there’s a bunch of plastic surgery in the mix too.

erikas.online•3 days ago

That was my realization a couple months ago: we’re heading for an an-cap Mad Max scenario except with people who literally don’t want to and don’t know how to build ANYTHING or actually fight, which is actually kind of an opportunity to just do our own stuff while they implode?

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

YES

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Completely agree. Actually there's sort of a plan, they think they can beat the worlds people into submission using violence and abuse, and they also think they can manipulate us at scale using disinfo, but they haven't stopped to think that this plan might fail. They think they're the protagonists

erikas.online•3 days ago

They also haven’t thought about how much you have to positively BUILD to do that. Violence at scale requires infrastructure!

erikas.online•3 days ago

There is a horrible perspective from which outsourcing the violent repression infrastructure to places where it’s cheaper is incredibly funny (because who knows if they will continue to have access to it?)

jrobie.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think where I've landed is that it's both of these things, and you could plot each of the relevant players on a spectrum with "Deluded/Senile True Believer" on one end and "Dipshit Machiavelli" at the other end.

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think I'm right there with you actually

munson.land•3 days ago

“Buy the dip” has many meanings

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