the upside of our current fascist regime is that resistance is coalescing in an environment where all the competent counter insurgency experts for replaced with a dozen copies of Paul Bremer
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The Profound Incompetence of Pauls Bremer is definitely a double edged sword, because while he absolutely beefed any attempt to actually stop the insurgency, he ALSO set back the reconstruction of Iraqi civil society by a generation or two in order to do what would now be called "DOGE bullshit"
On the one hand, it's not great that the regime is excited to use the military might of the state to fuck up citizens.
On the other hand, everyone in power is a fucking moron.
(On the third hand, the "fucking moron" claim includes the leaders of the opposition party).
Sounds like it's time to find a better opposition party and kick the old one out. Republicans follow Trump because they're afraid to lose primaries; Democrats should be even more scared.
"oh, wow that was a whole thing. let's pretend it never happened and go back to normal, ok?"
vs.
"we're gonna do a reconstruction to every voter and institution that brought that upon us and we're not gonna stop until they act like americans again"
Americans can't even imagine having more than two parties, huh?
Your incredibly fucked up electoral system is a large part of how you got to this point, and your fantasy of how the future will be are "we'll have two parties, but slightly better".
I hope so. Democrats had four years to put a stop to this and they did nothing. Your country needs a complete overhaul, including fixed terms for Supreme Court judges, etc. Plus some kind of legislation that if you’re under criminal investigation you can not run for ANY office.
The only way Americans will change is if they see no better choices. It must be common knowledge for every citizen that fascism temps with false privileges for the few as a means of being separated (temporarily) from the majority that face persecution. Everyone must internalize intersectionality
After reading about fascism I came to the conclusion that fascist is a synonym for lazy incompetent corrupt idiot because you need to be all those things to believe it’s a workable ideology.
I've been thinking about how the Conservatives in Canada have collapsed so completely, and I wonder how much it's related to US intelligence infrastructure being eviscerated by DOGE. I was expecting a more competent and directed online disinformation campaign.
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On the other hand, everyone in power is a fucking moron.
(On the third hand, the "fucking moron" claim includes the leaders of the opposition party).
"oh, wow that was a whole thing. let's pretend it never happened and go back to normal, ok?"
vs.
"we're gonna do a reconstruction to every voter and institution that brought that upon us and we're not gonna stop until they act like americans again"
Your incredibly fucked up electoral system is a large part of how you got to this point, and your fantasy of how the future will be are "we'll have two parties, but slightly better".
I flipped through, and he learned absolutely nothing from his failures.
It's L.'s Paul Bremer. Get it fucking right omg
BTW, I read Norman Ohler's Blizted because of you. It's given me a perverse hope in seeing the weird terrible regime fall sooner than later.