wind0113.bsky.social
The most interesting thing about me is that I used to be a communist. I still am, but I used to be one, too.
If you're a spam account, bot, etc., you're getting a block. Bands can follow, though, and I'll check you out, especially post-metal, punk, etc.
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What else to expect from someone who writes for a think tank that says they're "radically pragmatic." These people's goal in life is to cosplay The West Wing.
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He wants to break everything. He knows how this plays out, which is why he's doing it.
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Reactionary centrists like @mattyglesias.bsky.social leave the gates wide open for far-right neoreactionaries.
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Trump and Musk are scary, but what's terrifying is the absolute lack of understanding on the parts of liberals, and so absolute lack of ability, to oppose what's happening. They are leaving the gates open, because process tells them to.
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No.
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This may seem evasive, but it's not. I can't keep having this argument through a microblogging format. I'm going to sincerely ask you to go read Curtis Yarvin's "Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century." That is where they're trying to take this.
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Everything you think they're after is because you're assuming they're trying to operate on the same kind of federalist, liberal governance that has characterized the US for the last 100 years. That is not what is at play here.
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If Musk and Trump's goal is to go for a devolved, autocratic patchwork, what makes you think they need a federal Treasury? I'm begging y'all to understand this. On my knees, begging: their goal is not to save or strengthen or make a competent federal government.
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No one! That's. The. Point. This is why I said you still think this is January 19th. The rules you think are at play, are not actually at play. You're thinking of Trump as if he's Biden, but more of an asshole. This is something entirely different.
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No, I don't. And that's the thing I keep trying to tell you. They don't want 80,000 Treasury employees. Their goal is to evacuate the federal state, not backfill positions. You keep saying "they don't have the authority," but they're doing the thing. Y'all aren't accepting what is actually going on.
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Other loyalists that have been installed by Trump and DOGE.
Maybe we're getting semantically crossed. When I say "the civil service," I'm meaning the nonpartisan bureaucrats who actually carry the work out at these agencies. Who have been fired or are being fired for the most part.
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DOGE. Are we watching and reading the same thing? Who do you think is overseeing these mass layoffs? It's loyalists under the influence of DOGE. Or are you going to sit here and tell me that they are apart of the civil service that is currently being shot through a meat grinder?
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What fantasy do you think I've made up?
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Right. Which is to destroy the federal state. They've done that and they're cleaning up right now. That's what these EOs do. Firing the civil service is nothing BUT hamstringing them from doing their work.
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This directs DOGE to continue mass firings of civil service, federal employees, and to staff the agencies with loyalists.
What's the point in opposing Trump if you just straight deny that he's doing what he's doing?
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Y'all still aren't at the step of "Trump is doing what he says he's doing." There is no leg for you to stand on when you exhort someone else to "accept reality."
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For real? "Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative". He's straight up telling you what he's doing and you don't believe him. What do you think the underlying reason is for that EO?
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I said it's not "a success," because that's not what's actually happened. The Army rescinded its order to support trans members the day after they said they were going to continue to support them. If the Army rescinds that, it means they're denying that trans people exist in their ranks.
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You've noticed, right, that the EOs have largely been about how to hamstring federal workers, rather than directing them on what to do? And why they've installed loyalists while clearing out the civil service?
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So you're gonna go with a Trumpian tactic of mistating what my position is, rather than actually address the situation that has happened.
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You're still not getting it. They don't want federal employees to do any of the work. They want the federal state gone. They've already killed it; right now, they're disposing the corpse. That's the step we're at right now. The inability to see this is obstructing actual organization.
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The very day after the Army sent out that letter saying they weren't going to enforce transphobic guidelines, they reneged. So... no. Not a success.
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What does matter if they view it as "presumptively legal" or not if there is no enforcement mechanism stopping them? That's where we are at now. That is the game. You're still operating as if this was January 19.
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It's not success at all! They are still able to do what they're doing virtually unabated.
Y'all aren't going to see this for what it is until everyone is already rounded up and living in these autocratic patchwork shitholes that they're barreling toward.
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How is he abiding, in any meaningful manner? They're still tearing through federal agencies. The people they were told to not give access to, still have access. Funding is still frozen in critical areas. They have not stopped mass firings.
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And you think "stopping the fash" means calling your representatives and hoping the courts send strongly worded opinions out?
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I'm trying to get that through to people so we can all retool and come up with strategies that don't rely on institutions that will not save us.
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Because it's energy directed toward a useless venture. Trump said it today: the law doesn't apply to him, and there is no enforcement mechanism in play to say or prove otherwise. Even if the courts rule against him, he's not going to abide. The institution has no control over him.
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If you "give up" then you're cedeing to this neoreactionary movement. It's, in fact, what the Democrats have already done. "Giving up" is "calling your senators and representatives" and sitting around waiting for the courts to save us.
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If what you get from what I'm saying is "give up," then you're not paying attention. What I'm telling you, instead, is that what needs to be done will be more difficult than anything you've experienced socially or politically. But it's possible. And it's the only way to defeat neoreactionary fascism
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Liberals overseeing the end of humanity. Who could've thought that would ever happen. ✌️
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My profile is open to the public so you can start. You might actually learn where we are.
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Have you read any of them?
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Hakeem Jefferies, Ron Wyden, etc. The entire messaging of the Democratic Party has been "Call your Reps and Senators," because they have absolutely no playbook or conception of what is happening right now.
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The Democrats are appearing as not doing anything substantive, because they actually can't. They aren't lying about that. The entire game has changed. It's not even the same stadium anymore.
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The end goal is patchwork states, where CEOs rule over autocratic mini states. It's not European fascism from the 1930s. It's the NRx movement come to reality. This has to be opposed by community opposition from the outside.
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You can't oppose something from within that has utterly been decimated and killed off. Everything that people are taking as incompetence is intentional because the goal isn't to rule the federal state; it's to bury it.
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"Not all action is appropriate to be detailed on social media."
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It's not wrong, and it's only defeatist if you buy into "End of History" neocon horseshit.
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Don't you see how that kind of thought terminating reply is part of the problem? I can say the same back to you. The problem I'm running up against is the things I'm trying to get set up depend on people realizing what they want to actively deny.
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It doesn't exist anymore. That's the point.
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What have you done that's made a difference?
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Not to put too fine of a point on it but your God -- the federal institution -- is dead. The deconstruction of the federal state is already happening and there is no force to stop it. We have to deal with it on its own terms.
Until liberals, progressives, etc., realize this, wheels will just spin.
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I'm pretty sick of liberals not realizing what the situation is. "Ignoring the law" has become normalized. The institutions are dead. That you think this is an evolving situation, rather than the actual situation we're in, shows how ill-equipped Democrats are at figuring out what needs to be done.