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    6 months ago

    If that’s the take away from a Biden loss then totalitarianism really is inevitable in this country because it would indicate that the only party in a position to resist fascism, has refused to ever do so.

    I suppose we’ll see, though you’d never catch me betting against neoliberal stupidity.

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      6 months ago

      the only party in a position to resist fascism, has refused to ever do so.

      Real Weimer Republic Hours. The Friekorps will drag Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht out back and shoot them, for organizing students in a protest against the state. But they can only ever managed to deliver a slap on the wrist to a young German officer and Beer Hall afficianado, before annointing him Chancellor in an electoral wave year.

      you’d never catch me betting against neoliberal stupidity

      The US has been running on fumes since the 2008 financial crash. Even if Biden manages to eek out another 40,000 vote win-margin by November, he’s stuck with a Congress that hates him and an economy that’s powered entirely by magic beans. That means we get another Trump/Trump-adjacent candidate in 2028 and 2032 and 2036 and…