the speed at which the US is falling apart is astounding

complete subversion of the organs of government by corporate forces

the almost immediate erasure of anything trans-related

families being ripped apart, people being deported and dehumanized in general

it feels like a prelude to the violence

the tech freak fascists have the reins now

the thiels, musks, and yarvins of the world get to see their vision carried out in amerikkka

the world burns

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      Don’t get me wrong, I am totally on board with this. Shame it has to be the core imperial boomeranging too close to the sun rather than they simply come to their senses and work together with the global south for world peace as a way to atone.

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    That’s the point. The system is designed to punish. You’re supposed to be afraid.

    They want people to get a taste of what will happen for thinking that they could withhold their votes to defy the system. If you don’t vote for us, we’ll make sure you’ll suffer even worse.

    The real question is how many people who sat out of the election will start voting for Democrats again.

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    it feels like a prelude to the violence

    This is the violence. It can escalate, but dehumanizing immigrants and trans people (on top of and extending anti-blackness) is already violence as embodied by ICE raids and deportations, bans on participation and forced detransitioning.

    I understand that you would not intend to undermine or disagree with what I just said. I just want to emphasize that violence has already started and has been here.

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    I don’t think falling apart is right. It’s evolving. Into something less refined but more stochastic

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    Breaking stuff is easy. If you’ve ever broken a room down to the studs, that’s the easy part. Large room for error, you’re already breaking things.

    Building it back though. That takes a good long while. Requires layering, time, small margin of error.