There appears to never have been any thought by the oligarchs that have brought us this fascism that it did not work. That giving absolute power to one person is a mistake even when that person isn’t a deranged asshole to start with.
It didn’t work for the rich people that wanted to protect their investments from the Socialists, and that is about exactly what is going on here, our rich were so scared of a little moderate reform that they created a monster they cannot control that will destroy them if they get what they want destroy them one way and or another.
They think they are in charge, that they will never run afoul of the supreme leader, that the supreme leader will not tank the economy in 12 different ways, and go ahunting oligarchs to seize their assets. All very mistaken and all going to happen sooner than later.
For the life of me I’ll never understand the Authoritarian mindset.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is a fucking cakewalk compared to understanding the personality differences between Authoritarians and normal people.
Actually Men Are From Mars, Woman Are From Venus somewhat sums up the authoritarian mindset. Mars is the god of war, and Venus is the goddess of fertility / beauty. Men fight wars, women have babies.
Some of us (the authoritarian men) fight wars in order to dominate and exploit other people.
Others of us (the non-authoritarian men) fight wars in order to defend against the first type of people, so we can be left the fuck alone and live in peace.
And sometimes the first group figures out a way to trick men from the second group into fighting for their bullshit causes. Couching a fight for domination and colonialism into a “fight for freedom” and all that.
Authoritarians are the absolute worst, and offer no benefit to anybody but themselves. They’re parasites.
If a man wants to be your king and master, the only sensible recourse is to kill that man.
My theory is that it’s less that they’re truly dumb as fuck, but rather that they’re not particularly special – or does that make them dumb as fuck, LOL? – and there’s almost a dunning-kruger like effect. They see how powerful they are, able to act with near-impunity, and they don’t realize how much of that has to do with whatever distribution of power and hesitance to use state violence exists in the flawed but democracy-ish systems they’re currently dominating.
Yeah, I think this is a lot of it. They have never been told no or told they were wrong and they have come to believe it’s because they are brilliant and infallible, not because they were born powerful and have never not been powerful.
Hitler was in his 40s when he became dictator. He had 12 years as ruler. I wonder if trump thinks that if he could get 12 years as dictator then it won’t matter if he has to shoot himself because he’ll be in his 90s.
The strategy here is start later in life… biology moves faster than the law or politics.
Very rich people are generally not very smart, beyond being sociopathic manipulators, if you call that a form of EQ.
Very rich people are either pampered and priveleged old money, or ruthless two faced psychopaths. Or both.
Neither of these things really requires any kind of artistic creativity or much analytical ability or broad knowledge set or metacognition / self reflection.
I get where prez’s head is at, he is losing it as we speak, falling asleep during televised meetings, reading off of teleprompters as often as not. But everybody else going along with the supreme leader mold is just quite mistaken as to how that will work out for them. I suspect the end result will be a Joseph stalinesque results. Not a single person in leadership will be alive as Supreme leaders tend to get paranoid as shit.
Vance will not end up with supreme leader. He will be shunted aside one way or the other I think. That he would not make a good supreme leader is why he was chosen by the president in fact.
The succession fight will be ugly and perhaps our last chance to take the country back before the fix is in too deep. Even then we would need to win by a large margin and have a muscular campaign.
They do not have a shortage of people wanting to fill those spots. Yes they’re incompetence has prevented them from succeeding as of yet, but that was last term, everyone gave up in any position in the establishment this time.
There appears to never have been any thought by the oligarchs that have brought us this fascism that it did not work. That giving absolute power to one person is a mistake even when that person isn’t a deranged asshole to start with.
It didn’t work for the rich people that wanted to protect their investments from the Socialists, and that is about exactly what is going on here, our rich were so scared of a little moderate reform that they created a monster they cannot control that will destroy them if they get what they want destroy them one way and or another.
They think they are in charge, that they will never run afoul of the supreme leader, that the supreme leader will not tank the economy in 12 different ways, and go ahunting oligarchs to seize their assets. All very mistaken and all going to happen sooner than later.
For the life of me I’ll never understand the Authoritarian mindset.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is a fucking cakewalk compared to understanding the personality differences between Authoritarians and normal people.
Males are from Omicron Persei 7, females are from Omicron Persei 9.
Actually Men Are From Mars, Woman Are From Venus somewhat sums up the authoritarian mindset. Mars is the god of war, and Venus is the goddess of fertility / beauty. Men fight wars, women have babies.
Some of us (the authoritarian men) fight wars in order to dominate and exploit other people.
Others of us (the non-authoritarian men) fight wars in order to defend against the first type of people, so we can be left the fuck alone and live in peace.
And sometimes the first group figures out a way to trick men from the second group into fighting for their bullshit causes. Couching a fight for domination and colonialism into a “fight for freedom” and all that.
Authoritarians are the absolute worst, and offer no benefit to anybody but themselves. They’re parasites.
If a man wants to be your king and master, the only sensible recourse is to kill that man.
Maybe the rich and lazy are actually just dumb as fuck? Scared all alone in their castle sitting on a throne of gold, they’ll believe any con man.
My theory is that it’s less that they’re truly dumb as fuck, but rather that they’re not particularly special – or does that make them dumb as fuck, LOL? – and there’s almost a dunning-kruger like effect. They see how powerful they are, able to act with near-impunity, and they don’t realize how much of that has to do with whatever distribution of power and hesitance to use state violence exists in the flawed but democracy-ish systems they’re currently dominating.
Yeah, I think this is a lot of it. They have never been told no or told they were wrong and they have come to believe it’s because they are brilliant and infallible, not because they were born powerful and have never not been powerful.
That’s my question too. Hitler shot himself in a bunker. Fascist governments don’t often work out for themselves. What’s the end game for Trump here?
Hitler was in his 40s when he became dictator. He had 12 years as ruler. I wonder if trump thinks that if he could get 12 years as dictator then it won’t matter if he has to shoot himself because he’ll be in his 90s.
The strategy here is start later in life… biology moves faster than the law or politics.
From one of my favorite (and very wordy) comics: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html
What do they care about their eventual, shitty diaper encased end if they can wield the power and be looked at as a god by their cult?
Except this comic talks about being a ruler for decades. Trump is going to die in November.
What happens to trump and what he thinks are two very different things, yes, but it’s more about the motivation explanation.
Stroke on a burger?
Very rich people are generally not very smart, beyond being sociopathic manipulators, if you call that a form of EQ.
Very rich people are either pampered and priveleged old money, or ruthless two faced psychopaths. Or both.
Neither of these things really requires any kind of artistic creativity or much analytical ability or broad knowledge set or metacognition / self reflection.
There ya go.
It doesn’t have to work forever, it has to work for now.
I get where prez’s head is at, he is losing it as we speak, falling asleep during televised meetings, reading off of teleprompters as often as not. But everybody else going along with the supreme leader mold is just quite mistaken as to how that will work out for them. I suspect the end result will be a Joseph stalinesque results. Not a single person in leadership will be alive as Supreme leaders tend to get paranoid as shit.
Stalin was a man of steel who surrounded himself with tough guys like Felix Dzerzhinsky and Lavrentiy Beria.
Trump’s cohort will crack like bamboo when he passes and they have to stand on their own.
Can you actually imagine JD Vance lasting eleven hours under interrogation? Hilary did it without having a hair out of place.
Vance will not end up with supreme leader. He will be shunted aside one way or the other I think. That he would not make a good supreme leader is why he was chosen by the president in fact.
The succession fight will be ugly and perhaps our last chance to take the country back before the fix is in too deep. Even then we would need to win by a large margin and have a muscular campaign.
Hitler had one Minister of Propaganda and a thousand hardcore road captains.
Trump has a thousand propagandists and no one next to him who could actually make a fist.
They do not have a shortage of people wanting to fill those spots. Yes they’re incompetence has prevented them from succeeding as of yet, but that was last term, everyone gave up in any position in the establishment this time.
They’re going for a full court Hitler press.