Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative—in other words, to become anarchists.
50 million new voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they’re not going to be. Our future is sham elections with predetermined outcomes.
ETA: that’s not to say that I think shooting people is the solution - it’s not. But voting sure as hell isn’t going to be either.
Luigi got arrested. He makes a nice symbol. The next shooter is going to be killed by the police. And the one after that and the one after that. Look at the Black Panthers and how well they survived.
50 million voters means that there are 50 million new people engaged. 50 million people who are going to be working at the elections and asking questions.
Musk is nowhere near as strong as the KGB was before the USSR fell.
A dozen shooters is something that looks fine in a movie; 50 million is what changes the history books.
Again, those 50 million voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they will not be.
Those days are gone. With Musk and his minions running roughshod over the federal computer systems, there will never be another legitimate federal level election in the US.
The only part I don’t understand is how you can apparently believe that the USSR going through something that sort of equates with a Chapter 11 reorganization, divesting itself of most of its subsidiaries and rebranding itself as “Russia” is in any way relevant.
Luigi shot a CEO.
The only change is that now the CEOs have better security.
It’s progress if you’re a security goon who needs a paycheck, but it doesn’t change the status quo.
To me, an accelerationist is anyone who goes for the big, spalshy gesture that does nothing.
Which do you think is really going to scare Musk more; a dozen people getting shot, or 50 million new voters registered in the next six months?
A dozen people getting shot.
Really.
50 million new voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they’re not going to be. Our future is sham elections with predetermined outcomes.
ETA: that’s not to say that I think shooting people is the solution - it’s not. But voting sure as hell isn’t going to be either.
Let me explain.
Luigi got arrested. He makes a nice symbol. The next shooter is going to be killed by the police. And the one after that and the one after that. Look at the Black Panthers and how well they survived.
50 million voters means that there are 50 million new people engaged. 50 million people who are going to be working at the elections and asking questions.
Musk is nowhere near as strong as the KGB was before the USSR fell.
A dozen shooters is something that looks fine in a movie; 50 million is what changes the history books.
Again, those 50 million voters would only matter if their votes were legitimately counted, and they will not be.
Those days are gone. With Musk and his minions running roughshod over the federal computer systems, there will never be another legitimate federal level election in the US.
What part about the fall of the USSR didn’t you understand?
The Soviets had far more power than Musk has now, they’d held it longer, and they were far more ruthless. They fell.
The only part I don’t understand is how you can apparently believe that the USSR going through something that sort of equates with a Chapter 11 reorganization, divesting itself of most of its subsidiaries and rebranding itself as “Russia” is in any way relevant.