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There is absolutely a Cultural Revolution feel to the communication by and around the president. See e.g. Bill Ackman's fully-prostrated worshipful response on

by ajross 2y ago

There is absolutely a Cultural Revolution feel to the communication by and around the president. See e.g. Bill Ackman's fully-prostrated worshipful response on Twitter this morning. The guy is a successful billionaire! And he needs to sound like a literal cult member in public lest he lose influence.

hayst4ck 2y ago
Yes, project 2025[1] is our own cultural revolution/great leap forward. The authors said: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[2] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-...
- covercash 2y ago
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- BonoboIO 2y ago
  I'd pay serious money to jump 30 years into the future just to read what historians will write about our current time. Not for investment tips or anything practical - just to satisfy my curiosity about how this bizarre period will be analyzed and understood.
  - hayst4ck 2y ago
    When everyone feels this way instead of fighting for the future they want to make reality... There are journalists, protestors, entrepreneurs, unionists, billionaires, etc, all fighting for what those history books will say. Ukrainians are fighting for what they will say right now. I think a better question is what do you want them to say. Do you want them to say tyranny triumphed un-resisted?
  - AlecSchueler 2y ago
    Assuming it isn't the most sane period for a long time to come.
    - BonoboIO 2y ago
      True. And … if there is a future at all.
      - hayst4ck 2y ago
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8 You should watch this (12min). You just expressed the "politics of eternity." You should check out Timothy Snyder in general to see what historians are saying about our current times.
georgemcbay 2y ago
The obeying in advance and reflexive glazing is scary in a Twilight Zone or slow-start-of-a-zombie-movie sort of way, but the fact that Trump is playing very fast and loose with due process, talking seriously about "deporting" American citizens and is actively applying economic death penalties to people on his bad side (like the EO stripping security clearance not only from Chris Krebs, but everyone who happens to work at his current employer) is scary in a "is the US as we know it actually going to survive this?" kind of way. And I'm just pulling a few things off the top of Many Very Worrying Things here for brevity.
sinuhe69 2y ago
And don’t forget the Jan 6 types. They are the Red Guards of Trump and he used them on Jan 6 as an experiment. Pray we don’t have to witness a new culture revolution in our time!

by ajross 2y ago

hayst4ck 2y ago

Yes, project 2025[1] is our own cultural revolution/great leap forward. The authors said: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[2] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-foundation-trump-revolution/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/03/heritage-...

covercash 2y ago
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BonoboIO 2y ago
I'd pay serious money to jump 30 years into the future just to read what historians will write about our current time. Not for investment tips or anything practical - just to satisfy my curiosity about how this bizarre period will be analyzed and understood.
- hayst4ck 2y ago
  When everyone feels this way instead of fighting for the future they want to make reality... There are journalists, protestors, entrepreneurs, unionists, billionaires, etc, all fighting for what those history books will say. Ukrainians are fighting for what they will say right now. I think a better question is what do you want them to say. Do you want them to say tyranny triumphed un-resisted?
- AlecSchueler 2y ago
  Assuming it isn't the most sane period for a long time to come.
  - BonoboIO 2y ago
    True. And … if there is a future at all.
    - hayst4ck 2y ago
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8 You should watch this (12min). You just expressed the "politics of eternity." You should check out Timothy Snyder in general to see what historians are saying about our current times.

georgemcbay 2y ago

The obeying in advance and reflexive glazing is scary in a Twilight Zone or slow-start-of-a-zombie-movie sort of way, but the fact that Trump is playing very fast and loose with due process, talking seriously about "deporting" American citizens and is actively applying economic death penalties to people on his bad side (like the EO stripping security clearance not only from Chris Krebs, but everyone who happens to work at his current employer) is scary in a "is the US as we know it actually going to survive this?" kind of way. And I'm just pulling a few things off the top of Many Very Worrying Things here for brevity.

sinuhe69 2y ago

And don’t forget the Jan 6 types. They are the Red Guards of Trump and he used them on Jan 6 as an experiment. Pray we don’t have to witness a new culture revolution in our time!