Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
About the same time the checks from billionaire media owners stop being cashed.
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About the same time the checks from billionaire media owners stop being cashed.
Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Weaponized unreality is destroying people’s ability to understand a non mediated world and that detachment is not just accelerating in novel and complex ways but compounding itself through more and more malign forms of social and cultural reproduction.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry sympathizer I’m revoking your ability to speak for a while. Boring!
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascists sympathizers are just fascists without any confidence.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
“The well being of my white upper middle class friends may be disrupted if you continue actually opposing fascism why won’t you just stop rocking the boat and making me personally uncomfortable.” Fixed your response sympathizer.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Says the reactionary conspiracy enthusiast. Sad!
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Lmfao
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh you’re one of the conspiracy theorists who doesn’t understand reality. Gotcha. Fascists don’t need pretext if they want to use violence they will they don’t need an excuse. Try again
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
If you feel the need to holler…. You might be a hit dog.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Fascist sympathizers are just as dangerous as the fascists they sympathize with.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
We get it you’re a fascist sympathizer
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Neoliberalism requires a recuperation of radical energy and it sees fascism the same way it has other forms of what it considers radical energy but unlike other movements it has absorbed fascism cannot be absorbed as it fundamentally changes the systems it attacks and repurposes.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Neoliberals also attack anyone showing actual principled pushback against fascism or genocide as it allows them to alleviate their dissonance while also claiming there is nothing else they can do It’s why they love Newsom he is hollow and they can pour their own imaginary into him.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
That absolutely is a facet of this.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Despair isn’t a good look for you keep trying with the concern trolling. Sorry yall liberals can’t do anything to stop fascism except try to tone police and sow despair. Stick to denying genocide or whatever it is y’all are doing these days.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird right?
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Neoliberals continue to work with fascists because working with whatever the consider the left to be would mean systemic changes that curtail the power of corporations and the wealth class. That is seen as a bigger threat to neoliberals than fascism.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Neoliberals hate the “left” because they actual threaten their power and influence in ways fascists do not.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascism and quisling liberals like that person.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Neoliberals hate whatever they deem “the left” is far more than actually self identifying fascists example 2 million
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
If you make the false claim that doxing fascists is dangerous to the community or is “pretext” for fascist violence you don’t understand fascism and you are a threat to those who do.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird right? Hmm wonder why.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
And you have been wrong every time in the past as well. Hate to break it to you your concern trolling neoliberal bullshit doesn’t work.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Begone concern troll. bsky.app/profile/vict...
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
dox every memebr of ice. Dox every fascist you find. Make fascists fear being openly in your community.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
It’s amazing the comments we get at did nothing wrong when we actually start having conversations about reality not the hopium of the neoliberal unreality state.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
had one of those weekends in the northlands that was quite clarifying. Go touch grass it’s good for you. I promise the horrors will still be here when you get back.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Labor Day is an odd holiday to me as it is literally about white men doing labor and a holiday for them and only them. When Labor Day was started in the 1890s Labor Day excluded those suffering under the racial fascism of Jim Crow. Labor Day is a really interesting Americanism tinted by its history
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted
American fascism first phase was always to resegregate society while rebuilding the systems of patriarchal control and violence used to subjugate women and those seen as a threat to the fascist vision of “normal” including the end of same sex marriage and the violent erasure of lgbtqia+ folks.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that why you deleted all of you comments Adam? Like these? You’re a bad liar Adam. Sad!
Brooke (@brooklynmarie.bsky.social) reposted
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Like it’s counterparts in history depends on this ebb and flow and the eventual erosion and destruction to help maintain and build its power and influence due to the compounding loss of the fundamental bedrock social infrastructures and cognitive process.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascism is like the tide or a river, as more time is spent fighting the current and the flow of fascisms all consuming unreality and chaos it erodes and shapes the bedrock below. The longer the bedrock is exposed to the current the more it is formed by it allowing for it to compound.American fascism
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
American fascism first phase was always to resegregate society while rebuilding the systems of patriarchal control and violence used to subjugate women and those seen as a threat to the fascist vision of “normal” including the end of same sex marriage and the violent erasure of lgbtqia+ folks.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump was never the full threat. He was always a figurehead and an avatar for the real power of American fascism and his pan right backers.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep trying to downplay corruption it’s amazing how mad you are people are openly against corporate corruption like this.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Adam thinks being corrupt is the correct way
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s amazing you’re admitting to all of it and then implying the reporting is wrong. Cool cope
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately American fascism is solidifying so quickly they even if Trump disappeared tomorrow the damage would continue and compound Vance and his backers are more dangerous than Trump and the infrastructure exists to ensure they never leave office We are in deep trouble and we must confront it
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
People need to realize that “the walls are closing in” and “Trump is dying” are similar in that they are speculation and a distraction from the realities of fascism in America and it’s accelerating intensification.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
The war against language is part and parcel with the ongoing attack on epistemic reality and the belief that people can know anything as true. It’s authoritarian infrastructure building 101 to destroy the ability to“know true things” and produce knowledge not moderated through the authoritarian lens
Cas Ⓜ️udde (@casmudde.bsky.social) reposted
For decades American Politics has missed or ignored the major political challenges to the U.S. political mainstream (neoconservatism, Tea Party, far right). Even now, there is no major rethink while the use of euphemisms like “populism” and “racially conservative” obscure rather than explain things.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted
The attacks on the last bastions of shared reality and free knowledge are gaining momentum everyday now. Fascism requires the destruction of knowledge and knowledge production outside of its narrow, myopic vision of reality and truth.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
People are… really cooking in the comments.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
That is conspiratorial to the max.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
You are and poorly.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
These people couldn’t be bothered to even try.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
His corporate taking points don’t account for the fact people know the truth and want to end corporate influence
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
How much do we want to wager Austin archer is taking money from the group in question here? He is a prime candidate for the dncc ans os parroting thwir misinformation almost verbatin including usimg the language described in the article bsky.app/profile/omno...
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Really interesting to see some of the responses coming to this thread, and how obviously transparent they are in their misinformation and propaganda attempts. Trying to discredit this article in such a blatantly dishonest way only works against these powers. They expose themselves.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Hit corporate dog hollering.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
As someone who has been publicly speaking and writing about the radicalization and authoritarian leanings of the Democratic establishment, specifically the corporate wing of the party for years none of this is surprising. However it does illuminate the party has been compromised completely.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
The article raises serious questions about a number of issues one of the most important being who else is involved with this anti-Democratic and bad faith propaganda effort on other social media platforms not just those those listed in the article and some of the ensuing reporting.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
I will add a few screen caps from the article as well as a unwalled copy here later in this thread. It’s clear that the corporate Dems are going all out on the dark money Maga model for attempting to maintain control of a party that they are deeply out of touch with.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s good.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that that the director of the sixteen thirty fund is a Clinton dead ender who has run communications for everything from the Rockefeller foundation and the center for American progress.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point anytime a large liberal voices claim that people on the academic and research side or within the countering authoritarianism circles are “uneducated”or “doomers”it might be smart to ask the question are they being paid to lie? This website is filled with this kind of blue maga misinfo
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Many of them have spent every day since this piece came out, absolutely spinning out to the point where it’s clear that they were making large amount of money to push propaganda in the exact same way Maga functioned.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Blue Maga has been and is a threat as it is an inherently anti democratic movement that looks to entrench technocratic corporatism in place of actual Democracy and use Trump as a nothing more then a lever to achieve that power.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
That neoliberalism is a failure with slander, lies and a well thought through mechanism to smear those seen as a threat with absolutely heinous lies.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s very interesting after reading this article and speaking to a couple of friends who are rather well-known streamers and hearing their stories about being approached for this. There is clearly a massive manipulation campaign going on from the corporate Democrats to target anyone pointing out
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
If you have missed the article or any of the other reporting, I’m not surprised as it has almost overnight disappeared from much of the conversation, buried in the authoritarian theater of “Trump‘s dead” www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a feeling we are going to come to find out that this is something that the state level Democratic parties are engaged in as well and I’m really hoping that the two people who are saying they are going to leak the full list of names do so
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
And it is being deployed, not just against streamers, but anyone seen as a threat to the Neoliberal establishment across all of social media. It will be interesting. Once the names from that list are fully published as we are going to see a lot of names. We have come recognize on this website on it.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Deployed to try and discredit and destroy those speaking out. Some of the language eights that there are also smearing anyone who opposes their lies as “racist”“grifters” or worse. The DNCc is very clearly running a misinformation campaign, in addition to their propaganda campaign
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s really interesting? seeing the people who are now coming for to talk about how they were treated when they spoke against this corrupt messaging practices. And there is apparently a playbook that uses certain terms like “Doomer” “conspiracy theorist”and other language that we see on this site
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
It’s fun how we have come to find out that a large portion of the people posting for the Democratic Party are literally taking dark money from the dncc to lie and create smear campaigns against those who have been correctly pointing out they are corrupt and genocidal weird how fast that story died.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
In the past iteration of trumps regime during his first term. Fascism and Neo authoritarianism works because it wares you out and then scoops out your cognition and replaces it with authoritarian geography of society and further and further weaponized unrealities.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a dynamic that was well trodden during Trump’s first term and now in the second term, we are seeing it function much more clearly as a tool for social control and manipulation. The “is trump dead dynamic” was an indication that Americans are far further down the social control path then
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
We are going to have to have a long long chat as a society about the reality tvification of American fascism and the response by the population. It’s really something that most of America is living in a “next week on fascist acceleration: is Donny dead?” Kind of unreality state.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted
This is something that people don’t talk about, but is quite important to the authoritarian dynamic. We are all now exhibiting the hallmark signs of a population that is no longer living in a democratic reality, but living in the Funhouse of authoritarianism and Palace intrigue that comes with it.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Most of Americas authoritarian turn will eventually succumb to digital decay and as the sites that exist now disappear in the future much, of the history of the moment will be lost to the black hole of digitalization and its consequences…. Namely the end of physical evidence any of this existed.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted
Part of countering authoritarianism is ultimately education. Education that eradicates and rewrites the cognitive systems exploited by authoritarian power structures and institutions retooled to serve power not reality or the people. Education and unlearning may seem like opposites, they are not.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
No I hadn’t. Thank you will be reading this
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Information overload feels like a bad hangover.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Part of countering authoritarianism is ultimately education. Education that eradicates and rewrites the cognitive systems exploited by authoritarian power structures and institutions retooled to serve power not reality or the people. Education and unlearning may seem like opposites, they are not.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Martha is a light in a dark world.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did you delete this one? You should learn to post in real English when you’re being a bigot and a reactionary, not use google translate from Russian.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Lmfao
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t be racist against whites. Sorry baby boi cry moar about being a racist and a reactionary. drop. The. Mask. More.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
We may find out.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s a nafo that usually means Nazi these days.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
What is it with yall uppity white moderates getting so mad when it’s correctly pointed out yall are just racist crybabies who want permission to be as racist and hateful as maga?
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s an ongoing fight and I’m not sure I’m winning some days.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
American authoritarianism and plunges everyone into a massive reality TV show framework for government Where we are more focused on the intrigue and what if then, the reality we face because it’s much easier to sell authoritarianism as such. It’s second nature for Americans to fall into it.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I see that it says Neil instead of neoliberalism. Forgive my fingers and blame autocorrect as we are in a battle for my soul.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Fucking autocorrect.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
The authoritarian information state and the Weaponized unreality of American fascism are doing the work that they are built to do which is cocooning every American in reality that no longer is based on truth or reality but feelings and emotion and vibes Rende the Democratic social process moot.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
Are rapidly changing our cognitive and behavioral processes And that includes the game of Palace intrigue we now all are immersed in, these are key facets of authoritarian Society and a society that no longer has any attachment to reality beyond the mediated forms that are allowed under the regime.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
American Society is rapidly being remade through a process of social construction and manipulation that from the outside is ever present, but for those of us living on the interior, seems like background noise. Neil liberal society has been dismantled and is being retooled, these social changes
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
This is something that people don’t talk about, but is quite important to the authoritarian dynamic. We are all now exhibiting the hallmark signs of a population that is no longer living in a democratic reality, but living in the Funhouse of authoritarianism and Palace intrigue that comes with it.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Just a reminder that neoliberalism is unable to stop fascism and electoralism is not just unable to stop fascism it may in fact allow it to solidify further if all a population does is wait to vote as Americans are doing. The longer fascist solidifies the more damage you have to do to excise it.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Honestly this kind of thing is more likely than him being dead.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
A veep style miniseries just about the last days in the whitehouse and the backstabbing going on would do real numbers.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reply parent
We could get real comedy back at any point.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
Hopefully someone leaks the signal chats and we can get a cast reading in the style of the death of Stalin if it happens.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social)
The attacks on the last bastions of shared reality and free knowledge are gaining momentum everyday now. Fascism requires the destruction of knowledge and knowledge production outside of its narrow, myopic vision of reality and truth.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted
When the courts are openly asking if they can rule in a way that won’t be immediately dismissed by a higher corrupt court do you no longer have rule of law. Democracy and rule of law were not built to withstand the weight of a truly authoritarian movement that will continually not follow the law