In case anyone doesn’t know,

Fascists start with the minorities within minorities, the smallest groups they can, to test the waters, get the smallest pushback, boil the societal frog, and normalize those people going away. It’s an easier and more manageable proposition for the Fascists to send LGBTQ to the gas chambers a letter at a time as the other letters hunch their heads hoping not to be noticed than have to fight a unified LGBTQ, for example.

It’s what the “First they came for the socialists” poem is about. If you don’t defend the lives of those unlike you, unless you have blonde hair, blue eyes, and tow every single ideological line of “normality,” they’ll get to you eventually(unless you’re very wealthy, they’ll get a pass as always no matter what, don’t worry), and as they force you on the train Tesla CyberSwastiBus, you’ll remember all the people you were fine with suffering the same fate when it wasnt you, no longer there to appeal to in solidarity to save your selfish, solely self-interested ass.

That’s what I hate about capitalism even before its inevitable end stage of fascism, its faustian appeal to the darkest part of our nature: “rational self-interest,” the rebranding and rehabbing of being a selfish antisocial fuck into somehow being virtuous. It’s the opposite. It is the very bedrock of being a shitty person and the underlying cause of most human suffering, "sure, but what’s in it for meeeeeeee?"

It boggles my mind how so many don’t/can’t/refuse to see how this foundational requirement of capitalism, the nurturing of selfishness as virtue and not profound character defect worthy of scorn, will always lead society to mass dehumanization of others. How else can you be comfortable eating a feast on a personal mega yacht while children are denied school lunches and human beings die under our freeways? “Well, I’m better than them, they’re beneath meeeeeeee after all so they deserve their suffering and I deserve all their portions.”

Maybe Saruman would be a better metaphor for the Neoliberals, but Saruman just seems too… competent.

"I affirm your identity! You’re free to be who you are without shame! As you die in a cardboard box under a freeway of exposure for failing to be exploited well enough, and as an intentional threat to the other poories to keep laboring for their corpo bribers. 🤷

Ooh, but here, have a ribbon! I hear they’re quite tasty when boiled."

They’re not the primary villain, those are the corpo Fascists, but they’re sure as shit the bumbling secondary antagonist. The Denethor to Sauron.

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Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you’ll never really know who invented it in the writer’s room.

"Who I am is where I stand.

Where I stand is where I fall."

-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who

I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I’ll never get it out. That doesn’t stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you’ll be remembered as isn’t your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.

It is inevitable that capitalists will conquer their state, but with constant vigilance, for a time, capitalism can and is used as an engine to serve society, so long as it is heavily regulated and hobbled. The Nordic nations for example.

It’s when the capitalists begin to be allowed to influence their government, and convince the people THEY can live larger than their neighbors if it weren’t for all the social equity evil government enforces, capitalism’s signature siren call.

The Nordic countries still have free to roam policies. Capitalism here capturing their own regulators and being allowed to warp public opinion with blatant self serving lies through for profit media pulpits make some Americans eager to shoot other Americans.

I’m not for capitalism at all because it eventually leads here, to fascism, and eventually someone in power will be dumb or corrupt enough to let their guard down. But we let our capitalists conquer our government, as have several western nations. And here we are.

Never forget, the fruit of the tree of capitalism is fascism.

Capitalism unrestrained and left to do its thing, as it has, always leads to fascism. Fascism is the takeover of the state by the capitalists.

This is why fascism is blooming all over the western world. The global capitalist economy is simply in full bloom sitting on entirely captured nation states and fruiting.

The fruit being concentration camps, war, poverty, and scapegoating. Anything to blame literally anyone and everything else for all the inhuman malice the capitalists are doing to attempt to satiate their unquenchable greed.

If anyone still cares about maybe not ending the world for humanity, the capital markets must be destroyed, and speculative investment by passive robber barons not actively participating in laboring to produce products and services must be outlawed. But don’t worry, we’ll fade into the oblivion of greed made climate change out of cowardice. We’ll probably be grateful to die to that after the Fascists have had their fun.

Sorry, you’re stuck with hoards of people our economy has made too poor to get citizenship elsewhere. Shitty country run by selfish oligarchs. 🤷