Ericthescruffy [he/him]

You know I realize in the grand scheme of things this is kind of a weird/sad thing to fixate on but I can’t get it out of my head that in like 20-30 years hollywood is gonna do some “based on a true story” film about this operation that plays out like an Ocean’s style heist movie or something.

I get the impression it was very different in the early 20th century, but I honestly think that fascists in the early 21st century on the whole probably don’t even realize they’re fascists and will reject being called one purely on reflex. You see this particularly well in a lot of terminally online nerd spaces where people will state and argue for cis white male patriarchal supremacist positions without a moments hesitation but will react with complete incredulity if you call them on it. Some of them are being self aware crypto-fasch sure…but a lot of them just deny it because they have just enough awareness and self preservation that they recognize that makes them a bad person and doing any work to be better is much harder than just pretending.

All this is to say: the people who voted in favor of fascism are the ones already excited to slap a swastika on. A huge number of the people who voted “Don’t Know” are probably down to fuck with fascism…they would just rather call it liberalism.

I don’t want to do the math on how much I’ve donated but I can tell you now its been more than $27.

Yeah…only thing that makes me feel like this is still semi-hyperbolic is…didn’t Afghanistan and the last quarter of a century plus already kinda show that to be the case? Ukraine itself already kinda seems like the result of that sense that the west is insurmountably powerful being squashed.

I don’t disagree and like I said in my post: we do indeed suck. I just want to push back slightly because looking at the numbers I think reality bears out more that Americans are deeply confused and propagandized. Its fair to say that a lot of people have arrived at the right conclusion for all the wrong reasons and I’m all down with throwing out a “death to amerikkka” as we feel it…but I also think the more important takeaway to have in this situation is that the feelings of the American public are essentially immaterial here. The empire doesn’t care.

I don’t want to give us too much credit cause we definitely do suck but: I do think its worth remembering that polls show a significant majority of Americans support a permanent ceasefire. This is just another example of democracy being a dog and pony show while the empire carries on doing whatever the hell it wants.

The best description I’ve heard that really absolutely nails it: “Its an absolute 5 star 2 star banger of a movie.”

Kinda in the same vein as Commando with Schwarzenegger. Insanely unbelievably stupid movie and so goddamn better for it.