axont [she/her, comrade/them]

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Cake day: October 4th, 2020

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  • I’m surprised this kind of thing didn’t happen sooner. Right wing media narratives about Trump and Epstein have had to make more and more compromises the more obvious it became the two were very close. At first it was something like “Everyone knew Epstein. The Clintons knew him too!”

    Then it was something like “Ok Trump and Epstein were close but Trump didn’t know about the pedo stuff.” Then it was “ok Trump knew about it but that’s why he didn’t talk to Epstein after 2003.” I guess now we’re at a point where they have to argue that it wasn’t actually pedophilia.




  • You’ve basically hit the nail on the head. Furthermore I’d like to add to this we’ve already seen a Trump admin try to handle massive domestic unrest and it didn’t work in 2020, it just made people even more pissed off. Now that anger did get channeled back into electoral liberalism and then diffused because that’s something America does, but without that, and assuming the premise that 2026 riots would be more severe and involve actual starvation or something, I just can’t see it.

    This admin barely has its shit together right now when there’s not a domestic insurrection. They’re slowly losing international support for the Zionist project and they keep trying and failing to invade Venezuela. I can’t really predict how Americans would respond to extraordinary amounts of state enforced violence (to the point it disrupts everyday commerce) because I can’t think of any precedent really. But I also can’t imagine this current admin would suddenly become competent enough to suppress extreme discontent. I can only imagine something like 1970s Ireland transplanted into now.



  • I personally don’t think there’s enough cohesion among the domestic arms of the state to enact martial law. There’s only enough cohesion to terrorize people who are already deemed undesirable or invisible. Formal military control of everyday life would probably flop because it requires actually doing something and maintaining a disciplined state apparatus.

    Our current state apparatus can’t even do a military parade. The only thing they know how to do domestically is perform brutish, cheap, and quick raids. It’s an administration of lazy idiots who all hate one another and are all trying to sabotage the other not because of political aspirations, but because they want to be on podcasts.

    Maybe I could be wrong but we’ve already seen riots during a Trump admin, in 2020, and the best they were able to muster were some scattered and undisciplined BORTAC squads who only seemed to know how to chuck tear gas indiscriminately and shoot dogs. And I’m supposed to believe those same guys, with the same leadership structure and training, are supposed to become a permanent domestic occupation? Like what, doing checkpoints on roads or coordinated raids? Controlling the news media? I guess I can’t see it

    What dispelled the 2020 riots weren’t civilian fears of inhaling tear gas or getting a shield to the face. What dispelled it was the promise of electoral liberalism, which is always what the American state tries to offer (note it does not offer this to the undesirable/invisible class).







  • I have the reverse experience reading in public. Usually people are polite and curious but I’m reading something that weirds them out. Like the other day I was reading a collection of Louis Althusser essays, coworker asks about it, I respond with something like “uhhh, just some philosopher guy. I’m not sure how to explain succinctly.”

    Too late, guy asked grokkk which responded with something like “Louis Althusser was a schizophrenic French Marxist who murdered his wife in 1980.” And I mean I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to that because yeah that’s who he was



  • If I wanna be really generous to Sotomayor she might only be talking about in her capacity as a Supreme Court Justice. Since the only changes that can be made to the Constitution have to be ratified through either the house+senate or a national convention called by the states. For anyone in the judicial branch, the constitution might as well never change because it’s not their job to change it or propose changes. Their job is to interpret the words and say what the constitution means.

    But yeah if just a normal person says the constitution can’t change that’s nonsense. My favorite is when some chud will say the constitution is final/immutable and yet they’ll have a 2nd amendment tattoo or something. Like dude the 2nd amendment is a change that was made to the constitution.