Part of me wishes we could take this shit back in time four years and hand it to Joe Biden, with a note that says “This is why you need to jettison all the Silicon Valley proto-fascists from your contracting pools ASAP.”
But a wiser bit of me knows that a time traveler showing up with a big red warning sign likely wouldn’t change anyone in the prior administration’s mind. The fucking national intelligence services had these people’s numbers ten years ago and nobody cared then either.
The Trump administration has already frozen $18 billion in infrastructure projects in New Jersey and New York, and announced cuts to $8 billion in energy funding from 16 blue states as well.
I’m obligated to point out that this money was a subsidy for some mix of public-private and entirely private build outs of energy infrastructure intended to benefit the rapidly metasticizing AI industry.
Like, the thing he did is textbook bad. But what he is effectively doing is denying government money for wealthy bankers and billionaire industrialists. This money wasn’t going to a fucking soup kitchen. It was intended to accelerate construction of new capital for the benefit of old capitalists. Which… idk, man. Maybe if you pinch Mark Zuckerburg’s coin purse hard enough you’ll get him to flinch.
Well, technically…“doing something about it beforehand” is exactly what Trump is currently doing about his political enemies. It’s kind of hard to fight fascism in advance, without resorting to the same tactics that fascists use.
Unfortunately, fascists are far more comfortable employing fascist tactics, than non-fascists. That’s kind of what gives them an advantage. They have no problem doing fascist shit, in order to get what they want.
Part of me wishes we could take this shit back in time four years and hand it to Joe Biden, with a note that says “This is why you need to jettison all the Silicon Valley proto-fascists from your contracting pools ASAP.”
But a wiser bit of me knows that a time traveler showing up with a big red warning sign likely wouldn’t change anyone in the prior administration’s mind. The fucking national intelligence services had these people’s numbers ten years ago and nobody cared then either.
I’m obligated to point out that this money was a subsidy for some mix of public-private and entirely private build outs of energy infrastructure intended to benefit the rapidly metasticizing AI industry.
Like, the thing he did is textbook bad. But what he is effectively doing is denying government money for wealthy bankers and billionaire industrialists. This money wasn’t going to a fucking soup kitchen. It was intended to accelerate construction of new capital for the benefit of old capitalists. Which… idk, man. Maybe if you pinch Mark Zuckerburg’s coin purse hard enough you’ll get him to flinch.
Too late. Trump doesn’t need them anymore.
Well, technically…“doing something about it beforehand” is exactly what Trump is currently doing about his political enemies. It’s kind of hard to fight fascism in advance, without resorting to the same tactics that fascists use.
Americans have never blinked at using “fascist tactics” in Iraq or Afghanistan, or on minority neighborhoods, or along the border.
Feels late to find a moral compass now. If anything, it’s almost as though fascists are uniquely exempt from fascist tactics.
Unfortunately, fascists are far more comfortable employing fascist tactics, than non-fascists. That’s kind of what gives them an advantage. They have no problem doing fascist shit, in order to get what they want.