it's actually impossible to appropriately dash this in the english language. i tried.

i'm using candle. i don't hate it.

i have around 50,000 highlights, extracts, and annotations from the past 20 years reading and finally decided to bring the "artificial intelligence" of ten years ago to bear on it.

how did luis guzman get roped into this

a genx post about being genx if you can believe such a thing happening on this site.

right. i think fascists are definitely out there and definitely form a part of the basis of his support. but it's just not a useful way of characterizing the movement as it exists. it gets in the way of understanding how it operates, leads to people making bad predictions, etc.

in my mind, the mass movement that undergirds trumpism looks more like the semi-spontaneous collectivities that are organized around open source software. it relies on mobilizing and exploiting fan labor in the same ways. when people talk about politics as fandom, they don't go far enough.

this is why it's hard to talk to liberals about this, because there's an assumption that political organization doesn't matter or is autopoetic. but it's the political organization, not its ideology alone, that made fascism uniquely dangerous.

this is still ideology, though. i am talking about the concrete ways the movement organizes itself. there's basically no organization. there are no party structures. there's been no attempt to build them.

i really do not think this is a trivial distinction, it's what distinguishes fascism from every other right-wing nationalist formation. the problem is that people have an insufficiently negative view of those other forms and think calling it by a more appropriate name is discounting the danger.

i still do not think it is. not because it isn't *bad*, but because it completely lacks the political organization and party structures of that every fascist movement actually has. but if you do believe it is fascism, you better be organizing your neighbors and getting ready for street fights.

truly. if they meant it, they'd be acting completely differently.

like obviously.

let gucky

i'm not a big "everything is eugenics" guy, but the ideology of meritocracy is so deeply entangled with the methods and hyper-ordinal worldview of eugenics that it ought to give more people pause.

innumerable cruelties in this tweet alone.