@itsbasil

not one for politics; but… the corpo-techno imperialist surveillance state became irreversible under obama in 2010 citizens united was the legal unmasking; tho globalization and financialization had already hollowed out sovereignty in other words: it was inevitable either way, china would come knocking in time the first weed seen by the public surfaced under nixon, when corruption stopped being exceptional and became systemic it was then legitimized in 76 under ford, when money was constitutionally protected as speech the illusion of democracy emerged in the 80s under reagan, when markets, consumption, and cultural wars replaced civic power; when news became entertainment the system was fully consolidated in the 90s under the clintons and bushs, when both parties aligned around the same donors, institutions, and global order this has nothing to do with liberals or maga, neither of these groups, nor the others, have independent thought it is the result of a decades-long convergence of capital, state power, media, and technology: a playbook that has now been replicated across the eu this is a system that now reproduces itself regardless of who is elected so chill with the “this side, that side”; there has effectively been only one side for well over fifty years now and love thy neighbor, regardless of the color of the flag they fly, for they are not the enemy, but a fellow victim of a system that once promised to protect them a system that now manipulates them into turning against that very neighbor not gonna fight anyone on any of this: it doesn’t matter… as always, we go one way; always has been…

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