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@randahl We’re not in Kansas anymore, Randahl.

@randahl

Actually, can you imagine any elected official in the US government saying ‘I don’t give a crap about you or your country’ even 8 years ago?

@Shivviness @LaChasseuse

The irony of it is… gender equal rights, like racial equal rights, were good, socially and economically for everyone. Including men.

It has been unrestrained capitalism that has hurt men (and almost everyone else). That is the one thing they really don’t want us to talk about.

@Shivviness @LaChasseuse

It really is.

But, we’ve been through these times before, and we persisted and overcame. And we’ll do it again.

The fact that we shouldn’t have to, ugh… that’s another story.

If there is one thing that is universal about this masculinist crap - they all shit in their own beds.

As Canadians and Europeans, we grumble a lot. Often for very good reason.

But I think why the US Administration hates and fears both Canada and the EU so much is because they are terrified that one day, their own people will realise that it is possible to live in a society that:

-Takes care of its sick
-Gives people dominion over their own bodies.
-Gives new parents time to adjust to a new baby
- Makes hate speech a crime
-Takes the concept of the rule of law seriously
-Embraces human rights

@christineburns Hey, this is how it starts. @GottaLaff

Good grief.

Because what is really called for is a ‘strongly worded letter’.

The Democrat deficit is truly, truly alarming. The US needs another party. This one isn’t functioning as an effective opposition.

@DrumsCoyote

Oh, I don’t know. I know a lot of kindergarteners with far more understanding of cause and effect.

So…
Lemme get this straight. The Trump administration is so incontinent it can’t stop leaking the most secure of all defence plans, and…

To try and get the news cycle past it, they’ve decided to dismantle the entire federal judiciary.

Or, if that doesn’t fly, maybe they’ll decide to nuke Denmark?

We are in the completely batshit crazy upside-down now, with a bunch of end of the worlders who just don’t fucking care.

photo by Ümit Bektaş

All because Erdogan doesn’t want to have to run against the very popular Mayor of Istanbul.

@Tharpa
I think your ‘lump of mud’ analogy is super apt.

Because he is eerily unformed. So is Musk. They are not actually grown up men. They spend an inordinate amount of time and effort projecting themselves as grown up men precisely because they are not.

@thepoliticalcat @SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex

@SuneAuken I love that woman. She can read power-brokers with uncanny specificity. @passenger @fishidwardrobe @thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex

@SuneAuken
I’m never going to forget - not Musk’s hand gesture - but the look on his face when he did it. It was libidinal pleasure.

And I’ve seen it on Trump’s face at different points too.

Of course, there is no one more castrated than a man who continually tries to prove he’s not.

@fishidwardrobe @thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex

@SuneAuken
Both Trump and Musk harbor incredibly deep rage at not being accepted as part of the elite, cosmopolitan ‘in crowd’. All their money could not buy them that status. Each in their own way, they are enjoying the ability to take revenge on those who excluded them in a myriad of ways.

@fishidwardrobe @thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex

@SuneAuken
I don’t think they actually think about it with that much determination.

I think two things are happening at the same time:

They are getting a great deal of transgressive libidinal pleasure in doing things that were, until very recently, out of the question and forbidden by custom and socially condemned. Like the Nazi salutes. AND, they are using their power to get away with what they can, for their own benefit.

@fishidwardrobe @thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex

@fishidwardrobe

Honestly, I think we fantasize some all-powerful, shadowy evil think tank pulling the strings in the background. And ironically, there’s a strange comfort in believing there is any coherent direction.

But I fear this is worse. No one is running the show. The object of the exercise is to destroy the ’show’ completely, through absurd acts.

@thepoliticalcat @SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex

@Nonilex @thepoliticalcat @SuneAuken @emory

I do think it is a distraction we ‘progressives’ have a real penchant for getting lost in.

We want to know why people are the way they are. But there comes a point where I think it is ethical to deny them the dignity of your curiosity.

They’re just monstrous assholes.

@thepoliticalcat

The thing is… Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are legitimate puzzles.

But Musk and Trump are not puzzles. They are so fucking banal. Arendt was spot on when talking about the banality of evil. These fuckers are so deeply banal.

@SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex

@thepoliticalcat

You know, I have always been passionately and deeply interested in the psychological details of complicated, dodgy people. But recently, I’ve completely lost interest in it. I don’t give a fuck why he is the asshole he is. Much like Trump. I won’t give them the dignity of being interested in why they are the shits they are.

@SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex

@SuneAuken
It baffles me that, being as rich as he is, he wouldn’t have at least a couple of advisers who would game it out for him.

@thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex