I dunno, like it's not that hard to understand the MECHANICS of what happened.
This entire fascist ecosystem in the media and American politics, what we now call Trumpism, was carved out of the husk of Reaganism (Bushism to you youngins) by being more openly fascist and white supremacist than the mainstream GOP was willing to be.
Well who is more openly fascist than Trump/Trump cultists? Yeah you gotta start getting into Tucker, and Candice Owens, and Nicky Fuentes.
The reason it's so hard for you to accept is because we were all here, for the online genesis of these influencers. We know they're unhinged losers.
But the reality is that right now, as we speak, the entire dark money right wing media and social media ecosystem is bleeding views at an unsustainable rate, at the exact same time as the OPEN NAZI CONSPIRACY THEORISTS are gaining them.
Doesn't take a genius to figure out what's happening. Fail to take this seriously at your own peril.
I dunno, like it's not that hard to understand the MECHANICS of what happened.
This entire fascist ecosystem in the media and American politics, what we now call Trumpism, was carved out of the husk of Reaganism (Bushism to you youngins) by being more openly fascist and white supremacist than the mainstream GOP was willing to be.
Well who is more openly fascist than Trump/Trump cultists? Yeah you gotta start getting into Tucker, and Candice Owens, and Nicky Fuentes.
lol, apparently Fuentes and Andrew Tate have actually become the "fellas, is having sex with a woman... gay?" meme.
I wish I were making that up.
(Fuentes posted that "being a wifeguy is gay," and Tate was like OMG YES GIRLFRIEND IT IS SO GAAAAY, and holy shit man the fact that your children care who these people are is an indictment of American parenting...)
Again, what most of these people don't seem to remember is that nothing is forever, not even dictatorships. Eventually, everything you do in service to nazism catches up with you... sometimes, at the end of a rope.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251223-how-fascist-lord-haw-haw-was-trialled-for-treason
Okay but imagine having to be the intern who has to go to the billionaire nazi donors and Heritage Foundation bigwigs and say "yeah the fascist takeover might be cancelled because raging antisemite conspiracy loons Candice Owens and Nick Fuentes are more popular than we are..."
I mean jesus fucking christ I'd pay real cash money for a livestream of that shitfit...
shrugs
The funny part is trying to get people to understand all this shit, about the relationship between (then) nascent fascist movements in the Pig Empire, fossil fuels, billionaire cultists, was problematic because to people who don't understand how capitalism works it all sounded like a conspiracy theory.
It's less hard now because Trump just more or less admits he's working for billionaires to kill you and it's all about oil.
So no, there is no other capitalism besides fossil fuel capitalism because the capitalists themselves will die before they allow that to happen.
Which btw? Might not be such a bad idea, given that even if they fail (and they will fail) it will likely kill billions.
PS btw - if you ever sat around asking yourself why fascists and other assorted reactionaries are so committed to climate science denial, this is the deeper layer beyond "well money, duh" that answers that question.
You see, it's not just enough that they force society to continue to burn fossil fuels. For those reserve-based assets to maintain value, the market/investors must assume that we WILL DEFINITELY burn all that oil at some later point.
If tomorrow you said no more oil, all that booked oil becomes worthless, and everything pinned on it implodes. Most of the richest people in the world would be infinitely less wealthy and powerful, overnight.
Do you think they will ever willingly do that? So we can switch to your "not oil" version of capitalism? Willingly? No right? Now let me remind you:
They own everything, they are buying whole governments and their armies, they are installing fascists and building police states
Guess why?
So no, there is no other capitalism besides fossil fuel capitalism because the capitalists themselves will die before they allow that to happen.
Which btw? Might not be such a bad idea, given that even if they fail (and they will fail) it will likely kill billions.
The fact is, we've "booked" more than enough fossil fuels to burn the planet to ash multiple times over. These reserves aren't even out of the ground yet, but they are transformed into a financial asset - an asset that is treated as good as if they'd actually sold the oil/gas/whatever already. This asset is then speculated on, borrowed against, traded, and utterly intertwined with the entire economy.
If tomorrow you said no more oil, all that booked oil becomes worthless, and everything pinned on it implodes. Most of the richest people in the world would be infinitely less wealthy and powerful, overnight.
Do you think they will ever willingly do that? So we can switch to your "not oil" version of capitalism? Willingly? No right? Now let me remind you:
They own everything, they are buying whole governments and their armies, they are installing fascists and building police states
Guess why?
Also, as a side note:
If you think there's a different capitalism, not based on oil, waiting out there for some genius to figure out and save this way of life, it's because you don't understand how a financialized economy works.
The fact is, we've "booked" more than enough fossil fuels to burn the planet to ash multiple times over. These reserves aren't even out of the ground yet, but they are transformed into a financial asset - an asset that is treated as good as if they'd actually sold the oil/gas/whatever already. This asset is then speculated on, borrowed against, traded, and utterly intertwined with the entire economy.
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