I swear I’m not Jessica

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  • You sound very cisn’t to me for what it’s worth. Feelings of ambivalence are often disassociation from the fact that you aren’t able to be yourself. After getting a taste of euphoria, it becomes more difficult to live the way you used to. You also start to want more; often more than you ever imagined you’d want.

    In my experience, it becomes much harder to invalidate yourself as you experience more euphoria and allow your desire for change to grow. A cis person wouldn’t enjoy escaping the confines of their own gender, and wouldn’t feel so disappointed if they’re unable to do so.

    And remember, the only thing you need to be another gender is the desire to be one. There are no special gatekeepers; those that try to gatekeep only deny the truth. You can just be an enby if you want; it’s that simple











  • There will not be a successful power struggle because of the person JD Vance is. He will take office after Trump, but unlike him, he will actually be a puppet to oligarchs with no agency. The biggest lie people tell themselves about Trump is the he has handlers and is totally controlled by other people. However, if the rich actually wanted an obedient puppet, they would’ve chosen literally anyone else. They support Trump because only he could give them so much, but Trump is a dangerous person they’d rather have without. He has irreplaceable political support, while Vance is a weak yes man who will follow whatever his beneficiaries want.

    They will demand elections, not because they want to return to genuine liberal democracy, but because they’ll want the stability and support for the system liberal democracy brings. If Vance somehow wins even with the increasingly toxic MAGA brand and his lack of charisma, they’ll get more of what they want. If Democrats win, they’ll get a corrupt goon who will repeal none of Trump’s changes that actually benefit them, while throwing a few bones to social progressives.

    A new Democratic administration would not be a return to the past, but a chance for them to solidify policy changes with more popular support. The next Republican administration doesn’t have to worry about pardons because the weak ass Democrats will never do a fucking thing beyond the bare minimum for revenge. They’ll be too busy attacking the left for being China loving communists. All the while, the things taken away will fade from political memory, and people will get used to our new cyberpunk dystopia.

    But that’s not all!

    While a lot of oligarchs do want a more conservative social order, they want money and economic control more. They’ve already won big, and a number of changes like abortion access and anti trans bigotry are unlikely to reverse course. They’re taking such a big chunk out of our civil rights that even if half of them were restored, they’ll still have won enough to keep them satiated for now. Even better, as the Democrats once again prove to be ineffectual and weak, they’ll be able to sell fascism as the solution once more.

    You over estimate AI and propaganda’s ability to create stability. People having shit material conditions will always create instability that the oligarchs need to lean into to maintain control. Them having a Democrat win an election is not them losing anything, but all part of their plan. We aren’t in for a stable authoritarian government where the people are made poorer and more powerless every year. That just isn’t possible and never has been. China is strong now because they made their country wealthy and powerful, while the Soviet Union collapsed because they made member states bitter and squeezed their people for no meaningful benefit. Now the US will follow the Soviet Union into the graveyard of empires, and it will probably be even less pretty than that era was for them



  • Few can match his weird charisma with the masses, even if they can better bend the government to their will. When strongman leaders die, they are notoriously hard to replace, so considering how Trump has torn down anyone with independent popularity while filling his administration with weaklings like Vance, the party will not stay in power without him. Even much of the right will be sick of the state of the economy, despite their unwillingness to admit that it was all their fault. This wave of fascism will die with Trump, and that’s why nobody has succeeded in replace him over the last decade.

    Besides, I think the oligarchs will want more stability after he’s gone, and with the Democrats getting more corrupt every year, placing them in power will be a no brainer. Foolish liberals will believe whatever bullshit they’re sold about “rebuilding our democracy” and “swinging the pendulum back,” while some Gavin Newsom like corporat will be chosen as the next king. With the rise of China as the dominant superpower, they’ll sell everyone on anticommunist bullshit that’ll win over many of fascists that used to follow Trump. They’ll likely continue throwing minorities like trans people and immigrants under the bus, but they’ll be nicer about it and dress it up as “serious concerns” to give plausible deniability to people who thought Trump only went too far.

    If that’s what you mean by replace him with someone competent, then maybe you’re correct. However, that’ll be a distinctly different stage to what we have right now, and it likely won’t last either for the very same reason that neoliberalism led to fascism in the first place.











  • It seems to mostly be about understanding the dangers of AI, not putting ChatGPT sermons on every street corner.

    As much as I dislike the church, them leaning into liberation theology is certainly better than the alternative. At a time when so much of the world has uncritically embraced oligarchy and authoritarianism, the public messaging alone is helpful. It may be purely a strategy to recapture people people who have walked away for social consciousness reasons, but it still makes it easier for genuine leftists to radicalize the flock into direct action.