Elon Musk is popping off again about the need for “hard men” to lead us into the future and the disaster that empathy has been for western civ. This is something he apparently learned from Tolkien.
Here’s Adorno on Nazis who thought that being hard was necessary for the salvation of a master race.
“The idea that virility consists in the maximum degree of endurance long ago became a screen image for masochism that, as psychology has demonstrated, aligns itself all too easily with sadism.”
The dog needs to be walked.
Laundry needs to be folded.
Kids and carpools and bills beckon.
It’s a lot.
Alongside this everyday treadmill, democracy in America needs to be defended and renewed.
No one person can do it all, but doing nothing and being discouraged is fascist gold.
Find your thing. Dig in. Rest and restore as necessary. Go again. And again.
We can do this together. The future is unwritten.
#uspol #democracy
DJT has presided over the two longest govt shutdowns in US history.
He's perfectly happy to sit on his hands while Russ Vought guts the whole thing because "dismantlement of the administrative state" makes his dictatorial ambitions easier.
Pesky democracy. Pesky checks and balances. Pesky rule of law.
King Donald can't be bothered with any of it.
There’s assholes out here trying to tell you that today’s demonstrations were useless virtue signaling.
Asserting your values and showing up for each other is never an empty gesture.
No circular firing squads. No trolling. No woker than thou sermons.
We build together. We live in truth. We say NO to this administration’s moral contamination.
That’s already something.
#uspol #democracy #NoKings
More than 6000 in #Syracuse for #NoKings.
Three times more than April.
Fifty percent larger than June.
Something has awakened. Soon this Rust Belt town will be WOKE.
The thing to remember is that the MAGA fascists want you to feel demoralized. They want you to feel disempowered and complicit. It’s part of their nihilistic plan to dirty everything until you no longer care enough to fight for its preservation.
The fascist program has many ugly and violent facets, but one of them is to slowly drain their opponents’ energy, through repetition of force and dishonesty, of any sense of hope or idealism.
The antidote?
#NoKings
