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Platner in Maine is interesting, isn't he? Will the "of course I'm not a socialist" after saying a lot of very socialist things work on the left as the usual "I'm not a Nazi" works on the right?
We'll see.

«Their interest is in women remaining protected and getting what they deserve, especially for those essentially doing everything in their relationships. While it’s easy to mock the original posters for wanting to legally bind themselves to men who can’t be bothered, one explanation is simple: it’s hell out here, it’s horror.»
The Sociology of Begging Someone to Marry You
https://tellthebeees.substack.com/p/the-sociology-of-begging-someone

It's Interesting today that the popularization of @…'s concept of "enshittification" is leading us to really think hard about how various methods of vendor lock-in enable corporations to abuse users. We see how first there's lock-in then quickly abuse follows, and recognize that the only way out of this trap is to build systems where users can leave at will.
But it's interesting that in this time of rising fascism no one is making the connection to fascism, as both increased lock in and enshittification of government. And no one is making the connection between the need to make systems optional to avoid enshittification, and libertarian socialist arguments against the systemic lock-in (and following abuse) of capitalism and the state.

"The idea of the council system is intimately intergrown with Socialism and is unthinkable without it; dictatorship, however, has nothing whatever in common with Socialism, and at best can only lead to the most barren of state capitalism."
-- Rudolf Rocker
#Socialism #Anarchism

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

"Hope is a Thing With Calloused Hands." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS interviews religion author and sociologist Robert P. Jones on the "Advent in a Time of Authoritarianism" series. https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/

Shrinking the Kernel Attack Surface Through Static and Dynamic Syscall Limitation
Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0372…

Shrinking the Kernel Attack Surface Through Static and Dynamic Syscall Limitation
Linux Seccomp is widely used by the program developers and the system maintainers to secure the operating systems, which can block unused syscalls for different applications and containers to shrink the attack surface of the operating systems. However, it is difficult to configure the whitelist of a container or application without the help of program developers. Docker containers block about only 50 syscalls by default, and lots of unblocked useless syscalls introduce a big kernel attack surfa…

Securing Operating Systems Through Fine-grained Kernel Access Limitation for IoT Systems
Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiangzhan Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology), Likun Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
ht…

Securing Operating Systems Through Fine-grained Kernel Access Limitation for IoT Systems
With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), it is gaining a lot of attention. It is important to secure the embedded systems with low overhead. The Linux Seccomp is widely used by developers to secure the kernels by blocking the access of unused syscalls, which introduces less overhead. However, there are no systematic Seccomp configuration approaches for IoT applications without the help of developers. In addition, the existing Seccomp configuration approaches are coarse-grained, which c…

What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.