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by johannesberlin 148 days ago
what is going on in america? it’s starting to look like a social experiment
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My best interpretation is that the apparent craziness of everything we're seeing reflects the level of how much the social order has really broken down.

We saw similar (albeit somehow tamer by contrast) things in South Africa during the excesses of the State Capture [0] years - people (mostly those complicit in trashing the country) started to do and say bonkers things. Jacob Zuma (like Trump) also acted as a lightning rod for these types of crazy characters. Genuinely sensible members of the public started to fabricate or grasp at wild explanations for what was going on. It took a major toll.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondo_Commission

Good analogy. Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality. Listen properly!
> Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality

I find people are much less dismissive of this comparison now compared to his 1st term.

> Listen properly!

For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNa6992ih4. Always fun to have a reason to give it another watch :)

Folks want to provoke a civil war because they know they can't deliver what they promised in the 2024 election.
I call it 'Trashism'
Trashism, that's a great term. I've been at a loss for words to describe the baffling mixture of brute fascism and juvenile idiocracy as the defining political culture of early 21st century U.S.
Yes, it's just a portmanteau of 'Trump' and 'Fascism'. I don't feel comfortable just referring to it as 'Fascism' since their shared attributes are all a little different.
You know exactly what is going on here. Don't let it happen where you are. Stay safe
WW3 is asymmetric and crazy/dumb Christian Taliban people are helping Putin.
Techno fascism. What is old is new again.
> > what is going on in america? it’s starting to look like a social experiment

When there is too much abundance the only thrill left is dunking on people remotely from the safety of your own house and engaging in sociopathic behavior and getting away with it.