Very likely this case is decided this week
100 years from now people will point to this ruling as the thing that started balkanization or the thing that made the US objectively fascist
like, every program designed to make capitalism livable might get gutted
I did not think the US would fall apart in the near future
but now I think the US will fall apart in the near future
Alternatively: we acknowledge the supreme court as an illegitimate body, and tell them to fuck off Andrew Jackson style.
…I’m not gonna bet on either ATM.
Nowadays I feel that the US is incapable of pulling itself out of its institutional death spiral. There are a very simple series of steps and concessions that would pacify people and make capitalism healthier, more stable, and more profitable, but politics is so completely fucked that it literally cannot take those steps (like the one you suggest) in the way it used to be able to.
It’s like a scared animal with its head stuck in a plastic jug of treats. It could stop eating the treats, take a second to calm down, and pull its head out. But it’s just an animal. It will die instead.
ive been betting on this 100% happening really ever since. covid began. i feel like there was a noticeable shift in terms of just what became tolerated by the public, and how far fascists would take things to get what they wanted…. no one i said anytjing to about this took me seriously
That’s the thing about “accelerationism”
It’s not something that the left does on purpose to collapse capitalism cynically. It’s something that capitalism does to itself if you just sit back and watch. Accepting the reality that is coming and preparing for it gets called “accelerationist” by the radlibs who still buy into the system’s long-term viability (delusional) because they cannot cope or accept that their path won’t work and only delays the inevitable, and when they sellout to the bourgeois reformist system it associates the collapse of capitalism with them and dirties their hands as much as the Liberals, making the left less legitimate when trying to fight capitalism.
That’s why the left should focus on organizing itself apart from bourgeois parties, fight from outside the system and create separate systems of labor power.
100%. The Dobbs ruling was obviously horrible but this has the potential to end the federal govt as we know it. If they did that, the chaos would almost definitely send us back to an Articles of Confederation-style government, if the US survives at all.
:lets-fucking-go: I cant wait to open a opium den and sell illegal arms out the back.
