not to worry, friend… some rich brooklyn podcasters told me this was nothing to worry about
their response is more like “what is you worrying about it going to change?”
ah yes that moment when fellow black solidarity and collective community trauma doesnt exist/ isnt triggered by the existential fact that black people will always be at the mercy of crazy white supremacists, evoking empathy even for a high ranking govt official…similar to when we see a fellow black person murdered by a cop for being black/ being screamed at a karen for being black, but what is worrying about it going to change
but alas i am a white podcaster man who doesnt have to think about collective community trauma because my community will never be targeted by all so i get to prescribe the advice of what is you worrying about it going to change, not having to think about the ways in which my identity causes that line of thinking because alas the white straight male rich identity is everyone identity right
If what they have to say has no importance to anything, they should shut down their patreon
I mean I think Matt has pretty explicitly said that no, no part of their analysis has any basis in reality, its only purpose is entertainment. People routinely pay for entertainment though.
My original take was that this was mostly spectacle, though you should definitely be worried about where this is heading. The early shit about police collaboration was extremely worrying, but the more that comes out about this, the more sus shit there is.
Comparing it to the Beer Hall Putsch is the best one I’ve heard. Hitler was LARPing as Mussolini’s march on Rome. It was more heavily armed and better coordinated than the people storming the capitol, actually seizing buildings and getting politicians on board. But that wasn’t the impact. They ran in the national election five years after the putsch and three years after the ban on their presence was lifted. They got 2.6% of the vote. As far as actual gains go it was a hopeless attempt that got 16 Nazis killed.
Those dead became martyrs, the first and most central martyrs for the party. It seems like the air force spook who was shot is getting a mixed reception as they try to disown the event while it’s being actively persecuted, but she’s a white veteran who died wrapped in a Trump flag as she was the first to try to get into the same room as Trump’s enemies. That’s a martyr candidate when the media loses interest in the event. The anniversary of those martyrs’ death, 9/11 because reality is a big stupid floppy circle, became one of the most important holidays and one of the focal points for mass rallies and spontaneous violence. It was supercharged spectacle which showed that devotion to the party meant blood sacrifice and eventually it resulted in Kristallnacht.
Ayana Pressley just released a statement saying that the panic buttons inside her office were removed. Come next year this will be the date people gather outside and the level of infiltration inside is scarier than what the Putsch had. I’d expect the same kind of mass psychosis to happen at some point if the same kind of propagandisation and radical ownership of the coup attempt plays out. Maybe the FBI can/is willing to go after all the levels of power they’re in but eh.
the police collaboration is absolutely the most disconcerting (but not surprising) thing. and if this escalates i would expect we’ll most likely see similar collaboration with the military at least on the ground/in smaller groups.
The military are much weirder. The leadership for the most part doesn’t really seem to give a shit about Trump. Also, while there are definitely some extremely reactionary elements within the military and its purpose is to do imperialism etc. I think your average soldier is going to be way less reactionary than your average cop. Not a scientific measure to look at, but during the primary season, Bernie Sanders was the candidate who got the most donations from Active Duty soldiers.
I also think to some extent, the weirdo conspiratorial elements of the Q Anon right makes it less compatible with being in the military. Are you really going to believe in FEMA death camps if you’d be the one guarding them?
Im more worried about the congressional response than the actual attack. Even if they succeeded, they wouldn’t just seize power. There would be actual fucking war as Trump and Lib forces try to seize power. Like me, an online person hundreds of miles away from the area, have nothing to fear directly from the event, but from the response to it.
