America is less free than Russia or China or Iran are and its not even close
Just checked in on 'disinfo' twitter and its sickening to see the media/ngo/intel agency blob take isolated, unhappy, and no doubt unbelievably anxious people and instrumentalize them for their perverse system of distributed surveillance against their fellow citizens
what's uniquely warped about the american system is it takes on this perverted aspect of weakness, of vulnerability. It wants you to know that it is tired, its traumatized, its in pain, it suffers and if you're moral you will suffer with it (join our panopticon- we're EXHAUSTED)
people really be on this website with handles like 'dumpster rosa luxembourg' or 'trashbag lenin' or 'gutter kropotkin with a heart of gold' bitch you went to Dartmouth
I fucking HATE the 'trash left'/'gutterpunk' aesthetic
its even worse than the 'acid/schizo/aint a heckin weird marxism' (how do you do fellow kids) flavor
its hilarious that conceptual james and rufo have decided to seize upon Hegel of all people as THE evil ur-totalitarian woke precursor when his actual politics was more similar to their own grating centrism
Hegel was horrified by 'excesses' on both the left (The Terror, although he supported the revolution) and the right (he opens the philosophy of right with a salvo against the 'irrationalist', 'romantic', 'volkish' right). He advocated a liberal constitutional monarchy
Hegel chastises the 'my truth, my lived experience' stuff that woketards love to say as contrary to reason. The idea that you can draw a direct line from trigglypuff to Hegel is about as confused as it gets