January 6th is honestly more interesting now, in October, than it was in January, and that's saying something. They're keeping the people who partook in that in gitmo-like conditions, torturing and humiliating them. Why?
Like at some point the "because leftists are hypocritical! they love to cause suffering!" points become trite. People also have to have a reason to be hypocritical. Torturing these guys is done for some sort of reason, and I suspect I know what the reason is.
The liberal "solution" to the problem of, you know, chuds thinking they should have a say in how the country was run seemed to be a sort of shock and awe doctrine. You have this big ol media machine and control of NGOs and institutions: mobilize it. Mobilize ALL of it!
Which is what has happened in the runup to the election in 2020 and throughout 2021. The entire machine has been onside and operating at full blast. Like the japanese war machine in the early days of WW2, they've scored some big wins and sunk a lot of ships.
But... it doesn't seem to be enough. The "Let's go Brandon!" thing seems to be seriously freaking out a bunch of people, and maybe that makes a lot of sense, because an airline pilot saying "Let's go Brandon" and you not being able to fire him afterwards is spooky.
It's spooky because the liberal "kantai kessen" - decisive battle doctrine - has won all the battles it's picked, but the sleeping giant is still there. The chuds aren't going away. They haven't been shocked, they haven't been awed. And the machine is already at 100%.
So to bring this back to J6, J6 was a big ol explosion that few people saw coming. But what's going on with the J6 prisoners now speaks to a real acute frustration for the liberal side.
In a way, the punishment those prisoners face is likely a stand-in for the punishment that you CAN'T mete out to parents at schoolboards or pilots who refuse to get vaxxed. You can't put those people in a blacksite. There's just too many enemies, and they aren't going away.

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3 Nov
One thing @GhostOfGord has helped to really clarify for me is how close our social situation is to the dysfunctional army situation in France in the ancien regime, in the leadup to the French Revolution. And bureaucrats may have replaced capitalists as the #1 enemy. Why? A 🧵.
One of the reasons the French army was so unreliable for king Louis XVI during the early days of the Revolution has to do with its dysfunctionality. That dysfunctionality had a couple of causes, but one of them was that the army in fact had TWO jobs.
The first job was to win wars, as armies are often expected to do. The second job was to serve as a dumping ground for increasingly precarious provincial nobles, some of which were just as poor as the peasantry at this point. But they were nobles, and they needed protection.
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3 Nov
Shilling this ep with @GhostOfGord again. Extremely important. Hord, I think this clarified a few things in my head.

m.soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/…
I did some checking and apparently Long Beach is so inefficient it puts most African harbors to shame. This corroborates a dynamic you talked about.
It seems that the structural deficiencies of the american model have basically had the same dynamic as mercury buildup in fish, except here its the people at the BOTTOM of the food chain that end up eating all of it.
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3 Nov
The way this stuff was handled basically confirms that the US is rapidly passing the point where elections actually act as a brake on polarization and legitimacy decay. You should NOT have mail in ballots being counted last, vote tallies dropping on trackers without comment, etc.
Like how many dems are going to accept a republican victory in 2024 as things stand? How many republicans are going to accept a Kamala Harris victory if these irregularities (that *can* be fraud, but can just be incompetence as well!) are just baked into the cake forever?
It *cannot* be stressed enough that US elections are run at a level that would *NEVER* be accepted under any circumstances in pretty much all of Europe. And now the US plans on running this model forever in a situation of almost no trust in the system. It's insanity.
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31 Oct
Well isn't that obvious? If you're some sort of american dissident and you think you're the white army or whatever, lol just lol. It's 2021. You're the away team, the bolsheviks. There's likely going be an american rerun of the old WW1 defensivist vs defeatist debate in Russia.
A conflict over Taiwan isn't so much a big war that you either "win" or "lose", but the real stake here is whether the right should try to shore up the American Empire (for tactical or strategic reasons), or hasten its demise. And "defeatists" are probably going to win.
Partly because the Empire probably *can't* be shored up, but the big thing is just that as it stands it's hard to say that the US empire is really benefiting ordinary Americans all that much. And so just like with the bolsheviks in Russia...
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31 Oct
A Taiwan conflict is so fantastically dangerous to the US I have no idea how people manage to hold the opinion "dude we should just stand up for Taiwan, it's the right thing to do, no big deal".

Like what exactly is the *win condition* for a conflict like this?
The US isn't going to occupy Beijing and nation-build China. The best case scenario is that US forces defeat chinese forces in some limited skirmishes, the Chinese sustain casualties in the four or five digits, then go "oh well, see you in ten years when you're weaker."
That's the *best case* scenario. In the worst case, the Chinese actually defeat the expeditionary US forces and occupy Taiwan, which both the Chinese leadership and the Chinese population consider to be their national patrimony going back hundreds of years.
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Pretty good article. It's interesting to me as an outside observer how talking about America as an empire only became totally rote and uncontroversial at some point after 2008; before that people still had the whole Toynbee attitude toward the subject.

theamericanconservative.com/articles/compr…
It's only really now - that the empire is well and truly struggling, that the rot has spread to every limb and the elite are openly clueless about what to do - that everyone calls the US an empire. Like yes, Tom Lehrer wrote "send the marines" in 1960, but...
...even in my 20s, the most common attitude you encountered was just "America is a big dog in a small room, it only wishes well but it sometimes knocks the furniture over". Calling it an empire meant you belonged to the fringe.
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