A.R. Moxon

Worst of the New York Times @nytimes.wtf [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

In case you're curious where the Heritage Foundation's warning that we were in the midst of a "second American revolution" that would only remain "bloodless" if the left allowed it to be ran... page 20

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

There's another key attribute of hope that doesn't get mentioned much.

Hope fights.

Even when victory seems unlikely—especially then—hope fights.

We should be hopeful people.

Full essay: www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

I know some things about hope that people don't usually talk about. The first one I already alluded to: hope repairs. In fact, hope IS repair; an irreducible part of the natural progressive act of repair.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

So anyway I was talking about hope—a fool's hope, as fascists like those in our supremacist court or the fascist who lives on your street or goes to your church would have it. I think it's time for us to start thinking about what hopeful acts look like.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

It's a corruption of ... well, of everything. An abrogation of humanity. You could call them Nazis, but Republicans and christians may earn a worse name than that before they're done, because we are dancing on the edge of climate catastrophe, and they want to burn the world.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

They have our military—including the domestic military we call police—and our high court in their corner. They've made it so that wealthy people can do whatever the hell they want to other people, and after, those people will have to pay the price for what has been done to them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

And so I think we can see the fascist christian vision of the future. These apocalypse-minded religious creeps intend to convert everyone who isn't a mostly white mostly male mostly christian wealthy person into one of the three states they find acceptable—servant, slave or corpse.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

The American fascist party leader—who has spent his career fanaticizing about wielding dictatorial power—will if he attains office be allowed to do commit any crime he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

Those who notice reality will witness to the clear truth: Any judge ruling that a crime committed by a Republican president is prosecutable will eventually find the case appealed back to the supremacist court, who have already ruled that a fascist coup attempt is not a priority.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

And if you're a fan of complacency, then maybe you'll want to point out that actually they said that the president would be immune from *official* acts, leaving it to the lower courts to decide which acts were official, but if you're being rugged reality, you'll notice reality.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

And for dessert—an amuse-bouche, really—the supremacist court went out and coronated any Republican President of the United States as our dictatorial king, announcing that presidents have total immunity for any act that they take as part of the official business of their office.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

For example, you'll have to ignore the fact that the supremacist court was also not elected and was mostly appointed by men who never received the most votes from the people, which should be easy enough if you are free of "the cult of science."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

And if you are a fan of complacent framing, you'll say that the ruling only took the interpretation of the law out of the hands of unelected bureaucrats and put it into the hands of the people—an interpretation that makes perfect sense provided you also ignore reality.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

This allows any law to mean any thing any judge wants it to mean—provided the judge is a fascist, because all non-fascist interpretations will eventually find their way to the supremacist court, who believe laws should protect money from human beings, not the other way around.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

This lets judges ignore experts who understand how our complex world works and how laws can be applied to achieve their stated ends, which frees judges from "the cult of science," as a semi-prominent American fascist recently put it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

Speaking of things that capital is well pleased by, don't forget the main course: the Supreme Court went ahead and seized for the judiciary the right to determine not only the Constitutionality of the law, but the right to ignore facts while doing so, or to make some facts up.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

And entities reliant upon prison labor for their own operational models will have a fresh labor pool from which to draw, so the tradition of cruelty toward those who are being pushed by greed into poverty will continue and I'm sure christians and capital will be well pleased.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

In any case, our for-profit prisons certainly have a new greenfield that I'm sure we all hope they can turn into double-digit growth, especially since the same private equity that manages our prisons at profit is making sure that housing becomes less and less affordable.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

And, if you are outside with a human body, then you are going to have to sleep eventually, so the moment you become unhoused in fascist America, your human body becomes a crime that can be punished in I suppose whatever fashion best suits the fash.

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