• jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The call for Lutnick to investigate and restrict the finances of these groups is pulling directly from some crank congresspeople who sent Lutnick a letter last week to investigate PSL, PYM, Codepink, the People’s Forum, Breakthrough News, etc using these same tactics. That’s the organized left being targeted here.

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          think about this: the Abundance libs are basically libertarians. they want to get rid of the “groups”. trump is going to go after these “groups”. the neolib/libertarians will be pleased and help

          this solves the dems problem too. the tech right is already pivoting to the dems. any future cultural civil war will be between christian nationalists (maga) and the tech right (abundance, thiel, etc).

          our two choices will be Yarvinists salivating at the thought of turning our bodies into diesel fuel and christian nationalists who want to turn the entire U.S. (except their tiny enclaves) into Gaza

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            my two cents is ultimately the christian nationalists are likely the ones going to win, if not pyrrhic. So much of the U.S is brain-washed Christian propaganda down to the very foundations of it’s creation.

            You can only appeal to and give zealots power for so long until they demand everything.

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              i think the same. or the Yarvinists may hold onto some network states/cities on the coasts (cali, around D.C., etc) and just make a truce if it actually went to a hot war.

              basically how effective AI in warfare becomes determines whether the tech right can hold their own. or if they can get their surveillance tech up enough to continuously weaken christian nationalists by neutralizing leadership and disrupting their ability to organize. but in the end it’s a numbers game and you are right.

              unfortunately non-religious types may be driven into the arms of the tech right for protection because the christian nationalists are truly barbaric in what they want to do

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                barbarism and insidiousness. There’s a certain projection in the christian nationalist mind of their ideal of “Jews” in of this secretive religious cabal that inflitrates ideology and subsumes people to their “apocalyptic” will, or in some cases, supremacy.

                Ironically, my entire life, I have only seen christian nationalists inflitrate ideology, subsume people to a self-destructive or globally destructive world-view or a value of christian/white supremacy. Never known a Jew like that and I consider Zionists nearly separate.