9·
3 hours agoThe ruling class wear ideology like a suit. It’s political theatre. Power only ever serves itself, right/left have no meaning at the top.
- 9 Posts
- 17 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
Cake day: September 18th, 2025
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
12·4 hours agoThe ideology is irrelevant in dominance hierarchies, they all follow similar patterns. Maybe read a book instead of spewing logical fallacies ad hominem, red herring, false equivalency.
You’re entire comment comes from a flawed position, I don’t need to focus on particulars when your entire premise is wrong.
Instead of engaging my comment, you fall back on logical fallacies. Your pseudoscientific analysis points to a lack of understanding of reality itself. It’s almost like your entire worldview was formed by propaganda coming through a screen.
Go ahead and explain how people in general are going to spontaneously evolve beyond the human condition. I do not ascribe good or bad to it, I just find it important to maybe you know, start from an accurate position.
He is hitting a point of contradiction within modern American conservative thought as well as that of Zionism. But contradictions are fundamental to right wing thought and should be seen as more of a “shift” when their talking heads and leaders admit to them.
Signifying chains may appear contradictory, but they are not. There is no commitment to any previous meaning, it can simply be resignified.
It is why right wing politics most logical conclusion is Nazism. Because it completely lacks the tools of dialectic and historical materialism that leftist use to analyze the world. To understand the Imperialism of America IS Israel. They are one in the same.
This is what makes my previous comments relevant. The tools you used are inadequate, it’s pseudoscience. I did not make an “appeal to nature,” I made empirical observation showing that your argument is invalid.
The right winger will believe the lie that Israel is important to the US because it is “a safe place for Jews”. When this doesn’t impact them personally they don’t really care (as we’ve seen for decades). But, as the material conditions of the working class decline they are less supportive of this. They will quickly revoked “the white card” for Jews in America. They see immigrants being rounded up, put in camps, but their life is still not improving. Their job still sucks and groceries are more expensive than ever. They ask - “What undeserving minority is still hurting me?” At least this is the narrative being fed to them by people like Nick.
From your (il)logical position, you build an argument based on fallacy after fallacy. Strawman, hasty generalization, post hoc, appeal to emotion, slippery slope.
Fuentes is not gaining traction because material conditions deteriorate, its because his message was amplified in right wing media circles, and his message is seductive. Social media has somewhat decentralized control over messaging, so regardless of material conditions, a seductive message would gain popularity.
The logical conclusion for them, because they lack class consciousness, is MORE rascism and xenophobia. What makes “the Jews” so special? Why is our money going to a genocide?
The left also lacks “class consciousness,” so why are they not seduced by rascist, xenophobic messages? Maybe because their signifying chains take an inverse position?
It’s at this point they even leverage leftist talking points in support of Gaza. But never never direct it towards the American Empire and the interest of the capitalist class.
Israel is used as a door to target Jews. And it’s perfect for them because all this time the other conservative party (the Democratic party) has been supporting Israel without hesitation. So, it’s simple to label them as “the left” whenever convenient to do so. It’s a key role that the Democratic party plays in the right wing shift of American politics. To be the contradiction that masks the contradictions of the far right.
Here is evidence that disproves your assertions and renders your argument invalid:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union
The only true conflict within the American right is whether or not hating Jews will negatively impact the settler colonialist project that is important to maintain American imperialist interest in West Asia. And it’s not really a conflict but more a hesitation of capital to make that shift. The far right ideology that supports them wants it. But the profit incentives and Imperialism will always come first.
Incorrect. American popular support for Israel is projected to decline, there is a threshold of tolerance that overrides “profit incentives and Imperialism.”
So, really, there is no conflict. There is only a shift and the illusion of a conflict. We were always heading here. Will some talking heads and politicians miss this boat? Ben Shapiro comes to mind. Yes. Yes they will. But was this always where things were headed? Yes.
The US will always continue to maintain it’s support of Israel. Because Israel and America are one in the same. Not because America is “controlled by Jews” but because Israel is just an extension of US imperialism.
America will always support Israel? That’s a long time. You make this prediction based on your cognitive bias and (il)logical reasoning.
The only dialectical change that is occuring is the push now by the far right to stop pretending. To stop pretending that the right wing is anything but the American Nazi party.
If the right wing is the “nazi party,” why do they support Israel? The establishment uses parafascism to bring extremist elements to their side, but has no interest in transforming society into some mythical utopia of the past.
Does Nick really want support for Israel to stop? Probably he does. He is not a leftist. He doesn’t actually understand material interest of American empire or look at things through that lense.
Most leftists don’t either. Most leftists only take an adversarial position of America and ignore the rest of the world and history.
Will the interest of capital allow anti Jewish hatred into the ruling class in order to maintain the scapegoat for fascism? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean they will stop supporting capitalist interest in Israel. It just means that hatred of Jews will be allowed along with all other minorities.
America will literally fly the Swastika over the white house and still support Israel. A fascist ethnostate is exactly what Nazis want for white people at home. They would deport Jewish Americans to Israel if they can. That conversation is coming.
Your entire worldview is built on logical fallacy and propaganda. The extreme right is the group being placed on the altar of sacrifice, they are unleashed for the purpose of making them so intolerable, everyday Americans will accept any draconian measures to be rid of them.
It is has been said that Antisemitism is the dumb man’s class conflict. And that is exactly what is happening now. The American working class lacks any class consciousness or organization and is ripe for further exploitation built on antisemitic rhetoric.
Welcome to the society of the spectacle, its not the working class who are stupid, but the “intellectual” (you) who doesn’t understand them or even the basic fundamentals of reality.
It was explicitly outlined in Marx’s writing. The dictatorship of the proletariat. As Žižek wrote in The Sublime Object of Ideology, “ideological fantasy creates social reality.” However, that social reality does not determine objective reality, merely how we interact with it. The Marxist position of achieving class consciousness is a falsehood, it is a presupposition that ignores human nature. There is no deeper philosophical meaning, the surface is the truth, the masses are an inertial force, an object not a subject. In a deterministic universe, all we have to do is look at past results to predict future outcomes.
A quote from my copy of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, “What is universally valid is also universally effective; what ought to be, in fact also is, and what ought to be without [actually] being, has no truth.”
Dialectic and historical materialism are pseudoscience. Applications in which lead to brutal dictatorships like Pol Pot and disastrous policies like Lysenkoism. The masses are an object of inertia, there is no unconsciousness of the masses, they are aware of their material conditions and they don’t care, they just want someone in charge to blame when things go wrong. Historical forces only move on the Principle of Evil (vice, sin, self-interest), the masses only rise up when they are literally starving, and embrace change when it is seductive.
“Power is now the final form of representation: it only represents itself.” Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power.
It’s important in so far as your preference, the party of the carrot or the party of the stick.
Populist rhetoric, neoliberal policy. Power only ever serves itself.
139·6 days agoHe also ordered the doj to open a new investigation which allows his doj to bar any release of the files related to an “open case.” His followers have to be irredeemably brainwashed to accept this.
16·6 days agoSo if Trump directs the doj to open an investigation, it shields him from any more files released?
They opened an investigation because:
But the newly announced criminal investigation could give the Justice Department a new justification to resist turning over files — or convince some lawmakers to back off. Generally, the department resists giving Congress files during an ongoing criminal investigation because any public release could jeopardize the integrity of the probe or any resulting criminal case.
Power is now the final form of representation: it only represents itself.
- Jean Baudrillard
1·12 days agoIt’s a video on critical theory.
1·17 days agoInstitutionalized religions are a form of social control. Religious doctrine can be viewed as instruction manuals.
For dealing with Christian nationalist types.
First, highlight how Satan is the ruler of the earth.
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Satan-As-The-Prince-Of-This-World
From that premise, explain how all governments fall under the kingdom of satan, that all politicians are agents of satan, that ‘Christians’ who meddle in earthly affairs belong to the congregation of the devil.
When you deal with religious types, you don’t really use logic or reason. Just come at them with absolute certainty and counter any arguments with logical fallacies.
Christianity as a religion is entirely spiritual, occupied solely with heavenly things; the country of the Christian is not of this world. He does his duty, indeed, but does it with profound indifference to the good or ill success of his cares. Provided he has nothing to reproach himself with, it matters little to him whether things go well or ill here on earth. If the State is prosperous, he hardly dares to share in the public happiness, for fear he may grow proud of his country’s glory ; if the State is languishing, he blesses the hand of God that is hard upon His people.
The Social Contract, Rousseau
The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard.
Welcome to hyperreality, sit back and enjoy the ride!
deleted by creator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism