corvid-420: zerocapitalism:zerocapitalism:aaaaand here we fuckin go. strap upAntifascism being
corvid-420: zerocapitalism: zerocapitalism: aaaaand here we fuckin go. strap up Antifascism being declared terrorism in America means it’s time to choose a fucking side. Q: Antifa isn’t an organization, he can’t do that A: Yes he can, Bush did it with “terrorism” as a dog whistle for Muslims in 2001 and was rewarded with the AUMF, what amounts to an imperium for endless war with no congressional oversight. Q: Vote him out in 2020 to fix it A: No it won’t, Obama streamlined the imperium Congress gave Bush with the AUMF and not only continued the War on Terror, he made it more secretive so the US can continue endless wars but without “boots on the ground”. If Biden won, even if he were ideologically aligned (his voting record, including on the AUMF, says otherwise), there’s no stuffing this shit back up America’s collective asshole. Biden would, as Obama did, expand and consolidate the state surveillance apparatus toward a new endless war but this time domestic rather than Muslims abroad. Q: Ok but he still has no authori- Yes he does. Americans have lived in a fascist dictatorship under one ruler since Reagan at the earliest, but to disguise that fact, Americans came up with the pretentious euphemism “unitary executive”. The consolidation of sovereign power in the executive at the expense of the other two branches of government only increased under Bush and Obama, but this was consistent with a pattern that arguably started with Andrew Jackson in 1830, picked up under Lincoln, then again under Theodore and later Franklin D Roosevelt - in other words, whenever America has some new enemy to exterminate to maintain the plantation, the presidency consolidates power. (Jackson to settle the Western US; Lincoln to break down and restructure the inefficient feudal economy of the Confederacy; T. Roosevelt to colonize Cuba/Philippines/China/Korea/and others; FDR to wage war on the world and establish planetary hegemony). -- source link