be the case that the people being subjugated were the forbears of the reactionaries, but to point that out is to miss the point: it's the form of power they miss and envy, it's the imagined naturalness of that centrality, it's the tranquility due to those hateful voices being silent, absent, void.

Abandonen esa plataforma. Utilicen con cautela el resto, en las que de cualquier forma hay más gente. Potencien e inviertan en las alternativas abiertas. Atraigan a ellas a periodistas y otros cargos electos. Apuesten por la soberanía digital europea. Muevan el culo de una vez.

No somos responsables de vivir al final de la era neoliberal, o de que nuestros dirigentes hayan infravalorado la debilidad que supone que ciertas infraestructuras básicas estén fuera de nuestro control. De lo que sí somos responsables es de empezar a pensar en esto con la seriedad que merece.

That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.

If I have a choice -- one one side, middle-aged academic author with grand 3-volume tome on How to Create the Perfect World (I get two or three of these *a week*); on the other side, someone who boosted heat pump uptake in midsized NYC multifamily buildings by 17% -- I choose the latter every time.

Or talk.

Did you mean you write the way you think, maybe?

It is the process through which we enact agency. It is how we make meaning and move through the world. To lose that, I fear, is to capitulate on our very humanity." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I would even go so far as to say the very core of fascism is an elevation of raw male emotions -- the two-sided coin of drippy nostalgia & butthurt fury. The whole point of fascism is to say: trust those emotions, those instincts, they are pure & right, don't examine or get any distance from them.