The authority of authoritarianism is to make belief: to decide what is real based on whatever you imagine it to be. Fascism is an MLM franchise of authoritarian belief that grants anyone the authority to make up increasingly fluorescent realities, as long as it doesn’t contradict the up-line.

Among other things, fascism as a culture is a culture of playing make-believe. Social power and credibility in this culture derives from going along with the bit, and from developing more and more outrageous iterations of the bit, more and more extreme make-believes, as a perverse “yes, and” improv.

When it comes to the maybe war with Venezuela they are not even trying to manufacture a reason beyond "fentanyl drug dealers". They are not even bothering to get the intelligence community to cook up a false narrative. If it happens they're just going to do it. It will be "who's going to stop me"

He’s an Uncle Tom is what he fucking is.

Yeah, because there’s nothing we need more than more ways to murder each other.

Kegbreath must have threatened Bradley's job.

Talk about witness tampering.

Pocket change to Elon. He’ll just pay it himself and find a way to write it off as a “business expense.”

Me: "Who the flying fuck is Brooke Rollins?"

What does that have to do with European countries moving away from the United States?