“The Secret Service came to my door today because of a tweet. No threats. No violence. Just words. That’s where we are now,” she wrote on X in a thread about the ordeal.
She was asked about the comments she made online, and she made it clear, “I want to see their trials.”
On one hand I feel a bit for this guy. He knows it’s bullshit as much as she does. But on the other hand, he’s still doing it for the pay check so fuck him. It’s gotta be degrading. But it’s amazing what people will ignore to maintain an appearance of stability.
Making worthless widgets for corporate overlords for a paycheck? Sure, I sympathize. Taking other’s livelihoods, safety, and comfort so you can have your own? Nope.
The problem is. When it comes to authoritarian states of any flavor, capitalist or otherwise. It all starts to become the same thing. Where were the resources for the widgets unfairly extracted from. And how exploited are the ones making them. But absolutely yeah.
Yep. Was it Marx — “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”?
Tangent but maybe not actually Marx:
I have negative sympathy for him. As in he should suffer for working for fascists and enabling fascism.
So you agree.
Yes, but not with “feeling for the guy a bit”.
Yes, probably just a bad choice of words on my part. More that I think we can identify with going through any bullshit motions just to satisfy some body somewhere, just to get by. But just not as a tool of the state to threaten citizens wellbeing. Fuck that shit.
My only hope is that some of those people might be trying to fight and push against fascism from the inside, which is probably better than leaving and being replaced by someone more compliant.
You and me both. Though I will say this. Those leaving, especially the attorneys won’t be replaced so easily. Fighting from the inside still often entails carrying out the violence of the state. But if they could organize mass resignations as a show of solidarity. It would definitely do more good than a slow rotting. But not being a part of it is still good.