davel

davel, 1 year ago

If you don’t understand that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, then we’ll throw you in the hasbara gulag until you do, even though:

• Anti-Zionist Jews exist
• Non-Zionist Jews exist
• Antisemitic Zionists exist

davel, 1 year ago

Libs need to understand that calling out the hypocrisies of Trump supporters does fuck-all. Not only do they do not care, they get off on triggering the libs in this way. They’re not the least bit interested in facts or consistency; they’re interested in getting their guy in office.

davel, 1 year ago (edited 9 months ago)

Trump’s real power base has never been the white working class “basket of deplorables”:

The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”

davel, 1 year ago

You just described the exact same people the article described, so I don’t know where you’re getting “really affluent corporate types” from.

davel, 1 year ago

You’re right. I can’t photoedit my way out of a paper bag 🫤

davel, 1 year ago

I’ve only seen the old old one, not the old new one or the new new one, because I am old old.