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You know, fuck this, stream of consciousness coming up. Mute/whatever as you see fit.

Trump didn’t win this election. Kamala lost it. The Democrats lost it. Neoliberalism lost it.

Turns out if you’re on team moderate social injustice and your opponent is team total social injustice, you’re playing the social injustice game with the people who wrote the damn book. Who did you think was going to fucking win?

What I’m trying to say is this: Fuck. Neoliberals. (1/13)

Fuck you if you’re happy with billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations as long as you get work for them and take home your six-figure salaries and stock options. Fuck you if you’re fine with Brown people on the other side of the world getting slaughtered in a genocide with your tax dollars as long as you’re safe. Fuck you if you vilify anti-fascists and “the far left” as “just as bad as…” (2/13)

And some of you have the gall – the fucking gall – to blame this on anyone and everyone else when it was you assholes that perpetuated the myth that capitalism and democracy were somehow complementary instead of diametrically opposed. When it was you who made sure that any actual alternative – any alternative that might have negatively impacted your own fucking wallets – didn’t have a hope in hell of being presented to the people. Bernie Sanders? Too fucking radical. (3/13)

In the UK, Jeremy Corbyn? Too fucking radical. Why? Because they threatened your system of moderate social injustice. Because they wanted social justice, period. And you were too fucking afraid of losing your own privilege should that come to pass. (4/13)

This isn’t the worst possible outcome for you. The worst possible outcome would have been someone who threatened the interests of the capitalist system you benefit from coming to power. So great job! You avoided catastrophe. You know as well as I do that you’re going to be fine under fascism. Some of your friends and acquaintances? Not so much. But that’s OK, you can learn to turn a blind eye to their suffering just like you did with the children being slaughtered in Gaza by Israel. (5/13)

Aral Balkan

Congratulations, you’ve travelled the neoliberalism to fascism pipeline and ended up at your final destination.

And you’re not the first, either. Ever heard of Turkey? Look into its history. See how Erdoğan came to power. If you don’t feel like you’re looking in the mirror, you’re not paying attention. (6/13)

Unlike Turkey, I don’t see any military coups saving you. Not that military coups are any solution. What was that Kamala Harris was bragging about? Oh yes, that you have the most lethal military in the world? Guess who’s holding the lead of that particular dog right now. And would you look at that, you’ve given it a taste for Brown blood in the Middle East. Almost as if the weapons you create can and will be used against you. Being in tech, I know that all too well. (7/13)

Because this isn’t just a victory for Trump. It’s a victory for Peter Thiel. For Elon Musk. For Silicon Valley. For venture capitalists. For Big Tech.

You know, all those people and corporations that you find Fine and Normal. (8/13)

Unlike, say, us. Folks like me who are… what was it?… Oh, yes: Too. Fucking. Radical. Too fucking radical because we saw the ties a decade ago and spoke out against them. Ostracised because we tried to get you to see. To take a fucking stand. But it was easier to cast us out and protect your place in the pecking order. Good job! (9/13)

(Did I mention we just got turned down AGAIN by NLNet/ngi for EU funding for Small Tech – you know, the exact fucking opposite of Big Tech – you know, the Big Tech that just bought this election for Trump and which now has a fucking army…) But that’s OK, we’ll continue to exist somehow even without funding. Just as we have in the past. And you’ll still call us “too radical” while you try on your fucking Nazi 2.0 uniforms from Hugo Boss. (10/13)

I do hope you realise, when the fascists have you cornered on the street, it’s not going to be Brad from Microsoft that comes to your rescue. It’s going to be the anti-fascists you labelled as “too radical”. Brad from Microsoft is going to walk straight past you and head up to his 12th floor office to kick off his morning meeting to deliver the software that handles the deportations… (11/13)

I mean you realise this means Palestine is even more fucked than it was. That Ukraine will fall. Who next? Poland? And fascists everywhere will be emboldened. Putin and Orban are creaming their pants right now. I can only imagine what this means for the UN, NATO, the EU…

I’m so fucking angry and tired…

…the climate crisis…

Fuck this… what good is this doing? (12/13)

I’m stepping away from here for as long as it takes. And I’m going to keep working on building the Small Web for as long as I’m able so we have some sort of an escape hatch for democracy. Hopefully not the only one.

For fuck’s sake, people.

For fucking fuck’s sake. (13/13)

@aral with you 💯 on all of this Aral. Very well put. I am so sorry you got turned down for EU funding. Symptomatic of course as you say. Maybe you need to do a crowdfunder on here, I don’t know. Would love to help, somehow

@aral Thank you. I'm so sick and tired of the lack of introspection from liberals after every loss. They take office, repeat the same shit again, and whine about uninformed voters. This is their loss more than the far-right's win

@mohab @aral
It is the fault of all the people who chose not to vote for progress and instead just attack the political party trying to make progress.

@GreenFire @mohab @aral The Democratic Party has nothing to do with "making progress". The purpose of the Democratic Party is to protect the status quo from the left. It promises change but delivers nothing but empty symbolism and excuses. There will be no real progression in U.S. politics until and unless the Democratic Party is destroyed and replaced by something that doesn't owe its existence to corporate oligarchs.

@gpilz @mohab @aral
If you could only hear yourself as you sound to sane people. You're calling for the opposition to the fascists to be dismantled just as the battle begins.

The Kremlin has been so damn successful with so many of y'all.

@GreenFire @mohab @aral Explain how the Democrats' propensity for merging the interests of government and business is "opposing fascism". I suspect you are ignorant of the definition of "fascism".

@gpilz @mohab @aral
LOL, a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition yet you accuse me of not knowing what fascism means as you lie about it being Democrats concern about a good economy.

@GreenFire @gpilz @mohab @aral "The Kremlin" Cope harder. Close to 20 million Dem voters didn'z show up to the polls. but its the russians fault, the lefts fault, everyone is at fault but your dogshit campaign.

When Jon Steward called Biden old you lot came after him. You tried to appeal to "moderates" and lost horribly. But sure Russia. Zero introspections from the shitlibs. Just like 2016.

@gpilz @GreenFire @mohab @aral

But don't you long for the good old days of fighting to try to make things better rather than fighting to stop them getting worse.

@mohab @aral ………. yep. Since the Obama Presidency front line workers have felt abandoned by Democrats. Apparently condescension isn’t a good look.

@aral 💯spot on. I used to be in the camp where I thought because of the thinking involved in building software that people would also be applying that to other areas of life but sadly this turns out to not be the case for the majority who are just happy to put on their blindfolds (like a good show horse).

@vladimir_lu @aral Good analogy. 👍 They are brainwashed & blinkered.

@aral
Well said Aral.

I think we're in a cycle, looking back to the 1960's and the lead up to WW2.

Here we are again. Not the same outcomes, but the pattern plays out over centuries of human civilization, each time in a different age, none more different than this one.

Some of us felt evolution was pretty linear, but it isn't. It feeds and grows on cycles and collapse.

All we can do is play our part whatever that is. Good luck with your Small Web. I'm still doing my stuff too. That's good

@aral ✊ :face_hug: You're not alone in this. When I lived stateside I met people who would (& did) vote against their own self-interests, who believed that to have happiness you must be selfish. They had no concept of sharing with someone who has less. Most, it seems are brainwashed their whole lives, to serve the God wealth but most of them never find it. It horrified me. Once back in the UK I decided never to set foot in the US again. Capitalism does not work.

@clintruin this headline is misleading. Voters in their areas voted for Trump; it does not mean they did.

@aral solidarity. Spending my morning comforting my teenage niece and trying not to scream out all the things you’ve said here.

Go to fucking Canada and get MAID if its that bad you dumb nigger.
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How about you shut the fuck up with your limited, sanctimonious lexicon you double nigger.
You will never be a White man you jealous shit-skin.
Holy shit! I've never seen such convincing evidence of untreated terminal autism in all my life until I saw all of your posts. Well done you disgusting refrigerator-scurrying turkroach. Did you furiously type that drivel while your boyfriend Mustafa thrusted you from behind like the worthless sexual deviant you are or did you write it after crying late at night reading about the exploits and worldly accomplishments of the White race which you will never be part of? The truth hurts, I think you'll remember that.

@aral Keep yourself and others sane by being conscious, caring and resisting in every way possible.

@aral True. A lot of people who voted against Trump will also walk past you to not become the next target. People who said in the past that they are anti-fascists, so their family will survive and their grandchildren, if we're lucky enough, can ask: "What did you do when they took over the country?"

@aral

Biden made Thiel. No, that's not a histrionic statement. Biden dumped billion after billion of taxpayer money into Thiel's coffers. Legitimized him.

It's an age-old tale: a doddering king allows himself to be seduced by a dark magician, bringing the kingdom to ruin.

Yep. I think Thiel destroyed the Biden Administration from the inside out. Tried raising the alarms on that years ago but just got called a racist--even before Harris became the nominee--and accused of being a Russian.

@aral dude you're not alone. You do seem pretty radical, but the fight just got harder - so I think radical is what we need right now.

The Rebel Alliance is in the back foot, are you our Saw Guerrera?

We need a Luthan Real or Leia Organa to rally the troops!