It'll be a good effort if I can pull it off. Ornamental horticulture turns me into John Brown.

The wildflowers are going to seed so I'm going to spend the weekend collecting different species for winter propagation. Next year I want to make as many of our municipal plantings as possible native species that we grow ourselves, which could save the city like $90k/year on top of a huge amount of green waste.

Pinochet might not have been in the imperial core, but his regime was an outgrowth of it because it only succeeded with Nixon's approval. With those Cold War puppet states that you could call fascist, their political economy was shaped by their US sponsorship and it reflected the extremely right-wing American government. They were the Mini-Me Hitlers standing next to the big Hitler.

Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human conquest over nature. For each such conquest takes its revenge on us.

Liberals sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Slava Ukraini!!!

Liberals reaping: The police are flying drones overhead and Europe is collapsing. What the fuck.

I like the conceptualisation of fascism by Cesaire and Foucault, that it's a boomerang effect from exporting democracy abroad: https://medium.com/religion-bites/discourse-on-colonialism-by-aim%C3%A9-c%C3%A9saire-793b291a0987

First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is [assaulted] and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the blacks of Africa.

is this what the youth of today say?

Now begins the Era of Dark Jim.

That'd still be poetic, but we already know he's just doing Icarus shit. My core expectation is he's going to live until like 70-100 and then die of some health event. If he dies at 50 of a heart attack, that's just what you start to expect from anyone around that age. If it's some cosmically stupid Looney Toons death, that's what really subverts my expectation and makes it as poetic as being shot under a banner that says "PROVE ME WRONG" while mid-sentence downplaying gun violence. He'd be pure absurdist comedy if he fell into an open manhole or got an infected cat bite.

This could be the best thing for him. From what I've seen he's a really good public speaker, and from the moment the news broke about Charlie Kirk he shut down any celebration of it. He had an upcoming debate with Kirk, thought the video was traumatic, and correctly assessed that it achieves nothing except tit-for-tat violence and state repression. His coverage since has been very non-speculative, coming with the news and not taking any side on the shooter's politics. Hasan streams like ten hours a day and there hasn't been any kind of damning clip making the rounds. Plus there's zero indication the shooter has any affiliation with him or anyone he's associated with.

Everyone else testifying at that is going to be a tech CEO promising to crack down on the left or some other kind of collaborator. His testimony is at least going to be the only honest take and it might raise his profile as the only charismatic or oppositional one.

I don't hate him any more than I do any other generic tech demon, but I uniquely hope he dies in the most anticlimatic way before age 50. Like he chokes on an orange or slips on some ice. All of this needs to be for nothing.

Be mean to racists