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Catch me on the corner selling server.jar out of a long trenchcoat.
it's very cool that bourgeoisie hacks are allowed to just, blatantly lie to legislators and not suffer any consequences for that
America Is the Enemy of European Liberal Democracy
Mary L. Trump at The Good In Us:
I want to highlight a subject that got pushed out of the headlines, because the news cycle is almost impossible to keep up with these days. On December 4th, 2025, the Trump regime unveiled its National Security Strategy. The NSS is an official document presented to Congress that articulates the administration’s view of U.S. national security interests, including global threats, foreign policy priorities, and national security objectives. It turns out the Trump regime’s strategy is a travesty that alienates our allies, embraces authoritarian leaders around the world, and threatens the Western liberal democratic order. None of this should surprise us. Donald and those in his orbit, including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and every single congressional Republican, have shown themselves willing to turn the United States of America into an autocratic fascist regime in which white nationalism is the order of the day. But the implications are vast and far-reaching—not just a re-configuring of the post-World War II order, but a complete American withdrawal from it.
[...] There is one exception to “the nations of the world” referenced here and that is one of the most troubling aspects of the NSS: the Trump regime’s perspective on the European Union, and its harsh criticism of our longtime ally. The enemy, as they would have it, is European liberal democracy.
Donald, from the perch of his imperial presidency—thanks to the corrupt illegitimate super majority of the Supreme Court—cares nothing for democratic values. So, therefore, with the Trump regime in charge of everything, neither does America. It is a terrible time for this country to abandon its role as leader and champion of global democracy; it is a terrible time for there to be such a leadership void during this crucial period in which autocracy is on the rise and democracy is on its back foot.
[...] That’s the conundrum of the Trump regime, on the one hand, we’re “the hottest” country on the planet and they claim we’re raking in trillions of dollars because of Donald’s tariffs; on the other hand, we can no longer afford to be a leader in the world. Neither of those things is true. The government dispenses money to those things it (or Donald) considers important ($20 billion to help prop up his corrupt right-wing ally in Argentina; $400 million for his benighted ballroom); but withholds it from anything the inner circle does not value ($35 billion dollars to USAID; money and weaponry to support Ukraine). This is what happens when you give power to a man who views everything as a zero-sum game. Perhaps the most significant tell in the NSS is the description of a Europe that is on the brink of “civilizational erasure,” a phrase that Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister, says is “to the right of the extreme right.”
That is because the authors of this simultaneously sophomoric and consequential document are talking about whiteness. Reactionary white people in power know and fear that, in the not-too-distant future, they will no longer be in the majority. Both here and overseas, they have found one expedient to making other white people care about this: Weaponize immigration and demonize immigrants.
The Trump Regime’s disastrous strategy for Europe: prop up far-right parties that are often Russia-backed while sidelining pro-democracy (and pro-West) parties.
The writing team of Pro Philosopher 2 does not support shipping real philosophers, but the marketing team absolutely does 😎
Today, I'm creating the worst democracy ever.
First of all there's an emperor, because if the British (and various other Europeans, and the Japanese) can pretend that monarchy and democracy aren't mutually exclusive concepts, so can I. Don't worry though, his (official) powers are limited--just a few minor things, such as supreme control of the military (in case he ever has to throw a coup to "restore democracy") and the power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court. He's also the richest man in the world and owns shares in all the empire's news conglomerates and weapons industries, which have no bearing on the empire's politics, I'm sure.
Second, there's that Supreme Court I just mentioned; yeah, that one's just a direct copy and paste of the USA's Supreme court, because why break what's already fixed.
Third, we have the single most imaginative aspect of this system, something with no real-world counterpart because it was sourced directly from Milton Friedman's wet dreams--the Supreme Council (or Council of 21, depending on how grandiose I want the assholes controlling this state to be about it). There are twenty-one members who serve twenty-one year terms, in staggered elections--that's right: every year is election year, bay-bee! And they really are like American presidential elections, because while the Council doesn't directly touch the functions of government, it appoints the president, cabinet, and heads of various arms of government (as well as having complete control of the oversight organizations "meant" to keep the emperor in check), all of whom serve at their pleasure rather than having fixed terms, and also create the candidate pool for Supreme Court justices the emperor must pick from--hence the illusion that voting in these elections is important, in spite of the fact that you basically have to win eleven elections in a row to change anything. Made even less democratic by the fact that there's an electoral college!
(All elections are FPTP, because of course they are.)
The legislature is tricameral, and its chambers currently named after their USAmerican and British counterparts because I'm not good with names.
The Senate has the ability to veto the emperor's pick of Supreme Court justices, and its electoral quirk is that they do that thing the French do where the first round of elections is basically just a guide to help the parties rig the second.
The House of Representatives has the power to remove people from the pool of Supreme Court candidates the Council creates, and its electoral quirk is good, old-fashioned gerrymandering.
The House of Lords very specifically has no special powers at all beyond being yet another chamber legislation has to pass through, creating just that many more opportunities for minoritarian coalitions to logjam the process and create government dysfunction. A certain number of seats are appointed by the Senate, a certain number by the House of Representatives, a certain number by the Council, a certain number by the emperor, a certain number are "technocrats" appointed by various institutions of import (e.g. the bar association) or historical import (e.g. the church), and a certain number are hereditary (belonging, mainly, to titled nobles). Each individual seat has it's own term length and limit independent of what may or may not be happening with other seats, to really maximize the confusion.
There's also a leadership council consisting of the leaders of the Senate, the House, and the Lords. What does it do? Fucked if I know. Some bureaucratic bullshit designed to further muddy the waters WRT which individual lawmakers are to blame for any given piece of legislation, no doubt.
There are six major political parties, each named after a color. Every single one of them has at least one media conglomerate in its corner (because that's how you become a major party) and a number of sports teams (to give it that Roman flair). "Political debates" rarely feature discussions of policy (and never foreign policy), but rather two or three angry men--nationally there are six major parties as I said, but in any given sub-unit of the empire only a couple are "viable"--accusing each other of being pedophiles and satanists.
Children are taught in school that the fact that secret police don't literally bust their doors down and disappear them for saying such impossible-to-deny shit as "the government is bad at its job" means that they live in the freest country in the world.
Sure, vote. But just voting won't fix things. And just trusting the Democrats won't fix things either. The system won't fix itself.
I swear, some leftists would rather have a fascist dictator than a moderate politician.
Because a dictator lets them relax into the role of victimhood and learned helplessness forever.
They would rather throw up their hands and declare that there's no one pure enough than actually do the WORK of turning things around.
I am so tired of this shit.
It's good the US has the Democratic Party, because they can defend the US people from mindless murderers like ICE.
