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That phrase sucks. Apply Occam's Razor. What is most likely? Realigning political climates adjusting geopolitical relations to fit, or that Musk and Trump are two big dumbs dumbs shitting all over the floor while shadow figures move them like mannequins? I think the fascists are just teaming up because its good for them.
If the world of full of dumb fucks. We are all literally equally fucking stupid. Someone will still rise to the top and our dumb fuckery will allow us to contribute that to them being the lesser dumb fuck.
Go read animal farm but realize that the specifics of the animals doesn't matter. Most people think, I would never act like those pigs because this kids the point. It could have just as easily been a team of horses that moved onto the house.
We are all equally stupid, some of us are just less equally stupid than others. The statement is logically nonsense but language lets us lie to ourself by construction nonsense that our brain accepts as reality. We are all susceptible.
Life is far more scary once one accepts that there is no shadowy secret cabal. This concept is just gods of a different natures. Brains are stupid and we're all stuck inside of one.
Thats exactly the point, my dirty animal friend. Its individuals acting in their best interest creating worse conditions for the group as a whole. Its all its ever been because once we could conquer scarcity we decided to horde it amongst ourselves and making arbitrary rules for having and not having. None of this is efficient. It exists so rich people can have their playthings when they want them and everything else is tertiary.
Can be both.
JD Vance and the rest of the PJ2025 folks sit back and get their agenda rubberstamped and executed by two idiots that can be plied by hollow praise to feed their egos, screwing up along the way but in ways the PJ2025 are perfectly fine with.