First of all, these questions aren’t what c/asklemmy is for.
Second of all, what are you talking about?
Third of all, what pic?
Fourth of all, please don’t dox yourself.

(OP, I think you accidentally a link.)

Few people seem to be aware of this despite it having long been known. The Nation, 2017: Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

According to this analysis [by liberal and conservative pundits alike], Trump’s fascism is merely a reflection of the debased preferences of poor people.

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.”

The Jan. 6, 2021 protesters/insurrectionists for the most part weren’t poor working class people, they were petit bourgeois who could afford to take days off to travel to D.C. and do their shenanigans.

Epstein said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

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There were plenty of fascist undertones in US cold war science fiction, and virtually no communism. Asimov’s psychohistory was inspired by historical materialism, but he couldn’t say as much and hope to get published.

Please don’t copypasta LLM summaries.

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

🤷 Maybe !shortstories@lemmy.ml? I don’t know if there’s a community for critiquing self-authored stories.

Is this one of those you are now breathing manually tricks? Because I’m virtually never conscious of this.

They think we just fell out of a coconut tree, and don’t exist in the context of all in which we live and what came before us.

But, I see that I’m on an ml community somehow, so I know that would fall on deaf ears, because government is part of capital or whatever.

It falls on deaf ears because we already know how most people think things work, because we used to think the same, because we went through the same indoctrination/miseducation as everyone else. But we eventually figured out that it’s bullshit, that it’s a civil mythology.

Previously. Previously.

The convictions weren’t for Russian collusion but for financial fraud, lying under oath, and failing to register as a foreign agent/lobbyist for Ukraine & Turkey.

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.

Should we have forced him to shave before photographing him, like the US military did in Iraq in 2006?

Or should we clean up his image, as the US is doing right now?

I didn’t say that only the US can engage in asymmetric warfare, nor did I say that Putin and Trump are not important actors. Who is strawmanning who?

And what’s with “the nebulous ‘US’”? No one is confused about what the US is. And how is the Byzantine generals problem relevant, when secure, real-time, two-way communication is at their disposal?

“Putin thrives on ambiguity, and Trump has served that strategy again and again, openly and with intent.”

Your foundational thesis is so vague that it’s unfalsifiable, which is why I didn’t even try. Like I said, it’s just a vaguepost, ripe for annoying motte-and-bailey argumentation.

How are they occupiers when they’re at least as Iranian as you? Are they occupying themselves? And where is this 1,500 number coming from? Because it doesn’t seem to be coming from Wikipedia. The Western imperialist puppet regime installed after the CIA-led coup was no angel, either. Do want a repeat of that? Because they’ll come in and 1) take the oil and 2) set Iran up for a proxy war with Russia and/or China, just as they did with Ukraine.

BlueAnonsense. And corporate media has been like this for generations.

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Matt Taibbi: Brennan, MSNBC Can’t Stop Lying About Trump and Russia
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

Again is it clear you all don’t understand asymmetric war, because if you did, you would be able to see that your circlejerk is just a case of building up and tearing down strawmen.

You haven’t even made a case to be strawmanned. You’ve just claimed that Putin thrives on ambiguity and thrown the term “asymmetric war” around. I can’t strawman a vaguepost.

There is no shortage of examples of the US engaging in asymmetric war, directly or by proxy. Who do you think funded and trained the Ukrainian Banderites since 2015, (and how far back do you think that relationship goes[1][2][3])? Who do you think green lighted the 2014 Maidan false flag massacre by Red Sector/Banderite fascists, and why was Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in the square? What do you think the National Endowment for Democracy does? It doesn’t promote democracy, quite the opposite. It regime changes through proxy insurgencies and proxy NGO shenanigans. The NED is an engine for manufacturing “color revolutions.” The blueprint of regime change operations

Edit to add:

To misunderstand Trump as merely foolish or chaotic is not a lesser kind of error. It is a strategic failure in an ongoing psychological war. Trump is not improvising. He is executing. Every delay of sanctions, every attack on NATO, every lie about Ukraine, every moment of confusion sown into American political discourse—these are not missteps. They are victories for his benefactors in Moscow.

This is asymmetric warfare: not about winning arguments, but about breaking systems. Not about consensus, but the destruction of consensus. Putin’s strategy, followed to the letter by Trump, is not to win through force but to make force unnecessary by rotting out the institutions that might resist it.

Never go full Maddow. This is founded on great man theory, where world history is steered by the personages of Putin and Trump. Historical materialists reject that theory.

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