The Skinny: February 2025 Blogs
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Additional Notes
Welcome to The Skinny; a regular collection of all my writing from my Fediverse blog. This is a back-dated post featuring my (limited amount of) writing from February, 2025; if that’s confusing, you can find more information about what’s going on, here. I’ve standardized the format of these The (New) Skinny posts, so you can either follow the links below to read on my blog, or you can just find them on page two of this post with the buttons at the bottom of the article.
February 2025
The Musk Presidency and Fascist Surveillance
“This makes it absolutely clear that the guy running this shitshow isn’t an elected official at all – it’s Musk. The fact is, a government is at its heart a system of taxation and spending; if Musk and his allies in the tech industry now have their hands on the purse strings (and all the juicy data that entails) they are in all reasonable sense of the words, in charge of the government. Trump might have “won” an election in a rigged oligarchy, but the nazi wearing the pants in this arrangement is very clearly Elon Musk; a guy in a fascist death cult, who can’t run a social media company, builds cars that burst into flames, and wants to eliminate vast portions of the media because they make fun of him for being the most divorced man ever.”
Techno-Fascist Billionaires and Our Dystopian Future
“You’re right, it’s about the money, but if you don’t think it’s also about the power, or their intentions to enact a Longtermist (read: nightmare, dystopian fascist) agenda, you’re telling yourself polite fictions. They’re absolutely robbing the world, and they absolutely intend to place themselves in permanent control of a fascist police state through force. Both of these things are true; so assuming the fascist stuff is all window dressing and the heist is what matters is just another form of wish-casting.”
Respectable Pederasts and Ruling Class Solidarity
“Of course the sad reality here is that this story is really only major news because an NFL team and its owner are involved. The reality is that rich and powerful people all over the Pig Empire frequently band together and use their outsized influence to cover up for heinous crimes like this, committed by other powerful and influential people in our communities on the regular; and you often don’t read about those stories in the newspaper because they don’t involve a multi-billion dollar sports team, which is an organization that has no business manipulating media coverage to protect pedophile priests and the Catholic Church in their community. If you want to know why guys like Diddy and Mohamed Al Fayed get away with predatory, criminal sexual behavior for as long as they do, look no further than the network of powerful people who support them and the army of public relations minions they maintain precisely to cover this sort of shit up.”
Trump Builds Camps in a Familiar Place: Gitmo
“While obviously this must be opposed vigorously, it’s going to be pretty hard for a mainstream establishment that embraced the road to concentration camps in the name of national security, and has wholly surrendered to the idea that migrants are a “problem” that must be met with “carceral force” (that happens to make certain people very rich) to argue that this scenario is somehow different than the previous mind-numbingly fascist scenarios our entire state apparatus has supported in the past; both to stop migrants, and to prosecute the so-called “War on Terror.”
– Nina Illingworth
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