"In terms of the actual on-the-ground reality, I don’t see MAGA doing much pioneering. Instead, I see a fundamentally deconstructive movement — a furious assault on progressive culture, liberal institutions, and the structure of the U.S. economy in general, with no idea of what should replace it. On culture, factories, infrastructure, energy, technology, and institutions, MAGA is tearing things down without building things up."

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"In order for a movement to have longevity, I think it needs to build something. Things like physical infrastructure, institutions, and culture have a lifetime that long exceeds the cascade of emotions that first brings a movement into being.

Successful political movements in America have always been, at least in part, constructive movements."

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"I can’t help thinking that despite its current dominance, the MAGA movement doesn’t have much of a long-term future. It has managed to win some elections, by harnessing popular rage — against Democrats, against immigration, against educated elites, against economic conditions, etc. But rage doesn’t last forever."

~ Noah Smith

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https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/maga-doesnt-build-anything

@sz_duras @davevolek @Tattered

Deconstructing the Naturalization of the State and Domination: Towards a Renewed Political Imagination

Rather than seeing the state and oligarchic domination as inevitable, we must deconstruct their “naturalness” to open the way for more democratic and ecological forms of organization. #Deconstruction #Megamachine #PoliticalImagination #Ecology #Democracy #Oligarchy #RadicalChange The idea that “the state is an inevitable necessity” …

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/deconstructing-the-naturalization-of-the-state-and-domination-towards-a-renewed-political-imagination/

@danahilliot Why deconstruct systems? Because, as #Luhmann shows, social systems close themselves off with internal logics, filtering out what doesn't fit. Critical deconstruction exposes these hidden routines, challenging what seems "natural" and opening space for real change. @sallyMA @GautierDay @Car @Carolefoppolo @beatricejess @MariposaCuicui @estelle @HeavenlyPossum @sz_duras @osfa_2030 @pvergain @Homer @tg9541 https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/pourquoi-une-analyse-sociologique-et-philosophique-critique/

PS: the dissertation i didn’t get to write on Latin American neobaroque aesthetics ―from colonial times to then, the 1990s post-juntas years―, was gonna be me flexing post-structural hermeneutics based on the works of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari but especially 1990s up and coming scholars like Chakravorty-Spivak and Kosofsky-Sedwig. and that means i actually read Nietzsche, upon which a lot of their work is found.

all this to say, #deconstruction is absofuckinglutely my lane.

1. stop parroting the faux intellectualism of fascists. #deconstruction is an antifascist form of academic analysis. what they mean is destruction.

2. #EpistemicViolence is censorship of all kinds. it’s meant to create a false narrative of agreement.

3. like “Gulf of America” #EpistemologicalViolence is meant to completely change reality by destroying all social contracts.

recognize these forms of violence. violence isn’t only by guns. it’s always by ideology first and foremost. /