"The mask of humanity falls from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death...Then you know that the bourgeois are not human."
"All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
"All reactionaries are paper tigers."
The capitalists don't think you're a real person. They will throw you, your friends, your family - anyone you've ever known - into the furnace to keep the machine running, and they will do anything to ensure that they remain the ones running the machine even after the oceans boil.
In his first two weeks back in office, Trump has made enormous progress in gutting and reshaping the federal government with the help of Shadow President & Chief Autist Elon Musk and the oldest member of the Hitler Youth, JD Vance. So much has happened already that it's difficult to keep up. Threats to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal. Tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Attempting to impound the federal budget. Trans erasure and scapegoating as policy. Purposefully cruel deportations and ICE raids at schools. A pronouns-in-email-signature witch hunt at the State Department. A drive for mass resignation across the federal workforce led by Peter Thiel's blood boys. These are the actions of both stupid and evil people.
But what is this all for? Are eggs finally cheaper? If you ask Trump, we have to do this to Make America Great Again, which will allow us to defeat China. The bourgeois is well aware that these policies will cause hardship, but it is your job as a patriotic American to suffer, as Trump will tell you, "the pain will be worth the price that must be paid." This has the stink of desperation. Trump is willing to weaken United States hegemony and the quality of life for the average American not only because he is an idiot, but because 40+ years of total neoliberal ideological capture has completely paralyzed the country. The federal government is unable to do anything meaningful (e.g. healthcare, childcare, education, or housing reform, upgrades to vital infrastructure, real investment in industry, etc.) because the prevailing wisdom is that The Market is more efficient, and so as many public services as possible should be privatized. At the same time, the private sector hardly creates anything because financialization is more profitable. China, meanwhile, actually produces commodities and builds infrastructure. For the past two decades, China's GDP has grown as their energy consumption has grown. In contrast, US energy consumption has remained stagnant over the same period of time despite the US GDP also growing. Facing the reality that US GDP growth is untethered from the actual productive capacity of the United States, and as the rate of profit continues to fall, the bourgeois can only react with pure id and panic.
The ghouls currently in power have a truly grotesque ideology - a disgusting combination of despotism, white supremacy, vulgar nationalism, and Silicon Valley fascism. It cannot be overstated how much influence people like Peter Thiel have had in shaping the current state of things. The tech oligarchs will deny this. They want you to believe that they are all "rationalists" and that they have the best interests of humanity in mind. They throw around buzzwords like "long-termism" and "effective altruism" (which has now been replaced by "effective accelerationism"), and they promise you that whatever they're currently doing is to ensure mankind's survival into the far future. They tell us that we should let them do whatever they please, as they are ultimately working for the benefit of trillions of unborn humans. It's okay that Elon Musk now has personal access to the US Treasury because he's working for the good of us all. He'll take us to Mars! This is bullshit. The Musks and Thiels and Zucks and Bezoses of the world are no different than any other capitalist that have come before them. They will stand lock-step behind Trump and throw out their DEI programs (which were always performative) because they will always bend to power. The rich tech bros are no different than any other capitalist. They simply want to hoard as much wealth as possible, and they will sacrifice anything and anyone to keep doing it. Because these people hate you.