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Bulletins and News Discussion from February 3rd to February 9th, 2025 - Fuhrer Failsons

Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.

I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.

One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.

I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?

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  • Some Finland news:

    Incidents involving unauthorised access and damage at water towers in Finland received a lot of publicity last summer. According to Hakala, it is now quite certain that Russia was not behind these.

    "Some of them are under preliminary investigation by the police, but our view is clear that there were no sabotage attempts by Russian proxies," Hakala says.

    It is likely that the water tower incidents were cases of ordinary vandalism, says USU.-

    There has been frantic consent manufacturing going on to fuel the fires of war and when a garden chair gets blown over by the wind, there is wide news coverage on how Russia did it. Far smaller are these follow up stories a year later where they have to admit that Russia definitely did not do it.

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