Every time someone cogently points out that anti-trans and anti-abortion are inherently same looming threat of evermore encroaching fascism, cannot help but look around at all the rioting in the streets that still isn't happening eight months out from Dobbs.

But then, has been two years now of #KayfabePanto health supremacism and escalation of the fifth estate as murder-by-police rates continue to climb.

Defenestrative fascism (see Clinton interview in FT) ain't encroaching—is entrenched.

@emilyfern First estate (#KayfabePanto) and fifth estate (armed enforcement) entangled: police costumery simultaneously playing roles of tecnico-face and rudo-heel.

Since birth of #eugenics, #progressivism has always been conservatism, always been conservation of the what-is with eye to making such what-is somehow better—by shearing away this or that—rather than vision of futures that entail first #mourning what-is to clear space for what-might.

We build road to arrive—unwittingly soon—at a future much worse than even now.

Yet most #Leftists and leftish, alike, remain far too unreflectively committed to virtue-signaling their opposition to designated bad people—too deeply ensconced in ease of #KayfabePanto—to grok, let alone grapple, truth that they, too, are actively even now setting cobblestones along guide-line's path.

Crushed gravel and sand already lain down, those opposed crouch—mallets in hand.

#ableism #dystopia #MishnoryRoad

@elana So, not so much characterizations of pandemic actions or actors specifically—there mostly leaning on the existing terms "apologists" and "gaslighting".

Although did coin term "gashuffing": for suspension of disbelief that is #KayfabePanto vis-à-vis public health policy.

Was also using the term "blue maggots" quite regularly—until someone quite cogently called this out as dehumanizing⋯ 😳

Still using "defenestrative fascism" following H. Clinton's interview in FT.

@elana Relevance of all this to pandemic is #classposture as answer to vernacular numismatic class theory; in particular, #perquisitive class posture, defined by its #EgoValue relation to #FrosteanBargain: the social contract that underwrites—thus fetters to—normalcy as promise of righteous entitlements (including restaurant dining and maskless air travel) for a lifetime of "right" choices.

Among those choices, #KayfabePanto: electoralist boosterism as morality play.

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@PRNE Hence, Mishnory road.

We're living an ideological nightmare, rather than live lucidly in the world. The #KayfabePanto promises a redemption through suspension of disbelief alone: gnosticism as home team boosterism.

This is where we run dangerously close to reification, likewise, of hegemony: mistaking zeitgeist for bodily antagonist. That an idealism is hegemonic makes it no less an idealism, by way of hegemony doubly so.

Dreams are maps of futures yet possible, and yet not territories.

Without getting into drama that prompts this, sorry, no, not gonna step into the #KayfabePanto ring to stan for the chief medical advisor-mouthpiece of two presidents.

Whatever credibility he may have garnered by appearing competent-by-contrast while a red pennant flew over the Oval, he squandered by undermining public health communication once a blue flag was waving.

In another century, he'd have arrived in town with a rickety cart, glass bottles clanking within.

Roommate corresponding with a friend who insists Vibe'n has no power to remove the postmaster general, that only the board of governors of the USPS can do so.

Uh-huh, and who appointed the majority of the governors that have made up the board since May of this year?

"He's doing everything he can!" stannerism is a lot easier when one can #KayfabePanto the President as having no authority & no power: such that any exercise of authority & power is subject to dispension of belief.

@TiberiusReigns @blkchimera @TiberiusReigns @blkchimera Such snark, directed at the rudos of electoral performativity, is a well-established trope of #KayfabePanto.

That they are "easier to pick on" is a red flag of kyriarchy. Whiteness of the American mode demands spaghetti Western moralism: there must be someone in black hat for white-hat savior on their white charger to aim their barbs at.

Such heat toward the heels is all about audience activation. It is the genuflection of secular ritual.

Anyone who is surprised that Dems crossed aisle end to #Covid19 protections hasn't been paying attention.

#KayfabePanto gave an unprecedented mandate—which they're using to continue #normalcy as usual. After two years of not being called out—for fear of energizing the rudos—are now all the more confident in not being called out for another two.

This is what #fascism looks like. That rudos are more fascist just provides common enemy so to excuse injustice as necessary.