"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

On démonte cette mécanique dans notre podcast avec Frédéric Balmont.

On parle de :
sa rhétorique
ses contradictions
son rapport au masculin
son antisémitisme, son complotisme

et de ce que ça dit de notre époque.

Écoute ici : https://smartlink.ausha.co/martin-eden-podcast/alain-soral-une-synthese-critique-avec-frederic-balmont

@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. /

@atax1a @eri As a white person who has unpacked some of these feelings in myself, not just along demographic lines but other lines as well, like towards children, I can confirm. It's subconscious, so I felt honest in saying I wasn't racist, etc, that I believed in equality, but really I didn't know what equality *felt* like. It was just words I'd been taught to associate with "good," and I'm good, so the reasoning went that I'm those things magically without having to work on it.

Learning about validation really helped with that as I forced myself to actually listen to people whose views I didn't understand (starting with my children). The term "testimonial injustice" was later helpful in expanding that, to realize there were classes of people who I was more likely to believe or even listen to than others.

We're definitely programmed with these to become instincts understood below the verbal/rational level, that are impossible to recognize without unflinching hard work towards increasing self-awareness. It takes courage, but it is also personally freeing.

And it's a constant process. As they say, love is a verb.

@SallyStrange

The best personal benefit is that it's SO FREEING. The White Construct is a cult that also limits the freedom of those who count as white. You'll know if you cross those lines, because you'll lose privileges. Don't be queer, disabled, fat, express incorrect religious views, be "liberal," antiracist, antifa, a loud woman, or many other things, or you lose at least some, if not all, perks. Not only is it the right thing to do, it is to your direct benefit to learn about the mental ropes that bind you and trick you into binding others along identity lines.

Ask how I know.