“Is this a coup? Is this a real serious thing?” It’s such a stupid argument. | The Andy Capp Putsch 01.06.21

Nobody ever makes an argument about what they think is going to happen. It has to be couched in “well, it’s bad and you should feel bad about it”, and to that I say: let me accept every premise of every hysteric on the internet who says that this is the beginning of a fascist coup – what the fuck do you want me to do about it? And the answer seems to be: “feel anxious about it”.

The feeling of anxiety is like the emotional cattle prod that they strap to our nuts every day of our fucking lives to get us to do whatever they fucking want us to. Managing our anxiety is how they get us to be good fucking compliant neoliberal subjects. Our anxiety is the cultural manifestation of the coercive mechanisms of control, and you want me to feel more anxiety about something I can’t do anything about?

Because let’s say this is phase one, and tomorrow the joint chiefs come up and say that “because of the overwhelming demands of the American people, we are blocking the further certification of the votes”, what the fuck are you going to do about it!?

I am asking: what are you going to do about it? Everyone who’s saying “this is a big deal, we should care about this, everyone who ever said this wasn’t a coup needs to be accountable”, okay, congratulations, you’re taking this moment where democracy dies to fucking settle online scores? It sounds to me like you’re just having fun on the fucking computer.

from The Andy Capp Putsch | CushVlog 01.06.21