>>466872There has been a noted conflict between the hinterland and city life. The narrative says that the hinterland is doomed, but this is just a narrative. People outside of the cities have varying views of what is going on - either they encourage it because the death primarily hits the cities, or they're fighting because the beast will come for them and they have no great love of their neighbors that are favored. The greatest difficulty for the ruling oligarchy is that they don't have a good way to control the countryside, short of depopulating it, and so that is exactly what development plans called for - emptying the countryside with economic warfare to push people into the cities, while depopulating the cities with "urban renewal". Because the ruling interest has to do both of these simultaneously - one feeds off the other - it creates a potential weakness. That's why there is a lot of pandering to country folk, something the fascists love to signal. It really depends on how long the fascist narrative and its projection of force can work, and keeping the desperate in the cities pitted against the desperate in the country. It's one reason racism is played up in the city/country divide in America, because it's the black and native peoples who have been fucked over first, and the overwhelming message to rural whites is to sit down and let it happen, with the old hoodwink to convince them that they're invited into something. Of course, they're not, and this doesn't really convince anyone, but as long as enough tension is played up, the cities become a death trap and the country is put under siege. The lockdown got the cities, but in the country, lockdowns couldn't be reliably enforced without comprodors. You saw some really harsh restrictions imposed on the Indian reservations and poor ruralites by alien imposition, just to ensure the long-run plan of the lockdowns and what will happen with the climate shit.
One other thing is that the working class by and large don't vote or have nothing to vote for. They're voting strictly for whatever they believe is good for their job and future employment. If you're voting for a narrative or a meme, you're a fucking idiot. The memes are more useful to reinforce something once your decision is made, and create an echo chamber that constrains any popular resistance from outside of the system. Trump was very obviously the plan and continues to be the plan - they're going to make Trump a thing again in 2024, because he was uniquely useful as a showman.
Long term, the ruling interest holds everything that is actually valuable. You're not going to be able to fight them from the country with some rifles. You can hamper them, but gun control is primarily intended to disarm the urbanites, which has been tacitly accepted because they hate nigras with guns. The people who would be motivated to violently resist are marked down and delegitimized, and are specifically barred from owning guns with the approval of the gun lobby. That's what the gun control "debate" in America is structured to do - disarm "those people" and any other perceived undesirable, and elevate the culture war to what it is today, with threats of civil war over manufactured bullshit. The ideal for the ruling interest is a fake civil war in which those selected to die are killed by brainwashed thugs. It is most important to resist that call as much as possible, and counter those who would escalate the death cult. It's not easy, but the reach of these narratives is less than you would think. Not everyone is extremely online, and most people figured out the internet is a lost cause.
Ultimately though, the rulers and the plan in motion will win. Nothing significant is resisting it; the only thing they want now is to rally the faithful who are selected to live or believe they are, and isolate the purge targets. That's how fascism rolls, and this time it is worldwide. They're confident enough that they will take their sweet time, so long as nothing can grow. The protracted people's war is operating in reverse - the siege has been going on for quite some time, and the lockdowns are just the start. They seeded the idea that the experts can declare an emergency over a non-emergency and proved what they could get away with during COVID. I've heard of climate lockdowns, and this likely comes after the Ukraine war becomes a deeper quagmire.
As for where I get news from - anything I read, I don't trust without processing it through my filters and referencing things I know. That's how it always works in reality. If you incredulously believe any news source is authoritative, you are not doing history or society or politics right at all. Never believe anything in politics or society until it has been officially denied. Especially don't believe shite like Grayzone that is so obviously an intel cut-out that you have to be in a pure echo chamber to not see it. The point of Grayzone isn't to argue reason, but to jump in front of genuine news and shittify the content so that the plebs receive the same few boilerplate copypastas. I saw enough of the sameiness to tell that the Grayzone people really believe their audience is stupid, and so long as they kick up enough dust to cover up any real information, the strategy works. They started deploying that in 2008, with the Obama campaign being the test case. I'm old enough to remember that.
>>466873No, you don't understand and refuse to for pathological reasons. The rulers made it clear their ultimate goal is a eugenic society. They're not actually convinced that markets are made of magic or capitalism is a perpetual money making game. They've always known capitalism is a scam, reliant on plunder to continue. How do you plunder to create a caste society? You teach the values of eugenics, which come to dominate over the prior interests of the capitalist. The capitalists that matter long ago pooled their wealth and decided they won. It's socialism for the rich and death for everyone else. None of the financial sector points to anything real - it is purely a tool to push people into doing things they don't want to do, a clever accounting scheme for human misery. The rich just print themselves however much money they want, because inflation is always directed at poor people. Rich people do not care about inflation, because if they're really rich, they own the bank and own the actually useful land and things others have to use money to command. To believe your version of events, you have to fetishize money while claiming you're against it. You refuse to see what has been shouted at full volume since 1970 - the rulers do not need nor want capitalism or the profit motive. This derail gets fucking old, and any actual communist figured this shit out. They don't need me to say this. The derailers are always stooges of the ruling interest and never actually qualify their claims. They always bullbait and cajole, because their argument is alien. Certain people believe they're in the in-group, but their behavior suggests to me they really are retarded enough to believe anything.