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  • Fascism isn’t an ideology that embraces any tactic necessary.

    It’s a tactic that embraces any ideology necessary.

    An ideology would come with some vision for a better future. Anti-capitalists want co-ops and sustainability. Feminists want “traditionally female careers” to be respected and valued and compensated accordingly.

    MAGAs? You will find such a vision conspicuously absent. A whole lot of, “my opponent wishes to ritualistically drink your child’s blood this coming Halloween.” A whole lot of CRT, and Woke, and transgenderism.

    But not a single glimpse of the world they want.





  • I think both the duration and intensity are important. I’ve seen ADHDers online describing their brief spurts of focus and productivity as the “Hour of Power”

    Which is a bit of a misnomer. I know we’re all time blind and it feels like fifteen minutes, but that spurt can occasionally go four or five hours.

    Alternately, we can have a few slightly productive weeks where everything is easier. I’m undiagnosed, pretty sure I’m ADHD, but I do occasionally have two-week productive cycles. Getting up early, completing tasks, maintaining a routine involving eating, exercising, and showering.

    And then when it all comes crashing down, I never do any of those things on time again (or at least until years later, when stress put me in another two-week cycle).

    Manic episodes, on the other hand, regularly last over a week at full intensity. From what I hear, the person feels like a god while the episode is going on. They make plans that are downright hubristic, because literally nothing feels insurmountable to them.

    Can an ADHD person have two weeks of suddenly being able to maintain routines? Yeah. Sure. Two hours of nothing seeming impossible? Absolutely. But unless the two are combined, it’s not a manic episode.