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imagine a future where *we* appropriate the vicious symbolism of ICE in a merciless crack-down billionaires and the MAGA class: fancy production value videos of bashing down their fancy doors, slapping bags over their spray-tanned heads, black helicopters, shattered ugly gold homewares, etc etc

this is of course all very brutal and terrible but I also think people would love it, and let’s be honest, I bet most of us would too

We need the instincts of a filthy-minded showman when it comes to breaking and destroying our corrupt MAGA class. give em a little razzle-dazzle as we lead a weeping and pants-shitting Elon Musk by a chain around his neck into the little piss-scented cell where he has been sentenced to die alone

find *our* most depraved and sick Gen Z politics tiktokers and give them control over how we disseminate video of snot-faced MAGA parasites watching their disgusting little lives burn down forever, you know? let’s campaign on that

Put livestream cameras that never stop filming in the wretched little cells where the DOGE rat-boys and the MAGA remoras and Elon Musk are condemned to live the rest of their lives Put up a screen in the cells where people can donate money to USAID for the privilege of personally insulting them

No. Just flat out no, and I will fight you on this. Your solution here is not only barbaric, it will fail. You cannot build a functional society doing this. No one has, and you won't either. You cannot monetize sadism and get a good outcome. You won't even get a better outcome than we have now.

We know what targeting oligarchs successfully looks like. And it looks like Hungary and Ukraine and the Progressive Era of the US. And none of them did what you are suggesting. Performative cruelty to indulge the mob's bloodlust is not how you successfully move from illiberalism to liberalism.