this is what Walter Benjamin means when he says that fascism is the addition of the aesthetic to politics. It's about feeling good. Yeah. And so for Davos, it's about Trump feeling good. There's like, also like the reverse seems to be in play in terms of like, it's a place where you can sort of like fabricate what's going sort of going. You can, you know, you can, it's a place where you go to rationalize the horrors and fabricate what's sort of going on.

And for a very long time, like, you know, the system that has been in play. I think, and this is where Kani is sort of right, which is in the sense of like, well, it's self-congratulatory, but we've also sort of like allowed ourselves to kind of, as in like, you know, these countries have allowed themselves to, you know, turn a blind eye in order to sort of like uphold the

fiction and to sort of allow the dehumanization of certain people and certain kind of groups

and communities while sort of convincing themselves that it's for like this kind of greater good,

you know, that it's to sort of sustain the liberal triumphalism. But then what happens when like, as you mentioned, you know, these, you know, the senile rapist and, you know, his non-seenile rapist friends take over this power that for a long time, like, they've, everyone has had to sort of like at least profess some sort of belief in. And, you know, for them to be like, no, actually it was never like this. Because this is it. It's also like, you know, the Trump administration is very much one of, like, the way that we are governing is not going to be like other administrations, but also, like, they understand what the, what the US state is. And they understand what the empire is and they understand what its purpose is. And they like it. And they think it's fun. And they think it's fun. And like when you sort of see them see like how they react to like all the horrors happening in Minneapolis right now, as well as all the horrors happening in Gaza and in the West Bank and you know, like all the other places where they are sort of like facilitating wars, the thing that they will say is actually this is all good. And we should do more of it. And if you don't like it, then there's the door and also we're going to invade you as well.

It's because it all comes down to spite.

It's just the sort of animating factor in American, and I think Canadian politics for the last,

like at least five, ten years has been spite, like scoring

points on the other side. And now, and now we're seeing what happens when those people are in

charge. And to them, you know, Gaza is just, Gaza is just owning the enemy, you know? Not even,

not even Gazans, just people at home. The same with Minneapolis.

It's like they'll, they'll kill and pepper spray as many people as they like, you know,

they'll trick a five-year-old into knocking on his dad's door and then arrest his dad because it

pisses people off. And that's all there is going on. And I think it's funny as well.

And this is the other thing.

Like, I think, you know, pre, like, this sort of period of, like, Trumpism, they've,

I mean, it's not to say that they've been very good at sort of, like, ignoring the sort of horrors that are at their doorstep. But like there are strategies that have been in play in order to sort of like never have to address it.

So it's like, okay, like how do you address the fact that that, you know, you've sort of wiped out the majority of like, you know, a population of people, like stateless peoples and that like, you know, everyone sees videos of it every single day. And like it is not normal for that many people to sort of see people like just people starving and dying and stuff, like, on a daily basis,

you know, in that way and, like, that, for that to never be addressed. Well, the way that you do that is employ that, you know, all these people aren't actually human beings anyway, right? Or they're, like, sort of nefarious enemies or whatever. But also, you don't even have to address it. like this is the thing. Like, one of the sort of underpinnings of like the Kani speech is also this

recognition that like actually none of the people that the sort of underpinnings of like the Kani speech is also this recognition that like

actually none of the people that have sort of benefited from sort of like tentative US protection

have really had to work out like how they rationalize the horrors.

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