(has to do with realizing that the political systems processes exist to prevent the changes necessary without usurping them by state of exception, but also losing track of how the vast majority of people have not reached that state of mind so you cast a dice of all ones) (think, for example, how despite much durrdurr everywhere, there were only a few arbitrary events that were between j6 being what it was and people actually entering the room with the politicians - the caveat to nothing ever happens is there is actually a great potential for things to happen but people lack the combined will, knowledge, and means to realize it. "the system's" defense is to prevent or obfuscate those from people. in other words, if one wanted to break into that state of exception, the means of martial law military coup are roughly oriented properly, but ultimately futile because the state security service is going to prioritize their own stability and status quo like most people will, so they also stand down when the legislature votes. had a private paramilitary he had been cultivating been invoked instead...) (again, everyone on this side idolizes the third reich and don't actually pay attention to the means they employed to attain power - they got institutional, democratic authority after years of street brawling and paramilitary activities and such. guys on the internet are debating whether memes are fucking based enough or w/e instead of figuring out which journalists and influencers need to be suppressed and silenced and going after them in every which way. guys that larp as stormtroopers mock trump for not "crossing the rubicon" from the warmth of their armchair because they expected the actual hardship to be borne by other, ephemeral forces that exist in idyllic dreams but not in reality - as if trump ordering the military to do anything that day wouldn't have ended up like korea just did. the collapse is always someone else's job)
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