FAUX Kings
Added 2025-10-24 06:00:29 +0000 UTCThis week we are calling an audible and deviating again from our regularly scheduled programming to do a special episode on the (spectacle of the) No Kings March. As we are always looking for opportunities for the practical application of Fourth Reich Archaeology theory we could not help but put on our hard hats, sharpen our pick axes, and get to examining what history’s largest protest REALLY means for Democracy.
Of course we think it’s absolutely essential that people organize, gather, and show strength in numbers against the fascist agenda currently running roughshod over the United States and beyond. In fact we want to see much more organization, ideally organization with discrete goals, employing tactics actually designed to achieve them. But in the wake of the No Kings March, we can’t help but feel like this one was just another performative, astroturfed event - a swan song for Progressivism, Inc. - that helps the powers that be enforce the two party model, funnel popular anger into electoralism (and the institutional Democratic Party), and distract the people from true organization.
In this episode, as usual, we use the text of Guy Debord and track how his words have come to life in 2025. Just as Debord saw in his time, it seems like it’s impossible to find anything authentic within the spectacle, and the spectacle has turned all of its subjects into its defenders. The No Kings March is the embodiment of that, complete with its Byzantine network of corporate donors.
Spoiler alert, we get pretty down and dirty in this one. Let’s get digging.
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Comments
Harris talking at about the 24 minute mark, did you guys edit her voice to sound THAT drunk?!?
Tim
2025-11-06 19:04:54 +0000 UTCFinally wrapped up Society of the Spectacle. Why are all of my favorite revolutionary thought leaders committing suicide
William Canzoneri
2025-11-03 02:36:59 +0000 UTCThe pod Johns are so insidious. Crimes against gods and men.
Wizard of Choice
2025-10-27 12:50:58 +0000 UTCFor some reason your sentence "Took an hour to walk the mile loop" made me imagine you were at Epcot on a crowded day walking through the World Showcase. I say "for some reason" like I don't know exactly what I'm doing.
Lorem Ipsumerian
2025-10-27 00:10:08 +0000 UTCSo much happening; finally got around to this. Some observations on No Kings 2 in San Jose. Lots more people than the 1st one. Took an hour to walk the mile loop Noticed a lot more older people than me (71) . Lots more signs, lots more Trump pictures & cartoons Lots of signs with the No Kings logo Another korny part was all these adults wearing those inflatable animals costumes like they saw on TV. I noticed more people selling No Kings swag No Palestinian flags No Ukrainian flags I saw more Mexican flags the 1st time Speeches mainly focused on voting, voting yes on Prop 50 ( gerrymandering) , Oh, and a lot of people wore yellow since a No Kings advertisement encouraged people to wear yellow for some reason ( I didn’t read the ad) KORNY
Uncle Bob
2025-10-26 22:54:33 +0000 UTC
