多元视角：同志特朗普（2026年4月20日）Pluralistic: Comrade Trump (20 Apr 2026)

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There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in total accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-special-address-by-mark-carney-prime-minister-of-canada/

Unlike Carney, I never pretended to like that old order, and indeed, I spent my entire life fighting against it – literally, all the way back to childhood, organizing other children to march against Canada's participation in America's nuclear weapons programs:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53616011737/in/photolist-2pFS5kt

All of which means that my experience of the Trump years is decidedly weird. On the one hand, I exist in a near-perpetual state of anxious misery, as Trump and his chud army of Christian nationalists and degenerate gamblers pursue a program of gleeful genocide. But at the very same time, I'm living in a world in which Trump is (inadvertently) dismantling many of the worst aspects of the old order in favor of something decidedly better.

Take Trump's tariff policy. Back during Trump I, he decided that Americans couldn't buy Chinese solar anymore, which had the double benefit of allowing him to pursue the twin goals of throwing red meat to Sinophobic Cold War 2.0 freaks and delivering a giant gift to the planet-wrecking oil companies that had helped him buy his way into office.

This was really bad for America, of course, but those solar panels had to go somewhere. Mostly, they ended up in Pakistan, dumped there at such a massive discount that the country solarized virtually overnight. Pakistani solar installers learned their trade from Tiktok videos set to Tamil film soundtracks, and unwired the country so thoroughly that today, the national power company is in danger of going bust because no one buys their electricity from the grid anymore. Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery:

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries

This is an inversion of the normal order of things, in which rich countries get all the good stuff first, and poor countries like Pakistan get scraps after we've gorged ourselves. Think of vaccine apartheid, in which monsters like Howard Dean insisted that we had to prevent countries in the global south from making their own covid vaccines, because poor brown people are too stupid and primitive to run a pharma manufacturing operation:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/08/howard-dino/#the-scream

But, thanks to Comrade Trump, Pakistan was first in line to become the world's solar capital. The country's LNG terminal – built with Chinese Belt-and-Road money – is now a stranded asset, because no one there needs gas.

That's gas whose supply has been choked off in the Strait of Epstein…which brings me to Trump's foreign policy and its impact on the global energy shift. Transitory energy shortages have small effects: when your energy bill goes up for a while (because of extreme weather, say), it makes you angry and sad and might result in an electoral loss for whatever politician presided over the price hike. But when you get genuine, prolonged shortages – the sort that are accompanied by rationing – you make permanent changes.

Rationing is so psychologically scarring that it induces people to make long-delayed investments that result in permanent changes to their consumption habits. Maybe you've known for a long time that an induction top would be better for your indoor air quality and your cooking than the gas range you have now, but you don't want to buy a whole new appliance and pay for an electrician to run a high-wattage line in expensive conduit from your breaker panel to your kitchen.

But if you're an Indian restaurateur who can no longer get any cooking gas – because it's being rationed for household use – then you are going out to buy whatever induction top you can lay hands on. Maybe it's a cheap, low-powered single burner one that plugs into your existing electrics, or maybe you're splashing out and swapping out your whole gas appliance. Whichever it is, you are no longer interested in your chef's insistence that real cooking gets done over gas. If your chef can't cook on an induction top, your chef will need to find employment elsewhere.

This is going on all over the world right now, as people buy EVs (and pay to have chargers installed at home – maybe getting a twofer on their conduit runs with two high power lines run through the same conduit infrastructure). In Australia – where the last shipment of gas for the foreseeable came into port last week – people are calling their local EV dealers and offering to buy whatever car is on the lot, sight unseen.

Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, a series of dollar-related crises caused the country to ban imports of internal combustion engines altogether (oil and gas are denominated in dollars, which means you can only get oil if you first sell stuff to Americans or others who'll pay in dollars). The country's fleet of noisy, dirty motorbikes is being swiftly replaced by ebikes that get eight miles to the penny:

https://www.ecofinagency.com/news-industry/0810-49366-ethiopia-expands-vehicle-import-ban-to-trucks-pushing-electric-transport

Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they're basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you've gotten accustomed to an ebike – maybe you've invested in a folding helmet and a raincoat – you'll never go back. The advantages of an ebike commute over a car commute are legion, but my favorite little pleasure is the ability to easily make a stop at a nice coffee shop halfway between home and work, rather than being stuck buying shitty chain coffee near the office.

Four years ago, another mad emperor, Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine – and in so doing, catapulted Europe's energy transition into the Gretacene, with unimaginable defeats for the fossil fuel lobby. Not just subsidies for the clean energy transition, but also policy shifts in areas that had been deadlocked for a decade, like approvals for balcony solar, which is transforming the continent. Even the UK, one of the oil industry's most reliable vassal states, is now greenlighting balcony solar:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-in-solar-available-within-months

这听起来可能不算什么，但英国是一个政治生态极其分裂的国家——一半是仇视移民和跨性别者，另一半则是极其愚蠢的规划争端。大不列颠是一片神奇的土地，在这里，你的邻居可以因为担心你安装双层玻璃会改变他们那排维多利亚式联排住宅的“历史风貌”，而要求政府阻止你施工。

我曾经就因为在阳台上装一个小小的玻璃温室而打了一场官司，结果败诉，理由是这个温室会“改变建筑立面”——而我住的不过是一栋平平无奇的1960年代低层工业建筑。如今，英国政府居然要告诉那些痴迷于建筑立面的邻居：去你的吧，赶紧滚远点，好让你能在阳台上挂太阳能板——这简直是个奇迹。

普京同志对石油浸透的英国能源转型所做出的贡献，怎么强调都不为过。由于“自由市场”政策在乌克兰遭入侵后推高了能源价格，英国人（尽管存在诸多阻碍太阳能普及的障碍）安装了大量的太阳能设备，以至于现在政府反过来恳求我们在今年夏天多用点电，因为电网已经无法消纳这么多可爱的免费电子了：

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/14/uk-households-power-renewables-soar

英国正稳步走向采纳澳大利亚模式。澳大利亚也受益于特朗普第一任期的太阳能禁令，接收了大量原本会销往美国的廉价太阳能设备。如今澳大利亚的太阳能多到要送电了——每天有三个小时免费无限用电。把你的洗碗机、烘干机和电动车充电桩设个定时器，再投资一两块电池，尽情享用吧：

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/free-electricity-like-at-no-cost

（也许读到这儿，你已经开始担忧关键矿物之类的问题了。其实这根本不是你想象的那样，而且情况每天都在好转。举个简单的例子：锂电池即将被钠电池取代。钠是地球上第六丰富的元素：）

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electric-vehicles/china-puts-a-sodium-ion-battery-into-an-ev-for-the-first-time-it-can-drive-248-miles-on-a-single-charge

“爱泼斯坦海峡危机”（Strait of Epstein crisis）对推动人类永久、单向地从化石燃料转向清洁技术的加速作用，将超过几十年来所有环保 activism 的总和。清洁技术远比化石燃料更优越——更便宜、更可靠、更清洁——任何人只要试过，就会立刻成为信徒。正因如此，化石燃料行业才如此坚决地阻挠人们去尝试！

举个例子：德克萨斯州的牧场主们正在大规模安装太阳能，这要归功于该州 bizarre 的“自由市场”能源体系——在寒潮期间电价飙升到让你不得不在冻死和破产之间二选一。太阳能对农业极为有利，尤其是在气候灾害频发的德州，它能为农作物和牲畜提供关键遮荫，同时大幅减少土壤蒸发，从而显著节约灌溉用水。

当被石油利益俘获的德克萨斯州议会提出一项法案，强制要求电力公司每增加一瓦太阳能发电，就必须配套一瓦化石燃料发电时，来自深红共和党农村地区的愤怒牧场主们涌入市政厅会议，痛斥该计划是“化石燃料领域的DEI”。该法案最终胎死腹中：

https://austinfreepress.org/renewables-are-now-the-costco-of-energy-production-bill-mckibben-says/

这将是未来很长一段时间内的常态。由于特朗普在波斯湾发动的那场愚蠢、血腥、不可饶恕的代理人战争，全球将大规模部署清洁技术。人们将淘汰热水器、摩托车、取暖炉和汽车，全面换装电动版本。屋顶和阳台将被光伏板覆盖。电池行业将迎来持续繁荣。化石燃料公司目前因能源短缺而获得的巨额利润，将是它们最后的狂欢。

大势已去。特朗普曾开放阿拉斯加钻探，但石油公司纷纷退缩，因为找不到愿意提供启动资金的银行。随后在委内瑞拉也重演了这一幕。去化石化本就是既定方向，唯一的问题是转型速度——而特朗普同志刚刚把（液化天然）气踏板踩到底。

能源领域只是特朗普践行其理念的其中一个战场。特朗普主义肆无忌惮的挑衅所催生的最令人振奋的发展之一，是全球技术体系的转型。

数十年来，唯有像我这样的数字权利“嬉皮士”才不断指出美国那些唯利是图、侵犯隐私、存在缺陷的技术出口所带来的危险，而我们的胜利寥寥无几、微不足道。尽管有斯诺登的 revelations，尽管科技行业对欧盟隐私监管机构和加拿大立法者屡屡嗤之以鼻，我们仍继续使用这些日益劣化、极度危险的Big Tech产品。我们甚至用Big Tech来运行政府和 structurally important 企业。我们允许美国科技公司更新（实为降级）汽车、拖拉机、心脏起搏器、呼吸机、发电厂和电话交换机的软件。

个中原因众多。其一，彻底更换所有这些软件和固件本身就是一项艰巨挑战，为每个“数字主权”国家建造配套数据中心同样不易。再加上成功迁移数据、编辑历史、档案和身份信息的复杂性，这简直是一项浩大工程。只要美国科技巨头将“劣化”策略控制在缓慢、克制的节奏内，就能让痛苦维持在“温水煮青蛙”尚可忍受的阈值之下。

但捍卫美国互联网霸权最重要的力量其实是自由贸易：具体而言，美国强迫所有贸易伙伴采纳“反规避”法律，使得修改美国技术出口产品成为非法行为。这意味着你无法靠向邻居销售通用墨水或独立应用商店工具谋生，更别提将这些工具出口到全世界大发横财：

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/#mere-ornaments

特朗普同志登场了。当特朗普开始利用美国科技平台，剥夺那些惹恼他的法官的工作文件、电子邮件账户和云端日历时（比如判处博索纳罗入狱，或对内塔尼亚胡签发种族灭绝通缉令），他就向全世界发出了一个明确信号：他只需动动鼠标，就能让各国政府、司法系统或企业停摆。

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge

当然，他还对全世界挥舞关税大棒，公然违反那些为保护美国有缺陷的科技出口而设定的反规避义务所依据的贸易协定。如今，再保留这些法律已毫无意义。各位，解放日快乐！后美国时代的互联网已然来临：

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

但特朗普同志袖子里还藏着更多高招。他在伯尼·桑德斯、伊丽莎白·沃伦和AOC失败的地方取得了成功：他让民主党人意识到，必须把那些无用、背叛选民、被爱泼斯坦毒害的领导人赶下台。全国各地，激进派民主党人和公开宣称的社会主义者正在横扫初选和选举，因为选民终于明白，“蓝党谁上都行”只会让他们在曼钦-西内马宇宙里永世受苦。

https://prospect.org/2026/02/11/progressive-win-new-jersey-anti-ice-organizing-mejia/

对特朗普主义的愤怒，甚至迫使那些最无能的民主党领导人也同意向亿万富翁征税：

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/zohran-tax-rich-hochul-nyc

多亏了特朗普同志，如今普通民主党选民已不再满足于穿肯特布拍照作秀，或拿着印着“反对这类破事”的小乒乓球拍装样子：

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/ping-pong-paddles-to-a-gun-fight/

也多亏了特朗普，我们或许能看到刑事起诉——任何阻碍对特朗普主义及其黑帮进行严肃、纽伦堡式清算的民主党人，都将面临党内初选挑战：

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification

说实话，如果一切可以重来，我宁愿特朗普在2016年竞选途中吃汉堡时中风倒地。但既然生活给了你SARS，你就得把它做成沙士汽水。这条时间线烂透了，但特朗普同志总被自己的红领带绊倒。咱们就捡着赢面来吧。

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#25年前 MPAA用恐吓信“教育公众” https://web.archive.org/web/20120318060108/http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-255961.html&tag=tp_pr

#25年前 :CueCat 的 Cuehack https://web.archive.org/web/20010803172853/http://www.rtmark.com/cuejack/

#25年前 微软技术支持 vs 通灵朋友热线 https://web.archive.org/web/20010410171616/http://www.bmug.org/news/articles/MSvsPF.html

#20年前 海因莱因本会写的关于小布什时代美国的小说 https://memex.craphound.com/2006/04/17/the-novel-heinlein-would-have-written-about-gw-bushs-america/

#20年前 搞笑的保安闹剧：那些讨厌建筑摄影师的家伙 https://thomashawk.com/2006/04/photographing-architecture-is-not.html

#20年前 数百人呼吁史密森尼博物馆不要向Showtime电视台妥协 https://web.archive.org/web/20060420031124/https://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1554385

#20年前 AT&T如何想把互联网变成普通的电视 https://web.archive.org/web/20060620095643/http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/04/17/toll/index_np.html

#20年前 新奥尔良市长候选人再次篡改迪士尼乐园照片 https://web.archive.org/web/20060422010054/https://www.wonkette.com/politics/new-orleans/kimberly-williamson-butler-continues-to-astound-us-167923.php

#20年前 希曼（He-Man）从何而来 https://web.archive.org/web/20060423061651/https://thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000500.php

#20年前 FBI要求审查调查记者的文件 https://web.archive.org/web/20060421045340/https://www.chronicle.com/free/2006/04/2006041801n.htm

#15年前 埃塞俄比亚的“报纸房东”按分钟出租招聘广告位 https://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/19/newspaper.rental.ethiopia/index.html

#15年前 正是我们这种人惹麻烦：移民对英国的恶劣影响 https://web.archive.org/web/20080314013819/http://feorag.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/10/1356131-the-pernicious-influence-of-immigrants-in-the-uk

#15年前 中国的“茉莉花革命”：境外匿名博主戏弄政治局 https://web.archive.org/web/20110412063347/http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/04/the-jasmine-revolution.html

#15年前 用手表零件造的摩托车 https://www.deviantart.com/dkart71/art/Motorcycles-out-of-watch-parts-18a-204941090

#15年前 史蒂夫·布西米的眼睛：可打印面具 https://eyesuckink.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-home-version-of-steve-buscemis.html

#15年前 隐私、Facebook、政治与孩子 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2011/apr/18/cory-doctorow-networking-technologies-video?CMP=twt_fd

#15年前 新西兰议员刚发推表达对盗版音乐的喜爱，几小时后却投票通过反盗版法 https://torrentfreak.com/kiwi-mp-called-out-as-pirate-after-passing-anti-piracy-law-110415/

#15年前 版权流氓Righthaven根本没有起诉权，被EFF狠狠打脸 https://web.archive.org/web/20110418001051/http://paidcontent.org/article/419-righthavens-secret-contract-is-revealedwill-its-strategy-collapse/

#15年前 TSA认为对安检程序不满是恐怖分子意图的指标 https://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/

#10年前 伊恩·博戈斯特的高压清洗机 saga https://bogostpressurewasherstatus.tumblr.com/

#10年前 英国避税天堂的负责人对英国政府说：去你妈的 https://web.archive.org/web/20160411112631/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tax-haven-corporate-tax-avoidance-uk-ministers-humiliated-after-cayman-bvi-british-virgin-islands-a6974956.html

#10年前 乔治·克鲁尼的邻居举办每盘27美元的桑德斯筹款晚宴，以对抗克鲁尼为希拉里举办的每人3.3万美元的活动 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/sanders-supporters-shower-clinton-motorcade-1-bills-n557191

#10年前 什么是新自由主义？ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks

#10年前 不，避税天堂对社会并无益处（这还用说？）https://web.archive.org/web/20160602053124/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-tax-havens/2016/04/15/76d001d2-0255-11e6-b823-707c79ce3504_story.html

#10年前 约翰·奥利弗与《芝麻街》演员谈铅中毒问题 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUizvEjR-0U

#10年前 最高法院驳回作者协会上诉，拒绝受理Google Books案 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/

#10年前 四年后，Popehat最钟爱的骗子终于被起诉 https://web.archive.org/web/20160419031946/https://popehat.com/2016/04/18/anatomy-of-a-scam-investigation-chapter-14-the-indictment/

#10年前 Hacking Team向拉美腐败政府提供网络武器用于侵犯人权 https://www.derechosdigitales.org/wp-content/uploads/malware-para-la-vigilancia.pdf

#10年前 高利润意味着资本主义已走到尽头 https://www.promarket.org/2016/04/16/are-we-all-rent-seeking-investors/

#10年前 回顾《龙与地下城》引发的道德恐慌 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/us/when-dungeons-dragons-set-off-a-moral-panic.html

#10年前 请愿：将加拿大邮政负责人调去送信，年薪50万美元 https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/help-canada-post-ceo-deepak-chopra-keep-his-job

#1年前 马克·扎克伯格个人输掉了Facebook反垄断案 https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy

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