Lumpenanalyst1d ago
#Assholocene: " #Ghana’s #LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that criminalises the promotion of #LGBTQ+ activities and identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, rights groups have warned." https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/01/ghana-new-law-criminalising-lgbtq-activity
People ‘panicking’ as Ghana passes sweeping law criminalising LGBTQ+ activity

Community groups say some fear they could lose homes, jobs and access to healthcare if the new law is ratified by President John Dramani Mahama

The Guardian
Tadzio MuellerMay 22

"In the wake of gutting #USAID, Trump is rolling out a new “America First" global health / foreign aid strategy: granting money in return for data.

Critics have likened this to a form of digital & genomic colonialism."

In the #assholocene, open #colonialism is back!
https://www.ft.com/content/f5e1335c-40d1-4bb4-bf8d-d017a95e3b7e?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Donald Trump reboots foreign aid with new ‘America First’ strategy

After gutting USAID, Washington is striking transactional money-for-data deals that some critics liken to ‘recolonisation’

Financial Times
Tadzio MuellerJan 23

After #Venezuela and #Greenland, after #Gaza and in light of Trump's "Board of Peace" full of racist, genocidal, corrupt, dictatorial war criminal maniacs...

After all that: is there still any doubt in your minds that we DO live in the #assholocene?
https://steady.page/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/a1c14c1a-feb9-42ec-9678-358be77f8d99

Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene

The epoch in human history in which the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene

Steady
Tadzio MuellerJan 11

There's more & more recognition of #assholisation/ the coming out of the #assholesociety:

"The president’s inability to tell right from wrong (aka assholery) fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour."

Welcome to the #assholocene.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/11/greenland-venezuela-ukraine-donald-trump-lies-europe

What unites Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine? Trump’s immoral lies and Europe’s chronic weakness

The president’s inability to tell right from wrong fuels his increasingly dictatorial, illegal and erratic behaviour, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian
Tadzio MuellerJan 11

Welcome to the #assholocene, where our activism must change fundamentally. Tactical escalation produces more irrationality and assholery, while not escalating leads to nothing at all. Nothing we can do will lead society to make rational and ethical choices.

We must *prepare* for the worst.
https://steady.page/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/a1c14c1a-feb9-42ec-9678-358be77f8d99

Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene

The epoch in human history in which the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene

Steady
🇺🇳 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 Arnd 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇹🇼Jan 10
👏🏼 #Assholocene 👍🏼
From: @pvonhellermannn
https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/115869622212797338
Pauline von Hellermann (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image #ClimateDiary Just realised fhat I still needed to officially introduce #Assholocene here to #ClimateDiary (as a term that needs noting) I thought this was coined by you, @[email protected], along with the equally pertinent #arschlochgesellschaft, but now googled it and not sure who invented it? At any rate: best descriptor of our age to me! Trump, SUVs, private jets, fascism, climate denial, anti net zero mobilising, Venezuela and all. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Assholocene

Mastodon.green
Pauline von HellermannJan 10

#ClimateDiary Just realised fhat I still needed to officially introduce #Assholocene here to #ClimateDiary (as a term that needs noting)

I thought this was coined by you,
@muellertadzio, along with the equally pertinent #arschlochgesellschaft, but now googled it and not sure who invented it? At any rate: best descriptor of our age to me! Trump, SUVs, private jets, fascism, climate denial, anti net zero mobilising, Venezuela and all.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Assholocene

Show threadPauline von HellermannJan 10
@muellertadzio Your #Assholocene remains the best description of our age to me!
Show threadTadzio MuellerDec 5, 2025
2. "And so we arrive at our current era of rudeness, or as German activist Tadzio Müller calls it: the #assholocene. Old powers that were long past their sell-by date are striking back twice as hard in an attempt to retain their power."
https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/wie-niet-horen-wil-zal-voelen
Wie niet horen wil, zal voelen - Joop - BNNVARA

Opinie Sybren Kooistra: 'De logica achter de verhuftering van de jaren twintig'.

BNNVARA
Tadzio MuellerNov 24, 2025

Do we live in the "anthropocene"?

No.

Climate justice: dead
Environmental protection: overboard
Multilateralism: practically dead
International law: comatose
Equal rights: retreating
Queer rights: climaxed
Human rights: soon over

This is: the #assholocene.
@alex
https://steady.page/de/friedlichesabotage/posts/a1c14c1a-feb9-42ec-9678-358be77f8d99

Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene

The epoch in human history in which the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene

Steady