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The ‘virtual border’ (borders are always virtual as boundaries and actual as zones of surveillance!) would never not have been necessary in the whole stupid project, for the simple reason it isn’t physically possible to build a wall on the terrain without staggering geoengineering, plus people will always go over or under them. It’s part of what makes it so grotesquely funny to be fighting what’s literally on the level of a child’s idea: ‘building a wall between the us and mexico’ makes as much sense as ‘digging a hole to china’ and the whole ensuing debate is a perfect illustration of how right and left function as the classic +/- poles of a battery. Now in edgy retrofuturist iterations of fascism and socialism... I hope yesterday’s steampunk boosters are feeling like the assholes they are.