it’s easy to tell if somebody has struggled in life, because if you place property damage as a greater sin than the things triggering a fucking riot, you haven’t struggled.

i have been observing voluntary dietary restrictions already and am seriously tempted to make the leap to vegetarian, because what i’m learning right now about avoiding certain foods is that it’s hard, it’s annoying, but it’s doable, and I am capable of cooking my own food to some robust degree. It’s time.

Vegan is another step beyond, i might get there someday, but i’m interested in moving that way. The inertia of a lifetime of eating meat, my relative lack of means, and the stress of life makes big changes difficult right now, but I accept the moral arguments, I want to get there.

i feel like every time the dems lose we get to watch them in real time adapt their morality to be worse

these sorts of pipeline questions feeding people who, maybe had goodness in their hearts at one point, slowly being guided away from the light of God.

bumping

i just got home and updated the thread! thank you.

i invoke my dead name in the past tense to quote people talking to/at me, but otherwise i refer to past self as my chosen name.

using the new name is more respectful, helps you learn the name yourself, helps you associate that person with the new name, and using the deadname just means you’re more likely to use it in even less justifiable contexts.

I dont even hate my dead name! I made it my middle name! but absolutely still… use the new name.

Meta posting opens the door to shame and ridicule. I’ve already seen this happen by browsing the modlog a few times - it just got handled and i think that it’s absolutely good it was handled. i think there’s nothing to really say about MA that can’t be discussed as issues arise, privately. For better or worse, there are people who enjoy wrecking stuff like it. Issues with specific users can be handled by mods and admins - a lot of what can be said about it would be to curtail or limit the function of MA - the additional burden would be suppressive of use.

Please don’t give any room to the sorts who want to metapost about mutual aid - I’m sure some folks mean well, but it’s just going to enable drama that doesn’t need exist and will impede function

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literally the 80s Guy play from futurama

https://youtu.be/vDu74eMv5ME

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The prospect of this post being insincere and mocking the idea that the us was already fascist is too much and i’ve been cackling for five straight minutes.

bumping. i hope you get what you need sis.

i dont know how this is a mystery. You have money, privilege, and delusion coming from a single sector of the empowered elite they exalt power and their own ideas of strength, they’re disgusted by what they perceive as weakness, and for a lot of power and control reasons they want womens rights rolled back, they want social life policed so strongly that it doesnt make sense to tolerate queer or any kind of deviant-from-norm lifestyles. They consider true knowlege and understanding to be a threat and an expression of power, and as such they want the average person to be significantly more ignorant. They want kids to work because if you can start young, you can raise a person to basically be their job - which under a fascist view can range from early exposure to corporate life for the privileged, to really fucked up shit like, in tandem with rolling womens rights back, the earlier you can condition them to their assigned role, the less likely they are to want to break out of it.

They want us more atomized and dumber, for the sake of control. They want the privileged to be highly specialized and locked in, too busy striving to survive to make trouble. They want a world where the weak die and the bonds that tie us together need not cross paths with anything like empathy or compassion

these people are psychopaths. There’s a reason these freaks all worship Odin and exalt their half baked ideas of norse identity. There’s a reason they’re willing to tear all this shit down. Their view of a climate collapse world is one where only the strong need be bothered to allow survival.

These folks have always been around, but since being rebuked in WW2 they’ve spent decades acquiring more wealth, more power, and making sure that they have credible smokescreens. The pageantry of 20th century fascism will start a fight, so they trade in confusion, illusion, and ignorance, rather than WWE-esque shows of strength. JSOC instead of the SS. the death camps made even more remote

it’s the same worldview and it’s the same money and it’s the same basic bullshit, but with more obfuscation, and more concessions to the fact we live in a world where they can’t pretend their ideas of elite excellence or whatever is localized to a single culture or skin color.

The sweet spot for a democrat, whose donors and masters are the exact same people that empower republicans, plus or minus the privileged and empowered folks who fall outside the category of “human” to the card carrying fascist, is to be able to say to your constituents “I’m trying to do something! Look! See at all this Trying I’m doing?! Aren’t you so grateful I’m here and Trying So Hard. Alas, republicans… I said, excuse me sir…[Peanuts adult noises start to drown out their voice] …Reaching across the aisle like an adult in the room… [somebody who still only gets their news from MSNBC starts clapping like a trained seal] …Vote for Mueller for the grand bargain in the West Wing”

But then they also need to go to their office and assure their real masters that no, they’re doing exactly nothing, because they know their performance is fated to fail and be forgotten, with zero chance of ever having the force of law, nor being interesting enough to kick off a movement or popular support of any magnitude. Then they do some insider trading, because they know what the republicans are actually doing, and they get a fat enough paycheck to be fine with it, because everybody sells out, because all humans are basically the same, and on equal footing, and the incidence of benevolent principled behavior is low enough to be statistically irrelevant, because the world we live in destroys anybody with those tendencies, or buries them.

That’s the elected-lib sweet-spot. Demonstrate “value” to credulous constituents through meaningless performative action you know won’t amount to anything, tell them to vote harder about their increasing suffering, and then go to the guy who owns you so hard his fist might as well be deep up your ass and assure them you’ve done absolutely nothing to threaten their interests.

It’s a lot of work, but hell, it pays the bills and you get to feel superior to the people you dupe every two to six years.

it’s weird to stake out this hill and die on it.

You have one flattened perspective on one religion and an axe to grind, but you’re bringing nothing interesting to the table, but a whole lot of bile- and for whom, exactly? is this an exercise in your own catharsis? It just looks like emotionally repressed anger at a target that’s not actually the source of your woes, big or small.

i just find the idea that hitler having these subliminal almost-breakthrus about his own vision of the world being confounded at something like, [reading it again] a war enemy not showing its hand when it knows its people are desperate and that the enemy can have ears anywhere, maybe that rail line doesn’t need to be known about. Maybe it’s not reasonable to assume your newest map reflects a full picture of reality. Almost conceding maybe his idea of the value of these people is based on bad assumptions, but between the insane coctail of drugs he was on, and being powered by purely irrational things, he never got all the way there long enough for it to manifest as anything but brief confusion in private.

it’s the allegory of the cave but it’s an idiot doing genocide and fighting a two front war and just assuming that reality is wholly reflected by the information brought to him and the worldview within his mind.

there’s probably an element of the “mapmakers can’t keep up” too, because we know how intense soviet industrial action was at this time, but I am seeing a man who assumes he is culling a herd of swine, because he did think like that, and being challenged but not having his ontological priors at all broken by the challenge lol

“they’ve discovered how to not put strategically vital infrastructure on a map!!!”

Derek Chauvin was sin eater for the entirety of the police force. A sacrifice to sate the dogs. Our fascist police state was never gonna give an inch beyond that. ACAB etc.