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You can follow individual communities as if they were people on Mastodon. Underneath the hood, communities are essentially bots that boost people’s posts to aggregate them into a single feed.

I could see something a little more abstract too. Like the whole “building is a different color behind smoke” thing is neat and may work better with really simple colors and minimal shading. But this is really the worst of both worlds.

Yeah the comic reeks of PMC brainworms. I say that as someone with PMC brainworms. “You’re special enough to make decisions, but make sure you cultivate too much self-doubt to make true change.”

I like the term “twice exceptional”. All of my biggest strengths are aspects of myself that come with tradeoffs. For 20 years straight, I was praised for the strengths and scolded for the tradeoffs. Motherfucker, you can’t enjoy how quickly I learn things I’m interested in and also treat me like I’m lazy when you expect me to sustain equal amounts of interest in 10 different things that bore me and I fail. You can’t enjoy all the art and tech I make and then get annoyed when it’s difficult to break me out of a hyperfixation.

I firmly believe that the tortured artist stereotype is bullshit. There’s nothing about being an artist that requires you to be miserable. But we sure do treat people like shit when their brains work differently.

I was thinking about that. He had no doubt in his mind that that would work and it did.

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If a conservative starts agreeing with me, I just keep doubling down until I get a “well, I don’t know about that”. Works like a charm. I’ve been pleasantly surprised several times while talking about union politics with entry-level factory workers. But them’s just material conditions.

I think academia in general seems to be going well as a target. Teachers can be seen by fascists as footsoldiers of the liberal academy, trying to funnel kids onto campuses where they’re taught to be less conservative.

That said, college campus politics are a dead end. There’s an upper limit on how much people give a shit about fascists getting talked over by college students in places they’ve never heard of. So, like you said, teachers are a good bet.

So The Purge started as an astroturfed pogrom? That’s fucking brutal.

My pappy† always used to say, “you can’t have a nation without culture, language, and borders”. I think this sort of project could really bring us together by keeping our attention on our ideals for the future. We could call it futurism!

†My pappy was a fascist if that matters

If it didn’t fuck up the car, that’s pretty neat

I enjoy this

I think that’s just how Ben draws women

I’ve received skepticism when bringing this up, but American fascism is currently doing a distributed breadth first search to figure out how to best coopt socialist language without calling it socialism and create false consciousness.

James Woods is an actor best known (afaik) for playing Hades in Disney’s Hercules. He’s also a Trump supporter. He recently tweeted that if Elon Musk removes blocking, he will be leaving because it would make Musk’s Twitter just as bad as Jack Dorsey’s, to which Musk replied, “Then delete your account”.

The woman in the cartoon is Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino. Woods also tweeted out a picture of her LinkedIn, which included the fact that she’s previously worked at the World Economic Forum. Trump supporters have opposed the WEF because of some false consciousness about how the WEF is run by liberals and isn’t mask-off enough about supporting the American Empire. Woods captioned the tweet, “Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I wonder how they got to him?”

As far as I can tell, this is the only association between Yaccarino and Woods. So Garrison is saying that Elon has hired her to do the dirty work of silencing conservatives while still publically pretending to be a free speech warrior. So he’s…. kind of right? Just not in the way he thinks. Also, he’s inadvertently positioned cat turds as equivalent to Trump supporters? I don’t know, I don’t go on Twitter.

Also, it sucks to see all the pro-Elon bots here insisting on calling it X. Don’t you know Musk is an authoritarian?

Same. I could gush for hours.

Fuck the IOU. Small business tyrants will take out their rage over every stolen item on the one person who left an IOU and get them kidnapped and imprisoned by pigs after everything’s over.

It might work for small family businesses (actual small ones, not part of a local fiefdom) if there were a system in place with the understanding that the community would help rebuild businesses and make people whole after everything was done, but everyone would have to stick with it and trust it, including the business owners. That’s a hard sell and there aren’t many cities or towns in the US where it’s even worth trying anymore.

So rich white people and trump supporters executing random homeless and black people for sport, as well as anyone who dares harbor them? That pretty much summarizes the first couple movies iirc

The fearmongering and racist propaganda for Katrina was so bad that when volunteers showed up to help, they’d been prepping to help dispose of mass graves’ worth of bodies and were baffled about the lack of dead people and the lack of gang violence. The “looters” were often people going out scouting to bring supplies back the improvised disaster relief centers that the citizens had set up in lieu of any government assistance being sent.