pro tip! just let the other person repeat themselves even though you already have your answer loaded. this gives you some advantages:

• avoid answering what you think they asked the first time and answer what they’re actually asking
• opportunity to re-evaluate your answer as they repeat the question and make sure you still like it
• after they repeat the question you already have an answer ready to go which makes you seem like you’ve got a high degree of expertise in the field even though it’s just that you heard them the first time but were still processing

they will performatively stand up to trump, and that’s all. they will use trump to implement local neoliberal fascism

before we came here, the people who managed this land did so with less strict boundaries. we should learn to listen and stop homogonizing everything

no more lines. america doesn’t make sense becapse the polities that compose it don’t make sense

sorry, wasn’t trying to say it did. i was just trying to make a self deprecating goof

later, when palestinian resistance takes action against this, the narrative will once again label all palestinians as hamas terrorists

invest heavily in renewables or don’t invest at all

the tarrifs do not promote american innovation. they protect american extractive exploitation

i’ve been told it has a name, and that name is “ADHD”

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this basically captures the thoughts i’d written out in a lost draft. i recommend if you’re a graphene user enabling this and keeping an eye on postmarketos

trolling accomplishes absolutely nothing and just makes community spaces worse to be in. the age old addage of how to make the internet work has been “don’t feed the trolls. block and report”

i’m taking it on good faith right now that you mean well and just don’t have experience on how to be an effective communicator. always remember, the right divides, the left unites. even if you think you’re trolling for lefty causes, by engaging in that form of rhetoric you are empowering the right wing opression. this isn’t me saying “when they go low we go high” mind you. this is about the kinds of down in the mud we should be doing. we should be disempowering their demogogues (the president is literally so fragile he has to say every man he meets is openly sobbing when it happens), not harassing individuals

easier to do evil when you think your favorite thing says to do it

either way, he’s a dangerous demogogue whose opinions shouldn’t hold the weight they do

for anyone this inspires to make the jump, i recommend Tidal and Bandcamp.

it seemsn’t complicated

sigh… the antichrist is an alegory. revelations is a story that is meant to act as a fable. the rider on a white horse is not literally a rider on a white horse any more than George Orwelle’s Animal Farm is about a literal farm of animals. it was written in a time when Rome was persecuting jews and christians for not participating in the state religion. it was an awful time to be alive, and writing directly about what was happening was a great way to get yourself imprisoned as a heretic. it’s written so weird compared to the rest of the new testament because it’s a radical piece of warning against authoritarianism written to get past the roman censors.

the antichrist should not be understood to be anything different than a charismatic political leader who represents everything the christ, Jesus, did not. the antichrist would therefor be anyone from any era who brings about death and destrution via:

• their thirst for money
• their love to weild power over others
• their willingness to exploit anyone different from themselves
• their relationship with the religious orthodoxy obliterating any empathy they could show

similarly, the return of the christ should not be understood to be literally jesus. the return of christ should be understood to be someone who:

• sets aside their pride to spend time with people different from theirselves
• allows empathy to override orthodoxy
• challenges authority not to weild power themselves, but for the betterment of others
• views pacifism not as a virtue, but as an aim

thiel backed the antichrish and slanders the reborn christ because he doesn’t understand the theology. he doesn’t even understand his favorite books, Tolkein, or their messaging. he is an empty hollow vessel of a person masquerading as something more than he is. he is the rider on the white horse

hey’s blog is hardly what i’d consider obscure, and the alternative to providing evidence that someone is a fascist is just assuming whatever anyone says about anyone is true, which is normalizing defamation and libel. i don’t love either that presenting evidence of fascism allows fascism to attach its propaganda to what’s being said, but i think the alternative is worse.

better is to conextualize and educate. say “here is what was said, and why it’s a problem.” not discussing dogwhistles and why they’re problems only lets them spread farther without anyone knowing the truth about them, even if they spread less far. in other words: they become more effective if you ignore them.

i think it’s a very hard balance to strike but we have to put in the effort to do it rather than having faith people will act right. worldwide, authoritarianism is on the rise. fascists have the mic. we don’t have the luxury of trust people to be educated to recognize what they see without providing context

it bugs me. language is imprecise and sometimes you get banned and the ban reason doesn’t, in your head, map to what you were saying. and then that changes how anyone who looks you up thinks you think. i’d much rather have a system that makes it clear what exactly you said and what the problem was

a dear friend of mine describes sexual violence as a core value of this current admin. she says she finds it critically important to point this out to her because growing up in post soviet eastern europe, that was the key marker of corrupt governments. it was easy to see the greed of access to power through violence as being about money, but it runs so much deeper than that. the money is means. sex, violence, and sexual violence is the end