This is it.

The “true believers” in neoliberal conservative values are useful to make the rightward march to increasingly reactionary politics seem proper and reasonable to anyone who isn’t paying attention.

But when shit is about to go down those same talking heads are a liability if they aren’t cool with barely contained barbarism.

Thank you jerk face!!

Thanks for sharing, this is a better write-up than I would’ve done.

But yeah it really sucks because from the outside Bandcamp looks like a great “light touch” platform, but the truth is sadly much more cynical and anti-democratic.

Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot reading this.

I buy on Bandcamp Fridays, but am suspicious of that platform since they changed owners so often without any input from the community or musicians.

I’m keeping my eye on https://subvert.fm/ as a hopefully more democratic option.

Food didn’t actually spill and video doesn’t even show anything breaking. Bah! I’m happy it worked out, but I was kind of hoping to see a tragedy within the bounds of human comprehension for once.

This metaphor is getting too good

Well that was distressing.

It’s like the hateful youths I remember from my gaming days just stopped morally progressing

Ugh do I even want to learn about this…

They wouldn’t be alone in mourning a person for who they thought they were.

I know it’s a silly comparison, but similar thing happened to me with Hulk Hogan. When I was a little kid I thought he was so cool, and like a masculine role model.

But then I learned about him actually being a grade A piece of shit, and I felt a real loss.

This happened before he died, but I can imagine being confused if he died before I knew any of that and suddenly the internet was erupting with hate for an old role model.

Moral is don’t put people on pedestals and watch out for shitheads I guess!

This is why I’d be a bad politician. I couldn’t stomach pretending that the party leadership cares about democracy or fair play

Damn that is excellently put.

Very understandably, most reasonable people are uncomfortable with violence* but then we seem powerless at the state level to stop the gradual rise of violent ideology that everyone knows will end in classes of vulnerable people who are no longer protected by the prohibition on non-state violence.

* state violence that is part of the script of life isn’t scary for some reason though.

Saving your comment.

For the insides I just put them in the toaster oven on low to finish

I hope the same people will consider the “deep offense” of bombing children with blank missiles as well

People named Charlie having a really rough week right now lol

Prepogrom

Wow what a wretched collection of individuals. These assholes can’t all possibly be in agreement with each other — don’t you wonder if they aren’t given pause by some of the company they’re stacked next to?

Like if I was giving a speech somewhere and Elon Musk, for example, had just delivered his I’d start to suspect I wasn’t on the right side of things, let alone in the best of company…

Real

That’s entirely where the perspective comes from, even if it’s second-hand, since most other people don’t have direct experience living in a communist society.

Or Nazi society for that matter, but got the most part we have consensus on that one being universally awful.

Me befriending the extravert at work