“divisive” is such a stupid attack. It has no substance. Sometimes people are divided for good reasons!

I expected the one from Inside https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQXFNWuZj8&pp=ygUMaW5zaWRlIHNvY2tv

i did some volunteering for zohran. Most of the people I talked to were very enthusiastic about him. I’m cautiously optimistic

For some reason all I could see was the Ork in work and was trying to figure out how orks feel about wealth inequality. Then I figured it out

One of the problems is some poor people (eg: many whites) would rather die than other poor people (eg: black folks) get anything at all.

Early voting is open in NYC. Voting isn’t the only thing you should do, but it’s fast and easy. No line at my polling place down the street.

A friend of mine was sincerely advancing the idea that it’s better that trump wins, because less-bad candidates like Harris just let people coast by without doing much as the world gets worse. He thinks something like Trump will be really bad, and people will demand more radical change. I think you can call that acellerationism. Pretty easy position to hold as a wealthy professional who owns property, I guess.

Personally, I’d rather people organize and try to make the world better without the worst people in the world having most of the power. Seems easier that way to me.

Fuck. Add me to the list of people who were fooled until the last sentence, and even then I had to read it twice.

I think calling it “Alligator Auschwitz” would be more effective, except one of my old coworkers sincerely asked me “What’s Auschwitz?”

On the one hand, maybe. On the other, many states (mostly red ones) are also cruel and incompetent.

Also, the federal government has vastly more funding power than the state government.

What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

Thinking about the pedocon theory post again : https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

Google is complicit

There’s a kind of person where emotions create reality. They feel a thing, and will use any facts at hand to justify it. Later if they feel something else, different facts will be used.

These people are trash, honestly. That’s a garbage way to live. It’s dishonest and hurtful. It’s immature. It’s a lot of conservatives.

Interesting idea. I know at least one of them is dating a Google employee who, from what I can tell, is rather “apolitical”. I don’t know about the others, though.

Some months ago I was giving a coworker shit for not doing much of anything. No protests. No volunteering. No donations. Just works his mid six figure job, plays video games, and dates his works-at-google girlfriend. He admitted maybe he could do more. I said I could nag him the next time a big protest happened. He said sure.

Well, I messaged him with a quote from that conversation. He was like “oh it’s Saturday?” And then no further responses until I followed up a day later. He’s not going to do anything.

The other guys from that group also don’t do anything.

Something about rich white straight (-passing) men comfortably just keeping their heads down and not even doing a half assed minimum bothers me.

But I guess there’s nothing to be done. I’ll be doing my best.

I think it’s because evil is stupid. Like, it’s a net negative policy. And often predicated on falsehoods (eg: belief that race works like old DND)

Off topic.

One of the “Alt Right Playbook” videos talks about how the right wing don’t argue against each other. I don’t like internet videos, but i make an exception for this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4

is such an own goal for the fascists

I’m reminded of the bit from ur-fascism about how they are incapable of evaluating the world.

They are stupid people living in an emotional fantasy.