1. They are all very good ways of framing the current system as the only system, one which you must just accept.

They’re all also very good ways of understanding the system. How do you fight an autocratic dictatorship if you don’t know what that is?

2. I literally painted an outline above of what it looks like, not just in my mind but in reality. The Muslim/leftist community drew a line on the Gaza genocide, and the Democrats crossed it. The Muslim/leftist community then worked together to make it known that the Democrats were now our enemy for crossing said line

I saw. Consequently, the fast fascists won and made the Gaza genocide worse. I’m not sure how you can frame that as a positive result for Gaza.

The Democrats can either cross back, or they can continue their fascist march, while you defend them.

I’m not defending them, I’m advocating the leaser evil while not-evil is still too disorganized to gain power. It’s not enough for Democrats to lose, because the alternative is worse. If there is no alternative positioned to win, Democrats are still better than Republicans.

You must exit the slide because if you don’t you will inevitably find yourself supporting fascism, just like how the democratic party defenders are defending Genocide, something I’m sure you all thought would be a solid line only a few years ago. But you crossed it, and will continue to cross any other lines until we reach full implemented fascism, at which point you will wonder why “nobody resisted”…

Too late, we’re there. Neo-liberals weren’t pure enough, so now we have brown shirts and concentration camps. You haven’t actually outlined the alternative, all you’re doing is saying that lesser evil isn’t good enough. There is no good option with prospects to succeed, so refusing to support lesser evil just ensures a victory by the greater evil. And here we are.

It’s not enough to oppose both evils. You need to have a good to replace them. If your good has no chance, you just empower the greater evil. Where is your good alternative with the power to win?

Pay attention in school, kids, lest you miss learning what a king is"

~ defender of kings prior to their overthrow.

“Pay attention in school kids, lest you miss learning what an autocratic dictatorship is”

~ Cuban Batista defenders prior to the revolution.

“Pay attention in school slaves, lest you miss learning what a slave master is”

~ Southern slaveholder prior to the abolition of slavery.

I don’t get your point, those are all very good things to know.

You will not defeat the system from working within, you need to build external power structures.

What does that look like in your mind? And how does that conflict with slowing the slide in the meantime while you build the off ramp?

I’d much rather a slow march to fascism than a fast one. When more than 15% of voters start showing up to primaries, we can start talking about marching the other way. As for now, your options are fast fascism and slow fascism. Stomping your feet and declaring that slow fascism isn’t good enough doesn’t change the options.

Basically anything that you can’t really go without, but has a high barrier to entry for providers. ISPs, health insurance, transportation, etc.

Yup you want to focus farther than the picture. Crossing your eyes mature you focus closer.

Yup, all boils down to faith in the currency. For something like the dollar, it’s backed by faith in the US government. For something like Bitcoin, it’s backed by faith in the resilience of the blockchain and the value buyers place on it. Emperor Norton minted his own currency which was accepted all around San Francisco based purely on the fact that people accepted it.

The correct answer

Not really a true crime guy, but

I mean, everything is part of the universe, including our brains and the chemicals inside them that manifest experientially as happiness and sadness. You can certainly take more control over what causes those emotions in you, but you’re still part of the universe.

I’m convinced that if there’s a way to build a time machine, it’ll probably work like Primer.

Minimum wage too. “Wait a minute, consumers and employees are the same people. If they’re broke how are they going to buy my stuff?”

I’m up to 2x on anything that isn’t already pretty fast to begin with. 1x is exclusively for music content.

I don’t think I could drink that just by looking at it, I’d probably need to involve my mouth somehow.

Disco Elysium was so stress free for me, I didn’t really think the day counter did anything.

It didn’t bother me at all, because I felt like I did about everything I could every day.

I wanted to be a mechanical engineer growing up, I was always playing with Lego and building little mechanisms. Then I had a physics teacher who got into the subject of physics vs engineering. He told the class about his brother who was an engineer for some electric motor company, and how his team would spend 18 months fiddling with the parameters of a motor, and they’d throw a party if they increased efficiency by 0.5%. I couldn’t disagree with his assessment that that sounded boring and soul-draining.

It sounds like the perfect job for a certain kind of person, and I am not that kind of person.

They rest in the boxes they came in.

Dude…

This is a little old, but it just popped up on my feed. You might enjoy it.

Broken clock

It is in the ways that matter here. “Own” here refers to being independent from your parents specifically, not property ownership.