eldavi

... now I’m much better prepared for escaping the worst of the acute fascism than I was before.

i'm expecting it to smack me down hard since i already was not having a great time under non-fascist capitalism.

you should teach a class on how to prepare for it. lol

so much more fitting. lol

... I’ve seen videos and read articles predicting an imminent catastrophe, and corporate greed tells me that this catastrophe is just around the corner.

my own doomerism had me believing this as well, but then learning about texts like the ones cowbee has shared w you has shown me that our situation was predicted a century+ ago and I found it reassuring.

The most wild part is that it was never just some fringe leftist prediction; even liberal & conservative scholars from a century ago also predicted it like Keynes, or Polanyi, or Roosevelt (yes the president). It turns out that almost a century ago americans and other westerners just stopped paying attention to all the warnings from all of the scholars that they used to listen to and now we're in this doom filled future because all the people who benefit from the status quo have successfully created an environment where the future is seen as either more status quo or nothing but abject horrors to scare us into drinking the kool-aide of inescapable climate change and perpetual oligarchy.

Once I developed a rudimentary media literacy because those texts; the mainstream media became transparent and it became clear that everyone, but the people of ruling class, are kept ignorant of reality because ignorant people are easier to manipulate into all the unnecessary asshattery that we've been doing for the last five generations.

i didn't know motorola did IP69K capable phones. lol

some people believe that the extra steps prove that it's not slavery. lol

are the goats still pissed off about mussolini? lol

or contractually obligated kissing lol

were you a ford or poilievre supporter?

as would most liberals if they actually read the material instead of having their misinformation reinforced by "respectable" sources like the new york times; or the guardian; etc.

fossilgroyper

What’s sad is his parents made his middle name James, like they had hope for him to be a beacon for humanity… as opposed to oppression.

why is this sad?

also his middle name is Tiberius.

the kids in the hall did a hilarious sketch on this and i suspect i'll be carrying its memory to my grave.