Ildsaye [they/them]

Wile E. Coyote should be US president

He would just spend all his time pursuing the Roadrunner instead of doing imperialism. He would have all the resources of the military-industrial complex at his disposal to that end, but he would just keep crashing F-35s into cliffs and shit chasing the Roadrunner. And his vice president and cabinet would be no better - all hand-picked cronies from the Acme corporation’s revolving door with the government, only there to help President Coyote devise new contraptions to catch the Roadrunner with.

You would have to set up a new state, serving a different class interest, that could apprehend him. The present state cannot be reformed into doing that, ever. It was set up from the beginning to protect the gains of slavers, plunderers, and treaty-breakers. Aside from his bad manners, Trump is precisely who the founding fathers were protecting with the property rights they set up.

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Attention, fame, encouragement, and engagement are also currency, and aiding fascists is fascism. We all deserve to live in a world where fascists don’t feel safe openly declaring themselves.

I just read an enjoyable Dashiell Hammet novel in which the gumshoe main character correctly assumes the cops were crooks no different than all the other gangs in town. This is what they took from you

Going along with Trump’s most recent lies is how you show you are loyal/part of the cult. The lies also flush out people who are impelled to correct the historical record, marking them as enemies.

From what I gather, the first goths came out of the punk scene, and the corset goths evolved shortly later, and the outfits were entirely DIY/thrifted for both. But it is on brand for younger punks to be hypersectarian yet horny

Do people really think a piece of athletic equipment is edgy? I trained in an armed Japanese style for many years up until the pandemic began. It’s just weird to think people might own these things hoping to look badass instead of to train with it - I thought the former preferred stainless steel swords shaped like early-aughts tribal tattoos or whatever

Desensitizing people to having no privacy from their own state and ‘local’ corporations will do that

I’m old enough to remember when cell phones were a toy of the rich and were appropriately considered an embarrassing intrusion into life, and I remember later watching in horror as iOS consistently broke in the direction of infantilization, walled garden, and snitching; and the further horror of competitors mimicking rather than contrasting with these practices. Up until then, the overwhelming tendency had been to expand the capabilities of computers (from the user’s perspective). It’s not as if portable miniature computer/tranceivers have to be done this badly.
El problema es el capitalismo

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There are also low grade threads/fabrics that consist of shorter individual fibers. They wear out faster.

May the drama be protracted and leave them both weakened

I hope it shifts them into a purgatorial dimension where they never stop falling

Gilded Age and Great Depression barons funded the building of libraries and public swimming pools hoping to create the impression they have a role in society beyond predation, these bozos ain’t even trying

Thompson reportedly collided with projectiles at high speed in a bicyclist-involved incident

People pretending covid is over or ‘just a cold’ now is like when people were pretending only gay men can get AIDS in the '80s. But this time, there doesn’t seem to be an ACT UP to bully and embarrass health authorities into being serious. Solidarity with the disabled and respect for the precautionary principle are very basic elements of scientific socialism, but many otherwise ardent leftists remain cold, silent, and incurious.