Theseus, His Sails Unfurled

This is literally the plot of HIGHLANDER 2: THE QUICKENING.

Probably because (and I say this as a Christian), we have multiple stories where God says this is how it works. Shit, God's son asked *not* to be ground into paste and was refused. Troubling stuff.

I genuinely think these people/bots/trolls/whatever would not agree with you and would say you signed up to die for your country or something. It's all propaganda, no real thoughts

But that's the thing -- these trolls are straight-up saying, no, you can never resist any order. In those exact words. It's disgusting propaganda.

I'm genuinely incensed that literally 100% of the world does not agree with me on this.

Do not fucking take bad advice!

Every troll saying you aren't supposed to refuse illegal orders was probably brainwashed into servitude by their oppressive parents, too.

Resist everything you have to. Jesus Christ. This is not hard.

some time ago, German journalist (M. Lanz) was told by a friend in the US:
”sex doesn’t sell that much anymore. we have a new thing now, we discovered hatred”

it generates more emotion, which leads to engaging with the content longer, which in the end leads to what current internet is about: payout

This movie was somehow exponentially worse than the first one

There is zero danger of Mr. Mayor or his admin going full red/brown

There is lots of danger of grifter pundits and internet dickwads pointing like the DiCaprio Meme and saying I TOLD YOU RED/BROWN IS GOOD

But that's projecting and it's not the mayor's problem

As always, block the fash and move on

*shrug* I don't know what the discourse is, but y'know. By the numbers ...

Christ!

"OK but what if it's funny to broadly brush people with disrespect because they seem disingenuous" IDK pal, but if they aren't threatening your peace, leave them the actual fuck alone???

I grew up a stupid, brainwashed, rural white boy, and it is intrinsically obvious to me that every human being starts with worth and should be respected until proven otherwise through like *grave* offense.

I did not have to read any fucking discourse to figure this out! Your excuses hold no water!

THIS IS NOT HARD

You should want everyone on the planet to lead a happy life unless they've done something unforgivable.

Weird low-level offenses, like overstaying in a country they weren't born in, aren't crimes worthy of scorn.

If you can't meet this basic standard, fuck you.

Wrong Kid* apparently!

One of my friends *loves* Dewey Cox, but I still have never seen it. I don't think it's for me, really, but this dude *loves it*

Current events are leading me to think about a whole lot of variants on The Wrong Son Died meme and none of them are advisable to post. But you can think about them.

"All the trash opinions knew is that they loved him."

Every time I push back on something rotten and terrible online, I am given ten more rotten, terrible things by the algorithm that thinks it's what I want to see.

I feel like The Rain King in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

You know how the Soc Dem parties in Europe entrenched the welfare state? By winning, repeatedly, until the conservative parties gave up. For now. And they still nibble at the edges!

Tilting at some kind of massing Straw Windmill Giant

When The Hurt Syndicate come out to wrestle, the crowd cheerfully chants, "We hurt people!" and that's fun, because it's Pro Wrestling.

When swaths of people on BlueSky effectively chant it to glaze their most toxic contact, who is shoot driving someone deeper into therapy, it's less cute.

This is a toxic place because people engage but do not know what they're talking about and think sharp, dramatic replies is the way to promulgate whatever particular form their ignorance takes.

This is all elementary, obviously. You know this and how it works.

But I feel like it's been a while since we gave a name to it.

(Not usually the fault of anyone I follow; it's 99% the people who find them and get all their validation from causing drama with inflammatory responses.)

I am tired of these accounts

I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their posts

Staying off Bluesky for most of the day feels like Dr. Manhattan sitting on Mars (laudatory).

It's easily avoidable content, but I really do feel like my life is diminished for it happening.

Public-facing Facebook pages about health are currently the most toxic place online, as far as I can tell.

It's always some city employee telling people to PLEASE get vaccinated and not believe these freaks, and 200,000 bots from halfway across the world Laugh React and scold them.