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There is a difference between "we live in a fascist state" and "the people in control of the state are fascists," sure, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't call them by that name.

Yes I too would like to speak to a manager because if the only time you're willing to say "this is fascism" is when the fascism is fully formed and its power consolidated, then you haven't succeeded in fending off the at this point publicly stated aims of the fascists.

He wrote a book about it IIRC. With some help.

World [ends]

Me: Oh hey My Dad Wrote a Porno is coming out with a remastered S1, cool.

Don't be coy we know you spam Hanzo on your smurf account

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

Many happy returns to his cold, dead hands.

The Women's March on Versailles, the Petrograd protests that ultimately ousted Nicholas II were literally on International Women's Day, Louise Michelle led a group of women who fended off the regime attempt to take the cannons on Montmartre, during the Paris Commune...*plenty* of examples.

FBI now renamed ACF (Ass Clown Factory)

I bet Patel's eyes will bug out if he ever sees this post.

I'll start watching when they get to "Project Walkway," where fashion-minded survivors capture and then rate the most interestingly mangled zombies.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

I am just so fucking proud of her.

So an extended cover of "Into the Groove?"

This is beta mindset, Gareth. Your spouse is your co-worker. Your parents are your boss. Your kids are employees. The only relationship you should get "emotionally attached to" is the one you have with that AI chatbot who loves you because of the new branch of physics you've invented together.

undocumented people should receive free health care, just like everybody else.

in addition to health care being a human right, health care is also a collective issue. denying people health care creates risks for everyone. contagious diseases are the obvious one, but there are plenty of others.

The US is under attack from drug traffickers in the same sense I am under attack from cookie dough.

Well unless you count Fukushima....

Well and also powered by not one but two stretches of years getting supernatural pussy on the way home.

The rise of the Nazis in Germany depended crucially on financial support from the titans of German industry. Hitler was virulently anti-Communist and also anti-union. They believed Nazis would be good for profits, and for a time they very much were.

There's a funny incident in which some Nazis in the Reichstag brought a bill nationalizing broad swaths of the economy; Hitler found out, was apopleptic, and ordered them to withdraw it immediately, whereupon the Communists brought it to floor unchanged, where it failed without Nazi votes.

No it's a very traditionally fascist way of dealing with private enterprise. They're not nationalizing or collectivizing anything; they are ensuring that private enterprise aligns with state aims.

A key feature of fascism as opposed to left-wing authoritarian ideologies is that private enterprise and profit are encouraged, conditional on their being ideologically and economically aligned with state aims, and amenable to state direction.

I'm just happy to see love for Key Lime Pie. I fucking wore out that green cassette tape, and it sounds every bit as good now as it did then.

Oh yes and:
Grant us the luxury, 'cause all our heroes are bastards.
Grant us the luxury, 'cause all our heroes are thieves.

The Democratic Party has many, many things to figure out between now and when they might take power again, and one of them is which gas station suits Stephen Miller best.

Most "money," in terms of net worth, isn't real. The US bankruptcy code, devised not coincidentally in the late 19th century, is based on this.

If a railroad goes bankrupt, is its value what you get by tearing up its rails and selling them for scrap? Or is it what someone will pay to own it as-is?

Anyway this has all made me want to go back through The Magicians, because that story does an amazing job of creating multiple characters (protagonists and antagonist) who possess this sort of "excellence" but are also so weird and damaged by it that they fuck things up constantly.

Well I mean none of the ones I listed are Holden Caulfield. It's more this kind of self-evident idea of "excellence" that can tend toward some of the territory you're identifying there about what's "natural" or "right" or "deserved" in ways we recognize.