Resi

I'm reminded of how basically every novel/autobiography of the 2nd World War has a bit where people go crazy from uppers or downers or both.

Except these guys don't even have an existential moral conflict, they're just strung out junkies with more money than sense.

Doesn't help that there's stuff like Jubilee surrounded to prime the weirdos on how to debate and act to get what they want.

Why did we ban someone on our discord tonight? Got sent their posting history from another site.

I hope I never make a game this person enjoys.

We have to stop sweeping this under the rug because we profit from it.

Ever? Literally the invention of what we call the "right wing' happened when French Emigré Aristocrats made up stories to credulous other Aristocrats that the Jacobins were cannibals

I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.

I hate that we all have to pretend that right wing provocateurs are being genuine when their goal is to get a reaction out of people.

You should be able to clock someone who is clearly being an asshole.

The Society of the Spectacle and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Production detail this mechanic pretty well.

Fascism in general is obsessed with aesthetics above all else, because aesthetics dictate reality for them. They will actively make themselves less capable in the name of looking the exact image they desire to project, and angering the exact people they want to anger.

You know what you are. Do you know who you are?

Death cultists do murder in the name of their twisted beliefs.

Fact-based reality doesn’t exist; we must competitively vice-signal

Government for, by, and of 4chan.

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Remember not to lose your sense of self amongst the crowd of voices

yeah exactly. the idea of “inside thoughts” getting turned into Content imagined for an audience

I can see it. Would an example of the former be diaries turning into blogs? What about chit-chats turning into podcasts?

playing with the idea that part of The Problems is that a number of things that were private have become social and a number of things that were social have become private

you know how when you were a little kid you could go up to people and be like, “you, girl with the pink ponytail, do you want to be friends?” and then you were friends?

you can also do that as a grownup; they don’t want you to know this, but people hardly ever say no

Like, I'm not even exaggerating for effect here. "Fun mechanics, fantastic art direction, disconcertingly heterosexual third-act reveal" is genuinely a discernible category on my "do not recommend" list.

Unrooted into order until all succumb

You seem like a nice person :>

Time sorcery - the act of performance atop a world too busy to notice.

“They like each other too much. Unlistenable”
This is what my haters sound like. Pathetic. Heart devoid of love or joy.

The answer, is simple, repent.

They made you hate your children because you listened to the wrong version of the news. Don't you feel on top of the world now?

They'll say whatever they want, one way or the other. They need an enemy and they'll invent them fast don't worry.

The people who could change it aren't allowed in the room. Should really say something about the "Performance".

Neutral means "The past of least resistance."

A good soldier, we must be.

Happier for death, than you are for life.