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It’s a Wordpress wrapper over an autogenerated CSS wrapper on their 2002 website written in HTML-1 and Perl. On Angelfire.

i posted this the other day: Forrest Valkai on helplessness, activism, and why your voice matters.

I think it’s even more relevant today.

Oh! That does make sense now you say it.

Is this what I think it is? Or is it an eyepatch?

I’m kind of useless in the morning. Can we pencil it in for, like, 3?

Aw, they really wanted to provoke us into widespread riots.

Poor babies didn’t get what they wanted. Instead there are even more of us now. So sad.

These movements will only be effective with wide public support, though, and if they’re able to loop footage of protesters ‘being violent’, public support will collapse.

Even when they provoke us, we need to remain as peaceful as possible, not because doing otherwise will incite more violence from them, but because we need it to be obvious that the violence is entirely one-sided and unwarranted.

They’re already lying about us – we can’t verify their lies.

I disagree, because I think all of these things address the wrong problem.

Individuals should be able to gain from their own inventions, and others shouldn’t be able to force them into poverty by stealing their IP. Corporations especially should not be incentivised to do that.

Then again, unfettered capitalism is geared towards incentivising corporations to do that.

The answer isn’t to weaken people’s already vanishing IP, but to change what’s incentivised. Also to stop treating corporations as people. They aren’t.

I guess this is good, though it’s annoying that it’s unique enough to make a headline. This should be completely uncontroversial.

No, children are learning this from their parents, but society as a whole is moving on from this, and some insular communities are getting butthurt over it. This is part of what’s fuelling their xenophobia, actually.

No. I was legitimately shocked the first time I heard these things, as I switched schools.

I stayed shocked until today, though I’ve had to keep hearing it in my small town. For a while in the early 2000s, it got a bit better, but starting in 2016 it ramped up to 1980s levels again.

As a designer doing advertising work, a local bakery rebranded themselves and asked me in 2017 to redo their logo to Kathy’s Korner baKery, for instance. Of course I wouldn’t, but nobody would have asked me to do that before.

Back in the 80s/early 90s I would have seen shit like that, but not in the early to mid 2000s.

From my (very white girl) perspective, it seems some people have hit middle age and desperately want to return to their teens when that abhorrent behaviour was okay. Their personality has become wrapped up in it, and they think being asked to care about others is a judgement on their soul (it is, and they’re awful people), so they’re lashing out.

They don’t understand they can learn and grow, and instead feel everyone has turned against them, so they’re doubling down. It’s actually sad.

She drank the kool-aid.

This is what you get when you recruit ‘regular’ people into your fascist movement – they buy the bullshit that you’re ’for the people’ and ‘want to make things better for everyone’.

You get people who don’t know those are lies to appease the masses, and think you actually are for those things.

She really doesn’t understand what her party is for, and instead takes it for its facade. And she doesn’t understand this means she’s a circus clown.

Those arms are clearly useless for anything but hugs.

So we’re gonna start actively prosecuting thought crime now. Cool cool.

No, obviously.

I’m going to tell people to do more than just vote, and to not think voting alone is adequate.

It’s not a hard concept. We are fighting honest to goodness, full-blown fascism now. No joke, no hyperbole. Of course you should still vote, but you also need to know that voting is no longer enough. It was always the bare minimum, and now we need to do more than that, because they will not give up power to the vote.

I’m a salt mine over this. And now that they have full power, because fucking snowflakes couldn’t even bother to vote on the local and state level, they will not give up that power. People are dying, poor families with disabled children are losing healthcare, trans people are under federal attack, science and education is being gutted, and on and on, because of political edge lords.

There won’t be another chance. Vote next time or don’t, it won’t matter because fascists aren’t going to just say ‘welp, I guess I’ve been voted out now’. Like we were saying, 2024 was the last free election if they won. But they couldn’t be bothered.

Add some potatoes to me, I’m done.

Making it easy for him is thinking voting has a chance of fixing this now.

Doesn’t he share his masturbatory habits with his son, in a sort of watchfulness pact or something? It’s so very weird.

With clubs, in a large group, Caesar-style, so nobody knows which of us did it?

They literally renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War. How more explicit do we need them to be?