Kitty Smith
@abyssgazer.bsky.social
Currently manifesting a dues ex machina—join me, won’t you? Until then, our outrage feeds it; our contempt and ridicule hurts its feelings. I block ALL Nazis (aka, MAGA)
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Kitty Smith
@abyssgazer.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Remember: it feeds on our outrage.
But our contempt and mockery hurts its feelings
But our contempt and mockery hurts its feelings
Unlike the Germans of the 20s and 30s—who were dealing with hyperinflation, massive unemployment and the humiliating loss of WWI and its reparations—those today who are susceptible to fascism are suffering only from grievances, nearly all of them fantastic.
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Unlike the Germans of the 20s and 30s—who were dealing with hyperinflation, massive unemployment and the humiliating loss of WWI and its reparations—those today who are susceptible to fascism are suffering only from grievances, nearly all of them fantastic.
Just finished “in the Garden of Beasts” about the US Ambassador to Germany and his family in 1933-34 during Hitler’s rise (fascinating) and just starting “The Splendid and the Vile” about Churchill during the Blitz.
February 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Just finished “in the Garden of Beasts” about the US Ambassador to Germany and his family in 1933-34 during Hitler’s rise (fascinating) and just starting “The Splendid and the Vile” about Churchill during the Blitz.
So when jd vance said that Trump was “America’s Hitler”, he meant that aspirationally
February 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
So when jd vance said that Trump was “America’s Hitler”, he meant that aspirationally
From Tombstone (1993)
Wyatt Earp:
What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday:
A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
1/2
Wyatt Earp:
What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday:
A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
1/2
February 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
From Tombstone (1993)
Wyatt Earp:
What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday:
A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
1/2
Wyatt Earp:
What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday:
A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
1/2
FYI—both 1984 and Animal Farm are available for download free at archive.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
FYI—both 1984 and Animal Farm are available for download free at archive.org
We’re just entering the 1933 phase of Nazism. Lawlessness becomes the law. Musk’s Brownshirts will enforce it. Intimidation has begun. Violence will soon begin.
February 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
We’re just entering the 1933 phase of Nazism. Lawlessness becomes the law. Musk’s Brownshirts will enforce it. Intimidation has begun. Violence will soon begin.
These guys are exactly like the Storm Troopers (Brownshirts) in Nazi Germany. Their intimidation tactics will become bolder over time.
OHIO: Armed Neo-Nazis “displayed swastika-emblazoned flags on an overpass over I-75 near Lincoln Heights and Evendale.”
People display swastika-emblazoned flags over I-75 overpass near Lincoln Heights
Roughly a dozen people displayed swastika-emblazoned flags on an overpass over I-75 near Evendale and Lincoln Heights.
www.wcpo.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
These guys are exactly like the Storm Troopers (Brownshirts) in Nazi Germany. Their intimidation tactics will become bolder over time.
Can we do this?
I'm interested in learning more bout Otpor! the Serbian movement that used nonviolent mockery to bring down Slobodan Milosevic. I remember they used street theater and protest rock, really got under his skin, and they were very strict about focusing only on him or those close to him.
Otpor! Serbian Youth Movement: Using Strategic Humor and Nonviolence
YouTube video by PeaceVoiceTV
youtu.be
February 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Can we do this?
Canadian and Mexican friends—I love you 25% more.
February 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Canadian and Mexican friends—I love you 25% more.
I think this will be useful. en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
List of companies of the United States by state - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I think this will be useful. en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Mommy Free-Speech Absolutist
January 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Mommy Free-Speech Absolutist
This is hilarious. Philip Bump blocked me. This is partly why we’re where we are. Legacy journalists cannot tolerate feedback from the public that is not praise. Thin-skinned and lacking self-reflection. Just a reminder—the legacy media will not save us.
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is hilarious. Philip Bump blocked me. This is partly why we’re where we are. Legacy journalists cannot tolerate feedback from the public that is not praise. Thin-skinned and lacking self-reflection. Just a reminder—the legacy media will not save us.
I’ll say
that cursed man that hates his country,
A branded villain.
A branded villain.
January 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I’ll say
If you really want to, well, be simultaneously amused and terrified, go to “X”. It is a complete sewer. Those people are drunk with “power” and completely delusional. They have been so utterly lied to for years that they will believe anything.
This is going to a tough thing to battle.
This is going to a tough thing to battle.
January 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you really want to, well, be simultaneously amused and terrified, go to “X”. It is a complete sewer. Those people are drunk with “power” and completely delusional. They have been so utterly lied to for years that they will believe anything.
This is going to a tough thing to battle.
This is going to a tough thing to battle.
Mel seems very excited that Daddy is home and taking off his belt.
Yeah, MAGAs aren’t weird.
Yeah, MAGAs aren’t weird.
<GET A THERAPIST!> - CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP <GET A THERAPIST!> CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP
Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mel seems very excited that Daddy is home and taking off his belt.
Yeah, MAGAs aren’t weird.
Yeah, MAGAs aren’t weird.
Turns out Kristi Noem is very disappointed with being confirmed as DHS Secretary. She thought the job involved battling terriers.
January 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Turns out Kristi Noem is very disappointed with being confirmed as DHS Secretary. She thought the job involved battling terriers.
The good news is if we are attacked by a hoard of puppies, Noem will be on top of it.
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The good news is if we are attacked by a hoard of puppies, Noem will be on top of it.
Wow, I’m gonna miss that app that encouraged people to give themselves concussions. That was some quality stuff.
January 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Wow, I’m gonna miss that app that encouraged people to give themselves concussions. That was some quality stuff.
F TT. It’s a stupidity super spreader. I said what I said.
January 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
F TT. It’s a stupidity super spreader. I said what I said.
So all these he-men have to have the inauguration indoors?! Weak.
January 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
So all these he-men have to have the inauguration indoors?! Weak.
I’m in enemy territory, friends. Pray for me.
January 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m in enemy territory, friends. Pray for me.
He haunts nearly every aspect of our lives. We have to strive to keep our heads above the murky waters for the next four years.
The sorrow that accompanies Trump's rise is profound, as it has shattered my faith in my family, friends, and fellow citizens. I cannot comprehend how anyone can observe his conduct, acknowledge his criminal convictions, and still support his claim to the White House.
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
He haunts nearly every aspect of our lives. We have to strive to keep our heads above the murky waters for the next four years.
