if the only way one can be electable in a particular society is to capitulate to fascism, that society needs to be burned to the ground.

if that's true, i'll cross that bridge when i get there, but i dont believe that. there's enough genuinely good people left in the world to fight for it.

paying for and consuming porn is good! occasionally smoking weed and doing psychedelics in a safe environment is good!

you cant let those things distract you though from the task at hand. else, they will defang you and pacify you with your flavor of bread and circuses.

You have to make them credibly believe that your vote is conditional, even if at the end of the day it isn't due to the powers that be.

the DNC (and also much of the RNC) exist downstream from culture. make and modify that culture to force them to the bargaining table.

sure we should vote for them if in 2026 our only electoral choice is between them and someone even more fascist than your average democratic party politician, but one of our roles as citizens is to push the needle. to make them sweat. to demand certain things be done.

crypto is one of the ex-cohost/tumblr users moral ocd mkultra activation words, along with ai. like it doesn't matter if it makes any sense the people on this website will circlejerk themselves into a fury about how bad it is. using llms to generate alt text? literally personally burning the amazon

decentralization and privacy are the most compelling cases to use crypto. major coins (btc, eth) have been out for a long time now and now that they have serious transactional power they are in all reality legitimate currencies.

Someone tell JD tgat borrowing eyeliner is unsanitary.

I always saw doing any legal name change stuff as essentially registering my gender with the government *for this specific reason*.

I was told I was paranoid and I'm really tired of my paranoia being proven right.

the naturalization process is literal bureaucratic hell and is intentionally that way to stop people from ever actually having the civic privileges of being a citizen.

I'd take this warning to mean literally anyone traveling to the US who is not a natural-born US citizen as well.

My grandfather brags about bashing queers in the 1970s. I have not been safe a moment I moved back. I fear his and other relatives using violence to get me to comply.

Eloping feels less tenable every day that passes by. I’m fucked and I want to be put out of my misery.