Of course, besides not knowing how threads work, I'm also ignoring a demagogic government's role in fascism. The cattle trains and packed 737 airplanes, the shock troops, the camps, all paid for and built by the government. With popular support.

Be antifa, everybody

Even if you start with flat-frictionless-ideal-physics land, unchecked capitalism leads to fascism. As soon as differences arise, they get amplified, until one family owns everything, and the rest of the population is split exactly 50/50 in a civil war that somehow makes the wealthy more so

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7) the unmonied masses see the teevee and realize wait no! it's the sketchy weirdo Random Disempowered Out Group who are the enemy!!!! They start wheeling their guillotines over to the Home Depot and start, well... genocide

4/x

6) the wealthy notice the lazy malcontent poors assembling IKEA guillotines just outside their gated communities. They panic some, and throw together a PR campaign pointing out how it's actually this Random Disempowered Group who are the villains! The Jews, "illegals", whatever, all lies

3/x

3) lucky, talented, or unscrupulous people win, inherit, earn, or steal wealth. Lots
4) turns out wealth is a FANTASTIC way to get more wealth. The wealthy vacuum money up like, industrial vacuum style so much money
5) the unmonied masses notice and get kinda mad. Where's my wealth?

2/x

HUGE fan of Banks, and embarrassed to admit I just discovered Adrian Tchaikovsky - only halfway through my 2nd book of his, (Alien Clay, 1st was Service Model) and loving it!

Cult leaders engage in sexual abuse - it's almost definitional. Cult members tolerate the abuse. Cult leaders do not panic and hide from their own cult. Might be toast????

I think it's because for once in his life, trump is trying to hide his misbehavior. The emperor has realized everybody can see his misshapen little toadstool and instead of spread-eagle-waggling to the crowd (which they would cheer) he's running away covering himself.

Baffling graphic design choice. I presume you've done the art for your various podcasts??? If so, GREAT job, and this must hurt you to encounter 😂 plus, when your brand is just one character away from hilter clarity is um mandatory?

Right!? All these shows where doubles exist and yet *aliens* or *Japan won WW2* is so silly. Understandable from a storytelling point of view but ludicrous

It's enough to drive one into the grimy arms of the pirate bay

My whole dream for my module business was to make stuff as cheaply as possible, to each according to their need and whatnot

I love that the other most-meta and very dark bit of art is Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected animated short. Also, huge congrats!!;

What if they reach across the aisle harder

More than most?... how...... Reminds me of the radio saying a stock went down less than a fraction so..... like zero?