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things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

Yeah I know people love it. It just hasn't appealed I guess.

I will also be masking at the conference I'm going to. But it bewilders me why more people would risk their work/vacation plans being interrupted.

How many decades ago are you meaning?

Decades ago, in a deep recession, library hours here were slashed to four days a week. My cohort still remembers the miserable fallout, which lasted a couple of years. Free, public libraries are one of the most vital parts of democracy, which still functions pretty damn well in libraries!

no, never gotten *this* deep ...

Will check it out! Is it violent?

I totally disassociated a lot as a kid fantasizing about better realities! In my own ways ...