Communism was just a red herring
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Whatever psychopath decided that appliances should beep and play songs will be named in my suicide note.
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Whatever psychopath decided that appliances should beep and play songs will be named in my suicide note.
I'm not sure it's healthy that A Stop at Willoughby is my favorite Twilight Zone episode.
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'm not sure it's healthy that A Stop at Willoughby is my favorite Twilight Zone episode.
Libs need to understand that their goals and worldview are simply not the same and not even remotely compatible with the goals and worldview of Leftists. You either want to abolish the class-based exploitation that inevitably culminates into Fascism or you do not.
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Libs need to understand that their goals and worldview are simply not the same and not even remotely compatible with the goals and worldview of Leftists. You either want to abolish the class-based exploitation that inevitably culminates into Fascism or you do not.
I want to illustrate a children's book about Monkey Communism. If a community of monkeys needs 100 bananas a week to survive, under Monkey Communism, the monkeys pitch in on picking the bananas and once they gather 100 and everyone's needs are met, they can chill the rest of the week.
October 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I want to illustrate a children's book about Monkey Communism. If a community of monkeys needs 100 bananas a week to survive, under Monkey Communism, the monkeys pitch in on picking the bananas and once they gather 100 and everyone's needs are met, they can chill the rest of the week.
First they came for the Communists and the Liberals said "they deserve it because they didn't like Kamala."
October 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
First they came for the Communists and the Liberals said "they deserve it because they didn't like Kamala."
I went down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole after watching the concentration camp episode of the Twilight Zone and, I'm sorry, WHAT?
October 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I went down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole after watching the concentration camp episode of the Twilight Zone and, I'm sorry, WHAT?
American puritanical work-ethic is basically a Nazism.
I've said this before but the United States is literally just the slogan above the gate to Auschwitz - Arbeit Macht Frei - in country form.
And we call that freedom.
And we call that freedom.
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
American puritanical work-ethic is basically a Nazism.
Liberals insisting that fascism can be resisted peacefully always reminds me of this DS9 scene.
"Out there, there are no saints, just people, angry, scared, determined people who will do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not."
"Out there, there are no saints, just people, angry, scared, determined people who will do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not."
The Maquis do not live in Paradise.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Liberals insisting that fascism can be resisted peacefully always reminds me of this DS9 scene.
"Out there, there are no saints, just people, angry, scared, determined people who will do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not."
"Out there, there are no saints, just people, angry, scared, determined people who will do whatever it takes to survive, whether it meets with Federation approval or not."
Listen. Death to America.
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Listen. Death to America.
I need small business people to understand that their interests are not the same as the Capitalist class. The Capitalist will use their support to gain power and then, in turn, eliminate or buy out their business. It's how the system works.
“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I need small business people to understand that their interests are not the same as the Capitalist class. The Capitalist will use their support to gain power and then, in turn, eliminate or buy out their business. It's how the system works.
So I've been a working graphic designer for 18 years now and I've had several managers try to automate or delegate tasks like resizing photos in order to free my time for "design," and I wonder, what do they think "design" IS if not an accumulation of smaller editing tasks?
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So I've been a working graphic designer for 18 years now and I've had several managers try to automate or delegate tasks like resizing photos in order to free my time for "design," and I wonder, what do they think "design" IS if not an accumulation of smaller editing tasks?
This book on the history of poster design from 1970s Italy seems to understand a basic concept that 21st century American internet centrists do not. See also: "right-wing populism" is not a real thing. It's an oxymoron. It's a deliberate misdirect.
October 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This book on the history of poster design from 1970s Italy seems to understand a basic concept that 21st century American internet centrists do not. See also: "right-wing populism" is not a real thing. It's an oxymoron. It's a deliberate misdirect.
"Magrathea is a myth, a fairy story, it’s what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up to become economists"
The craziest and most dangerous assumption in all of human history is that we lack money and that maintaining an "economy" that forces billions of people to fight over money, wasting most of our wealth in the process, resembles an economy.
"Economists" suffer from brain damage.
"Economists" suffer from brain damage.
October 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Magrathea is a myth, a fairy story, it’s what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up to become economists"
What's happening now is a reflection of what their ideology always was. They hid it better back then. But also, it doesn't hurt our egos to admit that in 1995 we were too young and naive to notice the writing on the wall. At 10 years old, I didn't understand the hoopla over the Confederate flag.
"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't
there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What's happening now is a reflection of what their ideology always was. They hid it better back then. But also, it doesn't hurt our egos to admit that in 1995 we were too young and naive to notice the writing on the wall. At 10 years old, I didn't understand the hoopla over the Confederate flag.
Anybody who describes themselves as "storytellers" or "gurus" on Linkedin should get the gulag.
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Anybody who describes themselves as "storytellers" or "gurus" on Linkedin should get the gulag.
Yeah, so, as someone who grew up in South Carolina in 90s where we had Campus Crusade for Christ doing pre-school prayer vigils and Confederate Flags plastered on people's Hummers, the young conservatives have absolutely always been this radical. We were just too naive to realize it.
My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.
As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.
As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.
October 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yeah, so, as someone who grew up in South Carolina in 90s where we had Campus Crusade for Christ doing pre-school prayer vigils and Confederate Flags plastered on people's Hummers, the young conservatives have absolutely always been this radical. We were just too naive to realize it.
I genuinely think that George Washington would have loved Trump and his fascist militaristic bullshit.
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I genuinely think that George Washington would have loved Trump and his fascist militaristic bullshit.
I think Americans have a hard time recognizing Fascism, or think calling things Fascist is hyperbolic, because Fascism has always been an element in our society and most people are just so used to it they can't spot it for what it is.
October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I think Americans have a hard time recognizing Fascism, or think calling things Fascist is hyperbolic, because Fascism has always been an element in our society and most people are just so used to it they can't spot it for what it is.
I was once having trouble sleeping so I moved to the futon in my spare room so I wouldn't bother the cat with my tossing and turning and a few minutes later she came in and squeezed on the futon with me. She was the best girl in the whole world.
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I was once having trouble sleeping so I moved to the futon in my spare room so I wouldn't bother the cat with my tossing and turning and a few minutes later she came in and squeezed on the futon with me. She was the best girl in the whole world.
I honestly didn't know who she was. It's nuts.
Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I honestly didn't know who she was. It's nuts.
Honestly I think people like Trump and Thiel *should* go to heaven because having to exist in a money-less, egalitarian paradise would be hell for them.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Honestly I think people like Trump and Thiel *should* go to heaven because having to exist in a money-less, egalitarian paradise would be hell for them.
I think my issue with liberals is that I see all hierarchical systems as illegitimate. Sexism, racism, homophobia, Capitalism are all rooted in the stratification of humans. So they all lead to fascism. Liberals don't want an egalitarian society. They want a *little* hierarchy and a nicer manager.
October 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I think my issue with liberals is that I see all hierarchical systems as illegitimate. Sexism, racism, homophobia, Capitalism are all rooted in the stratification of humans. So they all lead to fascism. Liberals don't want an egalitarian society. They want a *little* hierarchy and a nicer manager.
Talking about how corporate conglomerates metastasize, my dad, a Reagan Republican, says "They should have regulations so a single company can't own the majority of a market."
We did somewhat until the 1980s. I swear to god, y'all. What on earth did Reagan say back then to get people this dumb?
We did somewhat until the 1980s. I swear to god, y'all. What on earth did Reagan say back then to get people this dumb?
October 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Talking about how corporate conglomerates metastasize, my dad, a Reagan Republican, says "They should have regulations so a single company can't own the majority of a market."
We did somewhat until the 1980s. I swear to god, y'all. What on earth did Reagan say back then to get people this dumb?
We did somewhat until the 1980s. I swear to god, y'all. What on earth did Reagan say back then to get people this dumb?
Wow that's a lot to unpack in a few small sentences. 1. It's amazing how people have been propagandized to conflate Capitalism and Democracy. Do you vote for your manager or your company's CEO or the company who runs your city's utility monopoly? Capitalism is a dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Wow that's a lot to unpack in a few small sentences. 1. It's amazing how people have been propagandized to conflate Capitalism and Democracy. Do you vote for your manager or your company's CEO or the company who runs your city's utility monopoly? Capitalism is a dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.
Many years ago when I was at Disney they were doing this "green initiative" where we were all encouraged to replace paper notebooks with ipads. I pointed out during a meeting that electronic production/waste impacted the environment more than renewable paper and was subsequently scolded.
I was gobsmacked in class last month when the instructor gave a presentation on pros and cons of AI use and didn't mention the environmental impact. When I spoke up to mention that AI data centers use about as much electricity as Denmark, and are draining and poisoning neighborhoods of color... >>
I think one of the challenges of AI discourse is that many people have not yet felt or seen the consequences of overusing water and electricity, and so everybody pointing out that queries use a ton of both means nothing to them. Yet.
October 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Many years ago when I was at Disney they were doing this "green initiative" where we were all encouraged to replace paper notebooks with ipads. I pointed out during a meeting that electronic production/waste impacted the environment more than renewable paper and was subsequently scolded.