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Do not stare long into the abyss, avian comrade.

Kissenger/Bismarck 2028! Whoo!

He’s electable if you sacrifice a goat!

Youre just not understanding the costs. There is no view from nowhere, and there are no sweatshops there either, those underwear were made somewhere. Rent/upkeep on facilities probably cost as much as a whole SIX cents per pair, and there was both labor and space on modes of transit used to get the underwear to you. That likely cost as much as $0.5 per pair of underwear. Plus, are they made of sunshine and prayers? No? Then there is fabric there. That wasnt free, it cost probably as much as $0.05 per pair. That puts the minimum expenses, including the cost of either turnover or feeding the sewing slaves (as much as $0.08 per pair! Highway robbery!) Comes out to $0.69 per pair! And of course the owners need to make a profit!

So maybe think before you speak, commie. Maybe the world is more complicated than your absurd ideology makes it out to be, and things cost a little more to make, and maybe JUST MAYBE the people running these massive global supply chains know what they’re doing, and you shouldn’t assume you know better, just because of some quixotic nonsense that feels good to say like “slavery bad”?

Good luck. Get a flavor only vape if you miss the motion. Try wellbutrin and mushrooms if your brain is stuck and you end up needing to quit towers of Hanoi style. And remember we all want you to get your lungs in good shape, including some cardio. Could be important soon.

You know how Kauffman did humor, where the real punchline isn’t the joke, but your reaction to it?

Try seeing games like that. Yes youre trying to win, but that objective is just a vehicle for the real objective of having fun. See if you can pull weird shit and win with it. There was a pro StarCraft player who played like this; I forget their name. Basically, find the weird shit that shouldn’t work, and find ways to make it work, instead of standard sensible builds/loadouts/strategies. See if thats more fun on balance. Certainly makes the world weirder for everyone around you.

Voly-cule

I’m just gonna think if this as a vaguely religious vore thing. Anybody want to eat me? But in a not traditionally sexual way, that will totally be sexual? Possibly with some ceremony?

It’s not my usual, but I’m willing to try anything once. Or are we assigned roles somehow? Because, like, I dunno, I tend to take my meals pretty small, so I’m gonna need to, like, stretch or something if I’m the eater not the eatee.

Look, some of them have cute bodies. Plus its not sex if libs aren’t people, so it doesn’t count as chea…oh I see why nobody dates me.

Okay, yes, but consider that if its like last time: they’re more likely to give us resources if we jack them off about it a little

And very funny even if not.

Of course. No American would ever be racist. Especially in a way that involved cotton. Not in our nation’s entire ~150 year history!

But if they dont get more racist, how will they tolerate working in the Nazi factory?

Not what moneys for, will error out. Try with your bad opinions and hope the good ones can be organically derived.

Right but AI translating of all government code is good. This is what you want, especially if shit goes down. Dont tell your enemy to stop pouring the kool aid.

I’m actually in favor of this. It’s a really good idea, and I hope the state uses it for all the important databases they’re gonna use to put us in the camps.

Please dont be a hater. Comrade AI might just save lives here.

And every big platform is like this. On purpose. We handed our social lives and so much of our culture over to them, and they used that monopoly to push Nazism. Every corpo in silicon valley may as well have a sonnenrad on its face.

I’ve been saying this for over a year, but: I will not vote for a candidate who would rather threaten me with fascism than say “okay maybe we should tone down the genocide”, who is willing to risk open fascism to keep the guns flowing, who gives their finest most bloated cutting edge weapons of murder to the literal Hitler apologist neo Nazi piece of shit actively on trial for genocide he admits to like every five minutes, and old outdated crap we would otherwise be throwing away to Ukraine¹.

Like, putting aside the fact she’s a legendarily transphobic cop, and nothing short of personally going down in culturally aware and exceptionally competent ways on every single trans adult in the country would make me forget that long enough to vote for her, these chucklefucks were never going to be the bulwark of democracy. They did not question the extremely suspicious election results² the open election interference or more than half assedly prosecute the violent coup. The defenders of liberal democracy would have had gallows up on January 7. Elon musk would have been hung drawn and quartered by now, and it would have been shown on cspan, mandatory viewing in every school in the nation. None of this is surprising, for those of us who remember 2000. I’ve been telling people the libs would roll over for belly rubs at the slightest excuse for years, that they’re not worth voting for, because they will not even attempt to hold the line. They have affirmed that this was the right decision.

Bringing on the Clinton and starmer teams as advisors was just a declaration that they wanted to lose. Actual democracy can involve a vote, but it is at best a small part of it, and I don’t believe its valid here. The strict adherence to voting is a failure of imagination, a failure of volition, and an abdication of ones role in society.

I dont know how many of you have long talks with random strangers outside of lefty spaces, but so many people suffer from this failure of imagination. They have died inside, their imaginations and consciousness, even their sense of themselves and connections to community stifled by lifetimes of obedience and fear, their horizons cut away in bloody strips by the knives of capital, individually packaged in neat little boxes by alienating neoliberal media. Their resurrection, and the murder of the metaphorical cops residing in their heads, is our responsibility. Even if we don’t immediately love the person who climbs out of that dirt. Where we as leftists must act is not just in feeding the hungry, in practical needs or armed resistance or whatever the fuck your praxis is³, but in sparking the imagination, expanding horizons past the options explicitly presented by their masters, and connecting those expanded views and ability to act to everyday life. We can and should use this chaos to break out of the ordinary, to make the world more surreal, to blur the edges of what capitalist subjects see as possible. This is the responsibility not only of the mass chef and the soldier, though it does remain a part of theirs, but of the artist, the drug dealer, the thief, the builder, and the engineer-including and especially of software.

Get out there and do some necromancy, folks. Scream messy poetry in a coffee shop, project a movie on a blank wall, make your error messages surrealist. Intrude on peoples fucking tiny little lives. Make the world a little stranger. Bring back the dead.

¹I know, not popular here, but at least in the lib rhetoric they’re fighting a defensive war against a genocidal invader. Whatever you believe, it shows what the libs really value. And more importantly, there was a god damn treaty since they gave up their nukes. Nobody’s ever fucking doing that again after this example. The failure to defend them ended even the most remote dreams of nuclear disarmament without dismantling the state. There will be fallout from this, and it will be literal. Just when we were back to making fresh modern LBR steel, too. Fuck.

²I’d believe trump won the electoral college, but he absolutely did not win the popular vote. Not honestly. They cheated. We knew they were cheating. We caught them cheating. They admitted they were cheating. Nobody cared.

³its still that. I don’t mean to call what youre doing unimportant. Whatever it is, we probably still need that. I’m saying its not enough. What I was doing wasn’t enough either, as demonstrated by a lack of revolution. By lack of mainstream resistance. By the left still being marginal.

Its still wonderful.

Also, algorithmic nazification pipelines. Deliberate and intentional! Steve bannon needs real exemplary consequences.

As I commented elsewhere in this thread; they also followed us onto the corpo platforms, all of which had algorithmically curated nazification pipelines.

Really ramping up in the early 2010s there was a deliberate program of Nazi propaganda pushed through the algorithmic curation systems of every single corpo platform our generation gave their social lives over to in the early 00s, the kids just followed us. If you told your friends to get on Facebook, and aren’t a Nazi, youre just a Judas goat.

Luckily, I was and am too insufferable to have friends, and am thus blameless.

Yeah. I bet most cars are a higher % of surface area window than most houses. Theory could still hold.