Uriel238

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The scare quotes remind me the Christian community runs lousy with believers who assert those other Christians are not true Christians according to a personal standard.

It's a standard that drastically changes depending on the individual. Some believe those who suffer LGBT+ folk cannot be true, while others would challenge the countless Protestant Evangelists in the United States Marine Corps who are expected to follow orders to kill without reservation.

As an outsider, I use the same model as the LGBT+ community, that someone is valdlid if they identify as a thing, which works for Christian as well as it does for Lesbian

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The nice way to beat fascism is to make it less appealing. When families live in precarity or in poverty, they start looking to blame someone. Sometimes it's obvious, like billionaires forcing workers to pee in bottles.

In response, the affluent elite utilize their resources to create a propaganda campaign to blame scarcity on already-marginalized groups (in the US and UK, the rising genocide of transfolk is an example). Hangry communities feeling insecure + Tucker Carlson spewing hatred every night leads to fascist action.

Note that it works because its instinctive. We don't like living in societies with more than a hundred people, even when it means we get infrastructure like running potable water or internet or electricity or food at our grocery stores so we don't have to farm and hunt, ourselves. We actually have to train ourselves to live and let live, and not start a centuries-long family feud every time someone cuts us off on the freeway.

Social safety nets and better standards of living can pull people out of poverty and precarity, so they don't feel they have to begrudge everyone outside their front door.

Otherwise, we're going to keep trying to organize labor, and in response, the companies are going to try to distract with hate campaigns. Remember Trump commandeered the GOP in 2015 and 2016 because he gave permission to hate while the other candidates wanted to just continue to quietly oppress with code-worded fears. Even if we quash Trump, they'll find new Mussolini-wanabes to back and worship, and eventually they'll start a civil war.

If we don't want the civil war, we need to make shit less bad for the 80% living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse) and we need to reform elections so that their outcomes are better informed by the interests of the public (not the elite). Or at least that's what CIA analysts (retired) interviewed on PBS think.

Once civil war breaks out, though, or they're harassing marginalized people and committing hate crimes, yeah, feel free to [REDACTED] off the face of the earth. And anytime a law is passed or a rule is adjudicated that retracts a civil right, remember that is violence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And the Coyotes will defuse the traps with a fraction of the cost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It took France about a century before they went full Republic. I'd give the folks in Iran some latitude.

Note that the hijab thing was the last straw, and they're still going without functional infrastructure.

I suspect the molotovs will resume flyong shortly. They are already on a short fuse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The serious question is with what? I doubt the AI is going to kill you with disgusting pics or existential philosophy.

This means they hooked it up to something that might be used as a weapon of attack: an industial printer or a t-shirt cannon or a gunship at port.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh. I really can't imagine normies exist.

When I think of a normie, I think of the Cleavers, or the Simpsons. A conglomerate average of what we expect white America to look like.

I think every family has to deal with weird shit, weather mental illness, disability, fentanyl addiction, Juggalos or a Gen X discordian auntie who takes no-one's bullshit. We all have stuff going on that kicks us out of the normie threshold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

She can leave her hat on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When the upper management sexual predatory practices and HR cover up scandal emerged I stopped looking forward to Watch Dogs: Legion even though I liked WD2 and wanted to see Clint Hocking at the helm again. Oh well.

Looking forward to a spiritual successor to Far Cry 2 some day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Satan sold me rock-&-roll and Dungeons & Dragons when I was 12. Jesus gave me the peacekeeper ICBM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also brewing and herbalism, but yes, the criminality of witchcraft was about the church being anticompetitive.

Sorcerers in the mid-east practiced algebra and astronomy, which was too spooky for the Imams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I found a bunch of pennies and put seven shiny ones in every corner of the house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think the scream extractor is such a great underappreciated icon of capitalist horror.

And it runs on children.

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