melpomenesclevage

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and now you've just made it like 30% less cool. fuck, I may as well sign up for netflix now.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

the border wall isn't to keep people out. it's a symbol. a monument to xenophobia and the culture of terror.

capital punishment isn't an economic policy. it's a cultural policy. it's there to make killing not just a solution, but THE solution.

the tariffs aren't being put in for money reasons. they're being put in to strike at an enemy, real or imagined, to steer the fascist horde and direct them outwards, rather than inwards where they might notice how shit things are. to give them an enemy to blame for how shit their lives are that isn't the parasitic billionaires who fucked everything up.

who gives a shit what the VP says. im glad somebody's giving consequences to his constant bullshit.

don't know enough about that part of history, I mostly know that the contenders for 'last real christians' were either the pre-munster anabaptists, or weirdo fanatics like john brown. it's not about the killing; christians had been killing each other for a WHILE before that.

I always thought the idea of creating fake dummy databases, or fake servers for them to interact with, was the way to do this. get them changing all the numbers in a spreadsheet generated by a large language model. get them to interact with a server connected entirely to other virtualized servers and existing in its own little world.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I keep saying this, but christianity ended at the siege of munster.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

was more referring to the first part. how do you know? I'm going to go to really unreasonable lengths with this line of questioning, just so you know what you're getting into.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

wanting that much money requires it.

having that much money also inflicts it on you.

no more billionaires. for their sake, as much as ours.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (6 children)

how would you know though?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

right. he is not The Most Racist Man Alive.

part of it is that straight cis and especially white men were targeted by nazi radicalization pipelines starting really hard in the 00's on every major algorithm driven media platform, social and otherwise. queers mostly dodged that, partially because the character of modern racism tends to be paired with homophobia, and you can't really nourish that socially without catching a lot of shit for being queer, but also because it just wasn't targeted at us. they wanted little reinhardt heidrichs, not little ernst rohms, especially because the nazis had been working to recruit evangenlical christians for decades. evangelical christians: anti quer first, racist second. being racist and queer must be so fucking disempowering.

but also, we're more resistant to it. part of the experience of being queer is stepping outside of norms, and to whatever degree swimming against the current, opting into a more marginal difficult position because it's right/feels good/lets you genuinely survive without fucking killing yourself. and all of that makes being an open bigot a lot harder. not impossible, but harder. plus, we tend to be farther left politically because the conservative edifice of the nuclear family as nucleus of society has historically excluded a lot of us from society, and pushing that shit on someone who you want to fuck whose family threw them out is not a good way to get laid, even if yours was cool about it.

there's also that genocide the american christofascists did to us within living memory. some people are still kinda bitter about that. many of the institutions and social forms we created to cope are still kicking around.

'criminal justice' would be cool; we should try it sometime. closest I've seen was pinned on some italian dude in new york.

also, mexico's cartel problem MAY have been started, or at least seriously ramped up, by the CIA-it's exactly their SOP, and it got seriously bad like right after a teacher's strike in oaxaca got juuuust a little too much popular support, started looking really communist.

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