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if you sit down at a table of 7 nazis, there are 8 nazis at that table. AfD is nazis. if MAGA wants to defend nazis, MAGA is nazis

i hear you and get that's what you're saying. all i'm saying is is that in the history of america, that was the peak of compassion and patience in our system. and as you said, the corporations decided to make us choose between fascism immediately or fascism down the road. 10 years ago was the most progressive we've ever been and it was so far from good enough.

i've consistently had the opposite experience. i be man. i want the water HOT. partners always prefer cold or room temp water

which still saw america as being the greatest it had ever been in 2015. the united states has been an eternal nightmare, and the fact that the people were forcing it to be better, kicking and screaming, was the tidal shift that saw the parasites clamoring for 45.

it's the two santas cycle. republicans make everything worse for everyone. democrats, instead of working to undo the harm, put in stop gap measures to mitigate the harm establishing a new, worse, status-quo different from the one before the republicans made everything worse. nothing is new, and this is how the overton window always shifts rightward. also the two santas cycle and the ratchet problem are two ways of describing the same thing

denial is a hell of a thing. everyone considers themselves a good person, especially the villains

you i like. i'm moving house today, but after that i'll try to put together a list of resources for learning comic books, graphic novels, and street art. unfortunately most of my understanding comes from word of mouth and physical books and articles, so a lot of what i just shared is just shit i've picked up through the years. but you can definitely start with comic tropes on youtube. that guy makes comics and comic history really approachable. personally i think he's at his best when he's covering a silver age artist or an artist from somewhere other than NYC

they learned it from daddy ruzzia

which was legitimately the purpose of the attacks themselves. everything basically went exactly according to al qaeda's plan.

if you don't want alignment don't be surprised when your code doesn't align 🤷

god i'm glad some part of that long rant landed for someone. it's so weird how on the internet effort, care, and thought are all punished

You ever read a comic book with characters with big blocky fists and feet? You ever notice how the comic book villains in those stories were completely incompetent and SUPER weird? Yeah that's because Jack Kirby, a Jewish man from NYC was a forward scout during WWII and saw the nazis for who they were first hand. He spent a career trying to communicate to the world the horrors of what he saw: these weird dumbasses were somehow able to kill 6M of his brothers and sisters simply by doing it.

He also portrayed his Jewish-coded characters such as The Thing as being deeply emotionally connected to the people around them and invested in social causes because

1. That was his own personal understanding of his Jewish faith
2. Something very disturbing happened after WWII. A particular set of violent weirdos like the ones he'd seen in France and Germany came to define what Judaism was to the world at large (I'm talking about Zionists right now). He hoped to reach young boys reading his comics and instill in them that this was not the way, and that the way was for them to find allies and coalitions with similar ideals to them without establishing a hierarchy of racial classes

None of the way silver and bronze age comics depict violent weirdos is an accident. Comic Books as an art form has its roots in a mix of street art and war-time propaganda. The weird part (or perhaps the beautiful part) is that across the globe this is true. Spanish Comics have their own look and feel influenced by that Iberian street art has its own look and feel. Same with Japanese comics, Latin American comics, comic books from people outside of NYC. I could go on. But there's this... Incredible force of... Human nature where when we gather together we tell stories and spread messages to each other. Comic Books are a low art, and they're often seen as being for kids, but their creators don't see being low art as being lesser art. A lot of them have high art training and have seen what the high art world values and have rejected that.

And like... There are some comic books out there that have TRULY incredible things to say about the world, history, and humanity. My very favorite, One Piece, is super accessible, too, written and conceived to communicate to 10 year olds that resistance to fascism is rooted in the following: environmental protections, comedy, and giving nazis a good old fashioned punching. Maus is a biographical examination of the experience of a holocaust survival. Monster is about the traumas of the cold-war era for people "protected" by the mass control mechanisms established by the Soviet Union and United States. Footnotes in Gaza is an expose of the long running genocide in Gaza that is currently intensifying into total elimination. V for Vendetta explores what it means to resist fascism. Saga is... Jesus what do I even say about Saga. Saga is... An exploration of... Everything. It takes a deep close up look at what it feels like to try to survive in a total system of torture while maintaining a normal relationship (hint hint: it's messy). Too often we think of war as being a top level thing between groups when those groups are made up of individuals experiencing daily personal tragedies. Saga addresses that. Which means there's a mass scale war and interpersonal drama and neither draws focus from the other, but instead places both into stark relief about what's going on.

New paragraph because I'm not done saying there's comics out there that y'all should check out. Obviously there's Watchmen, the examination of American fascism and its downsides. Actually I guess that's the last one. But like... I hope this makes an impression on someone. Comic Book artists aren't just trying to make a buck drawing doodles. A lot of them could make more money selling their work to high art assholes, but they choose to share their work with you and inspire you into being a better more complete person. And the accessibility and relationship between Comic Books and Street art is also an invitation. If you have a message to promote to the world, there's a place for you in the arts, even if your art isn't refined enough for the high art assholes. Still you can make something that connects with someone.

If you really pay attention, too, to the street art in your community, you can start to notice that street artists are having an asynchronous conversation with eachother. One will tag something and include a message with a tag, and then another street artist will tag something nearby with a message that's related or in response. And when you see street art covering up other street art? That's a dire message. The second artist is telling the first "I don't just disagree with you. I think you should shut the fuck up and stay out of the streets"

And comic books are always having this conversation back with the streets, too. That's part of what's so incredible about the Spider-Verse films. They're the first super hero films that engage with that the intersection of activism, art, and fantasy is where superheros come from. Every Spider-Man in those films is an artist of some variety and Spider-Punk (Hobie) is an EXPLICIT demonstration of exactly how far this can go. His activism and art aren't an undercurrent or a side hustle for his spider-man. They're an explicit aspect of his "heroism" (he's not a hero because calling yourself a hero makes you a self mythologizing autocrat (by the way Luffy in One Piece says the exact same thing))

Basically he's 47 little bitch boy for any job he doesn't care about enough to install one of his white supremacist stooges. Marco is his little dancing monkey, sent to do the jobs he doesn't think are important.

Not random. This is a pretty common standard for most style guides that if you split a ternary operator across lines you align the option colon to the ternary itself. Your alt text formatting is way different from the pic by the way

And the algorithms are tuned to do it. Russia wants to run a disinformation campaign on Meta platforms and twitter? Well the owners of meta and twitter are both in favor of that type of disinformation being disseminated because it benefits them personally

Yes Marco. Yeees. Dance for daddy 47. Daddy 47 won't deport you to CECOT if you do what he says. Normalize fascism globally Marco for daddy 47 and grandaddy KGB potato. It won't get you specifically killed. Not so long as you dance the dance and sing the song, Marco. Never mind that most of the people in CECOT danced the dance and sang the song. Their only crime was looking like you in daddy 47's eyes. But you're different Marco. You're daddy 47's favorite. Sure he's backstabbed everyone who's ever helped him almost immediately. He's gone back on every deal he's ever made. But you Marco. You'll survive. Sure there's no evidence to demonstrate you'll be okay given the totality of everything.

"Got my mineral deal, fuck you guys, I'm going home"

well if they did that who would make the school lunch burritos in compton that feeds our nations white kids?

whether you thought you did or not, you actually did

the entire stock market is a made up imaginary scam that all of our companies have forced us to care about by eliminating pension funds as a retirement avenue. i mean. the entire monetary system, but the stock market especially