SaniFlush [any, any] @ SaniFlush @hexbear.net

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Transformation? She was always that way, working within the system doesn't work when the system was built to stop you in the first place.

a hypnic jerk

Yeah like America, a country which pretends to be democratic but is actually a dictatorship of the bourgeois. I'm glad we're on the same page.

Authority lets people justify anything~

"You called me dah-ta. My name is Dae-ta."

“April Fools, you little sausage!”

Yeah it’s difficult all right, I’m wrong about something at least once per day

It’s difficult to get someone to reject something they’re actively profiting from, and the west profited from the abuses of capital for decades. That’s only slowly changing…

Hmm, I have another take on it.

Nobody wants to think they were "lied to", even if it's true. Westerners default to thinking of themselves as the main character of the story, and swallowing the idea of having been fooled is difficult, nearly impossible. You can't be a victim, can you? That doesn't fit the narrative arc at all.

Come at it from the other angle. Even those people deep in the shit pit of reaction can still FEEL when an atrocity is wrong, even if they twist it into blaming it on minorities or whatever. The right wing runs entirely on feeling, it's literally all they have. The other side of their knife is taking blame away from the self- it's never their own fault, and they never have to sacrifice anything. The other edge of their knife is the dulling and nullification of feeling.

When someone you know- someone shamelessly liberal- agrees with you that an atrocity is indeed wrong, embrace them and build on it. Not "No, but", but instead "Yes, and"! They're feeling something, and the people profiting from their suffering would prefer if they dull that feeling. Instead, link the feeling to facts- "Here is why the bad thing is indeed bad"- and turn that feeling into praxis- "You can fix it!".

I think this is that debate tactic where we're actually talking to the audience through the fourth wall? This is for the fence-sitters, if any still exist.

Black supremacists are something we can joke about because they don't hold power the way white supremacists do. I'm never sure how to feel about this kind of stuff.

I wouldn't be taking such long bathroom breaks if I wasn't trying to force out a fart before the 90 minute rush hour.

What is to be done, then?

Who gave the duck a behlit stone

If treating your employees correctly causes you to lose money, then your profits weren't real and you were just playing Jenga with your company's assets to line your own pockets.

You’re not crazy, you just need to get away from 40 hour long open world chore games