faythofdragons @ faythofdragons @slrpnk.net

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To put on my own conspiracy hat for a moment, he's getting set up to be the fall guy. He's following a playbook he didn't write, the people that did write Project 2025 know how unpopular it will be, and the final play is setting trump up as the tyrant to be deposed by a real dictator. Sure hope I'm wrong.

Okay, I'll hear you out. What details do you need clarified to be concerned that ICE is interrupting court to arrest people?

Because they need to sell papers?

It was just the "goal" aesthetic I was trying to meet as a young woman. So many of my classmates developed an eating disorder or just started using drugs because the "strung out supermodel" look was what everybody wanted.

Its just a precursor carrying the same message kids are gettimg today. That you're worthless if you don't look the right way, and you should hurt yourself to look the right way.

It's from a federal law passed under the Bush administration, tying funding to standardized testing scores.

But it was bipartisan, so you're not wrong.

It's honestly wild to me that people in my age bracket can grow up with heroin chic, and think it somehow just vanished into the ether. I don't know why it's so hard for them to understand that kids are just getting hit with an evolved form of the same bullshit message that you're worthless if you don't fit a specific aesthetic.

Gotta love how many self-identified leftists we have that are actually confused authoritarians.

If capitalists didn't value the accumulation of wealth over consumption, they'd be in favor of wage increases. If they really did want us to consume more, they'd let us have more money to spend, knowing it's going back into their pockets.

This is also colored by my experiences being homeless when the avocado toast thing was going around. I didn't have regular internet access, so I don't remember seeing the memes and media against it, but I do remember how regular society grabbed onto it and ran. I remember hearing avocado toast jokes about me from the people behind me in line when I was using food stamps, and that just strikes me as something that wouldn't happen if the ruling class actually valued consumption.

That doesn't track though. Consumption is just a vehicle for the accumulation of wealth, and is easily wielded as a weapon once it stops being effective. Like, if they were truly in favor of consumption, the whole avocado toast thing would have been encouraged instead.

Hell no. I moved halfway across the country to get away from them, and it's still too close.

Yeah, mania can present as rage.

I too have seen that Clint's Reptiles video, lmao

Oh, it's not too bad. Rounds up to $60 a year and averages out to about $15 per game.

You're telling me the bees get the munchies when they smoke...

From what I understand, this is sorta like a hangover from pre-DNA taxonomy. We went "yeah, those all look like fish, we'll put them in the fish group", only to find out later that a bunch of them weren't very closely related at all. So now we have a 'fish' group that's a total mess, and we're in the middle of getting it organized and re-labelled.

Obviously, the Greek hero Spiracles also rhymes with the bees

No, he just doesn't carrot all.

Oh heavens, it's been much more than a quarter decade. Why else was Obama's campaign so effective? It was pitched as if our protests had actually worked and somebody up top was finally listening.

They've turned Hanlon's Razor into a sword. Weaponized incompetence to maximize plausible deniability.

If you think nobody complained about the Patriot Act, you weren't paying attention.