Once again, the fascism quest in Disco Elysium is the clearest explanation to the motives of the ideology. It's personal grievances, all the way down

COVID showed that a lot of people hate being around their families, and it showed.

Shout out to the Genocide Joe folks

You don't hate the median voter enough.

Not only evil. They're also stupid. Caesar quotes Hegel to justify his actions like Stringer Bell in Junior College, and Lanius is essentially Pete Hegseth; a brute who seems to think he can brute force his way out of a logistics problem.

Everybody wanna buy American until they look at the price tag.

Your average MAGA wants to live in a country whose culture is Russian, its politics Chinese, and its economic Arabic.

Gamergate never ended.

It's a big reason why my job exists. I'm aware I'm helping launder class privilege through credentialism.

She wasn't relatable because she was a black woman. Y'all need to stop running cover for the median voter.

Evergreen tweet

The typical American accepts that they don't know or care that much about the rest of the world. The typical European also doesn't know or care much about the world, but man do they think otherwise.

instantly regret every time I remember utopia deferred exists

Cradle Catholics: father Ron says there’s a special collection this week for the food bank! That’s nice, I’ll chip in an extra $20 :) Convert Catholics: what’s with all this liberal horse hockey about food banks

I come from a trade family. I got the inverse, told by my uncles and dad to go to college and "not end up like they did". These people have no idea how easy they have it.

Left-aligned people with a big chip on their shoulder about how they suck at being men or whatever are not going to be good at picking candidates who appeal to men more broadly. They will either fail or get betrayed ~100% of the time.

Soft as shit PMC dudes insisting that the future of Dem politics is not PMC and PMC adjacent feminine coded jobs but rather white men in hard hats is a non-zero portion of why we continue to be in this mess

Once again, everything is Gender. If you're not working with your hands, are you even a real man? Fuck this guy for thinking people like me aren't working class.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

We need to find a way to make going to college and not learning a trade not shameful

I became dissolutioned with American leftism when Bernie lost South Carolina, and the Chapo guys, among a good portion of leftist Twitter were mad at black voters for not voting for their messiah. You could tell some of them wanted to say slurs.

My dad and brother work in the lumber truss/Sawblade industry. You'd be surprised how often calculations with fractions, trigonometry, and algebra is used daily.

the exurban swingers are destroying the sanctity of marriage they are also destroying the sanctity of polyamory

Shout-out to Amber Frost

No joke, the entry-level problem of Leftism is one of looking at past 'successes' to then replicate and more or less making a religion out of 'cooking that recipe again' and like, not even cooking really. Just recipe book study, over and over and over and over with a zapped hotpocket of revolution.

Not getting your child vaccinated is Child Abuse.

Gonna see JPEGMAFIA in Shanghai

A dating sim with the Nemesis system where after you break up with a partner, they come back with a glow up and they try to sabotage your new relationship.

Good thread, but I offer a counterpoint. Minority Masculinity. Machismo in the Latino community is another beast entirely from White Chauvinism.

It hasn’t quite hit me yet that, even when we repel the tide of MAGA, Trump has irreversibly stained the course of history with his bullshit. And the rest of our lives will play out in accordance with that change. Forever, I have to face people abroad as someone responsible for the monstrosity.

Everybody wanna firebomb a Walmart, but nobody wanna be the one to light the fuse.

I wanna ask OP what happens after the Walmart is firebombed.

we're all very powerless right now and for some people having their cynicism proved right gives them the illusion of control

That's just Utopia Deferred

Dollars to donuts, this is Trad Cath adult recent converts who know more about obscure Latin Catholic text trivia vs the actual tenets of the belief

Getting emails from Midwest people I organized who voted for Trump who were former Dems from the Obama era and immediately became Trump acolytes in 16 and got pissy when I'd explain to them Republicans would eventually cut their services now being like "Oh no all our shit is closing, what do i do?"

As someone who grew up in the Mojave Desert (Victor Valley), this tracks. Once you go east past Ontario, it's Not LA

Los Angeles. 1) Yes, yes. City full of vain, shallow starfuckers. Do you know a second language enough to explore the ethnic enclaves around the city? 2) The 2020 WS win is completely valid, goddamnit.

Elbows up, and leave the body open.

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Mood:

The Left continues to think they can mobilize Americans on the principle that "America is bad and has always been bad."

I'm realizing a grim exercise/prompt may be in this ... If others want to share, I'm curious: Why aren't *you* leaving america (yet)? Asking for trans folks in particular, especially those of us on HRT and/or other very directly threatened in terms of our healthcare ... Reposts welcomed. Sigh.

No, see, they want a high trust society for the "right people".

ICE agents are waging war against the United States.

That's my world Champ

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view