If the calculation goes If the fascists win, I am much much better off as a fascist, and screwed as an anti-fascist If the anti-fascists win, I am ok either way Then the "rational" choice (morals aside) is to go fascist. This incentive structure is incredibly dangerous, as we now see.

Every army is basically a logistics operation, with the goal of delivering small pieces of metal to people who don't want them.

The only way these fascist chucklefucks make this work is by succeeding in manufacturing the *appearance* of inevitability, because they *do not* have the force or skill to win a straight fight. In short, the only weapon that can deliver them victory is you: the fool doomer whose nihilism is poison

Grandad, grandad. Why didn't you do anything to stop it all? Yeah in hindsight we should have done more. Also in foresight. But I think we just hoped someone else would sort it out for us. Felt like they should. But they must have been waiting for us to do it. Sorry.

I think you might be right about this. My 75yo mother is irate about this and is, at long last, beginning to understand what’s happening. She told me she wanted to write a letter to ABC to tell them how upset she is, then quickly changed her mind. “It’s not safe to do than anymore, is it?”

First mention of groypers and Tyler Robinson in the Daily Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

As an oldie (b.1970) who the culture has moved beyond, this feels right

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Legal medical marijuana finally comes to Slovenia, with a vote on recreational likely later this year

Perhaps the most poignant tragedy of the politically-motivated institutionalization of traditional practices is the fossilization of the tradition itself. The accumulated wisdom of the tradition can never be liberated, can never spread worldwide to help more people.

it is possible for a society to distribute quality education in an equitable, fair, and accessible way. it is not possible to distribute hierarchical elite power in a similar fashion, because that's not how elite power works.

Stunning version of my favorite book Was just looking for a Slovene translation this morning as a way to help learn that language, but it's yet to be translated

Reading Harold Robbins and Bukowski in Slovenian, for educational purposes and - minus the drink for HR - it's the same author

You date and make love, I jerk off

The good shit

A lot of editing on the wikipedia page for 86 today, trying to establish a previously unknown meaning for it en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Nice picture from this story #Luigi www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...

Trump has the logic and instincts of a rapist, because he's a rapist

Also applies to individuals

#anectdata My ex-military dad (83) has just flipped from following right-wing coded "conspiracies" to reading / watching about Trump's long history with Russian money With any luck this realization will happen fast and wide

The idea of Europe coming together to use Russia's frozen assets to kickstart Europe's defence industry / economy in full support of Ukraine is the only non-personal hope I've had in weeks

Chewing his own face off from the inside out to feel alive again

Nazis on acid, MDMA, etc are still Nazis, they just enjoy it more www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Why do these guys look like they masturbate with a handful of maggots while thinking about dead babies?

Non-paywalled copy archive.ph/287LE

Afrikaan-Amerikkkan

#Slovenija #Slovenia

Whole thread is good

So.... Europe's ready for a new wave of refugees from #Ukraine, right?

Now Trump/Musk is going to push South Africa towards China Xi must be getting tired of winning

Musk is going to break. We can break him. He was near suicidal after getting boo'd at a Dave Chappelle show, he's addicted to cocaine/adderall and sleeps 2 hours per night, he lives in walking fear of his ponzi like companies collapsing. We got this. Posting is praxis

The ultimate hidden truth of this quote is that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse

pop summary by the author www.prosocial.world/posts/why-ev...

Good animations, minimal politics www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not even individuals with spouses and kids, but "communities" www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

"Hopefully all will be safe"

Let's see who #Musk is amplifying today Surprise! Another Nazi

The footnotes to this era will be colorful AF

I mean no one needs to ask why Black and Native men and women of any color are not part of this constitutional convention, right?

For anyone wanting to read Dr Phil Low's post on Musk, but reluctant to click on a Facebook link Very interesting, and the guy - to repeat myself - has a list of achievements and mentors that's AAA+

Musk is obsessed with Ayn Rand and sees himself as a John Galt figure—a human paragon—and therefore _anyone_ who carries a status that’s not part of what Musk is must be, on some level, imperfect (as if a given status would confer greater authority or knowledge, Musk would, in Musk’s view, have it).