When they say “never forget” they mean “keep the terror and hurt close to you and push away all attempts to band together and grow”

The average republican voter (and American voter, regardless of party preference, really) doesn’t actually understand how our government works. They think they vote November 2-8th, and the new government takes office as soon as the television declares a winner. And this includes people who participated in the January 6th insurrection. Some people who were there did not understand that what was really going on was an attempt to disrupt the certification of the electoral college ballots. They thought they were preventing a hostile government takeover (ironic). This is how powerful propaganda can be. It can inflame people who only kind of know what’s going on into thinking they’re experts. It tricks the sleeping into thinking they are away

one piece wins you over in phases. it starts out kinda operating in the “i wouldn’t have sought this out initially, but it’s fine enough to keep reading” until you get to a point where it’s fully won you over and you have to know what happens next because it’s your favorite thing

this is what it feels like for me interacting with naruto fans

Janelle Monae crushes it in her role. I mean absolutely crushes it. In it she is acting in the role of a character acting in a role, which is actually really hard to do in a really satisfying way, and she absolutely pulls it off. What’s more is that she lets the veil slip just enough, as an actress, for the character playing the role to be believable as an actress. Like her music and visual artistry as an R&B performer is incredible, but there’s still a part of me that feels like the world lost something from her not going into acting. But if she had, she’d probably have put out an album that would make me lament she hadn’t focused on R&B.

This is the banality of evil. It’s what let the Nazis come to power in the 1930s and what allowed the Confederated States of America to coalesce into a feudal terror state. The majority of political movements are in some way horrible. Your best bet is to seek out marginalized people and find out what they’ve been doing to survive under the fascism they’ve had to exist under this entire time. They are experienced, they are prepared, and they need your help to expand their coalitions.

IQ tests are combo test of how white and how autistic are you. All tests are biased, and what do you bet when he got his super special smart boy IQ label he was in South Africa and the test administrator was another white dude.

Exactly. They are broadcasting their plan to all who are willing to listen, and shockingly few are willing to take them seriously, even as they do all the things they say they’re doing

Yup. We can’t vote for the best possible outcome until our voting system lets us. Now we might never get the chance in my lifetime. The goal needed to be to vote in the best possible outcome candidate (the lesser of two evils in a binary choice election) and keep advocating for election reform. But instead we’re here, with the eviler of two evils in a binary choice election, and the possibility we’ll never get to vote again.

i have some hopes for what the purgees do next as well. we need all the help we can get down here at the ground level

my family has been in the united states for ~140 years. before i left instagram i would pretty regularly get death threats in my DMs. the one that stood out most to me said “go back where you came from before i send you back in a pine box, removed”

it was just so dumb. but also indicative of what it can be like for me to move around sometimes. people threaten me with violence for existing from time to time. when you live like that you learn who’s willing to listen and who’s in their current state unreachable. so yeah. if you’re not hearing something from the Jewish community, it’s probably because the Jewish community you want to hear from doesn’t trust you for some reason. you don’t surround yourself with a pocket of safety and so we distance ourselves from you.

people in this moment saying Jews are responsible for israel don’t really understand that israel represents a single perspective on jewish identity, one that many Jews openly reject. the other thing to understand is israel has open citizenship for Jews. it’s super easy for us to emigrate there. why might you think we haven’t? could it be because we fundamentally disagree with its existence?

the number of republican voters i encountered after the election who weren’t worried about project 2025 because they were going to vote against it in 2025…

but will there be another election for them to vote in?

meta employees need to unionize and strike. honest to god for the good of all mankind. facebook is an incredibly dangerous propaganda tool

i hope our military remembers these purges and realizes trump will do nothing for them. he is not their ally. in fact he lowkey hates them for being poorer than him

if only anyone had been warning against this!

morons.

ah i’m familiar with galicia the precursor to poland. i’mma have to do some readind

the fuck does Galicia have to do with this?

the weird cube man has been dicking around the Ukrainians over his satellite service since before he got involved in the election he just won. if you look into the history of spacex, a meeting with russia looms large in its early history. i personally think he’s been a kremlin asset since 2004, at least.

based on the blocked out windows it looks like a banner to me