fascist cronyism doesn’t require everyone to be a crony. just enough people to flummox the people who actually give a shit. if boozey pete had some high ranking DOGE dope install a starlink connection point in his office, and got enough high ranking officials to be cool with it, that’s enough to get it done even if most people there find this to be a problem.

it’s not about the bad ones doing evil. it’s about convincing the good ones there’s nothing to be done. as the saying goes, all evil needs is for good men to do nothing. well. fascism is mostly about manufacturing consent by convincing you to do nothing

why would we make driving rules surrounding that exactly one vehicle doesn’t have speakers and some headphones have passthrough?

the nazi ones, as with always. and i’ve encountered them. they exist and they terrify me. they terrify me because they really and truly believe the lies they speak

glad to see my alma mater on the right side of history

starlink in the window maybe?

it’s pretty unforgivable if you ask me

then i’m confused because those aren’t new. those are the oldest designs on the market

well didn’t think we’d get here quite so fast. digital coup is starting to become a bit more physical

semi-banned, under conditions*

end of the day these big tech companies need us in ways we don’t need them

it’s really not though. it’s way easier to just not put on headphones than it is to put on headphones and prove you had them in pass through sound mode

completely different scenario. real apples to cats comparison

i listed john mayer because he’s up to even worse shit masquerading as an artist’s artist in the blues scene. but on the whole, yes. hating katy perry more than any other female artist is totally fair. but to hate her more than any other artist at all? i find that a little suspicious. and again. i’m in the swaths of katy perry haters. i hate her because she props up a mysoginistic system. but even i look around at the horde and go “guys, really? all this? for her?”

they do! the maga cult can’t be exposed to diverse perspectives. the motivation for this is that diverse perspectives threaten the white supremacist hegemony by offering frustrated white men alternative solutions to their anger that they can’t perform masculinity in the way idealized by people like andrew tate, donald trump, and pete hegseth (none of whom live up to that standard, by the way. much like hitler would have been sent to a death camp were he not the führer given the phenotypical traits he possessed and was persecuting). white supremacy says the answer is to get violent, entrench yourself deeper into capitalism, and intensify the status quo. the hierarchy is intrinsic to human nature according to these people. never mind that the racial hierarchy was invented 400 years ago.

but that’s the thing, at the end of the day. it’s not even that japan isn’t racist, or doesn’t have problems with the hierarchy. it’s that if japanese tourists talked to the maga cult, they might notice things. they might figure out our divisions are arbitrary. the white supremacist plan for this country is mass scale civil war / genocide. the cult leaders need numbers. they get more numbers by keeping people already in the thrall enthralled. any risk to that is unacceptable

the thing i mostly wanted to capture is basically that there are valid reasons to want nothing to do with Katy Perry in the year 2025, but the largest bloc of anti-perry stans are in it for the wrong reasons, and there are other people we should be doing more more to strip of power. it’s basically… the only people we’re good at stripping of power as a society are minorities and women. i’m not saying we shouldn’t be stripping katy perry of power, but it does contrast with how many times john mayer and justin timberlake have done something shitty and been alowed to hang around. the mysoginy in this instance is less the hate, and more the hate in contrast with others

then what is your argument. because i don’t have another way to interpret “ceasing all trade with russia does nothing when uae still trades with them”

it didn’t devolve, it simply always has been

katy perry hate has come in waves:

• hating her music because it was unchallenging and consumable (there’s other artists i’d hate for this long before her)
• hating her for standing up for rebecca black (this wave is pure misogyny)
• hating her because she broke up with russel brand (russel brand sucks, she should have never dated his garbage ass. i probably should have listed an item for she dated russel brand in the first place, but that wave is miniscule and insignificant)
• hating her because she cut her hair and she aged and that wasn’t sexy for some people (this is as far as i can tell the largest and most misogynistic wave)
• hating her for going back to doctor luke to try to recapture the popularity she had earlier in her career when he was her producer (this is the tempo i’m on. dr luke is ke$ha’s abuser and as far as i can tell is a serial predator)
• hating her because she’s acting as propaganda for one of the technoligarchs in our fascist regime (rather fair, i’d say, tbh)

oh so everyone should just give up then. good point. being complicit is fine i guess

oooooooh. that would make sense probably