literally the 80s Guy play from futurama

https://youtu.be/vDu74eMv5ME

have you considered that you lashing out and calling people tankies is you defending yourself?

im speaking from experience learning to deprogram this in myself, and i’ve seen it in others a lot too - this tendency to be willing to fight and argue and bluster for positions we hold that are earnestly untrue.

i know i was being rude and basically laughing at you, but I can apologize for that in earnest - if you’ll forgive me - i want to just say that it doesn’t have to be like this.

Most leftists are tired. they don’t have any inclination to be nice or explain their positions, but I can spare a tiny fuck to give? Though i’m obviously running out of gas for that, I want to try and connect with you, if you’ll allow it.

the US was the model for german fascism. We are the direct inspiration. Fascism is derived from the American project, and post ww2, fascism more or less successfully infiltrates and overtly takes over US politics. I can dig up sources. Or, at least, i can dig up people who can make the case better than me, if you’re open to the truth but you can’t take my word for it, please DM me and i’ll do my level best to offer up my position in earnest.

I think you deserve a chance to hear these things and accept them or reject them. I think everybody does. I want to believe there are people who can wake the fuck up when exposed to the right stuff. A lot of people think adults are beyond helping when they’re certain in their worldview. i personally don’t believe that, i’d love for you to demonstrate that i guess.

Sometimes we have economic/lifestyle/privilege reasons for insisting things aren’t this way or that way. Sometimes it’s just lacking the right context, or being overly trusting of mainstream framing of issues and events.

There are a lot of causes, but I would rather try to help you than shit on you further. I’m sorry for my rudeness, but you’re absolutely wrong, and tankie as a label indicates you’re conditioned to be hostile to leftist points of view, but i also know how liberals are conditioned to receive reasonable factual information, and i think that’s how I can help you. History doesn’t lie, experts can lie, but their insight might help.

Please DM me. If you waste my time i’ll know it, and that’s unfortunate, but there’s no cost but your time and hopefully your thoughtful consideration.

The prospect of this post being insincere and mocking the idea that the us was already fascist is too much and i’ve been cackling for five straight minutes.

bumping. i hope you get what you need sis.

i dont know how this is a mystery. You have money, privilege, and delusion coming from a single sector of the empowered elite they exalt power and their own ideas of strength, they’re disgusted by what they perceive as weakness, and for a lot of power and control reasons they want womens rights rolled back, they want social life policed so strongly that it doesnt make sense to tolerate queer or any kind of deviant-from-norm lifestyles. They consider true knowlege and understanding to be a threat and an expression of power, and as such they want the average person to be significantly more ignorant. They want kids to work because if you can start young, you can raise a person to basically be their job - which under a fascist view can range from early exposure to corporate life for the privileged, to really fucked up shit like, in tandem with rolling womens rights back, the earlier you can condition them to their assigned role, the less likely they are to want to break out of it.

They want us more atomized and dumber, for the sake of control. They want the privileged to be highly specialized and locked in, too busy striving to survive to make trouble. They want a world where the weak die and the bonds that tie us together need not cross paths with anything like empathy or compassion

these people are psychopaths. There’s a reason these freaks all worship Odin and exalt their half baked ideas of norse identity. There’s a reason they’re willing to tear all this shit down. Their view of a climate collapse world is one where only the strong need be bothered to allow survival.

These folks have always been around, but since being rebuked in WW2 they’ve spent decades acquiring more wealth, more power, and making sure that they have credible smokescreens. The pageantry of 20th century fascism will start a fight, so they trade in confusion, illusion, and ignorance, rather than WWE-esque shows of strength. JSOC instead of the SS. the death camps made even more remote

it’s the same worldview and it’s the same money and it’s the same basic bullshit, but with more obfuscation, and more concessions to the fact we live in a world where they can’t pretend their ideas of elite excellence or whatever is localized to a single culture or skin color.

Smdh at all these simps for this aleister crowley ass geometry.

None of you will see the light of heaven. Go ahead and hide in your pyramids. Maybe read a little bit of The Book of Coming Forth By Day, so you can imagine what it’s like to live under spheronic glory… I’ll be over here under the sun, in the temple of the Aten, acknowledging i exist by the grace of spheroids alone.

Is this a joke? I’m swimming in tetrahedron cope slop every day. If tetrahedrons were so innately The Shit, they wouldn’t need this kind of signal boosting! What happens when an object has sufficient mass? Oh right it collapses into a spheroid. Exactly. What’s a tetrahedron? Sure, it’s stable in some contexts. Yeah, okay buddy. Let me know when the glory of Sol deigns lower itself to some base and pointy shape. Let me know when a pyramid starts sustaining a biosphere. Purely artificial clown geometry. It was a mistake to ever let such unhinged ideas leave the deranged fever dreams of the pre Socratic geometry cults.

The sweet spot for a democrat, whose donors and masters are the exact same people that empower republicans, plus or minus the privileged and empowered folks who fall outside the category of “human” to the card carrying fascist, is to be able to say to your constituents “I’m trying to do something! Look! See at all this Trying I’m doing?! Aren’t you so grateful I’m here and Trying So Hard. Alas, republicans… I said, excuse me sir…[Peanuts adult noises start to drown out their voice] …Reaching across the aisle like an adult in the room… [somebody who still only gets their news from MSNBC starts clapping like a trained seal] …Vote for Mueller for the grand bargain in the West Wing”

But then they also need to go to their office and assure their real masters that no, they’re doing exactly nothing, because they know their performance is fated to fail and be forgotten, with zero chance of ever having the force of law, nor being interesting enough to kick off a movement or popular support of any magnitude. Then they do some insider trading, because they know what the republicans are actually doing, and they get a fat enough paycheck to be fine with it, because everybody sells out, because all humans are basically the same, and on equal footing, and the incidence of benevolent principled behavior is low enough to be statistically irrelevant, because the world we live in destroys anybody with those tendencies, or buries them.

That’s the elected-lib sweet-spot. Demonstrate “value” to credulous constituents through meaningless performative action you know won’t amount to anything, tell them to vote harder about their increasing suffering, and then go to the guy who owns you so hard his fist might as well be deep up your ass and assure them you’ve done absolutely nothing to threaten their interests.

It’s a lot of work, but hell, it pays the bills and you get to feel superior to the people you dupe every two to six years.

it’s weird to stake out this hill and die on it.

You have one flattened perspective on one religion and an axe to grind, but you’re bringing nothing interesting to the table, but a whole lot of bile- and for whom, exactly? is this an exercise in your own catharsis? It just looks like emotionally repressed anger at a target that’s not actually the source of your woes, big or small.

the pope prophecy says he is the last pope. popes are over. no more popeage

I think religion is good.

Sorry I guess, but i’ve run the gamut in my life. I used to be a little edgelord preteen that delighted in shitting on belief. i had an earnest christian phase. i had a heresy and occult phase. i’m still in an “academic study of these matters is cool as hell” phase - I think if you’re overly reductive, you get it in your head to only measure what religion does on a socio-political level, and this is a fucking trap. Anything tied to power structures can and will be abused, but that doesn’t make these places the sole determiner of worth and value for anything, but for religion it’s especially busted.

Religion and spirituality are like, really important elements of the human psyche. I can’t tell you why that is, but I can tell you that even in instances of non-belief in an individual, the overwhelming tendency is that other structures replace it and act as a surrogate - something in our mind needs whatever religion provides. It can get it elsewhere of course, i can think of some large social projects that tried to redirect that impulse towards common, human-centered goals and sometimes, for some people, it works, but it’s at least clear to me that being reductive about this and treating it as problematic or bad or somehow more trouble than it’s worth, is coming from a place of disinterest and lack of understanding.

jesus is cool but christians are sick little perverts???

unfurling thread like a cursed scroll that’s one hell of an act, what do you call it?

stop caring as much about how people see you

i deserve to be loved like a queen casting a hypnotic spell over her land, but i accept that not everyone is down with monarchic socialism, and while some useless fuckers still have their protective amulets, not everyone is going to worship my every thought and decree

but eventually i’ll get those charms to rot and break, so i try not to care too much

knowing a thing or two about the practice, yes absolutely

reckoning the degree of a midheaven by hand; locating an ascensional degree, charting retrogrades, doing Math hard enough to start predicting eclipses, doing geometry

those priests were the nerds of their era and you insult your ancestors to think of them as uneducated bumpkins. They were the goddamn dialectic until modernity and crapitalism arrives lol

bump

Please, let’s get that girl out of there.

honestly is a good idea.

my last good job was one that always ended around midnight, give or take (being a prep cook and dish washer meant i was among the last to leave)

I also used to do 10p-6a at a gas station in the Before Times, and I hated every minute of it. My sleep hours were where other people were awake. I had nothing to do when I was awake off work. I just slept, and ate, and did laundry and necessity work at home, then i’d go to work.

I know there are folks eating that shit every night ready to do something about it, and they’ve got no options because if you ever wanna tell a 10p-6a worker to just wake up and do daylight/evening shit, you’re gonna get screamed at.

i dont have a ton of experience and it’s all years-old at this point but no, this hasn’t been my experience at all

my briefly-had cis girlfriend bothered to look up transfemme needs and fucked like a goddamn pro, to the point i was even willing to use the hated thing because she just created the context that made the dysphoria non present.

I felt like a fucking woman with her.

t4t is more reliable but im not gonna lie y’all, so many of us have huge issues, and every time i get into another t4t thing i find myself burdened not only with my own flaws but theirs as well, as i begin to suffer with them in their way, and theirs in mine, and more than it hasn’t, it just ends in us losing the ability to deal with That Specific Thing We Have Going On and it becomes a point of resentment that our mutual damage is caustic to each other. It happens way more than it should and im exhausted by it

i fucked with men more in my egg phase, but most of them were confidently quite gay, but hormones flipped a switch and im not saying attraction to men never happens, but it’s rare enough i just don’t actually seriously consider them candidates.

so basically i get these like, transcendent lesbian relations with cis women that dont last very long, or i get caustic t4t, and im not capable of loving the masculine enough to carry a long term relationship so i dont try.

i’m exhausted. im not suited to being alone, but im exhausted.