There's a way out of this hole, but the readers and principal audience of the Wall Street Journal aren't going to like it.
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There's a way out of this hole, but the readers and principal audience of the Wall Street Journal aren't going to like it.
The core motivation of liberalism as an ideology is personal comfort. Liberals will fight to preserve their own personal comfort, which includes thinking of themselves as the smartest and a Good Person(tm). Point out their failures or how they're actually not Good(tm) and the claws come out.
It's seriously the fault of patriarchy. People want a (violent, authoritarian) daddy to be in charge and make them feel safe. And if you sense a theme between this & my thread about men seduced into fascism because they're mad they don't have sex mommies: yup. Patriarchy is emotionally stunting.
While I think the core motivation of fascism as an ideology is supremacy and dominance based on fear of an uncontrollable world, I'll admit that ignores the psychosexual aspect Gwen absolutely nailed here. "THEY took your sex mommy!" is a pretty perfect summation.
Except for the ones who kiss.
FAKE. The president hasn't run since 1979.
That is literally your job.
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
This is a really good read on the interaction between the ongoing COVID pandemic and the rise of the US fascists in the first half of the 2020's.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton." Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Partnering with Nazis makes you Nazis.
Trust is underrated. Sure, they were so high Elvis doesn't remember recording it, which is also why the singer from Squeeze got a cameo on Whisper to a Scream, but the Talking Heads influence was on full display and New Lace Sleeves is a near perfect song.
I'm dumbfounded by musicians and using AI generated slop for your cover art. Why should your audience trust that you put any effort into your music when you can't be bothered to work on the cover art?
Every one of these LEO recruitment posters has their models facing away from the camera. I wonder why that is.
It's never too late to start wearing KN95's or better in crowded and indoor public places, too. The vaccines absolutely help, but aren't sterilizing. The best way to avoid getting Covid is by not letting the virus into your body.
Here is the EP. Most of it was written during the acute phase of a Covid infection that was so bad I couldn't pick up a guitar, hence why the EP is all programmable instruments and vocals recorded after I was healthy enough to do so. faustbot.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
The Covid EP is two years old today! In that two years, we've had a flood of scholarly and journalistic articles about the long-term and permanent effects of each Covid infection, all showing it's something you should absolutely avoid. N95 respirators work if we wear them!
Democrats want to be able to pull "distractions" like this when they get back in power against any lefties getting uppity. They love the power, just don't like that Trump's using it.
I think its hilarious that people think if they scratch Trump's back, he'll scratch theirs. Why would he? You already scratched his back. Go away.
gavin newsom will be the democratic nominee. he will lose in the general election. he will deserve to lose. the left is warning you right now that this will happen. yet, when he loses, the left will be blamed for sounding the alarm instead of the centrists who promoted him. save this skeet.
The only person who gets a pass is Fred Durst.
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
Voidbreaker is already one of the best single dev games I've played and it only hit EA a few days ago. I Am Your Beast meets Control with destructible environments. This is one of the easiest recommendations of the year for me. store.steampowered.com/app/2615540/...
Huh, turns out being able to afford a place to live cuts homelessness. Who'dathunkit.
Turns out the entire concept of "immunity debt" was as painfully ignorant as it looked. Who could have guessed.
I wouldn't make the music i do if I didn't pick up Interstate 82 from a bargain bin for $6 based entirely on a sticker reading "Contains 3 unreleased tracks by Devo!" This played on the install screen and changed my musical life. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXRr...
Gavin Newsom is a transphobe "show me the evidence" thread, for all those Vote Blue No Matter Who posters in your replies. this isn't the guy. push back on everyone who is trying to convince you the primary has been decided years in advance with a guy that loses in the general.
I collect Tarot cards. Giving readings is a good way to force viewing a situation from another angle, and I like the symbology and artistry behind each different deck. These guys are no different from people who obsess over readings. GenAI and Tarot readings are both just patterns in noise!
This assumes: 1) The "agents" can be caught, 2) The "agents" can be identified, 3) The "agents" are actually LEOs and not just white supremacist militias. Laws and rights don't matter. Enforcement matters. Who is on which end of the gun matters.
I mean, I'm a pitchy singer and a completely amateur recording artist, but if I sang an entire song flat, I'd re-record the vocals, maybe add a little transparent autotune to zhuzh it into place.
Okay men, it's time to clean up this town! Meaning what, exactly? You know, push people around, make ourselves feel big
The fog of war is lifting What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard
I understand your reasoning, but I think this particular procedure is the right choice for America's wealthiest.
The only reason I haven't moved back to Linux at this point is that I don't want to lose my progress on the music I'm working on. After I wrap up these last two projects, though, I'm going back.
Easy answer is Jaws, then avoid the beach.
When my dad died, a friend took me out to McDonalds, saying I'd feel so awful after eating it I'd forget about my dad's death, and goddammit, he was 100% correct.
faustbot.bandcamp.com/album/aborti...
Abortion Is a Human Right turns 3 today! What's changed since its release? Get it free today until I remember to update the pricing again below!
As a parent who's 7 year old still wakes up around 1am every night to hop up into the big bed, yes, yes you are. Last night she started pushing both hands into my throat as she slept.
Anyone have that video of the Buttigeg town hall when he said if he could take a pill to bot be gym, he would, and the camera immediately cuts to his husband?
Weekly U.S. COVID update: - New cases: 86,329 est. - Admissions: 6,043 (+18%) - In hospital: 4,317 (+16%) - In ICU: 532 (+13%) - New deaths: 224 - Average: 201 (+8%)
uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??
I'm not saying Cuomo is coked to the gills now. I am ABSOLUTELY NOT saying that. But have you ever seen Cuomo and a mountain of coke in the same room together?
Still mad at everyone who refused to mask up and continues to refuse to
I'll never have even a minor hit, but at least I'll never wake up to the internet unified in calling one of my songs the worst song ever. Especially in a world where Train exists.
even if you don't beleive me that democrats patsy to republicans on purpose by way of political theatre to disguise the fact of one party rule and illusory democracy, you must understand their folding on trans rights means they'll fold on yours too the second internal polling gives them permission
Along with Paradise Killer, Promise Mascot Agency. 20 hours to 100% and I was smiling the entire time.
This story in particular is a great resource to read, bookmark, and share with your networks outside of Bluesky. Let's make Lex's dream come true by clicking through and sharing widely! www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-ra...
Available on Steam, but still unknown: In Celebration of Violence. 2d roguelite with soulslike combat. Obtuse, slow to start, frustrating at times, but when it clicked for me, it clicked hard. store.steampowered.com/app/509570/I...
Super obscure: Guardian Heroes. Sega Saturn fantasy side scrolling beat 'em up with Street Fighter input special moves and branching paths after every level. Combos regenerate magic points. guardianheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Guardia...
Warching Willie B of horror-ska punk band The Independents hands as he played a show my buddy booked in an apartment complex's rec room taught my how to play triads beyond power chords. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H8LQ...
Any AI use is a hard no from me. I search through Bandcamp on BC Fridays for new music, and any band or artist with a noticeably AI cover gets skipped. The music doesn't matter if I can't trust them as an artist.
Instead of waiting for (redacted or doctored) Epstein files, media should publish court docs alleging that Trump raped Katie Johnson at Epstein's home when she was 13. Why ignore what alleged victims have to say while giving adjudicated or alleged perps unlimited air time? @katemanne.bsky.social
That's great! That definition is an idealized version of what liberals believe, so I'm sure, as a liberal, it's very comforting to believe that you believe that. Meanwhile, liberals are only coming around to calling a genocide a genocide after 22mo now that it's safe and comfortable to do so.
If you want to understand an ideology, look at its core motivation. Liberalism's is personal comfort. There's nothing a liberal values over their personal comfort. Rich and powerful liberals, like the Dem party, get theirs from the status quo, so maintaining the status quo is paramount.
Incidentally, this is why I hate the modern definition of "conservative." The Republicans have a clear vision for the US and the world and actively work toward it. That isn't conservative; its transformative! Democrats want to preserve the status quo no matter who suffers. THAT'S conservative!
The only thing I hate more than engagement bait is fascists, and these "manosphere" pricks are ideologically fascist.
By the time someone hits the "But women's sports!" phase of the transphobic slide into fascist ideology, it's too late. Every time I've seen people hit that point, they're 6-8 weeks away from spouting extermination rhetoric, and the more people try to talk to them, the faster they reach that point.
The Democratic party is a fundraising org that occasionally and reluctantly dabbles in politics. Liberalism as an ideology based around personal comfort is dead among the working class, and the Dems are too comfortable to see that. It's socialism or barbarism time, and they're choosing barbarism.
Time has changed
My music collection! bandcamp.com/faustbot
Faustbot's discography! faustbot.bandcamp.com
It's Bandcamp Friday, the perfect day to support the musicians you love so we can keep making music! You can get my full discography, about 2 hours of music, for $13 at the link below, or support the independent bands and musicians I found on Bandcamp at the link below that!
I love it when Internet Comment Etiquette gets righteous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LQ...
Why would they bother? "We won, you lost," is all the reasoning they need. Who would stop them?
Wow. CBC just covered the Steam / itchio situation. DONT STOP CALLING MASTERCARD, VISA, PAYPAL, STRIPE www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/s...
This is my best currently released song, in music, production, and lyrics, and a lyrical turning point away from subtlety because these aren't subtle times. There's a punk arrangement, too! faustbot.bandcamp.com/track/aborti...
If he loses, either God told him to run to fail, or he wasn't speaking to God, right?
Y'all have to see this video to know how besides payment processors our main goal is taking down these evangelist groups that are lobbying to censor the internet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHH...
British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans. www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...
Trump could and would have turned it around on the last 3 Dem candidates and his cult and the media would have followed. The Dems just can't help themselves from nominating at best people associated with sexual abusers.
While I absolutely agree, I think Epstein's association with the Clinton's made the issue a non-starter in 2016 and 2024, given Harris was a Clintonite pick for VP in 2020, and Biden's credible sex crimes made it dangerous territory in 2020.
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
Just wait until those weird bastards run her again in 2028 because they have no bench and It's Her Turn.
This is why I've started looking for the underlying motivations for ideologies. Liberalism's core motivation is personal comfort. Wealthy and powerful liberals will do anything and sell out anyone to maintain their power and privilege. All of the Dems moves make sense in this framework.
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“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
The Democrats are a dead party. A fundraising organization that dabbles, reluctantly, in politics. They will never win a consequential election again, and it's their own fault. They need to be consigned to trash bin, along with liberalism as a failed ideology. It's socialism or barbarism.
By historical precedence and any sort of realistic assessment of the modern Democratic party, they would be absolutely correct on the second point. Ratchet a-no-go, babeee
Nate Silver seems to be under the extremely mistaken impression that he has ever, in his weird little life, been funny.
The house was Hamas.
You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer). www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
"Tyrannical government" means "government run by people who don't share X trait with me." Which trait that may be depends on the type of supremacist beliefs the individual holds.
Reactionary ideology's motivation is supremacy. "I have X trait and you don't, so I have the right to dominate you." Them going on about "tyrannical government" then doing nothing about it is because this government is enforcing supremacy, be it male, white, Christian, capitalist, etc.
It was me. I stole the president's veins. Sorry.
I was under the distinct impression that Epstein didn't have friends.
We finally found Coldplay's target audience. Upper-middle age C-suite executives having an affair with each other.
The Dems probably don't have an accurate account of who among them is also implicated besides the Clintons.
Here’s a whole bunch of info I’ve collected over the years. If it doesn’t piss you off, it’s because we’re way past anger at this point.
There's no one correct path to class consciousness. If video games get more people to wake up to it, then we should embrace them when they do.
Makes sense. Publishers aren't in business to put out good games. They're in it to push out a minimum viable product for the lowest possible cost and greatest possible profit for their shareholders. This happens any time capitalism infects a creative industry. See: music, movies, book publishing.
"I have never associated with Jeffrey Epstein, and furthermore, in this six page essay, I will show I am definitely NOT in Epstein's files."
The Gestapo is somehow getting even more brazen.
Now that Epstein is back in the news again, here's a little number I wrote 5 years ago about him, his death, and connections to Trump. faustbot.bandcamp.com/track/dragon...
It's deeply suspicious they aren't capitalizing on it.
Right there with you. The ska song on my last album was called Primer because I meant it as an entry level Marxist piece. faustbot.bandcamp.com/track/primer...
The answer to all of these articles is "he's a weird asshole."
This is a great rundown of why I'm not putting music on Spotify any more. I really need to pull my stuff from it, too.
