Just old school fascism in the sense of corporate interests and the state melting together. It’s been the trajectory visible for miles for years now with this guy, among other bummers.
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Just old school fascism in the sense of corporate interests and the state melting together. It’s been the trajectory visible for miles for years now with this guy, among other bummers.
I haven’t seen the movie, but the book is really good!
Same with Washington State!
What if this whole time JD Vance had also been in the dark about the topic of this afternoon’s presidential announcement and now he’s feeling devastated
😭
Yup, when I show my 16 year old Instagram stories I’ve carefully synced to music, they’re like “You should use CapCut,” and I’m like: “You’re not gonna teach this old dog new tricks!”
[ cue “Always has bee” astronaut meme ]
He figured out who killed Laura Palmer
He’ll pull of a mask and it’s been Tom Cruise this whole time, filming M:i 9
He’ll be the BEST at being dead
Good use of Chekhov’s car crash
None of those are words I said here. Have fun talking to a mirror here 👋
Why are you coming at me? I’ve got no need for your spiraling monologue, stranger.
That means I learned of something in the mainstream press that someone here said the press wasn’t covering 🤷♂️
I read about that in the NYT - but go on
I’m in a new relationship and this is a bang-on précis of what’s important ☺️💗
Crap, I work at a state education agency and I thought we’d gotten a breather from all these funding cuts 😕
While we’re at it, can we also get the millions who voted for him to write apology letters 🤔
Millions voted to return a convicted felon, serial sexual assaulter, insurrectionist to the White House, so… 🤷♂️
If the incel to well-armed misogynist domestic terrorist pipeline doesn’t start close to birth it may as well be just one of those shoddy paper straws the libs insist will solve all our problems. To quote Daniel Plainview on the topic of America’s boys and young men: “I drink your milkshake!”
Are they melting down, though?? I know I live in a liberal bubble, as far as news and social media, but I have yet to see clues the Trump administration and its followers are rankled by Newsom’s (PR team’s) copycat memes and whatnot.
The way out was always deeper in. Wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out Charlie Kauffman wrote this timeline.
What’s that card game where both people slap down cards fast 
Ughh, good grief. Meanwhile, Olympia has been smelling like a fireplace from that wildfire smoke. (And it would be worse if not for the hard work of these firefighters). Thankfully, it rained some yesterday.
It’s curdled morals all the way down. Been that way for decades - but that’s a problem too big for people to confront 🙁
Except near Area 51 out there. Just cosplay as Moulder and you’ll be good 👍
Interesting! I just spent the weekend at my sister’s in Bellingham.
Yup. Which dovetails with the neo-nihilism movement. (Which includes the induced to violence nihilism movement)
The mystery/thriller “Child 44” is built around that idea: that no murders were allowed to exist in communist Russia
Tragic. But also - to me - of a piece with the nebulous and growing mass psychosis that’s characterized this century. I’m not talking about a diagnosis of this troubled boy, I’m talking about a whole society normalizing turning to forms of estrangement from fellow humans & sources of misinformation.
Whataboutism is a troll move
Exactly. It’s white noise. It’s contributing to Trump’s own “run the board” approach, which is so effective for precisely this reason.
Nah, they do. (That’s just the very patronizing, elitist liberal assumption they call out talking there). It actually is much simpler, the same playbook it’s been for 10+ years: anything and everything is an opportunity to own the libs.
Don DeLillo wrote about this in 1985 in “White Noise.”
This guy must never have read about (reading, him?!) the Seattle reaction to the WTO conference.
… or else obsess over like a dog with a bone) Zizek’s epitome of The Real (explained in that film) is the severed ear Kyle MacLachlan finds on the pristine lawn at the beginning of “Blue Velvet.” (5/5)
… turned a certain way, etc) 3. The Real: everything that falls through the cracks of the double-layered matrix of the first two (so: the shocking and mysterious aspects of life and the world that we come upon occasionally and either find a way to integrate into the Symbolic or the Imaginary… (4/)
… the world and living within it (languages, myths, social mores, religion, laws, culture, science, etc) 2. The Imaginary: all the *personal* ways we have for understanding and dealing with the world (night dreams, day dreams, superstitions like number preferences or the blinds having to be… (3/)
… Sophie Fiennes - sister of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes!) Sort of like how Freud and Jung each had their own triumvirate of terms, Lacan had his - only his were quite different, and thought-provoking. 1. The Symbolic: the wide spectrum of all socially agreed-upon ways of understanding… (2/)
Ha, Lacan’s own writings are as opaque as a Brillo pad. I got introduced to him via Slavoj Zizek (not smooth sailing also!), who wrote “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan” and mentions him other places (including his amazing movie “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema,” directed by… (1/)
I love it! For the next class, let’s jump ahead to Lacan. These authoritarian suck-ups fetishize contributing to the tightening strictures of The Symbolic - in the process revealing The Real all around us more and more.
That whole account could be a bot anyway. Just like everywhere else, Bluesky is now full of them.
Just a big ole version of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” every day in America now
Can this please be a subplot in the movie the Coen brothers finally reunite to make 🙏
Yup, I’ve already said exactly that: they use exorbitant amounts of resources that would be better put toward human survival needs.
Yeah, those weren’t good either. You’re veering into troll-like whataboutism, so I’m signing off on this convo 👋
I am not. That is literally why I differentiated them in my original post. ALL data centers suck up trillions of liters of water a year. Water that could be better used for basic survival needs.
Nah, I’d be the boss - remember?
I disagree. If I were in charge of a corporation or a large government or nonprofit organization, I’d set goal that each division and program had to store less and less online each year.
It’s a gross misuse of water and electricity and land.
Also, it’s insane we’re using those as the scapegoats, when electricity- and water-sucking giant server farms have been metastasizing for years just to store our work documents in “the cloud,” and our phones’ photos, and all the comments we posts on social media platforms like this.
Bizarro World Voltron forming
How would we know this if we haven’t been there and haven’t seen much media set there beyond “Trainspotting”? I know even less about Wales. Is there some kind of elitist UK knowledge bowl we’re all taking part in at the end of the week?
Schrödinger’s Rally!
Always looking for loopholes, this guy!
For this conceit to be complete, you’ll also need a Woody Harrelson doppelgänger 🤔
I’m 85% sure they’re just telling AI: “Compose a tweet inTrump’s style and touch on these talking points.” An actual human would infuse them with much more creativity than I’ve seen.
Lol I hear that — I might put Olympia, but not an abbreviation associated with REI gear
“Somewhere near Seattle” — Lol she’s giving off Issaquah vibes
“This isn’t how we wanted you to find out.” “You’re gay, son!” m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5i6...
… the Gulf War (AKA, the first Iraq War), including 250K in the streets in D.C. & 100K in SF. And, of course, that had already been the case for massive Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests in the 60s and 70s, to say nothing of the impressive workers rights and suffragette gatherings earlier (2/2)
Yep! It’s soma from “Brave New World” and the floor-to-ceiling tvs with characters who turn and address viewers by name from “Fahrenheit 451” and the two minutes of hate from “1984” all mixed together. In early 1991, without having the internet to organize, millions around the world protested (1/2)
… and switch from putting energy into the wheel spinning of venting on one platform or another to productive in-person meet-ups with local peers (2/2)
The internet/social media is the problem: it’s continuous, not discrete. As in: in the pre-internet days, there would be discrete meetings about specific injustices and they would result in specific action plans, etc. Now, people (like me!) do not have clear cut ways to get off this carousel (1/2)
Sure. And there were also some POC members of Proud Boys groups. I still really think the left does itself a disservice by not paying enough attention to how much people this century of all demographics want to find outlets for catharsis for feeling genetically bitter and insecure.
… American persona is the internet troll. Of course, most people wouldn’t dare act as one thoroughly IRL. That’s why millions re-elected the Internet Troll-in-Chief back to the White House as their avatar. Wishing to have a lack of inhibitions & morals like him knows no race/ethnicity/etc.
The left continues to have a blind spot about this and to attribute all the Trump administration’s transgressions to 20th century culprits. This is the 21st century, where the authentic and inauthentic are blurred, just as Jean Baudrillard predicted, and the predominant (1/2)
We’re all just knee-deep in the psyop trenches playing Marco Polo
It’s Jean Baudrillard’s future of indistinguishable authentic/inauthentic and we’re only living it.
Social media accounts who don’t listen and respect when others draw boundaries and just blunder ahead obliviously are either bots or human trolls 👋
I already said I’m not part of your research project. Take your monologue offline.
I’m not Google. Go do your research project on your own.
I understand you’re as aggressive and contrarian and contradictory as a Twitter troll. So I’ll leave you under this bridge and go my way 👋
Gotcha - you’ll just happen to be part of one of the “good” gun-tottin’ roaming gangs, but you’ll stand out due to your old fashioned homophobic dog whistles 👍
Cool - you’ll just happen to be part of one of the “good guy” roaming gangs amidst all the chaos 😒
You’re gonna fight off the whole federal armed forces yourself, huh? Like David Koresh?
Told ya you came in hot this morning! Now you done got the Eastern seaboard all stirred up.
Coming in 🔥 on a Friday morning! On a related note, this week I showed my Cillian Murphy-obsessed 15 year old “The Wind that Shakes the Barley.”
The 2020s feel like a century unto themselves
Breaking where?
I agree
Is this comment to me or someone else in this thread?
I haven’t had that kind of cathartic collective experience in a theater in years! (BTW am I the only one who thinks there was a blatant “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” homage happening there??)
All I’m saying is: I do not see the masses coalescing around an alternative now. (An alternative that should have been prominent on like November 6, 2024). So it’s looking like the same old same old dynamic between (and within) the two parties will play out.
So, it sounds like the consensus above is: the status quo will continue
Gotcha. But that’s just it: I think I only have one friend advocating for a third party. Meanwhile, I foresee the Democratic circular firing squad continuing until November 2026 🫤
Edgy meme! Meanwhile: it’s just 15 months until the midterms and where’s the nationally visible, viable third party? When that election rolls around, will millions of progressives sit it out again 🤔
I was there, deep in the TWP message boards. (Sark did WHAT??) Then I migrated over to Ain’t It Cool, where, yes, modern day internet troll culture was bred like it was an Austin-based Petri dish. But not all of us! Some of us enjoyed conversing with other nerds civilly 😅
Yes, but also: it was the lead
Sure, but that way lies a Möbius strip… of ending up dehumanizing large swathes of humanity ourselves
Side note: I saw him do readings twice at East Bay bookstores in the early-90s. He turned up at Dark Carnival (yes, named after one of his collections) in tennis whites (including shorts), bouncy and chipper and inspiring in his enthusiasm for all things.
Russian troll farms did this way back in 2016, no?
I do! (Because I was 24 when “I See a Darkness” came out lol)
Some serious time travelers!
Like that one year Oakland was going through police chiefs like a cat pawing at the toilet paper roll
Things go sideways in the Midwest, then the gibberish just metastasizes
Did it learn how to spell it from Simple Jack 🤔
I joined 8 months ago and I’ve only posted two things (not counting comments). That’s because of two things: 1) most of my friends are still on Facebook, so that’s where I post; 2) the majority of accounts that have followed me here are bots and I can’t keep up with taking them off.