Goth Starter Kit 2.01(b)

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Feelin' like it might be time to deactivate SM and activate more meat-space community building. The coming years will be increasingly engaged through offline efforts as they once were; fascism has a firm grasp on Big Tech and won't be outdone by a bunch of loud leftists screaming into the mic.

From one Arab to another, this is exactly how I'm going to interface every time someone (mostly ignorant white ppl) wants to whimper about Kamala and how minorities didn't "do what they normally do" this election. 😍

I've got 2 Bsky accounts: one to raise my blood pressure and one to lower it.

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.

We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.

Here is an extract.

More block lists!

Even most Americans can't wrap their head around this nonsense. Hence the need for literature like this.

And that's why you're a lot of fun at parties ya fuckin' misogynist.

Cory Doctorow came up with that term.

JFC it absolutely is business, you munch. The duopoly is in bed with corporations and has been for decades! They run the game, the politicians run the treadmill.

I didn't realize people still existed post-election with a non-ironic take like this. I stand corrected! (and I'm still going to withhold any votes I wish tyvm)

warning for new people: this site is generally hostile to LinkedIn style posts, engagement hacking, and overall inauthenticity

it's not about follow count
it's about cultivating real people who want to talk to you

if you don't get the reach you think you deserve, then you probably don't deserve it

And then they'll comply with every demand, helping to thicken the plot.

WATCH: House is now debating the terrible H.R. 9495, which would give the Trump admin the power to strip organizations of their nonprofit status by falsely smearing them as "terrorists" live.house.gov

Call to oppose this now: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...

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A photograph showing Valencia City Hall smeared with mud and graffiti calling the right-wing mayor a murderer.

Massive numbers of people mobilized horizontally to respond to the flooding. Despite their ties to the government, far-right groups have tried to hijack popular anger over the state's failures. This is the classic strategy of fascists and demagogues: create a crisis, then try to capitalize on it.

With the amount of grifting and looting that's set to occur, I'm naming this the age of "Trash Panda" politics

I think the correct question is: how did they survive me with my incessant pessimist-laden analysis of late stage capitalism being married to a strong critique of christofascism? I'm the person who makes Mark Fisher look like a joyful Disney character.

In speaking with family, who has largely tried to build themselves an ideological survivalist shelter via the Independent party because they realize Trump=public fallout, the most interesting mental gymnastics come into play when explaining this very thing: "Red or Blue, they don't care about you!"

The b side of that album is the usual "because we're not trumpers!" which requires the same block action.

"because we're good people with american values!" is what I hear the most. Meaningless drivel and instablocked.

I think we have a new attendee to the party. The communist party that is! Welcome fledgling!

i used to think of liberals as well meaning but under informed people. the hate i have been seeing them spew these past few days has really convinced me that their ideology is unsound and does nothing good for the community at large.

yeah i wasn't too fond of the fawning over her reappearance on the site either. fucking sellout.

I feel like we're unintentionally watching a massive public reach-around where we all eventually get fucked and discarded in the trashbin of history.

Sounds remarkably like "I wanna give leftism a try but so far it's still dominated by what I can best describe as 'theater kid energy' or 'the vibes of an activist trying to organize mutual aid and protests'. Ok shitlib...

You can see yourself out the door or we can do it for you.