shit takes r us

very genuinely something that empowered fascism a lot was just totally ceding a lot of memetic communication to them with zero contest because it was For Bad People. Like im thinking about how many times I've talked about pattern recognition and people were like 'dude dont say that its a nazi meme'. like. youre just letting them define reality idiot. that whole 'circle game 'OK hand as a white power symbol' thing was fucking insanely stupid. Guys on 4chan started it deliberately to make people freak out about an extremely innocuous and common gesture. right as the circle game was having a memetic moment. nobody's willing to fight about anything and everyone is a wimp.

i get that we love being wokescolds on here but what's up with that term from the hebrew in exodus, where they're eating mana that falls from the sky to survive the big slow walk in the desert? i thought the connection was that mana sustains you

hey um. sorry. this is awkward but. when I use my wicked blade to cleave the world in two... would you wanna like. be on the same half as me?

Consider the opposite. A conservative wants to convince her left-wing friends to back her ideas. "Immigration is a labor issue. By reducing the number of immigrants we can increase average wages for workers." This does not work on many left-wingers.

it all depends. I used to wonder about the audience on fox that was applauding bernie sanders way back before the pandemic, did he change their minds? I haven't met a right winger I could convince but I also have met so few in person. I have met plenty of people who can change their minds if you convince them to

is not depression an experience of intense darkness monstrously warping the world around you? like a dark fountain?

wtf why am i literally her