Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 18

@dalias @johnefrancis

Possible. I guess it just all feels very cold war and stale to me. Like are we still even on this? I guess so. Nothing ever dies.

I've been mostly ignoring the Kirk memorial jamboree. It's not for me. I don't know who it's for, I don't see how my opinions on it should matter.

But something the president said caught my attention. It was one of those jokes where he give the people a taste of authenticity by being openly horrible.

“That’s where I disagreed with Charlie,” Trump said. “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.”

Who is this "opponent" ?

For all the "raw honestly" of saying "I don't love my enemy" it feels hollow when you can't even name him.

It makes me think of the ominous declaration that "Antifa" is a terrorist organization. Absurd as antifa isn't an organization. It doesn't exist.

We are watching a man shadowboxing. There is no "other side" none that can be named and this is something Trump needs desperately to function.

Some of you will point out this is a typical features of fascism and you will be correct. But I have not done this because I'm exhausted with naming the reasons why we are seeing fascism as some transference error seems to prevent a large number of people from understanding why this is a bad thing at all.

It can feel like some people feel that if they could only "prove it's fascism" that would shock other people into recognition of what is happening.

And the people focused on proving we are seeing fascism have done an excellent job. They even have charts!

And this simply fails to land. I suspect to some people it just sounds hysterical. Just "liberals and Democrats" making any noises they can to win. Just more "political division" ... "on both sides"

Even though much of this talk isn't coming from Democrats at all. It isn't partisan. It's not about Blue vs. Red.

You know I really hate accelerationists. I'm talking about the kind of people who think "it might be a good thing if bad things happen since then people will wake up."

Too often I've seen bad things happen and people are only easier to manipulate in their distress. They don't "wake up" ... they only become more frightened.

But, out of helplessness I have so many intrusive accelerationist thoughts.

The roof is on fire.

We are all "the opponent"

@johnefrancis

That is one of many things that are at play. But I think it's reductive to say he is a Putin puppet.

It strains my credulity. I wish Democrats hadn't leaned into this so much. He's self-interest driven without a drop of public service in his being. If that leads him to align with Putin he has no moral fiber to be strained by bending in such ways.

As long as he gets bigger, the people who criticize him get hurt and the money flows.

@detondev

good lordt u ok? or

@petergleick

Until there is a big measles outbreak in NYC and we have to test just how strong the firewall is.

It's not supposed to be tested.

And some people live on the other side for very good reasons, like being immune compromised.

@petergleick

Anti-vaxers love to talk about how sometimes people who have been vaccinated might get sick anyways.

But that just means to prevent an *outbreak* you need even higher rates. But I feel like that's the thing they don't understand: what an outbreak is.. these things used to just burn through cities and towns. How you had to have three kids so maybe two could grow up.

How people used to not always name babies too soon because... well it might be less painful if they died.

@floatybirb @liferstate @mayintoronto

Where is the Giant Ant?

>:(

@floatybirb @liferstate @mayintoronto

Not angry those are antennae.

@bransonturner @steter @ireneista @TerryHancock @panmanphil

I've been slowly working on them on the Reagan thing. It's a long term project let us say.

@bransonturner @steter @ireneista @TerryHancock @panmanphil

Reagan is beloved by huge swaths of the American public and to suggest that he wasn't one of the great presidents will grind conversations, even with "liberals" to a stop.

But we can take a little comfort from this. America has always just been like this. It's not unprecedented.

We can claw it back again. We can claw it back better.

my 1980s republican in-laws are going to some kind of no kings protest in the suburbs

A PROTEST

it’s so over

Fake Train Announcements

“Please keep your personal belongings to yourself.”
“If you see something good for you!”
“Be kind and rewind your seat. Courtesy is contagious.”
“Courtesy is contagious, please stay 6 feet apart”
“in the event of an emergency put on your game face before helping others.”

Important Invertebrate Video

(It is important to me that you see this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRebPTYDPEk

Somethings going around amongst the American Evangelicals and people on tiktok are saying the rapture, will happen on the 23rd or 24th. This happens every few years and nothing is learned.

But, technically *I'm* an evangelical Christian. I went to a baptist church for all my youth and mysteriously didn't have any of the traumatic experiences I've heard about. Never heard a word about "rapture"

Mostly just a lot of "if you think you are saved you probably aren't BE BETTER"

Lots of "don't be greedy"
"don't exploit others"
"don't think you are better than anyone"
"don't trust anyone who says they know the exact letter of God's will."

I still kind of have those values. I'll think "maybe I shouldn't go on a vacation, maybe I should help people with that money that's what Jesus would do."

It used to really worry me when I was a kid.

It makes me really sad to see religion be such a destructive force in people's lives. Some people think that's inevitable. I tend to think it's more inevitable that some people will bend anything to their purposes and religion is just another thing this impacts.

Anyways.