Notices by Masonic Cowgirl (julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social), page 5

@Adam_Cadmon1 I think it's very funny how the same company that had meticulously planned out the MCU, being like ok in this film we're going to set up something that's not really going to pay off for another seven years, decided to just make some sequels to the most beloved film franchise of all time without even having the directors agree on like, basic plot points

@ryanhoulihan people love to support survivors until they realize that the trauma left us a little crazy

I was absolutely convinced that "the British Navy is firing all its Chinese laundrymen because it's afraid they might be PRC spies and instead of not having any racialized subaltern class doing their laundry, decided to replace them with Nepalese laundrymen" had to be fake news because that was too racist even for the British but no, it seems to be real

@hakan_geijer

@inthehands he was more talking about how winning leads to arrogance and a lack of introspection and sows the seeds for your eventual downfall, while losing can force you to face up to your faults and then overcome them, but this is also very true and I think explains why the police are so bloodthirsty

Nietzsche once said it's more dangerous for a country to win a war than to lose one, and there's no better description of how the US lost its mind after WWII

Also applies to Israel after 1967

Never become the person your enemies think you are

This whole text is just really, really solid

"But here is what many professional commentators have chosen to spend their time and energy drawing our attention to instead: The annoying things that young people are saying and doing. Many people who hold prestigious and well-paid media jobs, and who control an influential megaphone at a time when that is of incredible importance, squander their time and ours with wheedling complaints about bullshit...These are the voices that dominate the opinion section of the most influential news organization in the English-speaking world. You will never find a more pathetic failure to rise to the occasion than this collection of navel-gazing cranks, the journalistic equivalent of suburbanites complaining about the annoying smell of smoke ruining their weekend dinner party as the city burns down around them."

Young Morality and Old Morality - by Hamilton Nolan
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/young-morality-and-old-morality

The Resident Advisor page for the guy who was selling fake airline parts around the world

https://ra.co/dj/santamilitia

"Some may call us cowards for our decision. To this, we can only say the following: If a coward is a person who avoids taking a difficult stance on topics for personal expediency, then “coward” is a badge this editorial board will gladly wear, again and again and again."

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-stands-with-israel-because-it-seems-like-yo-1850922505

@inthehands @GottaLaff I don't know if I go that far, but I do think that if Netanyahu gains his political power from being someone who Keeps You Safe At Night he doesn't actually have a motivation to create a comprehensive solution that actually would keep you safe at night. His goal was to manage the violence, not eliminate it, and the way it had been managed up until now - mostly peaceful but punctuated by exchanges of missiles every couple of years, with Israeli citizens mostly scared but honestly fairly safe thanks to the Iron Dome - was ideal for him. This weekend, that balance collapsed

@QueerSatanic I think that in the absence of the elimination of all hierarchies, at least having a balance between different ones that have different centers of power is best, for every kid who finds a respite from their terrible family in their friends at school, there's another kid who finds a respite from their terrible school in their family

@hakan_geijer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecH8tgass1A

@hakan_geijer jambalaya is better than risotto though

You ever think about how jambalaya is like a spicy risotto

@ancient_catbus the stasi was nothing compared to contemporary surveillance, they had to do everything by hand in an artisanal process. Now the industrial spying revolution has happened

@anarchopunk_girl that whole Sophisticated Nazi thing the altright tried to pull, it was really just a cosplay of the Nouvelle Droite I'm realizing, and it failed because someone like Richard Spencer isn't actually sophisticated, he simply bought a suit. But some of those French Nazis actually *are* well-read. They're also still Nazis. Their intelligence has nothing to do with their (absence of) moral worth

@anarchopunk_girl one of the things that's great about studying the French far right, as I'm trying to do right now, is that a lot of them are actually really smart! They're just as terrible as people as the worst bonehead in terms of the concrete things they have done, but as the continental boneheads they can also put forward a subtle analysis of Homer after getting out of prison

OK but for real why are there so many bedbug infestations in so many major cities all at the same time