Notices by Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)

every 20 minutes there is a headline that makes me turn to my wife and say "all of these people deserve death and hell," while the average american just sorta stumbles their way through the day thinking "i wonder if president business is gonna solve the egg prices"

@PallasRiot
our modern "warrior class" has its own rituals and mythology and they're all basically just racism

on an almost klan-like level

@owen
there's also the crisis scenario of jobs (paid labor) disappearing while lots and lots of work that nobody (or, rather, nobody with money) wants to pay for remains to be done

@owen
like, i am increasingly terrified of the world where our collective unpaid, unmet needs keep creeping up higher and higher, but all the oligarchs see is an ocean of "surplus" humanity to be disposed of once they've wrung out all the blood

@AnarchoNinaWrites
"fascism always loses" but on what timescale?

10 or 20 or 50 years in power isn't much of "thousand-year reich" but it sure is a generational disaster, with repercussions echoing for many decades — and longer than most administrations in electoral systems hang around

and chances are you're still left with post-fascist capitalist hell and a near-permanent reservoir of baby fascists dreaming of "taking the country back," like Bolsonaro in Brazil

fuuuck, i got at least two essays in me but i'm not sure i really want to become an Essay Person

let's be real:

you are not actually living under democratic anything if "should the state kill you?" (social murder included) is a question on the ballot every few years

in that situation you are inescapably the *subject* of the state but only conditionally a citizen with any rights whatsoever

@AnarchoNinaWrites
seeing the exact same dumb essentialism as when people argue "is that guy really racist? in his heart?" and the guy in question is literally The Manager of Building Racism

i feel like "rfk jr wants to do pol-pot shit to anyone who takes adhd meds" is a story that i should have been able to find out about last year, when he said it originally

just leaving this here as a useful guidepost to how white-power politics has always worked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

@jonathankoren @waitworry @PallasRiot
the thing that drives me nuts is how it just gets endlessly edited and restructured, like half the people quoting the "poem" are basically like, "well i can say *that one,* people don't like them!!"

@waitworry @jonathankoren @PallasRiot
yup. and it was literally anti-communism that led him into supporting Hitler in the first place.

his 1946 speech also mentions Aktion T4 against disabled people and every single version of the "poem" I've seen ignores that

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i think that the (undiluted) admonition is useful but it kinda bothers me that Neimoller is the guy everyone's "learning from" when people like Hirschfeld already had the fascists thoroughly figured out as early as 1920

in a truly free and democratic society we would've killed all those guys with hammers by now

@purplepadma
all the people who call themselves "social media refugees" have very deep "expat" energy, tbqh

like when the "blue wave" democratic-party fandom people all jumped to bluesky in fall 2024 it was just constant interactions with people acting like they owned the place despite having showed up five minutes ago, with near-zero ability to actually communicate with another person

now that millennials are all grown up, a lot of our boomer parents are like, "oh, church fucking sucks. we just pretended to believe all that shit so we could abuse you."

@sinvega
i'm still kinda haunted by the existence of a call of duty that's like, "we built this orbital megalaser to terrorize the global south into submission, but somehow they've gotten a hold of it and now they're terrorizing us! mom!! mo-om!!"

@sinvega
20000 cringe call of duties but also bespoke cringe shit like "50 cent: blood on the sand"

@AnarchoNinaWrites
I've noticed the same pattern in articles defending him:

1. pointing out that he's a "journalist," but only as a status signifier — no attention paid to the actual *work* of journalism, journalistic ethics, &c.

2. defending his "opinions" or "positions" as normal — no attention paid to his weird alliance with "kiwi farmers," the invasive personal frame he takes when women like Julia Serano criticize him, &c.

Singal never *does* anything in these stories, he simply *is*

@nixCraft
i guess i liked bitbucket somewhat but then they killed mercurial support so it could be yet another git front-end

don't want a spotify but i can tell you about the music i got really into this year

• Petsitter!
• Castle Rat!
• Teke-Teke!