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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • No, seriously. What was the benefit to Gaza in letting America fall to a fascist who cares even less about Gaza? They’re not even gonna get lip service. Israeli politicians are already like ‘what few restraints we had are now gone, let’s do it once and for all.’

    The situation over there wouldn’t be much better, if y’all had stopped telling people not to vote against a fascist - but it would be better. Nevermind how much better we’d all be, over here, where you fucking live. This was a course of action with no material benefit to anyone you care about. How the fuck is it our fault, for pointing out that’s what would happen?













  • You can’t just eat oil. I mean, you can, but… it goes poorly.

    All I can think of is that gym bro doing shots of olive oil. It’s an ancient greentext story, where he figured it’s fine on food and in food, so the free calories are easy gains. Right? This went great until poop exited his body unimpeded. It would be misleading and incomplete to say that he shit his pants. It’s more that a whole turd let itself out and made its way straight down one pant leg. Like it had important places to be, and didn’t want to be any bother.


  • Both was good. Both is an option. People seem to forget.

    It’s difficult to separate ‘you like how things worked when you were fifteen’ from honest appreciation of how much Windows XP era design was just better. Not the giant-head video player, or the Fisher-Price color scheme, but like-- remember when things looked like things? Remember when each icon was allowed to be a different color? We let people shit up plain text with sculpted multicolor emoji spam, but the parts that do stuff better be all one shade of gray sharply delineated from another shade of gray.






  • Nnnnnope. Being against something real doesn’t suddenly transfer to whatever some asshole claims is the same thing. You can in fact be mad about child molesters, and not accidentally find yourself mad about trans people.

    As a clear example of failed redirection: fascists screaming that leftists are “the real fascists.” Unsurprisingly, this does not convince many leftists. They’re still ardently against actual fascists… even the morons screaming “let’s kill those fascists!” and pointing somewhere the fuck else.


  • Vigilante violence is the initial example. The death penalty, as a state function, only comes up incidentally.

    The broad argument is what’s echoed in the replies: ‘we can’t do [blank] for good reasons, because what if they do it for bad reasons.’ As if doing anything to fascists, which fascists want done to all non-fascists, is double-reverse-secretly “enabling fascists.” But even those replies point out - they’re already fucking doing it. “They’re willing to attack minorities for no reason.”

    Fascists will always MAKE an excuse. Usually, whichever one seems popular, especially the ones about stopping them in particular. They’ll pick two opposite excuses in the same sentence. Their shameless lying doesn’t disprove the rhetoric they stole. This is as true when it’s accusations of making shit up, as when it’s suggestions of bringing a brick to a rally.