Grimm May 3, 2024
She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.
Show threadGrimm May 3, 2024

Her post has gone viral, which is, of course, how I'm sharing it, which also pretty likely means this young woman now has an actual horde of right-wing extra-super-MAN-men sending her threats and harassment to somehow impossibly prove how wrong she is, so it's probably worth pointing out that the fundamental essence of right-wing ideology is bad problem-solving skills and a constitutional, relentless and even violent commitment to enforcing shitty hierarchies that CREATE most problems in society.

"Conservative" responses to problems are provably bad, ineffectual and, thus, problem-INFLAMING because conservative ideology absolutely insists you do. not. fucking. meaningfully. address. or even RECOGNIZE. the. problem.

Show threadGrimm May 3, 2024
Empathy is innate. It is how we learn things from our first breaths. It has to be DEconditioned and one function of right-wing political thought for 50 years in this fucking country - from Limbaugh to Fox News to splintered micromedia like Rogan and Tate - has been to decondition empathy in as many people as possible by selling them tribalism and faux-aggrievement at people daring to step outside of the hierarchal "natural order." This is INTRINSIC to the ideology and why it became an actual fascist movement.
Show threadGrimm May 3, 2024
👇 😐
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"The beatings will continue until morale improves" is an old old pre-meme-era meme, but it is pretty much the very ethos of contemporary right-wing problem-solving and the rudimentary explanation of why it is just programmatic sociopathy.
May 3, 2024 at 8:30pmWeb
Show threadGrimm May 3, 2024
And if you happen to see a giant red arrow pointing to other things happening right now, like say to administrators at Columbia University or any other institute of higher learning where kneejerk reactionary fuckheads decided to just blithely call in goons to beat their problems (kids mad at war) away, that giant red arrow very much exists and it is the bright pulsing neon Vegas-strip version.
Show threadGrimm May 3, 2024
Anyway, for some rollicking AV embellishment, here is my song Reply Guy. Remember to drink some beers and smash fascism this weekend, people!
https://youtu.be/PUiwVelBudE?si=RdTf0abnUUOHqk-D
Reply Guy

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Show threadEric 🇨🇦May 3, 2024
@GrimmReality Awesome.
Show threadCiggy Bringer of SmokeMay 3, 2024

@GrimmReality

Pre-All This, the throughline of conservative civic administration thought absolutely revolved around 'We have not imposed enough negative outcomes for individuals, to spur positive social outcomes on the whole', even in most dressed up terms and costume to bury how fucking demented and awful it all is.

The reflexive answer to anything was, is 'we haven't hurt people enough'. Now it has no dressing or costume or even farce pretense of better social outcomes evaluated against more Liberal thrusts.

Show threadVulcanTourist [MOVED]May 3, 2024

@GrimmReality

Hmmm, "programmatic sociopathy"....

Show threadCharlie StrossMay 5, 2024
@GrimmReality It's funny, but my understanding is it's a mistranslation from Japanese of a sentence that could also be rendered as "the defeats will continue until morale improves". Which is a lot less incongruous …