Tofu Golem
The pro-fascist bias of the American media is why America is the way it is. This didn't happen overnight.
Apr 23 at 4:17pmWeb
Show threadbinchicken5d ago

@tofugolem the level of unwillingness to confront just how much of the problem is internal is baffling. it's here too. we've had people try to bring back the white australia policy of 1901, we've had people appear on fascist podcasts to talk about the final solution, we've had sovcits, anti-government farmers, groypers and neonazis and this is just me going through my recent memory of elected officials.

meanwhile the police over here are focusing on “combating foreign influence”on fucking telegram.

we are going in the barrel soon too, if we're not more careful. thankfully we've got preferential voting still

Show threadTofu Golem5d ago

@thegarbagebird
Don't lose sight of what lies underneath driving all of this.

Wealthy people and the wealth gap is making everyone miserable. Wealthy people are desperate to avoid consequences from what they do to stuff their pockets, so they direct the anger of the masses at immigrants, minorities, women, gays, trans people etc.

All this hate is nothing more than what magicians call misdirection, and it's all in defense of the wealthy.

Show threadbinchicken4d ago

@tofugolem
it's hard to forget in this country. one of our cultural symbols, the flag of the eureka stockade (culturally it occupies a similar place to the gadsden), came from a miner’s strike. now it's the banner behind which the wealthy unite those they have mobilized those they disenfranchise, because they have been told that the foreigners are taking their jobs and houses.

of course there are jobs, they just don't pay enough.
and yes, there are so, so many empty houses. in fact the nominally left wing government has just decided to demolish social housing and replace it with “moderately affordable” housing. which of course is no longer affordable to like seventy percent of us. so there will be even more housing “available.”

it's as out in the open here as it is anywhere else. the part i have difficulty with is not letting it give me conditional effects like fear or paralysis.

Show threadTofu Golem4d ago
@thegarbagebird
I get so frustrated with Americans. This particular form of misdirection works all too well on us, and it is used very frequently.
Show threadfear is not a Weltanschauung4d ago
@thegarbagebird "i go into a rage" @tofugolem
Show threadbinchicken4d ago

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing haha i did actually think of the cursed axe i picked up. fucking beast of a thing. plus one damage, plus one hit point per level. take a penalty for any other weapon i use, because i need it with me. like, i need it.

plus, every time i get hit, if i fail a wisdom save, i go berserk and attack the nearest thing to me, and i do not stop killing until i cannot see or hear anything around me for sixty feet. and if that just ain't the way i interact with this fucken website these days...

i miss that axe so bad. canonically. as i said,

i need it.

@tofugolem

Show threadmau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels4d ago

@tofugolem It definitely did not. I just read a 1963 book where Richard Feynman denounced this group for promoting "Fanatics, only not in the bible but in the constitution", warning about how authoritarianism was spreading wrapped in the flag and holding a cross.

And here we are today.

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

John Birch Society - Wikipedia

Show threadTofu Golem4d ago
@mzedp
I'm old enough to remember when most Republicans made fun of the John Birch Society and its adherents.
Show threadcobalt4d ago
@mzedp @tofugolem I grew up surrounded by Birchers. My father got death threats as an Independent City Council member on votes for urban renewal and anything now seen as “liberal”. It was a growing thing with power from the secrecy.
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Show threadmau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels4d ago

@tofugolem It definitely did not. I just read a 1963 book where Richard Feynman denounced this group for promoting "Fanatics, only not in the bible but in the constitution", warning about how authoritarianism was spreading wrapped in the flag and holding a cross.

And here we are today.

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

Show threadTofu Golem4d ago
@mzedp
I'm old enough to remember when most Republicans made fun of the John Birch Society and its adherents.
Show threadcobalt4d ago
@mzedp @tofugolem I grew up surrounded by Birchers. My father got death threats as an Independent City Council member on votes for urban renewal and anything now seen as “liberal”. It was a growing thing with power from the secrecy.