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my mind keeps going back to gamergate and how the larger public didn’t pay attention. obviously it wasn’t the first online flex of these creatures, but it stands out to me.

i despair for my country, i am furious at my neighbors, and i am afraid for my nieces

these liars, grifters, cheats, and fascists will not stop, they must be stopped. and my fellow americans decided they wanted more

@cstross I simply don’t understand why there isn’t a year-long mandatory high school course based solely on Shirer’s The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.

Anyone who’s actually read that book has been just ticking off item after item on the Nazi Playbook Checklist. It’s not subtle. There’s no nuance to it.

Evil is boring. It does the exact same shit in the exact same order every single time this happens.

Freedom News: **The Death of Leninism**

"I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books …"

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/10/the-death-of-leninism/

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The Death of Leninism - Freedom News

I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books

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@cstross As I like to say: Christianity is like football in this respect. Everybody nearly everywhere in the world knows what you‘re talking about when you mention football, but add „American“ and it suddenly is a totally different ballgame.
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@bookstodon Of all the great Tom Gauld cartoons, and there are many (BAKING WITH KAFKA being my favorite collection) this one still cracks me up every time I see it!