Wow

Labour movements also need people in the streets. Movements fail when they don’t embrace diversity of tactics.

People used to rage about the content of television being ideological.

Now we know that its ideological nature is mostly structural, not presentation: you, sitting, watching, passive, and most definitely not marching in the streets!

Generate action, not alpha waves.

Quick, someone get this person a Malibu on mags!

The zillions of W123 Mercedes from that period that are still running to this day are an exception to that rule, arguably one of the best vehicle designs ever produced.

Yeah, should have clarified, meth can cause narcissistic behaviour, not hate. Other substances, no. All the alcoholics and heroin etc. addicts that I know or am related to or have worked with, were not fundamentally changed in character or even personality by the addiction. But chronic meth use, yeah. Big difference.

I guess you have never watched a family member descend into meth abuse then.

Permanent personality changes such that trust is pointless, redemption is merely a faint hope, all motivations are underlaid with a new narcissistic set of delusions and denials.

Since I have watched this happen to three family members of distinct lineage and personality types, all of whom were pleasant and acceptably kind beforehand, my small sample size is nevertheless very convincing.

Putin’s nightmare about Gaddafi. Benito Mussolini displayed in the street. Ceaușescu’s last moment on video.

Team Luigi needs more branding.

In Magaocracy, Muskolini is the smartest

“Flood the zone.” Steve Bannon

September 11, 2001, all planes were grounded in North America, and Gander has an airport under flight routes.

Yeah, a reminder to Canadians that our blueshirts (equivalent to brownshirts etc) were rounded up and interned during WW2. They got back to work somewhat right after because the country was still freakin racist, but it took until recently for actual fascism-with-Skippy to pop up again.

No worries folks, any infiltration violence in resistance isn’t likely to be directed at random civilians.

A lot of vandalism, though. And some judicious sniping would be likely.

A lot of us grow up around long guns. Handguns are relatively rare.

A lot of companies still use it for customer relations, sadly.

I yell at the road when people drive badly, too.

Activist, prolific novelist, EFF organizer and analyst, and then some. Lived and worked in both countries and deeply involved in digital rights and intellectual property policy. Probably worth paying attention on this particular issue.

Also, major exaggeration on the ‘every word’ whinge. He’s prolific and targeting the fediverse.

Isn’t that the relationship Russia had with Ukraine when Putin took over?

Yeah if you meet JT he’s just another confident politician in public and seems a bit shallow and kinda cringe, so whatever.

But everybody hates Skippy, the person. He’s a dick IRL and emptier than his résumé. The PP parade will just hold their noses and march anyway.

“…for some reason…”

The reason is the same as all fascist takeovers. The coup works slowly, then suddenly. We are in the acceleration phase, it’s ramping up, just as they said it would in the Project 2025 documents.

I REPEAT: THIS WAS ALL ANNOUNCED BEFOREHAND. Plus, history explains.

The script is to combine a shock and awe campaign of massive change on so many fronts that no one could possibly resist them all, and to demoralize and deflate opposition.

Once this phase is complete, the power thieves will have sufficiently infiltrated the monopoly on violence (military and policing management) and the bureaucratic and technocratic key elements will be gutted or loyalized, so that a full coup can occur. Full control of media, a massive apparatus of repression and surveillance, and a hot mess of mistrust throughout society.

Interpersonal and community relations will be broken and replaced by dependency on authority for guidance and morality and information. Rights will be crushed and perverted. Power and money will only flow to the top, and poverty will become the norm.

US international influence will contract and enemies will be constructed. Blame Canada.

Just a warning though, when you folks are finally conscripted to invade northwards, we have a lot of methods and welcoming gifts to make it regrettable, and people here are getting prepared. I’d dodge the draft, when it comes, if I were you.