Lilah @NightRose@eldritch.cafe

As the centrist of firefighting, I believe we should not set buildings on fire. This shows how compassionate I am, but I'm also very pragmatic, which is why I recognize that once a building is already burning, it's not practical to put it out.

For folks who don't know: RT and In The Now are actual propaganda designed to be consumable and attractive to progressive Western audiences. They are a facet of the overall propaganda structure that includes Russia Today's internal (within Russia, in Russian) propaganda. Russia Today is much more directly anti-queer, anti-Semitic, etc, and RT filters this into a package DESIGNED to be palatable to English-speaking westerners, with the goal of spreading "just asking questions" style disinfo.

We're a bunch of gay as fuck engineers, artists, and designers. We should be much better at information/propaganda warfare and culture jamming than we are.

Ok. You've probably seen the news: we are gearing up for an honest-to-goodness ideological war in 2020. Propagandists, homegrown and otherwise, are already gearing up to sow discord and confusion on the left.

And, um, bad news: you and I are basically the remaining counterculture. If people at our level don't prepare themselves to fight, we're probably not going to win.

Start thinking about it NOW. For instance, it wouldn't hurt to get an elevator-pitch sized case against Trump into your head. Personally, I'm thinking of starting a list of undeniable Trump "fun facts" we can use to steer forum threads back on track. (e.g.: "Hey, isn't Trump ALREADY a known fraudster because of that Trump U thing?" "Hey, didn't Trump's own biographer say he's probably a Kremlin agent?") (I know, the base is hard to crack and never admits it's wrong. We're not _aiming_ for the base.)

Next: be wary of anything you see that turns you against a fellow Trump opponent. Remember that we KNOW FOR CERTAIN some of that is deliberate sabotage. Save your ire for the opposition-- and even then, think ahead to how we can draw them into the fold if Trump is ever properly defeated and humiliated.

And most importantly: for fuck's sake, don't despair. I grew up with the sincere expectation we would all be reduced to radioactive ash by the time I was 20. Instead, the Big Bads collapsed. Granted, they came back in a new form, but... here we are, still breathing.

This is a new era. We are the FIRST. GENERATION. EVER. to face this kind of targeted memetic infiltration online. You don't even know what we're capable of. The memetic immune systems we develop now could protect American humanists and progressives for generations. Quit fixating on a doom that will only become truly inevitable *if* we keep fixating on it.

i have two (2) recommendations for getting municipalities to address sidewalk conditions:
A) a widespread pedestrian revolt wherein we Take The Lane (yes the car lane) when the paths for us are not safe
B) #bancars

@Pixley @gzt A goddess-level teen trans superhero who can manipulate the threads of reality, but only with the help of her sharp shooting cowgirl girlfriend, an alcoholic robot created by LessWrong (but who went rouge and became an SJW), and an NB Anarchist who protects the people of the Bay Area.

Let it Go rules, and Frozen rules as well

zionist: well by that logic, the United States shouldn't exist either!

me: oh good you understand already; that means i don't need to go into my next point

I see lots of talk about killing billionaires but I think it's worth keeping in mind that a billionaire does not actually possess their wealth but are mearly figureheads of institutions built around hoards of wealth
Simply killing them wouldn't do much when they are replaceable to the institutions they head
I think it would be more productive to target and dismantle those institutions from the middle up than to seek catharsis

After Amazon Bailed, a Long Island City Building Owner Is Miffed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-15/amazon-faces-miffed-apartment-owner-s-wrath-after-nyc-pullout

I've read this article 5x this morning and I dissolve into hysterical, harpy-ish laughter every time.

@sandrockcstm The lights dim and an unfamiliar voice says the activation words over the sound system

And as a brainwashed agent, he can't help it. His programming forces him to ...

DANCE

[Partway through the dance number]

An older man with an accent pulls Cap aside and hands him a piece of paper with another activation phrase for Bucky and says, "This is what to use if you want him to absolutely destroy you tonight"

*Cap nods, awkwardly*

Older man: That's a sexual euph—

Cap: I GOT IT

the UK national lottery community fund announced that it's going to give the £500k grant to Mermaids after all, so that's neat, with the bonus of definitely ruining Lineham's day

Hot take: brutalism is popular amongst millennials because we all played a lot of Minecraft and are nostalgic for our first cobblestone houses.

i will provide no evidence.