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I had a moment of "innocent" snark on Twitter lead to a lecture on positivity from an Earnest Discordian Type... and you know, it was kind of awesome. We had a lovely conversation about the state of the world, and how people from thirty years ago would've really viewed us. Probably with envy, I have to admit, based on what I remember about what was possible back then. I still insist something ugly's been dialed up recently, but maybe it can be dialed back down just as easily. *shrug*

I guess I've just been exposed to so much of the *crazy* lately. I think it's easy to forget that this is an explicit tactic of cultural warfare, amplifying a very small signal, and we're living in an era where it's suddenly very, very easy to do that.

I really think we're going to be okay. Well, okay, at least we're ultimately going to win against the alt-right, who probably don't actually have all that much sustainable power, especially as badly as the Trump administration is blowing it.

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