Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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Practice your cognitive dissonance skills every day. The Republicans are way ahead of us, having honed theirs every day by convincing themselves they're still Christians.

It's funny, I don't often stop and think about how my background differs from that of my friends who were raised on the coasts and were *never* conservative, nor Christian, nor had conservative friends. I'm here with you after leaving them in utter disgust, so just imagine how personal this all is for some of us...

@Soreth For a friend... anything. *torrents Waterworld, The English Patient, and Battlefield Earth and prepares for a time-crawling boredom like none have ever known*

@Soreth Oh, that's probably my fault. I made a concerted and informed effort to waste the day as fast as possible.

I can try to arrange to wait in some lines tomorrow, if that'll help make up for it. That oughta slow things down. :D

If the American Left were up against Darkseid instead of Trump, Twitter and Masto would be full of hundreds of thousands of copies of the Anti-Life Equation, boosted by well-intentioned activists who think constantly reminding you the enemy exists, and is undefeatably terrible, is somehow equivalent to fighting it.

Meanwhile, I'm rereading everything Wikipedia has to say about the rise of Hitler, and marveling at all the numerous ways in which we're actually *much less* screwed...

okay

slightly better after some breakfast and an unexpected dose of optimism from a friend ^_^

back for a #moodsnapshot

sing it from the mountaintops, motherfuckers 😼​

@mona@cybre.space I'm sorry, I think I was projecting some other frustrations onto your toot, and I really apologize. *hug*

@Leucrotta You should know that this comment actually did quite a lot to improve my mood. *hug* (And so did the suggestion to bite something, although I HATE non-fried okra. :) Peg took me for biscuits and gravy at the 5-star brunch place down the street, though. so I did effectively take your advice and that helped too. 🐯​)

Yeah, I can feel the Snark Magma starting to boil up under my crust. I'm getting out of here before I bite something. Have a day, folks.

@mona@cybre.space Crack about self-fulfilling prophecies redacted. I'm in no mood today.

(And if you're thinking, "Hmmm, I should reply to this with an insistence that jackbooted federal thugs are certain to roll down the street and crack our heads for the slightest dissent at any moment," maybe you should take a moment to ponder which is a more immediate danger: a senile emperor with a pompadour, or a nine-foot-tall tiger with no remaining patience for defeatism. >:D )

As predicted, I am not dealing great with the state of things and will probably indulge myself in a minimal-energy day.

All I can say is, as good as the opposition is at exploiting the rules in their favor, we still solidly outnumber them. Maybe it's time to start living as if they're in an entirely different nation, and their laws have absolutely no authority over us, because that's probably where this is all headed anyhow.

Live in a way that unnerves them. That's all I got.

@troodon But mostly I just like that I can go up to any macho fuck from the alt-right and challenge him to a Malört-off and know deep down in my heart that I shall not be bested. I want this, the same way I want to visit Australia and have some poor bogan twit try to slip me Marmite, only to watch me eat a spoonful without flinching. :D

@troodon I might have to grab another bottle someday. I think I have, no fooling, developed a taste for it. (You were right about the nice bitter citrus notes in it...)

It's the end of an era. I have finished the bottle of Jeppson's Malört, the notorious nightmare-flavored liqueur that Peg bought me a bottle of several months ago.

@troodon Yeah.

You seem to dig my worldbuilding stuff... remind me to tell you sometime about No Pizza On Luna and why I wanted to write it. Let's just say it's a social satire and it's gonna be a lot easier to write after the Trump era. -_-

So. Any Eastern religion fans out there familiar with the concept of Mappō?

Yeah.

"Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened." -- Principia Discordia, p.00048

Okay, I think the tiger fuse has been replaced. And all it took was three pints of beer, two shots of Malört, and an eighth of Permafrost.

I think it's time to step away from Mastodon. The emotional circuit breaker has popped, and nothing else useful can come from this account until it is reset.