Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Phorm You have no idea how much reading that improved my mood this morning. *hug*

And why did I do it, how could I say that
I wanna come down?
Everything's swirling and I just forgot
Why I came to this town

So now I think I'm all tied up
So now I think I'm tangled up
I know and I can't see no more
I know and I can't see no more

#moodsnapshot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPqAG0oYYzc

@Aradia@mastodon.social Yeah, let's just say similar filks have gone through my mind.

#LikeYOUDontKnow

@Leucrotta @mawr I think he's still got the ascot in Mystery Inc. :) It's not the most recent one, it's from 2010 or so. It's the one with actual arc-continuity and character development. :O

i ate a fish

#TigersDontReallyUnderstandWhatSubtootsAre

@Leucrotta @mawr Have either of you seen the Mystery Inc. incarnation of Scooby Doo? This sounds just short of something that version of Shaggy might actually say. >_>

Have had the Bojack Horseman theme song going through my head for most of the last day and a half.

Well, that can't be a good sign. Appropriate, probably, but not good.

"...They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean Paul-Sartre

Remind you of anybody?

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors..."

Link to my commonplace book, i.e. personal book of trivia and miscellaneous notes: https://www.evernote.com/l/Ahj14VCozwRCmKPf3jNAGoweu4XXvAVxioo

I think I might start posting a link to this thing once a month, since it's always changing. Most of it probably won't be of much interest to people, it's mostly a list of weird names and such that appealed to me. But if it inspires someone to keep one of their own and link us to it someday, I'll be so happy! ^_^

@Leucrotta (ntm, and thanks for putting up with this rambling, I keep getting this nagging feeling that I've seen every damn one of the Trumpists' tactics before... in the form of the anti-furry trolls who used to give us so much shit. They lost, good and hard, because all their trickery just couldn't stifle us. And because we were nicer and smarter and cuter. :) so maybe, just *maybe*, Trump's supporters will grow up, give up, and go away too :p )

@Leucrotta There is definitely a hope within me that if we lose the elections, ESPECIALLY if we can prove any malfeasance from the GOP afterwards, the real fun will just be starting.

I mean, not even the actual dictatorships in actual Orwell had good fundamentals. I would be surprised if, in that alternate universe, O'Brien wasn't hanging from a lamppost ten years later, because The Party could no longer even feed its own soldiers. But what comes next?

@Leucrotta I just look at the huge, huge gauntlet of OTHER things we'd have to fix just to get a decent society at this point-- or an acceptably healthy planet-- and that's where I really start to think we might just wanna start training up the raccoons and coyotes. >_>;;

@Leucrotta Again, I mean... I've been reading up on Hitler's rise to power, and while his 80-90% support figures obviously aren't trustworthy since they were probably coerced, well... Trump can't *even* coerce a good rating out of this country. And that pension fuck-up is showing Putin's got weaknesses of his own, which pleasingly mirror the same weaknesses of the Late Soviet Empire. We still MIGHT get through this particular threat.

@Leucrotta I'm actually kinda with you on that. As cynical as I've gotten, I still think America has had a fairly decent immune reaction to proto-fascism, by historical comparison. I still hold out some hope that Trump is gonna turn out to be bad-like-cowpox (still bad, still potentially lethal), but not bad-like-smallpox, and if we survive this, our civil society might actually be more robust to these threats than it was before...

@JulieSqveakaroo Me either, sis. Me either. *hug*

I am not worried in the least about my country becoming a genocidal, militaristic, totalitarian society. I don't think the people who would like to see that have the numbers for it. I don't think our culture would support it. I think it's clear that, as bad as things have gotten, our bigots still feel they need to couch their bigotry as something else, and that's actually a good sign.

But I am very, *very* afraid of my country becoming a reactionary, autocratic Putin-style kleptocracy.

To be fair... Zen is HARD. And it's a relatively primitive technology, invented with no firm knowledge of the actual structures of the human brain.

But that only increases my cynicism, because if even people who genuinely devoted their whole lives to killing their worldly delusions regularly failed, how the hell are we going to fix any of this?

And our body politics just doesn't care at all. It's actively working AGAINST a fix. I'm just done waiting.