uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

Fuck, trollbots and propagandists make me see red. I don't have much on my ethical scorecard, but dammit, intellectual integrity is something I've fought for tooth and claw since I was old enough to read.

Well, at least, old enough to read the Illuminatus! Trilogy. So, around eleven. XD

I have been having a lot of fun exposing these people and their tactics. It's been the best thing about going back to Birdsite, honestly. But it's not enough.

What the fuck are we going to do, folks? Traditionally most of my friends have been of the "don't feed the trolls" mentality, but that's clearly not stopping them from reproducing.

You know what I really want to do? Up our cultural production quotas. Dramatically. Get real fucking weird real fucking fast. You Neptunian types and identity hackers are on the right track. It might be time to fight fringe culture with fringe culture.

There are no limits now. I don't see any further reason to be nice. Our culture SCARES people like Vladimir Putin and Mitch McConnell. It's something they can't understand and can't control. And I want to weaponize that into something so radically, existentially queer it makes their hearts explode.

So where do we go from here? How do we gaslight the gaslighters? What can we crapflood the QAnons with that's so bizarre even they won't have a dismissal tactic for it?

uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@zebratron2084

"What the fuck are we going to do, folks?"

I think we just die.

They learned how to warp reality better than we ever could do, because they do it en masse.

They won.

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re: uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@Phorm I love ya, fox, but...

re: uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@zebratron2084 No you don't

re: uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@Phorm Well-played, geniefox. I had to look Mr. Spirograph there up. Touché. *hug*

re: uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@zebratron2084

One good dismissive response deserves another.

re: uspol, productive rage, shenanigans, deadly serious post, tactics, (non-urgent) plea for help, opinions desperately sought 

@Phorm I'm sorry. I just don't know what else to say at this point. Giving up on either the world or you is just not an option.

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