…but morale can remain low as always?

Only a fourth playthrough of Hollow Knight? I’m waiting on Silksong too for now, but I’m sure I easily exceeded that, just getting the achievements back when I first got into HK. 😅

I get the reference on the one hand but I’m concerned what people who don’t follow the series might think that flag means. (I can think of other sorts of imagery from One Piece that might have been a lot better to reference, honestly, like either the

flag or all of the subtle

variants that appear throughout the series.) I appreciate the article providing other examples of young adult protests that made pop culture references. Nice to hear more about the different trends among young protesters abroad.

Also, professor Suyanto’s analysis:

“And I see it as effective … their voices became louder and many political elites have responded, though whether [their] response meets the public expectations is another matter.”

“They don’t need to take to the streets, confront authorities, or face police batons.”

I think you’re thinking of Karoline Leavitt. There are memes about that for her, I think.

I know you’re referring to the folks referenced in the topic, but it’s best not to put that as a general statement. I’m not going to comment on political inclusivity, but there are still ways to be more inclusive and broaden perspectives. For example, a lot of women feel unwelcome here, and probably a lot of people from the disabled community, among others.

Sounds like the start of Cory Doctorow’s book Radicalized.

More likely she grew up in an environment where this type of thinking was normalized, and to think otherwise was met with social consequences. Outside of a few breakout individuals, most have to be taught early not to take what they’re told for granted.

I was following this and was sad to hear about this happening despite excellent counterarguments from people like Zarah Sultana. These are scary times, but I was encouraged there was at least this response yesterday (just watch the first ~45 seconds): Invidious | _Youtube

2010 was too long ago. :')

(Rest in peace, Paul Vasquez. Thanks again for sharing the beautiful sight you saw that day.)

No social platform at all is a serious problem. I do think messaging should focus on economics first (since we have precious little mainstream discussion of actual consequences of economic policy in many places, and social issues are cynically exploited by free market-touting establishment types as a distraction), but a party that pretends systemic hierarchies and marginalization don’t exist is just mob/majority rule and not truly leftist.

Whatever a hypothetical person accepts happening to people they want to consider “beneath” them, they are also accepting for people they do consider to be like themself. Just a matter of time.

I’m Canadian and I had a Malbec phase in the past. :')

I got the impression those were light fixtures in the back, but who knows for someone that wants a bathtub next to glass double doors. (I could own all the land for a good distance around, and I’d still be uncomfortable with that.)

Logistically, it’s quite easily doable if you’re in an urban area, but be prepared for a little less convenience and a LOT of unearned judgment from others (unless you’re the social butterfly type who has people lining up to drive you everywhere).

Probably best to get a route map for your local transit systems and go over routes you would hypothetically use. Might help you decide.

Sure, I agree it’s not likely an intentional attack on such people. I do think for what it is, it’s nicely done (as I tried to acknowledge earlier). :) Maybe there are more political cartoons/caricatures out there that go after the most powerful people involved. I can’t see those running in most major newspapers these days, though.

Although it’s a nice artistic rendering, I think the focus was poorly chosen here. The resurgence of fascism is not originating with poor or “hillbilly”-stereotyped folks (even if it’s certainly true they’re targeted for recruitment by the folks who are directly promoting those beliefs). Since fascism directly benefits the kind of people you’d see attending MAGA billionaire events more than it benefits the misguided grandkids of WWII soldiers, I have trouble seeing a point in focusing on the bottom of their power hierarchy. Among the most dangerous folks embracing fascism are tech billionaires (not just from the US, but globally) who buy into the whole Dark Enlightenment brand of right wing accelerationism, for example, but obviously they’re not the only ones.

The only meaningful, constructive reasons I can think of to turn attention towards less powerful people in the pro-authoritarian hierarchy is to either directly stand in the way of any harms they’re committing or-- ideally-- for someone they think of as close to them to try to reach them-- to help them see reason.

*Jeremy Bearimy, but yes.

Indeed, but since Western media is ignoring it, we should all be exposing and talking more about Kahanism. That’s probably the most accurate term we can use for the Israel-rooted supremacist viewpoint that so directly resembles nazism. It’s a term genocide apologists and enablers can’t so easily ignore or flip back or play down as they can with “nazi.” There is obviously a longer history to it all, but people of conscience around the world should specifically know who Meir Kahane was and how-- despite being labelled as a terrorist even in Israel and the US-- his extremist legacy (this was a guy who literally taught people Hitler was right except that Jewish people were supposed to be seen as “masculine” and superior) lived on in the current sadistic attitudes and genocidal policies of the IDF, Knesset, and most of Israel’s citizenry.

How do you mean weird phrases? How long a phrase in quotes? Sounds like you’re playing that game people used to play, trying to stump Google back when it was new and gaining popularity, except people at that time were aiming to get no results on purpose.

Someone suggested the Swedish search engine Marginalia in another discussion recently. It seems uniquely suited to restoring the exploratoration/discovery aspect that online searches once had. (I don’t know how it will be for the particular application you need or for local services in general, though.)

What an adventure. I imagine she’s much happier now! 😅

Thanks for doing the service of saving that owl (and maybe her young too) from the likely consequences of that particularly avant-garde bird bath.