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Well, now Elon Musk is giving Nazi salutes in public, and I feel like I should be out there throwing a brick at something.

[vision statement]

So I just got a text - on Sunday - from Incompetence Coordinator Phil, asking me to please stop being a dick and provide a "vision statement" for my departments.

I have settled on "We are all monsters together."

It's perfect.

I have a confession to make.

I may play chaotic neutral on the internet, but that's just an act, or, at best, an ideal.
My natural disposition is lawful evil.

This climate change thing isn't going to cause the sudden major catastrophe that you expected.  Well, not just yet.  Not to you.

The weather events will be more frequent and more severe, but they won't be anything new.  The droughts will be dryer, the floods will be wetter, the forest fires will be bigger, and the hurricanes will hit harder and more often, but it's just the same-old, same-old, variations on a theme.  Florida deserves what's coming to it, California has always been on fire, and India and Africa are too far away to bother about.  The Atlantic ocean currents won't collapse for a while yet, and no one really cares if those moldy old Europeans freeze, anyway.

Reduced food production will drop the planetary carrying capacity by a few billion humans.

Grocery prices will go up, and selection will go down.  Forget about lychees and pomelos, get used to potatoes and apples.  If it isn't produced within a couple hundred km of where you live, don't count on it remaining available.  Don't count on it even then; locality helps, but it's no substitute for a heavily-stocked arsenal and a healthy supply of gasoline.

Things can be done, and will be, but not nearly enough.  You still depend on fossil fuels, don't you?  If you haven't stopped, why would you expect everyone else to?  You're waiting for Someone Else to fix everything?  Well, they won't.  They're not any more motivated than you are, and won't be until it's too late.

The people will demand an all-powerful leader to save them, or at least to stick it to the Other Guy, so politics will shift sharply to the right.  This will work as well as it usually does.  You'll see, Trump won't be that bad.  Not like his successors.

But do not despair!  There is hope!

I agree with you, but I gotta ask:  Who do you see as the most effective kernel of resistance?

mutual aid, localism, taking care of your neighbors and building in person connections.  That absolutely can include local politicians, but anyone above a municipal or county level is too big to be worth considering.

So, "hunkering down and hoping you're not a target."

Has the term "resistance" undergone this much semantic drift?  Not that surviving isn't a reasonable goal to have, mais ce n'est pas la résistance.

If your resistance doesn't include molotov cocktails, industrial sabotage, and the occasional drive-by egging, I think you're Doing it Wrong.

It's been eight years since Trump was elected the first time, and nothing anyone said or did in that interval stopped him from getting a second turn.  But I guess you all just weren't pointing out the issues with his presidency hard enough.  So let's all band together and talk about everything Trump is doing wrong, and how the people who voted for him were mistaken.  That'll stop him.

Resist all you like, nobody will care.

The avalanche has already started.  It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
    --Kosh

Sally:  "Is that legal?"

Me:  "The first time.  I checked, and there is no specific treaty or legal regulation banning glass as a weapon."

I think there's the making of a good marketing slogan in there.

"It's legal...the first time."

"Deploy our weapons platforms, and you'll be the reason they need to rewrite the rules of war."

Now me, I am all for abortion on demand. Tbh with you, there's a damn fine case to be made for it being compulsory for a lot of folk.

Your fascist tendencies are showing.

Compulsory abortion, like forced sterilization, belongs under the umbrella of eugenics.  Prohibiting abortions for those belonging to the superior breed of human is morally indistinguishable from mandating abortions for those you've decided are inferior.

I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you subscribe to the notion that criminality is inherited.

And retroactive in other cases.

Anyway back to my salient point because your inability to recognise low farce is frankly quite dull.

I didn't get the impression that your endorsement of eugenics constitutes low farce, and that is the only subject on which I've engaged with you.  Frankly, I'm not terribly interested in your "salient point".

Maybe just maybe it is possible that the Tangerine Titwanker didn't win because suddenly after a couple of hundred years of the democracy thing 70 million NeoNazis registered to vote. Maybe the other candidate was just significantly shit.

You sound like you're trying to rebut something I said, but I have not expressed any opinions regarding the cause of the election outcome.

Now stretch yourself a bit here Dok Whiney and see if you can't comprehend what this bit of satire is communicating.

Now the cause of your apparent non-sequiturs becomes clear.  I'm not Dok.  Maybe you replying to the wrong post?  Or you're confused about who is who?


Replying to the wrong post while not addressing its content doesn't seem like a winning strategy.

Nope.  We're doomed.

It is against my religion to tell people they're going to be okay when they're fucked.

The moving finger writes,
And having writ, moves on.
Now we are all sons of bitches.

Sound off nerds, who's not dead yet?

I am alive, but only on the outside.  There is no inside, and never was.

Now me, I am all for abortion on demand. Tbh with you, there's a damn fine case to be made for it being compulsory for a lot of folk.

Your fascist tendencies are showing.

Compulsory abortion, like forced sterilization, belongs under the umbrella of eugenics.  Prohibiting abortions for those belonging to the superior breed of human is morally indistinguishable from mandating abortions for those you've decided are inferior.

I wouldn't be particularly surprised if you subscribe to the notion that criminality is inherited.

I'm not surprised, but I am horrified.

That is not the light at the end of the tunnel.

No, that's just daylight reflecting off the company president's buttocks, as he moons us while he prances off to exercise his stock options.

Sally:  "Seriously.  Also, I don't think this CAN be weaponized."

Oh, she is adorable.

I hadn't heard the term before yesterday, but evidently "sun-wheel" is a reference to the swastika, and it's a nazi dog-whistle.