i have trauma around all of it so i oscillate to every corner and then some secret unnamed fourth thing (sex is disgusting)

i have the most fun when the dial is down between the bottom corners but that’s rare.

I get like this too, but i think that’s different than pulling out $10 words to try and win an argument - autistic clarification is its own thing to me - I pretty readily switch to a more formal language if i feel misunderstood so i get it

but also

Think for a moment on the purpose of that utterance.

is somebody trying to win

gerald of romania should look like fabio and it’s woke that he doesnt

i made even smaller, snarky plastic trash to go next to the gigantic plastic trash

i’ve done you a cheek

if you like your conviction you can keep it

it’s so easy to go over and kick up a sign and throw it in the nearest trash can

liberals are so weird.

I’m on the spectrum, so I get liking lists of things and rigid categories and hierarchies of knowlege, but it drives me wild that there are these people, who speak and write a language, who are like, prideful even of having a narrow range of literacy, where definitions are affixed, spelling is as steady as nuclear decay, and convention, punctuation, and the wonders of the modern world simultaneously conspire to strip out most ambiguity in language, it doesn’t feel like an accomplishment to have a narrow view of what language is? It doesn’t feel like a good thing that anything more than simple metaphor, uncritical and literal examination of text, and obsession with form over intelligibility is beyond you because you’re really fucked up and gigglin because somebody threw down the wrong They back there, or used a word in an unsancitoned way.

Like literally- lol- you have entire cohorts of people whose identity has some load bearing amount of “I’m better than you because I can invalidate your language on a range of meaningless technicalities.” in people for whom a metaphor of any complexity would be flayed open and fed through the sleucing machine of their mind if it ever fell upon their ears

Like okay, train someone in archaic languages using a basic grammar book, and then have them try to read some medieval latin manuscript and see how smart they feel after 15 minutes

our legends echo endlessly across history, ever more dilute. The age of gold becomes the age of silver, of iron, of clay, until a frat bro is holding somebody uncomfortably close, crunched beer can in hand, saying, "-

I’ve laughed myself to crying several times reading “barbarian rizz of an untethered elderly baby” thank you

i want this dweeb to shit himself on someone else’s camera

i always feel insane making them so i’m glad to hear it tbh

Dude, it’s therapy. When you have to do something, out of necessity or because it’s what’s right it can be an intense burden! just doing basic stuff sometimes! But, especially if it’s wrong and kinda fucking evil - the human psyche - being fallible and often damaged - needs to process stuff. Team America was group therapy. This kind of genre of thing is about putting the anxieties, pains, morality, of the conscientous part of the American psyche forward - and to absolve itself without changing direction. It is confessional, it is ritual hail maries, it is baptism - and where the repentant might change their behavior, the guilty, the bloody handed, the passive and the cowardly just cleanse themselves in the purifying waters before carrying on with the soiling work of turning the crank on the meat grinder.

What a hypnotist might do 1 on 1; slop does for the collective.

“The weight of what i do is heavy on my shoulders, but in the end we’re good people trying to heal and do good, right?” the nation asks itself, all at once, processing itself in the shattered visage of the humanity that belies its callous mask - a finger snaps, the body relaxes, and the mind forgives itself under instruction

People are so top-down conditioned that they’re gonna do it in a way that comports to their worldview, so for people for whom the rhetoric is just rhetoric will rationalize around that assumption, but there are absolutely people taking cues from this dweeb and moving in concert in a more direct and literal way.

I lived in texas for most of the trump admin, I saw it start to happen. Landed republicans got way more FYGM some of them went mask off with their bigoted shit, but a not small number of especially working class conservativs seemed to actually start frothing at the goddamn mouth so I dunno I think it’s worthy of assuming that some % of the people listening to that dude are being very literal about this.

you need to be able to tell a story on the level of reality of the average person. If Orange Man Is Bad & Must Be Stopped is functioning rhetoric - that’s basically the upper bound of how far you can intellectualize your position. This isn’t the battleground of moral positions derived from a complex understanding of issues - you have meaningless aesthetics, you have the common knowlege, you have axioms and staked positions, the rhetoric of manufactured consent - you might have the full rhetorical space defined by news peddlers for the average “more invested” person, and you must be ever-mindful that some people actually understand their class interests even if not in a way that’s able to be confessed or even candidly admitted to themselves.

Keeping it simple, and yes hammering home the similarities in the behavior of the right-lib and right-fash on urgent matters - genocides, ecological collapse, disease outbreak, all that counts. Not to be condescending, but reading people in to the geopolitical situation such that you can make your case is wasted time in this case. People need to be listening before they’ll hear any of that. Else it’s immediately in brains-off-time-to-argue mode

But also temper your expectations because the level of information control we are under is straight up dystopian and there’s probably very little to do that’s not a trevor moore joke

i would make deep eye contact with both at the same time by splitting my form and mirroring myself back to back, with a pair of pilot eyes facing forward

i hate it when two men part of an org well known for shady dealings just fail to swim, laden with gear, in a tragically insulting and embarassing accident that’s mysteriously gone public

the original mix of megalomania is one of those songs that just sends me elsewhere for its duration and it’s so good.