Lmao, the psychologist is telling us we can halt fascism by "setting boundaries", "having faith" and "saying no". Lmao. This article is like concentrated liberalism.

Buy a gun.

If you didn't buy a gun and start keeping your gas tank full months ago, now is the time.

https://socialistra.org/edu/

Curious how democrats decided to do genocide over obstructing any of the dastardly acts on your list. Is it lost on you how the democrats are controlled opposition?

If, in 20 years, your choice is between a democrat who wants 9 genocides and a republican who wants 10, which would you choose?

Yup.

What we are seeing now is a critical inflection point for liberals: do they do honest introspection and start to apply real criticism to the history of the US, or do they cover their ears and claim Trumpism is an aberration for which they have no reasonable explanation.

To put it simply, liberals now have a choice between

"Damn, this is really the outcome of the american political project, huh? How did we get here?"

And

"Trumpist fascism is un-American, and I am clueless as to how it took hold, but I am going to continue to vote blue no matter who!"

If the amount of liberals on .world bizarrely harkening back to the "good old days" of the founders, Reagan, Obama, and even dubya is any indication, I suspect most of them have gone with the second option.

For starters, understanding that American fascism is not the result of voters simply not being informed enough. The idea that, if all Trump supporters simply had access to better information, if they all had better education, if they were exposed to the right argument... then they'd see the light and turn into democrats - is a supremely liberal idea. We need to understand that no amount of epic slams, no amount of late night talk show roasts, no amount of facts and logic will steer us out of fascism.

As we devolve deeper and deeper into fascism, it has been frustrating watching liberals flail to try and understand how the devolution is happening: is it because people are uneducated? Is it because of Joe Rogan's podcasts? Is it because of Russian spies? Is it because Trump has started a cult? Is it because Fox News? Is it because lead was used in gasoline 50 years ago? Is it because we use lead water pipes? Is it because of Ronald Reagan? All of this waffling to avoid the hard questions. I.e, "is it possible that fascism is the only logical conclusion a nation which was founded solely by white landowners to do wholesale on genocide on native Americans?"

If you fail to start thinking about this devolution into fascism in terms of history, class, and material conditions, you're always going to be hopelessly confused about the structures and frameworks that allow fascism to fester.

Lot of boomer-like fist shaking in these comments.

Newer generations are going to find different things to excel at, and they'll inevitably give up on some of the old ways.

Absolutely bonkers. Anyone remember the Technology Connections video from a while back about pinball machines?

He cracked one open to reveal the "computer" like 500 relays connected with spaghetti. Can't imagine how much of a nightmare it must be to debug those. At this point, so much documentation and tribal knowledge is gone that this dude is basically reverse engineering each machine. Hats off.

Edit: article actually points out that he bought out all existing documents from one of the pinball companies.

Fury Road was a Mad Max film that came out a few years ago. It was a great movie, not only for the story, but also for the effects. Its scale was massive.

In the months and years immediately following Fury Road, it was heralded as a turning point in cinema that rejected CGI in favor of practical effects. It was cast as a rejection of CGI and a return to classic practical effects. In recent years, however, we've started to reject that narrative. If you watch the movie closely, you realize it is chock-full of CGI. We just never noticed because it was done so well, and the way it was effortlessly folded into practical elements made the CGI extremely immersive. I think the lesson we all learned was that CGI, when complemented with seamless practical effects, makes for a killer visual experience.

In a world..

Where a new bird flu has ravaged humanity, the last vestige of civilized humanity is a bunch of brunch liberals who took a cruise at an extraordinarily lucky time. How long till their cruise ship politics turns fascist?

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

And they were right to try. Trujillo was a monster.

Edit: and also the invasion catalyzed the assassination of Trujillo

I dig the variety of topics on this comm, and I super appreciate how it doesn't get STEMlordy at all.