Such a good book. Kinda slow at first but dang that a payoff.

After reading through the replies I had to go read the urban dictionary pages (particularly the "gay panic defense" one) and hoooooly.

Can't decide. Curious y'all's thoughts. Are there some things that are just too far gone to ever be reclaimed? Or can anything be taken back given enough time? Like, I would argue that the swastika is probably just gone for good. What's the metric or litmus test here? For me, "bad b-" coneys a mental image that nothing else does and I love to see women reclaiming that word in such a cool way (not that I'd use it, since I'm masc. And who's using it plays a part, right?) But I also know people who feel offended by any form of its use by anybody.

I'm sure that there's no way to distill it down into the equation that my brain is looking for. But right and wrong being judged mostly by vibes feels kinda fucked up to me. Particularly given some flavors neurodivergence for whom vibes and feels aren't free.

edit: whoops. Sorry OP. Didn't mean to completely side-trail your topic. Appreciate the post though. Interesting discussion

well that didn't take long to go from "stop using the data center water for showers. Think of the poor tech billionaires" being a meme to being a realistic thing.

Minecraft. Honestly, send me into the wilderness where I can build a little log cabin by a lake, make furniture, and live off the land. And the only people around are some zombies who don't try to talk to you. Keep your million.

If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, lay down. If it's white, goodnight.

Pooh in monocle and tophat: yy & p

For a second I was confused. Thought meme was talking about the secret knowledge you can find in that dream space while snoozing.

So many of life's mysteries become clear there. But then you get up and it all turns out to be unhinged nonsense.

Maybe I've just had a long day

Anybody else see Toad with his mouth hanging open in a horrified scream?

Curious about this part

The broader theme of Rosa's text is to not accidentally align yourself with liberals in a cross-class coalition by focusing only on the political question of the day

I know you say "class" specifically here. But is the idea that this is true more generally? Because a unified republican party of people who hate each other on certain topics but who built a coalition around a single figure beat a disjointed set of groups who didn't do the same.

What makes cross class coalition bad or ineffective where uniting across ideologies on specifics seems to actually work?

Is it a line in the sand kind of thing? "Everybody on this side of the line unite or die ffs. Everybody on that side, you're the ones we're uniting against".

Is that the idea? The upper class(s) can never be part of our group because they're the ones we're unifying against?

(Kind of thinking out loud here. Am I on the right track?)

I am also confused. Specifically about "there's no such thing". Is the meme saying (among other things) that authoritarianism doesn't exist or isn't real? That seems obviously untrue on the face of it? Unless we're redefining it so as to be meaningless.

Help me out here.

Y'all, as a baby leftist who still has All The Reading still to do. This whole back and forth has been fascinating to read. Also, kind of disheartening.

A billion offshoots of Christianity killing each other over how/whether they dunk their babies. Liberals/Lefties in the US pissing each other off and leaving a nice opening for the fascists.

What is with us as a species that we almost seem to prefer arguing fine points with people who we largely agree with while the actual enemies of a common cause laugh and win.

Like I said, fascinating read. Just... "more unites us than divides us" and all that?