M68040 [they/them]

The thing that irritates me the most is the way they just kind of throw all the cultural causes I consider important under the bus.

(I.e. buying into conservative culture war dreck and high-control cultural norms uncritically)

So Long, Astoria.

For anyone who actually wants a sequel for some reason, Konami made a NES game that’s pretty solid.

I hate these people. Giving them transorbital lobotomies would arguably make them smarter

Having a weird online fan club is building communism: you heard it here, folks

And I’ll kill a billion more if these idiots are the alternative, dammit

Rahm Emanuel vexes me by continuing to live.

The Kali Yuga is the last refuge of weak men who think they’re strong men.

I’m torn between “All assimilationists can go to hell” and “This isn’t really my wheelhouse so that’s fine, the means of gaining a foothold aren’t gonna necessarily look the same in two different places that need to approach the issue in very different ways”

Part of the reason I like pride as a breakaway culture is that it functions as a sort of dual power - Lets me find community and partake in institutions that very pointedly aren’t beholden to heavily conservative, often very christian American cultural norms. At the best of times, hanging around these circles is a glimpse of what my life would be like if I wasn’t subject to the local cultural hegemons.

the idea that someone might genuinely not be irreparably disgusted with their own country’s culture, and in fact might actively want to participate in it or even identify with it, is admittedly borderline eldritch to me.

And, it’s like, the right is as irritating as shit at every possible opportunity about having their way be the only way. Why would I want to abide by their cultural institutions and norms when they transparently have nothing for me and plan on being a massive pain in the ass the whole time even if I acquiesce?

I don’t want them railroading me through life when there’s already enough shit depriving me of any significant choice in what I do and how I do it. They brought the steamroller on themselves.

The economic system purposefully built to allow private industry players to gut the state and run roughshod over everything and everyone else is so subversive

Rocky Linux 2

Assigned System/370 Operator At Birth

I’m curious as to how people toughed it out despite most christian religious institutions being so uniformly corrupt and plain irritating. Shit, the crowd FSTDT dunks on, american politicians, and internet theology were all it took for me to get so deeply disillusioned I wanted to just cut strike everything from my mind, regardless of who’s right or wrong. Merely not having other options to a point where leaving is unthinkable? Fear of reprisal from legal and cultural consequences?

Then again, I suppose at that point they would’ve just shifted to a different, less institution-focused denomination instead of just saying “fuck the whole thing” like I did. It wasn’t a matter of the facts, it was a matter of me being fucking sick of them.

On that note, what’s up with the obligate coprophagy of the koala? And their famously smooth brains? I’d make the koala, were it I in the high seat, but a kind and caring creator wouldn’t.

Fartifuckballsland

I want blood. Don’t care whose it is just so long as some of it is theirs

One of the big things that drew me to socialist circles was the relative openness and understanding towards my existing latent dislike of American Civil Religion.

I revere nothing, and there isn’t a thing on earth that could change that. I am very much not made to hype

There’s also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[…]ate.

“increase of this body type…” Or perhaps anatomy’s always been more complicated and more variable than the greek statue dipshit thought it was. How much time do these guys actually spend looking at people?

I miss the mountains of the Northwest. There’s something that remains really weird to me about how flat my stretch of the Great Lakes are, even 20 years on.