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Bryn @slimewave.me · 9h

It’s such an elegant image of technofascism: all of a nation’s energy production, directed up an ascending arboreal diagram toward a single endpoint and into a single shot aimed by a single very special boy piloting an apparatus that humanity has ostensibly directed all resources toward

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 9h

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 9h

It’s wild that the fluid in the cages/bays (I don’t think it’s Bakelite in either case I’m thinking of) can range from magenta to mint green in the same way that LCL can be anything from clear to deep red color but also it looks cool so fuck it we ball

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 10h

What was it about the “end of history” mood of the 90s that made parascientific stuff seem like the only frontier left for humanity?

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 11h

Damn I didn’t think about this previously but I think one of the stupid-simple reasons that I personally find this so peak is that it’s so studiously dedicated to a color palette and also it’s a color palette that I like

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 11h

Unironically I love the concept of a top-secret paramilitary organization that gives out branded swag that just piles up in the background including NERV ALARM CLOCKS

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 14h

Greg House is a crotchety old man and Spencer Reid is a sweet baby boy but outside of that text, there’s a similar propaganda function fulfilled by each

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 14h

Case in point: House MD and Criminal Minds. Crucial load-bearing element at this point in the lineage is the autistic-coded Ubermensch, a Sherlock Holmes who is equally talented and tormented. His every hunch is charmed and, like Lucifer, God strikes him down again & again for his radiance

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 14h

I’m joking here but I’m not kidding. If you go back through the 2010s you see that both rely on many of the same procedural tropes in order to deliver on what is basically a technocratic sort of power fantasy, the neoliberal dream of being obscenely good at the thing you get paid for

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 14h

(Bored and craving conflict voice)

You know, for all that we talk about copaganda, no one wants to talk about the parallel growth of doctorganda which consistently distorts the level of competence, empathy and intelligence of the average MD, a subset of whom in reality would be cops if not born PMC

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

I already had the thought that “this is 100% how these eugenicist freaks square the circle of their weird fixation with Ashkenazi IQs and… all the other weird eugenicist shit”

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

Mass circumcision as medical policy in the US was born of the will to create scientifically optimized Christofascist supersoldiers, and now after a century or so we’re gearing up to do a 180 in hopes that will achieve the desired effect. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

Yeah idk my impression is that a lot of regimes got closer to this than Germany did, Spain & Portugal & even Italy for a minute, but I could be wrong. But yeah part of the argument I’m remembering but can’t find the source for was centered on the idea of insurmountable strength+geistic inevitability

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 17h

Yeahh I think it’s really tragic that Nick Land was killed by the powers that be and replaced with a body double Avril Lavigne-style somewhere in the early 2000s smdh

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Omg I didn’t realize (or forgot) that’s a Landism lol

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Oh yeah I’ve definitely seen that one invoked wrt people trying to puzzle out this particular irony.

I didn’t even know the term had a credited creator or baggage though

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Not in a “video games made them violent” sort of way but rather in a “having your antisocial tendencies groomed into sociopathy by a narcissistic society, and meanwhile being presented with very particular images that, before they are good or evil, are first and foremost power fantasy” sense

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Anyway the reason I was trying to remember this concept is that I almost wonder if things like the “making fema camps real” shit is less a premeditated disclosure of reactionaries’ exact desire and more like a particularly insidious example of this sort of effect, the manufacturing of inevitability

Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

There’s this pop-history concept that I used to see all the time but can’t remember the name of. Basically the argument went that movies where the rise of fascism is presented as a bad thing can still have a dangerous normalizing effect. Usually it hinged on an interwar German-language example iirc

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

There’s this pop-history concept that I used to see all the time but can’t remember the name of. Basically the argument went that movies where the rise of fascism is presented as a bad thing can still have a dangerous normalizing effect. Usually it hinged on an interwar German-language example iirc

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 18h

they're fucking up so many cases -- the kirk shooter, comey/james etc, cook, mangione -- because they can't stop fucking posting

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 18h

Omg are we finally reaching the “winning so much you say ‘PLEASE, I’M TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING’” stage that Donald promised his base?

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

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Major conservatives joined in.

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

Oh for sure, I think that this country’s Justice[sic.] system had largely dispensed with any real semblance of habeas corpus with the prevalence of state-sponsored extrajudicial murder, the amount of time people are held prior to even being formally charged, the expansion of ICE etc over 30+ years

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

Capitol Hill is in fact the only adequately-taxpayer-funded nursing home in the country, I’ll have you know

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

Look, I have auditory processing issues and sometimes ask someone to repeat what they’re saying 3+ times but I also am not publicly mulling the eradication of any remaining pretense of habeas in this shambling farce of a country

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Bryn @slimewave.me · 19h

God forgive me for libbing out but this is such a funny answer to being asked if you still plan to suspend HABEAS CORPUS

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