right, and tbf one of the challenges here is differentiating "the way they have been since the dawn of time (Bush administration)" and "the way they openly are now"!

anyway if this was about Stancil claiming he could fix everything by writing an article I'd be more sympathetic – then he'd be writing the article, and thinking about how to disseminate it, instead of complaining about what *other* people write.

I'm not saying there are no barriers to adequate dissemination of the information! the average person I talk to IRL has probably never seen this post. (I'm in Canada but that probably moves that average *up*.) I'm trying to distinguish this from "the media's job is to ensure the emotional reaction"

there's also a specific online structure of feeling here that "dignity = taking an L", which you also see in Trump himself, the reaction to that Shen bike comic, incels etc. I've known people who basically ruin their own lives by believing that IRL

"but screaming is an appropriate emotional reaction to fascism" yes and if your audience has their moral compass intact they will have it, and *still* resent you for trying to add *your* scream to theirs. the point isn't stiff upper lip repression but the distinction btwn public and private spheres

I know I'm harping on the metaphor here but I think it's important as usual – when the media's obligation to alert the public gets conflated with "emotional catharsis for the media class", not only does it tend to alienate the public, it means to avoid that you have to *avoid* telling certain truths

in general it is just odd to me whenever internet public figures prescribe "the media screaming" as a solution to anything, as if that doesn't *sound* like making yourself the soyjak or strawman in a comic. when we were actually fighting fascists the message was "keep calm and carry on"

Ryukishi07 was a social worker and not enough people know this

who incidentally is both like, Batman and a 19th century revenge melodrama antihero – his big reveal is a complete break in even the idealized realism of the story

it's lowkey like the show Blue Lives from @harikunzru.bsky.social's Red Pill (making a list of analogy candidates for that)

still, a claim of "basically taken over completely" would extend visibly into most people's samples unless they were heavily self-selected (which the public school system shouldn't be)?

manul?

atp I have no faith in abstract historical forces to force people to think things older historical forces are repressing, so: write it and let people see how it works

>create new high budget international anime studio that picks up the rights to a Nova series from whatever idiot put Neil Gaiman on that and also adapts the Instrumentality of Man
>Afrofuturist Lucasfilm blockbuster based on the premise of this song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_V...

who do you think is gonna do it?