It's not even a leap of logic, more like a single step to the side, to go from "exploited laborers had it coming for not resisting their exploitation" into "POC had their oppression coming for being Lazy," or "trans people had their oppression coming for being Weird", or whatever else

This week, here's how Fox News attacked the new #Superman movie:

They lashed out at it as "Superwoke," made jokes about "MS-13" being printed on his cape, and even mocked David Corenswet's name.

Here's our story about the fake outrage, and Superman's history of facing such smears. @vanityfair.com

Das Schwarze Korps newspaper of Berlin was irate over a Look magazine comic in which Superman ties Nazi cannons into knots and drags Hitler (and Stalin) off for trial.

It lashed out at Superman writer Jerry Siegel as a "beetle" and ridiculed his Jewish last name.

Here's the Look magazine spread:

this is what happens when a culture of "I was only following orders" turns on itself

it won't be as dramatic as a city falling out of the sky… it'll be more and more unmarked vans grabbing more and more people

US citizens aren't any safer than immigrants with this lawless regime and corrupt SCOTUS

the mobilizing ideology of this false Presidency is "what if we could kill even more people than COVID did— didn't, we mean, what if even more people happened to die from 'uncontrollable' infectious disease and murdered by police and killed themselves... that'd be great!"

so ends the Grand Republic

"It was only because others were unknown to us that we could fear them, hold interest in them, and encounter new perspectives."

this was an understanding America used to have that vanished over the past thirty years, and people don't understand how important a thing it is that they've lost.

which stuck in my brain a bit because that actually happens to be a load-bearing bit of plot in a recent book

(the woman in question does lose her grip on reality and try to bring about the end of all things, which seems in keeping with what we've observed of people isolating themselves with LLMs)

I came across this and a couple other contemporaneous posts and the thing that struck me is the emphasis on tasks that would ordinarily involve working with people instead being handled through LLM prompts and how that means there's no exposure to An Other Human Being

if you're not here for law and are interested in a more drawn-out of the below thought and others, see the quotes

I dunno what I'm doing with this account, other than closing the blast doors again for the night.

there's nothing I could say legally about Skrmetti that hasn't already been said with much more detail and at much more length than Justice Sotomayor, and, well, the reasoning swayed 3 justices

culturally my response is this, which could be elaborated into legal argument but would be self-injurious

there was a time where there'd still be culture writers who would write about such things, but most of the places I used to read them have been shuttered

most of the people I know are games critics more than anime critics, but sites cross-subsidized

To be clear when I say “tested” I am not saying there’s any serious legal dispute - it’s made up. But the game here in intimidation, and the only way out of such pseudo-legal strongarm tactics is the expensive business of litigation. It’s just like the law firms and universities.