But these fascists, like many fascists and other authoritarians, confuse the pageantry of violence for power - they imagine that the state with armed men walking the streets is strong. But only a weak government needs to put armed men in the streets to exert power.

A strong government has no need.

The modern right is ultimately not about values, but rather specifically the lack thereof. It is not a shared set of ideals in the traditional sense, but rather a collective excuse to let their worst impulses run rampant.

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Nothing says "I love Jair Bolsonaro" like going to the hospital

School shooter / family annihilator mentality turned into a political movement.

I didn’t think I could respect the whole thing less but in the last five years it’s gone from being about power and the exercise of it to crying that people don’t like you when you exercise power to hurt them and it just feels like middle school. It’s like they’re aging backwards.

Not to get all stentorian, but both my grandfathers served in WW2, and one of them died from its lingering sting decades later (chronic injuries). An ocean of fucking blood shed, the highest price imaginable paid to create a world where this shit didn’t happen, undone for *nothing*. Fuck you!

most powerful international cooperation in history, born out of the ashes of the worst thing our species has done to itself, and this rotting rapist corpse burns it all for the Mercator projection

just fucking kill me man

anyway please do not try to fuck Wire Mother. we have so so many myths and legends about this and none of them end “and it worked out great!”

good news everyone it’s a rambling grievance session

"Also, from the people who made Lootbox Foot Girl, here's some gooner gatcha slop."

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything