Rare Iran W.

Good! May it not only continue, but increase!

Faus

The Foxblob emojis are fantastic

The decision was made after careful deliberation, a.k.a. a hearty swig from his hip flask. text from his paymasters in Moscow

ftfy

That’s how the world should be treating us. Fuck us.

https://aeon.co/essays/germany-became-a-tolerant-nation-only-by-painful-small-steps

In the mid-1950s, nearly half of all Germans polled said ‘yes’ to the proposition that ‘were it not for the war, Hitler would have been one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.’ Until the late 1950s, nearly 90 per cent gave an answer other than ‘yes’ when asked if their country should recognise the Oder-Neisse line, the new border with Poland. Perhaps most revealing of all was their stance on Jews. On 12 June 1946, Hannah Arendt hazarded the opinion to Dolf Sternberger, one of occupied Germany’s most prominent publicists, that ‘Germany has never been more antisemitic than it is now.’ As late as 1959, 90 per cent of Germans polled thought of Jews as belonging to a different race – while only 10 per cent thought of the English in these terms.

People are less likely to change their views than they are to be shamed into silence, and then die off in quiet misery.

All bets are off, man. “It couldn’t happen here” is an old and tired refrain, I’m afraid.

Oh, she was definitely my grandparents’ dog, I tolerated her because she was sometimes cute, but she definitely wasn’t my dog. XD

Government assistance. Luckily I live in a blue state, so getting several major bills subsidized for being a filthy poor helps me eat regularly and not worry too much about turning the heat above 50 in the winter.

Marginally related personal story: My grandparents had a Pomeranian that was spoiled rotten when I was younger. My grandfather (sit tibi terra levis) would sometimes buy McDonalds for the family - nothing unusual there. He would feed the dog a few nuggets - nothing unusual there.

… he would tear apart each nugget with his teeth into little pieces for her before giving them.

We human beings can be so weird about these precious creatures we’ve taken in as our charges. XD

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]

So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.

“Maybe another billion dollars for police to jerk off in their cruisers and collect overtime at the expense of all other municipal budgets will help!” - Political discourse in this fucking country

Someplace in the Anglosphere. I don’t think I have it in me to learn a new language just to get by in day-to-day life. New Zealand, maybe.

Unfortunately, my immensely low income and numerous medical issues means that I’m not much of a candidate for emigration.

Also, ideally, a region without a lot of insects.

In any case, though, I’m probably going to die here, stubbornly. If these fascist fucks want me dead bad enough to see it through, I’m at least going to inconvenience them with getting rid of my body.

Fantastic idea! I miss Tumblr terribly ever since the Great Porn Ban of 2018, even though I never even reblogged or followed ‘adult’ blogs. I just wanted to reblog holsum and funny fanart, but fuck giving into puritan corpo censorship.

What’s the moderation policy on genocide denial and the like? I hate having to ask this, but having heard too many people deny the Holodomor on here, I feel it necessary to make the inquiry.

For that matter, more generally, are you prepared, in terms of moderation structure, for the massive amount of legitimately disturbing material that’s going to pass through the site and will need to be removed if the site grows beyond a few hundred users? I would hate to join and then see this crash because of (completely understandable) moderator/admin burnout at the depravity and speed of mankind’s worst elements.

Guillotines

One of the biggest hurdles would be, since we still have a FPTP system, mutually agreeing when to withdraw and support the other party’s candidate in races where the fascist candidate(s) seem poised to win. Especially since the nature of politics means that both sides would be looking to screw each other over… and the Dems have a lot of experience in screwing over political rivals.