Lycha Rose

If you'd have told me the second half of King Kong (Live) from the second disk of Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 3 was the Grateful Dead, I'd believe you lol

There's this urgent desire to recklessly remake the world that I see becoming pervasive. The world surely needs some fervency directed at the right causes, but it seems fanaticism is becoming dangerously popular, around an entitled belief that the world should be restructured to suit one's own whims

The AI generated videos I encounter have this weird sense of... sloshing around too much compared to real video

things which have nothing to do with the US: Indonesia has a domestic bombing crisis, so it becomes mostly an *American* problem to deal with. Plus EU's economy affects the whole world. But that's accurate because of American imperialism and the effects of past European colonialism, I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

The first time we played, we got control of Congress and the game went stupidly well. The second time, Congress was split and got absolutely nothing done except help to accumulate more opponents who hated us and invent mysterious "scandals".

It's also strange how everything affects the US, even

The game could increase realism by having a "Fuck over the next person" action where LDIs go up when you leave but your PA increases immediately, or a "Make America 'Great'" action where you get 10 free AP and put your opponents in scandals, or a "Witchhunt!" action to freely dismiss a POTUS scandal

so honestly a pretty realistic game! Be a good person and do the right things, and watch humans around you succumb to their greed and bloodlust then throw you in jail.

If you don't roll 5-6 on d6 and 7-10 on d10 around 85% of the time like I seem to (🤔), you can buy it from @gmtgames.bsky.social

My wife and I played our second game of Mr. President. Started with a great cabinet, took actions based on prioritizing the most important things and considering odds and knock-on effects, and ended up impeached because congressional opponents found a "scandal" while the world burned itself in war,

That's almost as many people as died in the Pentagon on 9/11, except that was mostly military officials... and this is mostly kids.

Is there someone with a job title that includes "Attorney/Solicitor" and "Patent / IP" in it pushing some sort of weird sunken-cost fallacy propaganda internally? 🤔

I remember learning about many famous operations in American History class... The Revolutionary Operation... The Operation of 1812... The Mexican Operation... The Civil Operation... The Spanish-American Operation... World Operation 1 and 2...

The neat thing about having a bit of hypotonia and hypotension is that my smartwatch is always like "congrats on being so relaxed!" when I'm stressed af lol

Americans have a kind of manufactured ignorance that billionaires find profitable, ergo jeopardizing the principles of representative democracy. Illegalize billionaires, undo Citizens United, and end things like qualified immunity for government employees, to start. But much more is needed.

Americans love whining over nothing, and the billionaires who influence our news-tainment industry love keeping the populace uninformed by steering people towards trivialities and hyperbolic nonsense. Eventually all journalism will just be Fox News, I fear.

"Daylight Savings Time is such a horrible tragedy!" clickbait twice a year in this fucking country is just milking Americans' emotional immaturity for cash and even @apnews.com pulls this shit. Just. Fucking. Shut. Up. There's way more serious things not even getting adequate coverage, like wtf?

Eisenhower

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

So many Americans living with the popular delusion that life should be straightforward and comfortable and that the world is not something you have to worry about.

Humans pose a huge danger to themselves every time they let their guard down. Humans can be wonderful,but it's not their default.

I would say that it's more that the stupidity is a product of the intense selfishness which white American culture teaches, combined with how incredibly gullible most people are when they get a crap education like Americans doles out to the working class. It effectively subverts democracy.

Founding Fathers: we'll have a government of the people, and most people aren't scumbags. so it should be ok

Rich fascists with propaganda machines and greedy business owners post-Citizens-United: lol hold my beer. gonna make things "great" around here (for the rich)

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

So Trump thinks he can blitzkrieg into Russia as easily as he did into Poland?

Sorry wrong evil warmongering fascist. I meant Iran vs Venezuela.

"HELP! HELP! I'M BEING AN ATTACKER!"

Pretty much every one of the "In Communist China/Russia they do ____, be glad you live in a free country instead!" I grew up hearing has become true for the US now 🤔

a cartoon cat wearing a red sweater stands in front of a desert cactus ALT: a cartoon cat wearing a red sweater stands in front of a desert cactus

A healthy film industry makes sleazy movies. Weird, borderline kink films are like coal mine canaries- they're offensive, often deeply personal, and a foil to the clean blandness of big budget propaganda. A lack of bizarre "not to everyone's taste" films is an indicator of a sickly studio ecosystem.

Kill off as many *poor* people as possible, because marginalized groups tend to have much less wealth.

I'd have plural-bodies be distinct from plural-selves

If the rich and powerful who hung around Epstein's island regularly don't start ratting each other out, then I think we must assume they are all equally guilty.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

MAGA on social media: trans people are just cosplaying so they can terrorize society via dangerous ideology!

Meanwhile, MAGA irl...

("Every accusation is a confession" remains true)