It actually was precisely the plan - conspiracy theories are sown by the establishment to deflect from itself and shift blame elsewhere, so they can get away with whatever they want to and still maintain power.

Qanon was about deflecting “the most rich and powerful in society get away with trafficking, rape, and murder” to “liberals get away with trafficking, rape, and murder”. In the same way that “the economy is controlled by a small group of rich and powerful capitalists” is deflected to “the economy is controlled by Jews”, and “abusive men in positions of power groom children” to “drag queens groom children”.

It’s one way to manufacture consent, and it works.

I appreciate your shout out, having to be in bed most of the day, especially in these kinds of times, is even more frustrating than it would be otherwise. Hugs to you too, comrade.

I have gotten to know a neighbour, they help with small things when they can, and I try to radicalise them at every opportunity lol, but on a serious note I think just knowing and having someone like me to consider has had a serious impact on their views (on benefits, landlords, government scapegoating, and all sorts). Our existence is radical. The system wants us dead, and as fucking difficult and painful and exhausting as it is, every time we make it to tomorrow, it is an act of defiance.

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Liberalism is not dead, it is functioning as intended, to enable fascism.

Now more than ever, stop conflating liberalism with leftism.

The Russians have already been falling for it kind of, but then considering some of the reactions we saw from them at the start of the war to flushing toilets and the like, they might be new to this too…

Ok, so you’re not a fuck cars asshole, you’re just a run of the mill, wilfully ignorant, deliberately, proud, ableist, asshole. Glad to have wasted my time clearing that up, I’m done here.

No, the /s tag is an important accessibility feature, and the only way to properly convey tone and intention in writing (the vote ratio on your original comment tells me I’m far from the only person who didn’t get it).

Yes, I am being honest, because I’ve seen fuck cars people say pretty much identical bullshit, so I honestly don’t know if you’re one of them and are serious, or if you’re taking the piss.

If I was being sarcastic, I would have used an /s tag, like you should have, if you were.

Hu?

Obviously the average driver is not responsible for the societal reliance on cars.

Then maybe don’t use their suffering to make a smug point when there are plenty of other, better, ways to get your message across.

When it comes from the fuck cars community, with the fuck cars hashtag, it’s siting on a high horse to point and laugh with schadenfreude at the victims of this flood.

It implies that people owning cars is to blame for the disaster they fell victim to, when cars are just one of many many symptoms of the actual problem, and the people who own them are generally just trying to survive under the system that is destroying the planet for profit (as well as victims of trillion dollar industries like the auto and oil, but also advertising and branding and sales), not the culprits of climate change. They don’t deserve the “I told you so”, they deserve solidarity and unity against those who are actually responsible, and are not only not losing a thing, but making millions by the minute for it.

Wait, aren’t AR-pin wearers the opposite of that? 🤔(E: from their perspective of course, not that of reality lol)

Either way, it hurt itself in its confusion lmao

So let me get this straight - you’ve built a strawman to convince yourself I’m a conservative gun nut, because I don’t think victim blaming people who have just had their lives fucked up by climate change isn’t funny or productive, because that’s easier for you than to think critically about your position and who really is to blame for this problem, and actually aim your anger at them, because they’re much bigger and scarier than the poor fucker in Spain who just lost everything. Is that about right?

Well done on successfully keeping the blame from where it belongs.

Fucking clown.

I honestly don’t know if this is sarcasm or genuine.

Sure.

But if you can’t make that point without punching down at people who have literally just lost everything (and who are categorically not personally responsible for climate change), maybe don’t fucking make it.

Learn to punch up at the people actually to blame, otherwise all you are is part of the fucking problem.

Haha, lets use this disaster that destroyed, and in many cases taken, people’s lives to further our agenda, haha…

Fucking gross.

I don’t know about caramel glaze, but you might want to try apple and or onion chutney.

Technically, might be both

Spook, noun

3. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). A derogatory term for a black person.

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is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.

Then you don’t know.

No one gets to be a billionaire without being an exploitative greedy piece of shit at best. No one.

Having a favourite flavour of leather doesn’t make it any less self harming and counterproductive to lick.