Honestly it makes me so fucking depressed when I hear people saying something as fundamentally disconnected from reality, something so needless and unthinking, something so flavorless and insipid as even ironically implying Gates is one of the "better" ones, that "as a person" he may be fine and that no one is "defending him."
Thanks for telling me. Usually my hiccup is that meaning is so palpable that it evaporates as soon as it's needed. To me "thats/its good" would have no meaning at all because it could be used to say any of several different things or nothing. Especially if it was the answer to a question. It's a non-answer without some way to ground what "good" means. I would simply pretend I understand.
I get some of the fluff. I like protocols that can safely establish expectations. I just don't like pleasantries that enforce affective compliance and ultimately stifles protocols or just throws off procedure. Or when my movements and expressions are being surveiled and over analyzed - not enough smiling, holding my body wrong, not enough certainty in how I feel, not enough expression, too "stubborn" to communicate. Everything about neuronormativity feels like a distraction to me, and vice versa my concerns seem irrelevant or unrecognizable to them.
It's never been clear to me that neuronormaltive folk are always the perpetrators. I think NDs are also have very triggering behaviors that are difficult to reconcile, even if on a deeper level there is a kind of kinship that can be recognized.
I also find ND culture to be upsetting at times. Too many infantile "cute" "quirk" tropes. I'm not quirky, if anything I am serious as a heart attack most of the time. If I'm supposed to be quirky and I'm mostly just really serious then it doesn't end super well.
Class consciousness among entitled, imperial classes is exactly what breeds reaction and ultimately drives the danger of our present moment. Mamdani is not separate from MAGA.
Doom is certainly not our inevitable future but it is where we are going given our direction. Perpetual deterioration is its own doom. Drowning in discourse is its own doom.
I don't believe people actually think we are fucked. I don't think they believe we are doomed. No one even knows what that means. I think denial is far more palpable than any other sentiment. And I would say helplessness is more potent than doom as well. People that understand the problem are drowned out by denial, not doom. Far too many still hold faith in traditional avenues for me to believe doomerism is anything but disingenuous.
My issue with the fantasy (civil war/ww3) is that it can not mean anything positive. These are ungrounded fantastic scenarios where we can't hope to take a meaningful victory. We can only hope to continue our cause and protect our communities to the degree we can prepare and organize ourselves.
If you have something to say, say it. Accusing someone of making assumptions while refraining from spelling them out is something I would expect from an unserious liberal.
What is irresponsible about it? It is not the responsibility of empire to educate people on these things. It would be irresponsible to do so. Otherwise chuds would have one less weapon to bastardize rhetoric with while liberals ensure nazis get a voice.
The point of what we do isn't to create a better world. It's to expand the empire.
Honestly it makes me so fucking depressed when I hear people saying something as fundamentally disconnected from reality, something so needless and unthinking, something so flavorless and insipid as even ironically implying Gates is one of the "better" ones, that "as a person" he may be fine and that no one is "defending him."