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and we just lost to both the Fascists and the Russians, after we thought we had beaten them both last century

...

"we" meaning our doddering leaders, whose parents beat the Nazis, and who thought watching the USSR collapse was the same as beating them *(it was not)*, and who refused to let Gen X or Y take the political wheel by just *not dying of disease* like all previous generations had had to

and they cozied up with rich people, and cut their taxes, and the rich people distracted us with filthy VC money, and walled up our open web and filled it with lies, until it was too late to stop the rise of internal fascism and external Russian info-ops on our Internet, whose terrible power they never fathomed

...

and yeah, the lore of #StarTrek has some rough patches in its future past, but arguably, those fictional 21st century crises were meant as analogies to the tumult of the early and mid 20th century, as Roddenberry hoped we were already on a vector into an egalitarian post-scarcity future...

**...and we were!** we got the Internet and human rights and an **infinite wealth glitch!** (bootstrap from oil into nukes + solar => all the power and fertilizer we'd ever need)
we even got Tricorders and Communicators and Universal Translators, way ahead of schedule...

and then we scarcitied it all up again with greed and hustle-culture and gig jobs and ecological collapse and plutocracy, again, oops we forgot to trust-bust and tax and mock the bloated plutocrats, we let them let us worship them again

we forgot to get rid of money like Gene suggested, instead we invented mother fucking Bitcoin 🤑

and collectively, it's all our fault:

every time any of us ever chose the Ferengi option, or the Klingon option, or the Romulan option, over the Vulcan option,

during the past 30 years of infinite possibilities for all, in this brave new Internet-enabled world

we deflected the timeline

Vulcans have strong emotions! but they choose to keep them in check, which requires massive willpower and training and discipline and wisdom, so yeah, of *course* that's not what we comfort-seeking humans chose

#StarTrek #uspol

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and we just lost to both the Fascists and the Russians, after we thought we had beaten them both last century

...

"we" meaning our doddering leaders, whose parents beat the Nazis, and who thought watching the USSR collapse was the same as beating them *(it was not)*, and who refused to let Gen X or Y take the political wheel by just *not dying of disease* like all previous generations had had to

and they cozied up with rich people, and cut their taxes, and the rich people distracted us with filthy VC money, and walled up our open web and filled it with lies, until it was too late to stop the rise of internal fascism and external Russian info-ops on our Internet, whose terrible power they never fathomed

...

and yeah, the lore of #StarTrek has some rough patches in its future past, but arguably, those fictional 21st century crises were meant as analogies to the tumult of the early and mid 20th century, as Roddenberry hoped we were already on a vector into an egalitarian post-scarcity future...

**...and we were!** we got the Internet and human rights and an **infinite wealth glitch!** (bootstrap from oil into nukes + solar => all the power and fertilizer we'd ever need)
we even got Tricorders and Communicators and Universal Translators, way ahead of schedule...

and then we scarcitied it all up again with greed and hustle-culture and gig jobs and ecological collapse and plutocracy, again, oops we forgot to trust-bust and tax and mock the bloated plutocrats, we let them let us worship them again

we forgot to get rid of money like Gene suggested, instead we invented mother fucking Bitcoin 🤑

and collectively, it's all our fault:

every time any of us ever chose the Ferengi option, or the Klingon option, or the Romulan option, over the Vulcan option,

during the past 30 years of infinite possibilities for all, in this brave new Internet-enabled world

we deflected the timeline

Vulcans have strong emotions! but they choose to keep them in check, which requires massive willpower and training and discipline and wisdom, so yeah, of *course* that's not what we comfort-seeking humans chose

#StarTrek #uspol

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i'm so sad for humanity, we had a chance at Star Trek and we chose Aliens

(inhumane corporate authoritarianism, amoral AI, hoo-rah nihilistic militarism, expendable laborers and families, and no room for human creativity or literacy or compassion or innovation)

just cruelty in all directions

#dystopia #scifi #doom

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i'm so sad for humanity, we had a chance at Star Trek and we chose Aliens

(inhumane corporate authoritarianism, amoral AI, hoo-rah nihilistic militarism, expendable laborers and families, and no room for human creativity or literacy or compassion or innovation)

just cruelty in all directions

#dystopia #scifi #doom

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Sorry in advance for the #uspol #doom.

Q: How did this happen?

A: First, Reagan busted the unions and lowered taxes and stopped busting up monopolies.

Then Clinton got wooed by his rich pals, and did NAFTA, which further gutted the unions, and made the working class mad. His “third way” was actually the first way (*plutocracy*). He changed our left wing into a center wing, so we lost our balance and spiraled down. Centrism is conservatism, just slower, and wearing clown makeup.

Then Bush made endless war popular again. Our storytellers told us that real men are cruel. Even Superman got mean! Everyone on TV is mean. All our heroes are now ex-military family-man antiheroes with PTSD and a job to do who grimly double-tap anyone in their way.

Then Obama bailed out the banks, and surrendered to the insurance companies, and didn’t fix anything. We still have systemic racism and minority rule (electoral college, filibuster) and regulatory capture and accelerating income inequality and **global fucking warming**; all he did was stall.

Then VC-funded libertopian tech bros sold us all screens that let us all be mean to each other freely, directly, without shame, without consequences, mocking our neighbors for likes. Righteous indignation is fun! Social media is antisocial. We all broke the social contract together, for lulz.

Then Qanon and Trump and Tate and Peterson (and lefty woo peddlers too) all told us science is bad and compassion is weak and *greed is good* and selfishness (and self-care (cool tricks to tolerate oppression!)) is a virtue and it’s all the other guys’ fault and poof, here we are, back in tribe-vs-tribe propaganda wars, dehumanizing and othering and mocking and bullying, like primates do.

And that’s the end of the Age of Enlightenment!

Anyway, go vote if you can, while you can, maybe we can stall the inevitable for another few years with another centrist Democrat. But there’s gonna be mobs, and pogroms, and fiefdoms, more and more now, no matter who loses.

TLDR: it’s the plutocracy, stupid (mocking Clinton’s famous motto, for lulz, while greed burns the world )

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Sorry in advance for the #uspol #doom.

Q: How did this happen?

A: First, Reagan busted the unions and lowered taxes and stopped busting up monopolies.

Then Clinton got wooed by his rich pals, and did NAFTA, which further gutted the unions, and made the working class mad. His “third way” was actually the first way (*plutocracy*). He changed our left wing into a center wing, so we lost our balance and spiraled down. Centrism is conservatism, just slower, and wearing clown makeup.

Then Bush made endless war popular again. Our storytellers told us that real men are cruel. Even Superman got mean! Everyone on TV is mean. All our heroes are now ex-military family-man antiheroes with PTSD and a job to do who grimly double-tap anyone in their way.

Then Obama bailed out the banks, and surrendered to the insurance companies, and didn’t fix anything. We still have systemic racism and minority rule (electoral college, filibuster) and regulatory capture and accelerating income inequality and **global fucking warming**; all he did was stall.

Then VC-funded libertopian tech bros sold us all screens that let us all be mean to each other freely, directly, without shame, without consequences, mocking our neighbors for likes. Righteous indignation is fun! Social media is antisocial. We all broke the social contract together, for lulz.

Then Qanon and Trump and Tate and Peterson (and lefty woo peddlers too) all told us science is bad and compassion is weak and *greed is good* and selfishness (and self-care (cool tricks to tolerate oppression!)) is a virtue and it’s all the other guys’ fault and poof, here we are, back in tribe-vs-tribe propaganda wars, dehumanizing and othering and mocking and bullying, like primates do.

And that’s the end of the Age of Enlightenment!

Anyway, go vote if you can, while you can, maybe we can stall the inevitable for another few years with another centrist Democrat. But there’s gonna be mobs, and pogroms, and fiefdoms, more and more now, no matter who loses.

TLDR: it’s the plutocracy, stupid (mocking Clinton’s famous motto, for lulz, while greed burns the world )

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@wakame @neuralex @AutisticWave@mastodon.social @actuallyautistic nope, nothing logical like that, clear your mind of such reasonable thoughts 😅

Eugen Bleuler was an pompous ass who named syndromes after what he hypothesized their etiology was, rather than their symptoms, or even by listening to what the patients were saying was going on in their heads instead of just making shit up on their behalf

he misnamed "schizophrenia" too, it's not a split mind, just a single mind with hallucinations and paranoias and stuff

and for bonus arrogance -- *Eugen* was into *eugenic* sterilization of schizophrenics! including autistics since he thought autism was an extreme form of schizophrenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Bl euler

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@wakame @neuralex @AutisticWave@mastodon.social @actuallyautistic nope, nothing logical like that, clear your mind of such reasonable thoughts 😅

Eugen Bleuler was an pompous ass who named syndromes after what he hypothesized their etiology was, rather than their symptoms, or even by listening to what the patients were saying was going on in their heads instead of just making shit up on their behalf

he misnamed "schizophrenia" too, it's not a split mind, just a single mind with hallucinations and paranoias and stuff

and for bonus arrogance -- *Eugen* was into *eugenic* sterilization of schizophrenics! including autistics since he thought autism was an extreme form of schizophrenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Bl euler

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Dear everyone on the Internet,

Does correcting others' perfectly-sensible choice of words to express their own ideas and feelings make you feel happy? Proud? Scholarly? Sagacious? Do you feel like you're helping?

If so, is that feeling worth making the OP feel frustrated and ignored and mocked and misconstrued?

A conversation is not a competition; it's a collaboration. All words are wrong, since all words are metaphors, and *meanings* matter, not definitions, and meaning always depends on *intent* and *context*. Think before you post.

Yours,

Everyone Else, **Including You**

(because you hate being nitpicked by sealions too, don't you?)

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Dear everyone on the Internet,

Does correcting others' perfectly-sensible choice of words to express their own ideas and feelings make you feel happy? Proud? Scholarly? Sagacious? Do you feel like you're helping?

If so, is that feeling worth making the OP feel frustrated and ignored and mocked and misconstrued?

A conversation is not a competition; it's a collaboration. All words are wrong, since all words are metaphors, and *meanings* matter, not definitions, and meaning always depends on *intent* and *context*. Think before you post.

Yours,

Everyone Else, **Including You**

(because you hate being nitpicked by sealions too, don't you?)