I suppose all of Berlin was also surrounded by another wall? Because if not, couldn’t people from West Berlin just go around the wall?

Greta is just continuously getting more based as time goes on

your local ICE precinct

just as bad

start taking over outposts and giving them to him instead

I wonder what that reminds me of

Despite the bit of horseshoe theory, I like the way he describes how these fascist ideas take hold.

All it takes is for someone to be disappointed in something, and there are plenty of things to be disappointed about in capitalism, and to be politically and historically uneducated. When there’s no mental resistance to that propaganda, it’s as easy as seeing the same meme multiple times for someone to associate a thing they hate with something completely irrelevant, while ignoring the real systemic reasons that lead to that disappointment. After that it’s a slippery slope, dog whistles lead to actual ideology, and the ideology eventually leads to real life action as well. And in the end, some person will have been completely ruined because they disliked a stupid fucking videogame and couldn’t notice the real reasons.

authoritarian panopticon dystopia

wholesome police force looking out for terrorism

No wonder the Democrats laid the red carpet for them after failing to deal with the Palestinian movement themselves

The collapse of the Soviet Union is the largest tragedy in human history. Since 1991 things have only deteriorated. Everything gets progressively shittier over time.

I was literally thinking this today on the bus to work

Art of the deal

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