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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Really? I’m a midwestern cishet middle aged dude and I got it right away… maybe I spend too much time on mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was surprised when you called Tiberius milquetoast. Then I realized I was thinking of Trajan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They also cranked up the death camps to a whole new level because they were evil fucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. Now I remember. They killed everyone and then decided to do the obvious thing after the fact. Wild shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Weren’t there a bunch of wars in Italy because Rome wouldn’t let her Italian subjects be citizens?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah. The dude that came up with the term cognitive dissonance described this process in his book When Prophesy Fails. Basically when you are in a cult and your doomsday ends up being a normal day you have a freak out of cognitive dissonance. This isn’t great because people don’t like having their strongly held beliefs shown to be invalid. So they must come up with a post hoc rationalization as to why their doomsday didn’t come true and why they are still right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Margaret killjoy has an excellent story featuring a private prison ceo. It is a great end for that guy. Everyone should listen to it.

https://pca.st/episode/7c3c33e0-6971-489c-8e28-07bdb6994424

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

That’ll get em. Good job showing the dictator your amazing resolve guys. Just the sort of strong backbone I would imagine coming from liberals who wanted to do just a little fascism, as a treat, to appeal to imaginary non fascist republicans.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

ICE can gargle my balls

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

This is the one reason I’m happy Biden was in office. It gave everyone four more years to prepare. Marginalized communities were some of the heaviest buyers during that time. Small arms have been used to inflict losses on fascists since fascists became a thing. Disarmed groups are substantially more in danger than armed groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Umm he isn’t going to see consequences (without a revolution) because Trump can pardon him for federal crimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Looks great!

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