Waking Up To It

• it's not about brown people
• it's not about queer people
• it's not about fallopian people
• it's not about trans people
• it's not about testicularian people
• it's not about old people
• it's not about young people
• it's not about race
• It's not about religion
• it's not about ethnicity
• it's not about blue
• it's not about red
• it's not about anything else that I just can't think of right now

What it's actually about is not being such a sucker that you can't see that it always ends up being about rich powerful people fucking everybody over.

Buckle Up, Kids

Tim Miller nails it.

ie: Trump's guys fix their "facts" around the preferred narrative, and then jump up and down, yelling, "Look at me! Look at me! I done good, huh, boss!"

The reason we know how bad authoritarian regimes have been is the fact that everybody in those regimes has incentive to document their crimes, because they get ahead by showing the boss that their shitty behavior is shittier than that other guy's shitty behavior.

Get ready, boys and girls.

Today's Quote

This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies.

With such people, you can do whatever you want.

--Hannah Arendt