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This commenter is weirdly passionate about what kinds of porn Blahaj federates with.

Fascism isn't an ideology that embraces any tactic necessary.

It's a tactic that embraces any ideology necessary.

An ideology would come with some vision for a better future. Anti-capitalists want co-ops and sustainability. Feminists want "traditionally female careers" to be respected and valued and compensated accordingly.

MAGAs? You will find such a vision conspicuously absent. A whole lot of, "my opponent wishes to ritualistically drink your child's blood this coming Halloween." A whole lot of CRT, and Woke, and transgenderism.

But not a single glimpse of the world they want.

I am amazed they haven't run out of money already.

Were they all millionaires before this whole Trump thing started?

Someone else here mentioned that being an LGBTQ+ instance and allowing association with porn occasionally described as "childlike" isn't something Blahaj can afford in this political climate.

They're already being called child groomers. You don't want something that can be twisted into ammunition by bad actors.

Exactly this. Right wing propaganda already portrays the LGBTQ+ community as child groomers who are sexualizing minors.

Forget gasoline or lighter fluid: allowing federation with "barely 18!" content would throw a whole propane tank on that fire.

Gold fringes on the flag of the country "Donald Trump" was president of? Damn it! We've been bamboozled! We aren't even living in the real United States! We were the sheeple all along, just like they were trying to tell us!

Yeah! Was he Donald Trump -- the person -- president? Or was it "Donald Trump" the legal entity? Is his name capitalized on the documents? Was his presidency valid under maritime law?

To the people who watch these sources they believe its legitimate, real and true.

One year after leaving California, my mother was explaining to me -- based on some selfie video made by two Christians sitting in their car, claiming they had visited San Francisco -- that California was now a hotbed for crime and violent death.

It's not like they suddenly changed their story. For decades now, conservative vloggers and bloggers and "news" networks have been screaming about how California was a post-apocalyptic wasteland and millions of refugees were fleeing the state. She just... tuned it out while she was living in the proverbial horse's mouth, and then started trusting them the second the first-hand evidence was (I am not exaggerating here. She is now in the next state over.) two hours in her rear-view mirror.

Yeah, we already have government research funding a lot of medicine. Hell, the MRNA vaccine was DARPA'S doing.

I can see that. Like how Hitler wrote Mein Kampf during his 264-day incarceration in Landsberg Prison for his Jan-6-style insurrection attempt.

People's mistake is thinking fascism is an evil ideology that uses any tactics necessary to achieve its goals.

What they don't realize is that "ideology" and "tactics" need to be reversed in this statement: fascism is a cynical tactic that uses any ideology necessary to achieve its goals.

It will hate groomers on Tuesday and find grooming "the only way to raise responsible, patriotic citizens" on that same exact Tuesday, later in the afternoon.

It will hate nepotism and family connections in the same breath as it calls Ivanka "smart" for wielding her presidential clout to enrich herself.

It will defend the sanctitude of the life belonging to a fetus right up until the main threats to that fetus are poor access to medical care, financial stress leading to miscarriages, and our unsustainable car infrastructure killing off pregnant mothers right alongside every other type of person. THOSE fetuses were killed by the laws of nature of course, (and they certainly lack a level of sanctity that competes with Americans' right to be forced to drive twenty minutes to the nearest grocery store and ninety minutes to their place of employment on threat of homelessness. That "right" is inviolable.)

There's no ideology here. No utopia on the map. No belief about how to improve society. There is merely the last, dying , defiant warcry of a certain subset of corporations. A subset that profits more from maintaining underclasses than they do from providing a product to a stable society. A subset that needs to keep reminding black people that if they don't like working for dirt wages at Amazon, they can always get the police involved and die with a police officer's knee on their neck.

And the question isn't, "can our ideology defeat theirs?" Because there was never a single belief to defeat in the first place. The question here is "can democracy survive?"

And so far, it's holding up better than it did in Italy and Germay. 1930s Germany wouldn't have thrown the Patriot Front in jail. Wouldn't have convicted the Wolverine Watchmen, either. Certainly wouldn't be prosecuting the Proud Boys who showed up to Jan 6.

I think both the duration and intensity are important. I've seen ADHDers online describing their brief spurts of focus and productivity as the "Hour of Power"

Which is a bit of a misnomer. I know we're all time blind and it feels like fifteen minutes, but that spurt can occasionally go four or five hours.

Alternately, we can have a few slightly productive weeks where everything is easier. I'm undiagnosed, pretty sure I'm ADHD, but I do occasionally have two-week productive cycles. Getting up early, completing tasks, maintaining a routine involving eating, exercising, and showering.

And then when it all comes crashing down, I never do any of those things on time again (or at least until years later, when stress put me in another two-week cycle).

Manic episodes, on the other hand, regularly last over a week at full intensity. From what I hear, the person feels like a god while the episode is going on. They make plans that are downright hubristic, because literally nothing feels insurmountable to them.

Can an ADHD person have two weeks of suddenly being able to maintain routines? Yeah. Sure. Two hours of nothing seeming impossible? Absolutely. But unless the two are combined, it's not a manic episode.