When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.
https://crimethinc.com/democracy
People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away.
This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.
My car is finally fixed. While I wait for my uncle to finally tell me how much I owe him and getting the 350 back, I’m kinda on my own.
Right now my finances are in the dirt. I’m currently at my partners for about a month and I still have bills to pay and groceries to get one I return home early-mid January.
That’s pretty much it, unless something pops up.
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Just wanna reiterate since the new Tusky update is exposing the new Mastodon report UI to mobile users on pixie.town:
If you make a report, always select "rule violation", we don't have a fucking law code governing decent behavior here, but Eugen gives me no choice. If you don't select the reason for your report as some kind of "rule violation" it will basically hide it from me and I can't take moderator actions on it (or even know about it) as easily. That's it, the rest here is just commentary on this design decision:
This is obviously some bullshit antifeature designed for instances that are way bigger and more bureaucratic than anything ought to be designed to dismiss marginalized issues. The idea being that if someone did something bad to you and there isn't an explicit rule, it is dismissible. Or that in order for it to be addressed, the target of abuse must make formal appeal for rule change beforehand, a humiliating requirement derived from the hegemony of european cultural institutions. The sheer entitlement in that mindset is aggravating. You assume you know everything bad that could go wrong between anyone in advance, and you presume that victims of novel abuses should need to grovel at your feet for recognition of the mere possibility of wrongdoings having occured to them.
so the head of the local Jewish Community Center branch (i.e. one of two Jewish bodies in the city that have relations with the student population, the other being Chabbad) just posted an invitation to their Hanukkah event... with this AI generated picture.
do people genuinely care so little that they don't mind what i'd consider to be a religiously offensive picture? why on earth would you look at that and not even try to generate another picture? (or is it that the AI is so bad at doing a Hanukkiah and the Hebrew letters on the dreidels that she just gave up?)
god i hate how AI-brained people are.
(there's no body horror in my opinion but i'm marking as sensitive just in case.)
(non-Jewish followers, check the image description for all the religious stuff that are wrong in this picture.)
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