Office Space

Fucking Christ. This timeline gets stupider and stupider.

Dammit, that’s too fantastic to NOT be an idiom

“No, you can’t get online, your grandmother is on the phone.”

are the Finns okay

I can still hear the MSN message sound in my head

And the original Steam chat sound

Will the political will to start an actual shooting war with the US be there?

Theoretically yes. This is an issue that has been considered before, though admittedly not with regards to fucking Greenland. Turkiye and Greece have long been enemies as well as members of NATO, and it’s been considered that the invocation of Article 5 by the aggressed-upon party against the aggressing party in case of a serious war would, theoretically, be binding on the other members of NATO.

In practice, NATO is a gentleman’s agreement with no means of enforcement. Everything comes down to political will - NATO is just an organizational structure to facilitate a response. It cannot replace the will (or lack thereof) of national governments.

Fucking bootlickers.

Insane that even commenting about how some prefer the Soviet days gets you a ban, simply for being insufficiently positive.

I’ve noticed this too, I’m pretty sure they keep an eye on people they’ve had previous run ins with. I blocked one and a few more of them presented themselves to receive their blocks, lol.

I think they have a comm dedicated to brigading. ‘The Dunk Tank’ or something like that.

That’s impossible. You would’ve died of dysentery long ago!

Back in The Day, you’d write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.

Yes! Yes!

Stress helped me lose 20 pounds in three months last year ^.^

I wouldn’t recommend it.

No, I reserve all my hate for Tingle

The mask is more iconic than the kid, the mask gave me nightmares for years

I don’t know who needs to hear this (everyone, apparently) but it isn’t a virtue to make people angry.

… okay?

You didn’t win because you pissed someone off, a child can do that.

Bruh, being amused that other people kvetch about you when you aren’t present, and thinking that you ‘won’ because you ‘made’ someone angry are two entirely different concepts.

As someone with limited exposure to leftists outside the Fediverse I can’t confirm or deny that statement, so I guess I’ll just take it with a grain of salt, but it seems to me that there’s room for nuance between unquestioning participation in the system and unquestioning denial of the system.

As noted in the last-moment edit I slipped in, hoping to get it done before anyone read the comment, the non-insane (and much more widespread) version is harm reduction.

Here on the Fediverse, MLs and fellow-travelers of that sort are much more widespread than IRL, and they tend towards more… uncompromising positions. At least when their least-favorite bourgeois democracies are concerned.

As someone who’s been predicting Harris would lose since August, both are true.

… not unless you think that the election of Harris would have resulted in the same scenario we’re facing now?

Also rather than “in this society” it’s “everywhere”. The way I like to put it is that electoral politics is only the victory lap; you go out and do activism work, build a base of support, spread your ideas, create a movement, negotiate with or (metaphorically or literally) come to blows with the establishment and finally ask people to vote for you or your ideas in the election. So with that in mind, nobody anywhere is saved by electoral politics alone because whether you win or lose in the election hinges on doing the actual hard work before and during campaign season.

That’s generally not what people mean when they say ‘electoral politics’ though. When they say ‘electoral politics’, they are generally talking about the entirety of electoral politics, not just election day. “You will never destroy the master’s house with the master’s tools” is how they usually put it. They are not advocating for a more robust participation in bourgeois democracy, they are advocating for revolutionary action and, quite explicitly, the total rejection and nonparticipation in civic affairs under current government structures.

The non-insane version is ‘harm reduction’, wherein participation in bourgeois democracy is permissible so long as you don’t confuse it for an end goal or a primary means.