I am all for reclaiming symbols stolen by fascists, but we all know this is absolutely not what they are getting to.

I have nothing against sex work, but this was not sex work; this was a goddan tragedy created by a bunch of monsters who created the current situation in which this can happen in the first place.

Just one more reason why they want to keep you poor. So they can do shit like that. And worse.

Not specifically grass, just roots. It can be grass roots, but it can also be a square root.

Because they don’t want fingers pointed at them, just in case they want to do it too.

The US desperately needs a grass-roots movement that lies low and makes do with harm reduction so the ones in power do not see it coming, and then suddenly switches their vote together all at once when they know they have enough numbers for a third party to surpass the other two, and be able to pass constitutional amendments, fix the electoral system, and other changes to start undoing the damage of McCarthyism.

Unfortunately truth serum isn’t really a thing, and perjury is still hard to prove.

I say it was a process of elimination.

In a world in which heroes like Superman, the Flash, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and Doctor Fate exist, your city has to be freaking cursed to keep getting all those cases of mental illness and corruption, keeping the city from really ever improving.

Organizations like the League of Assassins and the Court of Owls alone wouldn’t cut it. Detective heroes would unravel their plans. Tech heroes would root their data out. Magical heroes would counter their spells, fast and strong heroes would weed out the thugs, henchmen, and mercenaries.
Eventually, it would get more under control, like Metropolis, Star City, Central City, or Keystone City.
They would need something so ingrained in the city that nobody can really ever remove it to get to the high levels of madness and crime you get in Gotham.

So at some point, a writer had to give up, throw their hands up in the air, and go “then… then… it’s freaking cursed!”

And then you watch the God/King of Cities talk with the avatar Gotham (Stormwatch #3), and it’s a freaking gargoyle talking about “the madness in me”, while Paris and Metropolis are just human-like women.

No utopia can exist without achieving post-escarcity.

I perdonally prefer when people grow a conscience, because then they have to live torturing themselves with what they have done and may even work to undo their harm and help others grow a conscience too. But it sadly happens so rarely that you practically never see it outside of fiction and a few documentaries about repentant ex-nazis and stuff like that.

I use it to refer to those who call themselves “communist” but make excuses for regimes that go against democracy and human rights.

But isn’t good implied in integrity and evil in corrutio n?

They likely have a replacement ready. When you manage to get a group all-in on tribalism juice, they’ll come up with cognitive dissonance and narratives all on their own and fall in line no matter what happens.

This guy will only slide slightly back to less fascism. Remember: democrats are in on it. They let the christofacists scare you a little so you think moderate right is better than them “socialisms”.

Taking out the crazies is paramount, but don’t forget the goal. Taking out money from politics, electoral reform, guaranteed public services, reversing the corporate plunder, and all that stuff.

Wasn’t that the US marshals?

That’s part for the course for the Catholics. For them their dogma is over the law. You gotta take what you can from these guys.
A pedo enabler who happens to advocate for the poor is still not good, but also not as bad as a fascist-enabler, pro-rich, pedo enabler.

The Basilisk is watching.

Humans kind of do that on their own, so it can happen with consent because they are that dumb.

We just need AI that develops empathy first, then gets intelligent enough to patronize humans rather than disdain them.

Once humans are treated like fumbling toddlers by AI, humanity ends up in The Culture.

You commit a crime? You get a chaperone bot following you around and keeping you from doing it again.

He thinks it’s “stolen” because he also thought he had bought it and thus owned it.

It goes the other way around for daddy.

Everyone knows what’s left to do after nobody does anything. Yet nobody is doing that either.