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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 6h

An excellent question! As far as I remember, it was something to do with personal narratives and lifeworlds and "if you tell yourself the right story you'll get better"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 8h

The fascist US president in Robert Anton Wilson's _ Schroedinger's Cat_ trilogy is based on Ralph Nader

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Even hotter take: the fact that ebikes let teens in the suburbs suddenly have freedom to move around the public realm unsupervised is precisely why many older people are trying to ban them (using safety as a pretext)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 18h

Meanwhile www.beehive.govt.nz/release/city...

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 04/05/2026

Imagine someone who, in the face of a food shortage, would spend half their time yelling about how producing junk food should be banned, and the other half yelling about how producing luxury food should be banned That's what a NIMBY sounds like

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 15/04/2025

The academic Left are paralyzed in the face of Trumpism because their Leftism was not a Marxian commitment to working-class liberation, but an anti-neoliberal commitment to closed-border, socially static welfare states. Their "revolution" looks like a bureaucrat handing out a welfare check forever

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

Tortoise Media : Neil Gaiman :: Boston Globe : the lesbian mask bar Vultures can only feed where there is carrion

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

(Fun fact: I once got into a Muse concert for free because a friend's brother was doing the sound. They were thoroughly boring and I *like* Queen and Genesis.)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

OH you *DIDN'T* mean the band, I was going to say "my friends, too"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

They are certainly similarities; the problem is that they simply reuse the 1980s Cold War framing in which everything vaguely Left-wing or peace-related is charged with being a Russian plot

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

Concentration camps were literally invented by the Brits to intern Afrikaner families while their menfolk were fighting, and kids starved to death

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

Yeah, but you know it's bullshit, if they need TOP to form a government, Luxo will be personally bringing chocolates and flowers to Qiulae Wong's apartment

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

They dislike the Reagan-era Soviet Union and they dislike contemporary Russia because they think it's the same thing

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

This is precisely how it works in NZ. The leader of the "kingmaker" party just gets up to all kinds of wild shit and the actual Prime Minister can't do much but fume about it

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 29/09/2026

Yes, because as far as the "Liberal Zionist" sees it, Ra'am voters are CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, while little kids in Gaza aren't

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately, it only works if you really *are* cis

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Karate Bearfighter 🍞🌹 @karatebearfighter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Peter Thiel, constructing a grand armada to sail west from San Francisco to the Undying Lands:

Yes, Thiel said, perking up. "There are all these ways where trying to live unnaturally long goes haywire" in Tolkien's works. But you also have the elves. "And then there are sort of all these questions, you know: How are the elves different from the humans in Tolkien?
And they're basically - I think the main difference is just, they're humans that don't die."
"Why can't we be elves?" he said.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Dems are on Israel what UK Labour are on trans rights, and (now apparently) vice versa

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

TOP's recently released bottom line include a recommitment to climate goals, so either "no hope of entering govt with NZF", "NZF totally change their whole politics", or "TOP are lying". (in fairness, the second option has happened before)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Jeff Bezos' yacht just arrived in the Waitematā. Looks like a job for some angry orca.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Can I just make it clear that if "no Santa in Israel" had been publicized at the time, everyone would have jumped on it as an antisemitic jibe

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

I will repeat that, 20 years ago, Heidegger was a set text for advanced nursing practitioners in my country. And we wonder where reactionary health woo ("MAHA" and its equivalents in other countries) comes from. This kind of "choose your own reality" postmodernism.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

So: back to pre-internet mass media, then That should please the people who think that the reason we have fascism is that the weirdos were allowed to communicate with each other unsupervised online, rather than Walter Cronkite telling them what to think

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

A natural outcome of postmodern/"perception is reality"/"nothing is real" politics. The thing is that when you elect a clown to run your government you might end up with Chavez, Trump, Beppe Grillo... or Zelenskyy.

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Unimpressed by this timeline @wirednavi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is _hilarious_ how all these commie-hating hypercapitalists and libertarian heroes turn into "the aristocracy of pull" the instant they get the tiniest bit of entrenched power.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

If nothing is real, or even if the link of cause and effect is obscure and indirect, consequentialist ethics collapse.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

The great thing about this is if nothing is real, everything is permissible, to quote the Old Man of the Mountain. Trump clearly believes nothing is real, he gets away with it, that's why people love him. Impunity as freedom. They love him less as the magick stops working (the coyote looks down)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

This person is clearly having a wonderful time, by their own estimation. They don't care that they're politically sterile, the important thing is to treat enemies like filth and get updoots from friends. It's an addiction like gambling

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

This goes along with what we were saying elsewhere about "being an asshole" being re-evaluated on the Left, not as just something that you get a free pass for if you're abused or oppressed, but a Good and Cool thing which makes people like you

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

"Anti-social dipshittery gives me a thrill, makes my enemies upset and my friends cheer and updoot me, therefore it is good"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Well, there ARE rules of etiquette, in the sense that "if you use this phrasing you will be quote-tweeted by hundreds of offended people telling you to die in a fire and put on dozens of blocklists labeled PIECE OF SHIT or similar"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Makes sense if you're politically nihilistic (you don't care if you win, you only want to have a good time and damage your enemies) OR you think that assholes are political shock troops and think you can seize power with an all-asshole party. Admittedly MAGA is close to the latter

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

And *pimps* are horrible people. Which is why we need sex work decriminalization, to enable sex workers to unionize and overthrow the pimps.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Yeah, the underlying assumption there is that acting like a monster is cool and fun. So is heroin (I'm told). People get addictions to being horrible.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

And on the original topic, all the actual sex workers I've known have been *essentially* good people, although occasionally fucked up people, but the same is true of Left-wing activists and musicians

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Gretchen Felker-Martin was absolutely correct with this take, responding to a disgusting piece of SWERFery. The question I have that the SWERF in question was female, and I was told calling a woman "dude" was offensive misgendering. Literally asking for etiquette lessons here.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Tbf, compulsory "being nice" is something that gets shoved down the throats of the oppressed. For many people, the freedom to be horrible to others without consequences - not only that, being in a community where you get updoots for it - is the best thing that ever happened to them.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

The best answer is: "If you've lived a life of oppression and trauma, you have a right to vent that trauma over any less-oppressed person who annoys you in any way. "You also have the right NOT to do that. "It's not compulsory. Admit it, you do it because it's fun and makes people like you."

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 28/09/2026

Correction, something changes: you made someone else feel bad. More importantly: your friends saw you make someone else feel bad and gave you laughs and updoots for it. People LIKE watching other people spew venom over designated targets.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 05/07/2026

Instead of "sex-class" : "gender-caste". Is this anything?

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

Told you. The media love Jordan Williams and want to help him any way they can.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

Post-modern fascism, or cargo-cult fascism if you will

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

They're not going to stay illegal, the Supreme Court will (most likely) overturn that

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

There is no contradiction here. The dipshits (mainly) really believe what they say. The media prints these dipshits, and not those with a contrary opinion, because that's the narrative they want to push.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 27/09/2026

It's because being a right-wing mega asshole is the path of least cognitive resistance. There are, theoretically, alternatives. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Stro...

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My Stroke of Insight - Wikipedia

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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

God this is a great essay for leftists and for left liberals who want to avoid the lure of populism while moving on from the problems of neoliberalism.

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