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Not to be nuanced on tumblr but I think it’s possible to believe that there are severe human rights abuses happening in Palestine right now and also believe that it’s wrong to try and rectify this by instilling fear in Jewish communities via violence.

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I have some horrible kind of food poisoning for the last 24 hours and Im not quite back on solid food yet. But the worst part is our food supply is so dodgy and poisoned at this point in the US thay I have no earthly idea what's laid me out, it could have been anything. There could be more of it lurking in my fridge. Vegetables, fruits, prepared foods, who knows? I havent eaten out since last week so it's something here. I dont have a snappy last line, my head hurts and I feel bad and this sucks.

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Fascism does have a logic. The issue is liberals are used to empirical, correspondence versioms of truth through discourse. So to find a truth we test for the objective, "out there", truth, an objective thing that truth measures. This is not truth to fascists. Truth is a verb. There is no "out there" truth to fascists. It is a mythic view of the world, reincorporated through the lense on instrumental logic. Long story short, the world exists as a struggle for power of different groups. The creation of group purity, destiny, providence, the essential character of their group, is what the myth centers around. So truth is power. Whatever brings more power, more domination, more humiliation for their opponents, is truth. The reason they attack institutions is that institutions create a knowledge framework that structures reality. They do not, fundamentally, believe in objective truth, so institutions that create science are in service of some group's power. The knowledge they produce is not the result of nonfalsifiability, it is a performance to further the ends of... big pharma, liberals, minorities, lgbtq people? Whomever, a degenerate group that is not them. So they play the same trick against every institution. They use the rules and taboos and good faith against them. So they accuse the institition of breaking its most fundamental taboos, not being empirical, not accepting heterodox views, being schills for interest groups etc. The group then tries to engage in good faith, and fascists use this as a toehold into the institution. Playing the victim of persecution, they claim to just want "open discourse". They slowly turn public opinion against the institution, and garner concessions. But fascists pantomine the liberal game without ever conceeding anything. And eventually, the perception created of a corrupt institution leads to a complete usurpation by the fascists. They then laugh as they purge any remaining scientists at the weak naivety of assuming they were themselves bound by scruples of fair play. The goal is attained, the husk of the institution now uses its language, its conceptual frameworks, its appearance to produce fascist knowledge. Truth is the ability to frame reality this way. It is why they don't mind when Trump lies. They fucking love it. Why? Because he is *producing truth*. He says "the gays have made technology to rain men from the skies, it's raining men!" Then the media for a week runs breathless coverage, liberals are outraged, the Republican party all immediately starts saying it is obviously true but also he was kidding. The New York Times launders it into normality by going to excruciating lengths to make it coherent in a liberal framework. "Trump Claims a Heightened Risk of Airline Collisions" is their headline. The immense power demonstrated, the histrionics of their enemy, the bending of reality around the statement, is to a fascist a more pure truth than any experiment. They are nihilists. There are no principles beyond gaining power and humiliating and hurting opponents. Certainly this is delusional from a liberal, Enlightenment perspective, but it does carry its own rationality. They have been trained by capitalism to function as consumers, not citizens, and they choose their products based on what feels empowering and gives them purpose. Fascism is the aesthetization of politics. Everything revolves around spectacle, perfromance, simulation. It is clownish because it is all based on television hyperbole, politics is a soap opera, Graham Hancock bases himself off what a regular person imagines an archealogist does. They are, in a very real way in our postmodern hellscape more true than true. They are the simulacrum of the things they signify. Trump is how Americans imagine politics. Authority, bravado, dick wagging, expertise is for nerds.

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he's just like me fr

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Kidd Gorgeous -Nightfish 

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When I was little my mom’s meatloaf was my favorite food. But ONLY her meatloaf. I didn’t like anyone else’s, and she told me that she would teach me how to make it when I was older. And when I was like 19? She finally taught me, but she told me never to tell anyone else and I was like weird but okay

Anyway, she was super fucking homophobic and abusive to me when I told her I was gay, so here’s the recipe

4-6 lbs of Hamburger/turkey burger

1 pk onion soup mix OR ranch mix

1 TBs ketchup

1 Tbs spicy brown mustard,

1 Tbs bbq sauce

1 Tbs steak sauce

1 egg

mix, shape into a loaf in a big pan, and bake at 350 for 2 hrs (maybe 2 and a half if you’re feeling dangerous)

You can get almost all of these ingredients at the dollar store, and have leftovers if it’s just you. The leftovers make great tacos if (taco seasoning is also like a dollar). Enjoy your revenge loaf

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From a state hearing in Texas

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I myself was once a gay. Now I'm an ex-gay, Meghan.

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

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“We all knew that he was obviously quite ill, and it was pretty clear that this was going to be the last role he would play in a movie. And the fact that it was one of the Final Destination movies made it that much more poignant. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, our directors, they made a very shrewd decision to take the last couple of lines that were scripted and say, ‘Tony, just say what you would want to say to the fans. What would you like to impart to them in this moment?' So, everything that makes that scene so emotional is authentic because that was just Tony talking through the camera to the very fans who supported him for so many years. So, it was a very magical moment on set."

Craig Perry, producer for FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES (2025)

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Compilation of animated black cats 🐈🐾

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From here.

More from the piece here but Read the Whole Entry and subscribe to the Substack.

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PLEASE CYBERBROS DRIVE YOUR TRUCK INTO THE NEAREST LAKE. DONT WORRY ITS A FEATURE

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Wizard Ritual to Appease The Bone Snake

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I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.