wirehead-wannabe:

wirehead-wannabe:

God I’m so freaking bored. The discourse has stagnated so much since Trump’s election.

@femmenietzsche: “I was expecting new permutations and approaches but nope, totally blows” Exactly! Everyone was talking about how we’d get a realignment along new ideological fault lines, but that doesn’t seem to have actually happened. Instead, we just got tribalism between groups that already saw each other as enemies, carried out in ways that you could make a bingo card out of.

these things take time

like the sad and disappointing truth that revolutions don’t actually tear the government down to anarchy and build their own, they build a second government that eventually takes over for the first

this happened with Reagan, people were kicking and screaming and yelling fascism the whole way, it was just an increasingly stale discourse

before The New Republic was Jeet Heer’s TNR, before it was “even the liberal” TNR, it was “mouthpiece of the DLC” TNR *BCUZ* it was Reagan-era “in-flight magazine of Air Force One” TNR, the liberalism that even had a voice bcuz it accepted the new priors

I remember reading 80s comics in compilation while I waited for an M:TG or L5R opponent to open up on comic shop gamer Sundays, I remember a Vertigo Swamp Thing that was basically a Hellblazer/John Constantine takeover and it was like “Thatcher got elected! Yuppies! THEY ARE NAZI DEMONS WORSHIPPING HELLFIRE-BLAZING DOLLARS” and from the modern day I expected the subtle twist on the twist but nope that’s it, that had altitude to glide for a while