Every historical example of "the public square" under the control of one rich guy.

🚨 Twitter pivots to sell redesigned Tropicana cartons filled with New Coke. Transactions to be restricted to non-fungible Chuck E. Cheese tokens. Laundromats and cybertruck washes in Martian cities to begin rollout of the new currency in promo packs for $8. #TwitterX.

"ultranationalism as a set of maladaptive supernormal stimuli". An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs.

Fascism requires the absolute freedom to lie. #thebirdisfreed.

Rule #1: Never listen to anyone who once owned a Chrysler LeBaron.

If Larry David even owns a pair of jeans (doubtful), there's no way they fit that poorly. And no way in HELL he's wearing them golfing. 🤣.

Adoring a monarch is dumb enough. Adoring a king who doesn't even respect the position enough to wear velvet and a crown is pure lunacy.

When was the last time Scots sacked York? 1644? Is the north wall even being guarded today?.

Very few recent fawning Balmoral Castle stories mention how it was stolen by traitors to Scotland then sold to the German overlords in London.

Calling himself "Charles III" to sound like a Stuart instead of some Hanoverian sassenach tadger.

"You put your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't put your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." -Mark Twain.

The medium is the message. The structure of social media dooms its effects on humans toward divisiveness. Add the motive of shareholder and personal value, and it provides a near perfect hijack of human minds evolved to solve other problems.

I suspect it's the latter considering that technology tends toward power aggregation once it becomes more complex than DIY toolmaking.

What is The Simulation currently testing? Is the society on the outside experiencing fascism, and trying to figure out how to thwart it, or are they fascist, and trying to learn how to efficiently maintain it?.

Spoiler Alert: "the land of the free" ain't gonna crack the Top 10 list in 2022 either. Is there a process for amending lyrics to the national anthem? I don't want to have to lie the next time I stand up and perform symbolic musical gestures at a sportsball game.

Remember when the lying liars comprising the Christian Right were fearmongering about "activist judges"?. Everything they say is a lie geared toward the aggregation of power in this world. Ironically, the exact thing Jesus warned would identify false Christians.

One of fascism's main traits: "disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits" – 12 of 14 among Umberto Eco's characteristics of archetypal fascism. #christianfascism.

∙ Modern technology is designed to exploit evolved human traits. ∙ The combination of powerful motives and efficient technology opens the door for robo-parasitism.

On "the role of [media] in the rise of dominance-style leadership and radical-right populism… revision of the Comparative Fascist Studies… as a “political religion,” and characterize ultranationalism as a set of maladaptive supernormal stimuli.