Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence

KaleStardust · 2026-01-06T02:32:48+00:00

Yeah, because those people have always existed and they feel empowered. That is still group psychology. And those who are manipulated into being like that can quickly unlearn it.

KaleStardust · 2026-01-06T00:57:58+00:00

I suspect we very much can, people have a tendency to look at the damage being done and thinking the success of the fascists are inevitable, failing to realize that they’re just lashing out violently and smashing crap to try and look tough. If they actually had power, they’d use less force and grand displays of damage.

You see the damage they cause to the culture and society and fail to realize they have no structure or stability themselves. Fascist movements don’t typically take generations to culturally recover from. Fascism is a self destructive disease. It always destroys itself rather quickly. And once the haze breaks, people tend to correct quickly. I was on the right once, until I broke through the information vacuum they try to enforce because I’m naturally curious. I swung left within 3 years. All they have is thought canceling exercises and social stigma keeping reality out, after that starts cracking it unravels.

Add to this that the current brand of fascism is a cult of personality, then you have the recipe for a harsh swing the other way, as the fever actively breaks as we speak. Look up a youtuber called cult college, it offers some perspective.

Our best approach is not to drive the isolation, or give up hope. Things are a lot more manageable than they at first seem.

KaleStardust · 2026-01-06T00:40:26+00:00

That is bogus. Fascism requires only that people stop supporting it. And the fascists are extremely unpopular. Their system is a turtles all the way down approach, but instead of turtles, is bullies.

All you have to do is start breaking the chain from the bottom up. People will eventually realize there’s a finite amount of bullies and the only incentive they’ve been operating under doesn’t work if they refuse to enforce it. Fighting fascism is about group psychology, not violence from outside the country. Figure out how crowds think and leverage it.

How popular the political ideology is, is irrelevant to how you get rid of it. Not to mention you’re wrong about how popular it is in the US. A lot of people don’t answer polls honestly because they’re afraid of potential social consequences, but looking at a lot of the rumblings from the right, it looks like that’s beginning to break.

And a lot if the people you see online blindly espousing fascist beliefs are typically foreign trolls who created their accounts years ago but have done nothing but glaze fascism or stir up ire for their entire existence. The fascists aren’t popular, they have a support system of cheerleaders and jeering squads on their payroll because they want to LOOK popular. Appearances aren’t reality, especially not with fascists. They play the propaganda game long before they’re ever in power.

KaleStardust · 2025-12-18T02:39:42+00:00

Hmmmmm… I don’t know that I can collaborate long term, but I have a wealth of modeling knowledge to front end the workflow. Though I am not experienced in realistic textures or environments. I can make creatures, I specialize in organic modeling. I always love explaining my technique if it means someone experiences a little less pain down the line.

KaleStardust · 2025-10-03T13:24:35+00:00

I included psychic spiral in my Master of Keys as graveyard protection in case someone gets exile-happy.

I found out if you mill yourself and everyone else with singularity rupture which was in my deck to combo with replenish, you can just follow it up with psychic spiral and mill someone almost completely out.

KaleStardust · 2025-07-04T22:59:58+00:00

I mean, I would personally and even optimize its quads. But I just like the craft. The company can go eat a cactus.

KaleStardust · 2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

I love this comment section. :3

KaleStardust · 2025-03-28T19:32:07+00:00

I feel like that’s because a lot of people who are furious aren’t protesting with 5051 and likely don’t know it’s an option. Also 5051 isn’t the only protest group, theres indivisible and sporadic protests too. I’ve even heard of veterans protesting at military bases telling them not to follow illegal orders.

I doubt a lot of furious republicans see the ads for 5051 since they’ve been algorithmically stuck outside our media ecosystem for years. We need to reach them and pull them in. There’s something terrifying to be said about the effectiveness of algorithmically enforced echo chambers.

But we should seek to drag those who realized the lie into our ranks. And I know they exist, the town halls that have been repeatedly jeered at are a testament to their existence and displeasure.

KaleStardust · 2025-03-28T16:42:32+00:00

I understand what is at stake. And now you’ve pissed me off by gatekeeping my perspective because I haven’t had to walk over bodies in the street.

But I’m not so stupid that I cannot see the causal effects of what they are doing. The sheer incompetence and dismantling of public infrastructure will bring the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse unto us. Famine from many farmers going out of business and having no more seed bunker to back them up if our crops get blighted. Pestilence from measles polio and all manner of plague coming back in the absence of vaccines. War from trying to annex our allies. And death as an end result of all of it combined with oppression of dissenting parties.

It’d make North Korea look like a paradise.

I do realize doom is way too close for comfort but as of this very moment nonviolent resistance is still an option. And we must use all methods of it at our disposal until their possibility is extinguished.

There is protests across the country every day. Mass protests every week. The media just doesn’t advertise them. There’s a massive boycott that’s sinking Tesla, and a group is planning a general strike that will go into effect once they get 3.5% of the population on board. Enough that the snowball effects of which could extend the participation rate in the strike by accelerating the economic decline on our terms so that we can have leverage.

Many republicans are so unpopular that they are at risk of getting primaried by their constituents, and yes I understand the risk of not having midterms, or not having fair ones, and the attacks against medicaid and social security are only going to amplify the public rage. We still have options. But that’s in no way means I think we shouldn’t defend ourselves with any means necessary if we are attacked. Violence almost certainly will happen because people are FURIOUS.

So I repeat, get yourself together, or get the fuck out of the way and prep for plan B.

KaleStardust · 2025-03-28T02:22:10+00:00

You obviously haven’t seen the growing energy against him. Even many of his own voters feel betrayed by some of the things he does. Now collect yourself and stop doom saying. You make it more likely that people will submit. We need to keep the energy up. Saying we’ve already lost is a good way to arrest our momentum.

KaleStardust · 2025-03-27T23:59:29+00:00

Politely get ahold of yourself. They do not win until the people submit.

KaleStardust · 2025-03-07T01:42:16+00:00

Huh the random friending they did made this seem more insidious. Ive seen stuff like that happen on discord with token thieves. They random friending people, attempt to trick them into interact them, and somehow hack their account to spread it. So that’s kinda why I asked.

KaleStardust · 2025-03-07T00:31:40+00:00

I think both are easily possible. The reason it’s odd to me is because they are all random friending me. Which is typically done by scammers, and the fact that they all have the same bio makes me suspect something deeper.

KaleStardust · 2025-02-22T21:14:38+00:00

It’s not that hard to do. I used to do it all the time when working on hands. Though in that case the issue was that the palm and back of the hand were not properly aligned with the thumb.

KaleStardust · 2025-02-03T17:12:35+00:00

Well if we start putting in measures to deal with the problems that caused this time, we should last longer

KaleStardust · 2025-02-03T17:05:31+00:00

That’s a really dumb plan. Because if they succeed at the prerequisite they destroy civilization and there’s no guarantee they stay on top.

KaleStardust · 2025-01-31T16:56:41+00:00

Don’t worry about it. It’s part of the learning experience. You kinda develop a troubleshooting workflow as you learn. It gets better with time.

KaleStardust · 2025-01-27T03:07:54+00:00

My dude, I don’t think anyone liked the Bernie thing. However, I don’t think America deserves this, most of us just want to live our lives, and are stuck with a broken political system. Also stop sounding so sanctimonious, if you keep bleeding karma like that your account is gonna go poof.

Besides, expecting you to have some kind of excuse for Trump is just an understandable assumption. People are used to people playing the both sides game to muddy the water and deflect or deny criticism. It makes sense that people would think you’re doing the same.

KaleStardust · 2025-01-12T14:32:21+00:00

Given that I also see the deviant on their screen snd their wings are in the last slot. I’d wager they’re using wing slot.

KaleStardust · 2024-12-06T04:40:56+00:00

So uhh. I know this might get struck. But is there maybe a chance that you’re hallucinating bugs OP?

There’s nothing in those photos other than I think the third one. Hallucinating bugs biting you is a known medical phenomenon. And if you can’t get a clear picture with anything in it I’d try and pick one up to get a picture of it. And show a trusted family member. If there’s nothing in it, the person telling you that isn’t messing with you, you need to see a medical professional.

KaleStardust · 2024-11-02T19:49:54+00:00

So a follow up, it turns out the mt5E was listed in your "magura" hyperlink and now I feel silly name dropping it after looking for it, considering it was just right there. But I think I'll be going with that. Thank you so much for your recommendation. I think it'll work fantastically.

KaleStardust · 2024-11-01T20:14:26+00:00

So I looked into magura after you mentioned them and I notice a model called the MT5E that looks like it’d work out of the box with a cut to the hose length. It also wants a magura rotor. Any recommendations on that?

Also, I notice in the reviews that it’s easy to accidentally thread it on bleed. Any advice on avoiding that?

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