QuietCupcake

Not gonna cry for him, but not going to break out the crabs and officer-down bouquets either. This is what it looks like when a person who is sensitive and does have a sense of empathy (even if it's buried too deep to have done any good) is fostered in a culture of fascism and mass sociopathy. He still made a series of evil decisions that he alone is responsible for, but it's still sickening and sad that had he not been embedded within a society as thoroughly committed to fascism as the entity is, he might have become a decent human being.

I do wish that his latent understanding of the atrocities he was taking part in had steered him towards burning his fellow war criminals to death instead of himself, then facing those consequences though. He could have done a minor but real good and redeemed some small shred of his humanity if he had.

I think it's the mobile-phone camera version of a double exposure. AI in the sense that it's the camera software that automatically tries to stitch together a single image from a long exposure of something in motion, probably in low light conditions. Someone who knows more about it correct me if I'm wrong, of course. But I have some images of my (one) cat with two heads like this just from taking a pic of him at dusk with my phone using default camera settings. They weren't so perfectly and humorously aligned as this one though!

So just to be clear, the graph is not real. It's not just the flavor text that was added to make it a meme, the lines are just drawn in too. So much about this not believable, like that close to 0 percent of democrats thought it would be a good idea to bomb Iran a day before it was bombed? (Come on, it was much higher than that). And then they polled repeatedly over the next few hours and just over the course of that day it jumped to 25% but then dropped back down to zero after it happened. Yeah, nah.

The sentiment may be correct but to people in the comments taking this as valid information, please consider these kinds of things more carefully.

They're not though! At all! This is about protecting themselves from reprisal, not shame.

Might be neat if, in addition to the chant, dd2idf became a popular acronym kinda like acab.

I don't think they would use a nuke yet either. I agree what you said is the most likely thing to happen at this stage. But the question I was addressing was what the entity meant or what they're trying to project by saying "we will act alone" if you, Trump admin, don't do what we want.

edit to add: When I read the "act alone" thing, to me that sounds like they're saying "we'll go all the way and use our nukes, so you'd better help us now before we do something that would hurt you as well." It doesn't mean that is what they would actually do, but it could be some telling posturing. Even then it's an open question if saying they'll "act alone" is really a threat aimed at a genuinely reluctant Trump admin or just something they're projecting to give the US even more cover to make it look like the poor, calm, rational US is in a tough spot but just has no choice but to strike Iran directly.

Isn't this a thinly veiled threat they would use a nuke? Not to give the fascists credit for an ounce of intelligence, but since it is so clear to everyone that they have already been "acting" without direct US involvement, to me it sounds like they're saying they will act by using that one thing they never outright say they have but have been holding over everyone, even their allies, as a threat for decades. Aren't they saying "we'll do the ultimate escalation if you don't escalate by joining us"?

In my experience they'll usually have a retort for that with some bullshit about "authoritarianism" and how the Soviets were forcing the population to work focused only upon the will of the party. It doesn’t make sense of course, but it doesnt have to, it only has to fit with the narrative they already believe.

There was that post the other day with someone at the protests propping up a sign saying "If Kamala were president, we'd all be at brunch" or something like that. To me, it was very clearly a criticism of the liberals there who would not have cared if a dem were in office, the kind of thing one of us might put on a sign for these protests, but almost everyone commenting on that post was assuming the sign was meant to be taken at face value. The top comment said:

"this place is beyond hopeless. i don't have the words to describe the despair that these lib "protests" are engendering in me"

That is the kind of doomerist, nihilistic, non-dialectical nonsense that I think OP is addressing here.

When I pointed out that even the olive cocktail cutouts made it obvious it was irony-protesting, I was berated for "giving a white american the benefit of the doubt." Like wtf, what percentage of this very site is white american again? Some of them are capable of being comrades. It was weird to me how much people in that thread just wanted to think everyone at those protests are the equivalent of .world libs. One of the predominant sentiments on hexbear about the prostests are to be ridiculed and nothing more. That they are worse than ineffective, they are somehow only heling the bourgeoisie. And don't get me wrong, I am well aware of the many completely valid criticisms of these protests and their inadequacy to effect real change. But the kind of attitude that jack is addressing in this OP is absolutely something that is prevalent here and needs to be addressed.

Apparently there's a contingent of people here who are happier believing no one outside of their niche internet forums are capable of using irony to laugh at libs. Also especially no cracker can possibly be a leftist and make a sign that ridicules brunch libs (unless they're one of the crackers on this site which is like 85% mayo). Its almost like a form of except inversed, refusing to see the potential coolness of others and denying that comrades do exist out there who do funny things things offline.

Well first of all, being sorta one myself I'd like to think that every once in a while they are deserving of it, some of them can earn it through past actions. But also, I'm not necessarily even doing that because we don't know who made that sign, could just as easily be the person behind the camera as the person propping it up or someone else entirely.

Doesn't matter though, the way I see it that sign speaks for itself whoever made it. I can't look at it and think it's doing anything other than pointing and laughing at the brunch libs. And saying that doesn't feel like I'm being optimistic or generous either, I just don't think an actual brunch lib would make that sign that way.

Exactly. The brunch thing is too well-known of a criticism for this not to be a self-aware sign. And the little cocktail 🍸 cutouts? Yeah, come on, there's no way this person isn't just making fun of the libs.