@cstross @ianbetteridge Come ON you guys it's so simple!
1) eradicate the powerless scapegoats
2) all power to the beneficent corporate overlords
3) glimmering techno-utopian escapist fantasies
Why can't we all just think like unreflective cis het rich white men, duh
@jameshowell @cstross @ianbetteridge Brazil and Serbia seem to have a problem thinking like unreflective cis het rich white men today (YAY!) unlike BC which mastered the art of Conservative Groupthink yesterday. #elections.
@503bartley @cstross @ianbetteridge Say what you will about the sovereign medium-sized powers outside the NATO/Zionist consensus—Brazil swings back and forth, and it sure is hard to cheer for Russia, China, Iran, India.... But it is important to the world for them to present an epistemic alternative to the neoliberal psyops juggernaut.
Which is why Putin's Ukraine and Trump's Iran are such astonishing strategic blunders. Breathtaking stupidity almost to match the appalling criminality.
Oct 26, 2026, 3:46 AM@jameshowell @cstross @ianbetteridge But if you’re too effective at “eliminating” the scapegoats, you’ll need to find new scapegoats. Freemasons or something.