Post #2306245

2026-03-16 10:07 UTC

Tangentially, I'm also tired of the whole "The fascists have taken the wrong lesson from dystopian fiction!" people. For the love of all of our mental healths, THEY DO NOT CARE. It's aesthetics to them. They do not give a single solitary shit that they don't understand the themes and morals of dystopian novels. Hell, we know they don't understand what they read; Elon Musk made a great display of entirely misunderstanding the point of Hitchhiker's Guide. He doesn't care that he doesn't know what it means; to him, it means what he says it means. It means what he forces it to mean. That is how he sees it. That is also not an education problem. That is a problem of how self-interested fascists (same thing) behave and believe the world to work. No amount of education is going to fix that.

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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-16 10:08

Your 'gotcha' points aren't going to end the problems of the world, and you've gotta quit this shit.

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@auriblackcat@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-16 10:34

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems A lot of people just refuse to see fascists and conservatives as anything other than naive, instead of actors with their own horrifying logic, motives and ethical framework. Which to be honest just shows more about their unexamined assumptions about "intelligence" (assumptions deeply rooted in white supremacy...), than anything else. For them it is more about making a liberal hierarchy of thought, then to engage with how the logic of fascism functions, how to take it apart, and how to destroy it... cause that would mean also having to engage with how they profit from these things. It is so frigging disheartening...

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@enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-22 08:55

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems i just hate that they take stories that i love, stories that warn about shit they are doing, and drag them through the mud by treating them as aesthetics and using them for their fascist agenda. As someone who loves dystopian literature it upsets me to see it used that way. It depresses me to see anti-authoritarian art be twisted into their propaganda. It feels like a slap in the face.

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