RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • This would make me cartoonishly mad. Like my skin turning incrementally red like a rising thermometer, smoke whistling out of my ears like an old steam whistle, banging my head with a wooden mallet while simultaneously pulling my beard while stars fly out of my head, transforming into a missile and blasting off through the roof only to explode into a firework that spell out the phrase “Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin” in the sky, yelling “Yaaaah-ha-ha-ha-whooy!” as I fall to the earth, leaving a me shaped hole in the ground that I promptly cover up with my rubber hose arms and hands that extend out of ground, while a tombstone springs up at the head of my grave with a loud ka-ching cash register sound, while taps plays, levels of mad.

    You know what I mean?










  • Yeah I struggled to find another way to phrase it, because even the idea of being critical is highly dependent on your perspective. You have to have a level of skepticism I think to even begin to be critical. Liberalism is constantly working to ensure that you never become skeptical of its own institutions or ideas. Deeply uncurious might be a more accurate way to say it, or passive consumers of media. The whole phenomenon of fact checking and media bias is rooted in things like Russiagate and Covid misinformation.

    This idea of objective truth or empirical truth as applied to factuality in media attempts to collapse the realm of what is possible or to narrow the scope of reality. Its attached to liberal obsession with institutions and ideas and their infallibility. Take the the Washington Post. Media Bias Fact Check says it has a LEFT-CENTER BIAS. Meanwhile, you have Jeff Bazos preventing them from endorsing a candidate and then saying their opinion pages will “defend free market and ‘personal liberties’”. But liberals will not recall that, they’ve probably forgotten these things even happened. To them WaPo isn’t a conservative rag so its good. Even the idea of what is Left is part of the ruling ideas. Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Anarchism, are all regulated to fringe status, deeply equated with fascism to dilute their character, with the goal of excluding them from the “Left” category, which is how you arrive at “LEFT-CENTER BIAS”.