Sure, and maybe it’s part of what pushes us to something better, but to act like it won’t have effects is not helpful.

Right now, a crisis for capitalism is a crisis for all of us, because that’s where we live.

The Internet in 1995 was an amazing place. You could find so many scholarly articles and weird funny sites, but every place to chat was full of creepy old men trying to meet kids. Which we thought was hilarious until we got a bit older and realized some of our friends were trying to meet them back. You’d accidentally find all manner of horrific shit, but there was information available. It wasn’t all true but it was almost all honest.

Which is wildly different from today where it feels like almost none of it’s honest. Even the stuff that’s true is only selectively true and trying to manipulate us into a worse place.

In the nineties fox news was strong and we were already experiencing a lot of it’s style of selective truth coupled with outright lies from other places, too. On the Internet at the time it was a lot easier to avoid that stuff.

Presumably

I once admitted to a professor after a particular class that I was too intent on looking engaged that day and forgot to actually engage with the material. She was heartbroken!

Well if that’s in there, 12 year old me definitely missed it.

They pretty clearly want fascism. Just not under Trump

Yeah in small doses they can work, generally it’s just better to talk to them

I chuckled once reading the story, but if it was my kid I’d be furious for a day and think it was hilarious for weeks, including that day

Punishments are like the least effective way to convince/teach someone

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I don’t think you’re wrong but I think Trump is legitimately getting worried about hell. He may not believe but he fears.