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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • And writing the action instead of showing, which it basically is doing. It would probably be punchier with a slightly different arrangement of first panel old man says something off screen, panel 2 is horrified close up, third and fourth panel show the slow reversing character.



  • It seems so classically gatekeeping to say “populism” because it implies that just because its popular with people it’s bad. Trump attracts grifters. They call themselves “entrepreneur” or “business minded” but it’s all a big ecosystem of ideology driven spending. It isn’t “popular with people” - it’s madness overtaking the gullible and uncurious.

    Each and every one of his followers are ardent dollar chasers who see themselves as deserving of the same treatment as the wealthy elites. They are all at varying stages of luck and yet none will admit that luck has anything to do with success. They are delusional, not popular.

    So it isn’t “populism” that drives merch. It’s the echo chamber of greed.









  • All religions have zealots that gatekeep and threaten others to think the same way or die. It just happens to be Christians this time. Right now in other parts of the world, Hindi and Islam have the very same problems. I’m sure there’s some crazy Buddha sect but I just don’t want to fall into a zealot rabbit hole right now so I’m not going to look it up. But overwhelmingly this is the pattern for religions - be exciting, be inviting, guard the members, rule the members, die together (war or self harm).

    If it weren’t for religion we would have mental health solved but the crazy people who become cult leaders convince enough people that the healers are the danger. Religion gives an equal voice to the insane.