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There’s a lot of stupidity to unpack in that first tweet.

• “I’m called a Nazi” honestly first I’m hearing of it, so to me this is self identification
• “White culture” I imagine grimes here is saying “anything that someone who would at first glance look like a modern white person has done in all of history”
• “Brown king Cyrus the Great” I’m not racist because one of the historical figures i think about every day is brown!
• “who invented the first empire” ah yeah he MacGuyver’d one together with pure brown ingenuity, sticktoitiveness, and a plastic straw
• “Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu[‘s] … first novel ever” tangent: perhaps this is just my own brand of degeneracy on display here: grimes is referring to “The Tale of Genji”, which I mainly know about because some of the core relationships in the book revolve around adults grooming their wards into spouses (it was a different time), which has popped up nowadays in the discourse of some fiction coming out of Japan (see Usagi Drop). So I’m tempted to project onto grimes a veneration for grooming, which kinda tracks, but it’s a stretch.
• “What if humans just loved each other?” You’re like 3 years late to former IDF member Gal Gadot’s imagine video

Gotta love the way that TESCREALnts write and how they have a tendency to generate fractally stupid things like this. There’s so much more you could say. Basically, if I could say “that’s not how any of this works” to Grimes, I would.

(yes, tho i was more making a joke about how “nazism” is shorthand for “national socialism”)

I really do want to participate in this snark and agree, but unfortunately there are at least two kinds of nazis: credulous folk (like grimes) that lack the wherewithal to critically assess fascist ideology, and people ideologically motivated to be nazis (e.g. rich capitalists), who can be “smart”, for many definitions/synonyms of smart.

Ok sure, so she’s an idiot nazi then, and has been for a while.

Real socialism has a little nationalism in it

She’s 35 and her sum total understanding of culture and race has lead to this. I think she has been effectively a Nazi from way back.

Big Karen energy.

P.S. money laundering is fascinating.

didn’t think I’d quote myself so soon but

Thanks dawg. AOC has occupied the working part of my brain but now that it requires more brain wrinklies than usual I’m gonna go back to writing sneers.

Moore’s Three Laws:

• That thing about ICs
• The thing he said about ICs is just about ICs and maybe transistors. Also it’s a pattern observation and not a rule, why do you keep saying it’s a law?
• People will invoke Moore’s first law to say the dumbest shit ever and people will fucking eat it up. Nothing gets capitalists in a fervour like the promise of exponential growth.

Happy Holidays everyone. I’ve decided I am going to take a break from aoc to properly rest and recover from my mystery illness. Perhaps I will attempt solves again in the new year.

Basically: “If we don’t platform the nazis, where will all the hard earned nazi money go?”