How is it easier to delete a post every time than to set preferences to not be emailed just once, then you never have to again?

He comes complete with the “hey this guys a phony!” character to heckle Musk.

If it’s generating discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If I participate in the discussion, I upvote, regardless of how many votes it has.

If people are participating in the discussion in good faith, I upvote, regardless of how many votes each comment has.

It’s the only way to boost engagement in the community, by pushing quality discussions and posts to the top.

Also my instance disabled downvoting so I don’t do that.

It doesn’t make sense, either. There’s no rational reason to delete a thread after the question has been answered.

Even if it wasn’t actually a person but was an AI agent asking questions so it can scrape the data from the answers, there’s no real utility in deleting the posts after receiving responses. It just seems so weird.

Matter is inefficient, become energy.

Brad Pitt plays the character Tyler Durden in the film Fight Club, from which the bottom is a still photo. Thus that is Tyler Durden, from the film Fight Club, as portrayed by Brad Pitt.

Nobody with sweet kicks like those is a biter. Don’t worry li’l homie, the streets got your back.

“In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.”

Tyler Durden in Fight Club. There’s a similar, slightly shorter version in the film when the narrator is in his “coma” and wakes up to Tyler gone, this is the dialogue Tyler speaks as he is abandoning the narrator just as the narrator’s own father abandoned him.

I don’t know how to read that any more clearly as a complete rejection of modernity, not just consumer culture.

I haven’t read this book in almost 20 years myself, but I remember these salient aspects of the text.

EDIT: Does no one else remember this kind of media from the early 2000’s (and really made it around on reddit, it was quite popular) clearly inspired by Fight Club and the “what to do in an emergency” flight cards, which the comic obviously mimics. To act like this wasn’t a major theme is literally absurd. The comic is presented in “how-to” format starting as a white collar office worker riot that eventually leads to the office being a tribal society inside the office building.

Obviously Fight Club Inspired Comic:

Emergency Flight Card from Fight Club:

Bottom-center. This is if like the bottom was Steve Bannon.

2. Rejection of modernism. He literally wants to return to a tribal society. He says this specifically in both the book and film, he describes the future he sees:

“In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.”

5. Fear of difference. He literally beats the shit out of the pretty guy for being “different” and pretty. Project Mayhem are all forced to dress the same and have no names. They are forced to shave their heads and become his “space monkeys.” They are berated for a week in front of the building before being accepted. EDIT: Further, this treatment of the Project Mayhem recruits is authoritarian, they have to follow all Tyler’s rules which they repeat them ad nauseum and they have to shed their prior identity to fit into the new group.

6. Cast the enemies as both too strong and too weak. In the film Tyler plans to destroy credit card companies and reset debt to zero, a lot of people would claim the financial system is an enemy that is strong, but also portrayed as weak when they strong-arm the politician threatening to cut his balls off. In the book he wants to destroy museums, destroying history, writing a new history, which is also fascist. He says museums represent a dead world and that “this is our world now.”

7. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. They threaten to cut off people’s balls who threaten to expose them, the cops are literally about to do it to the narrator/Tyler himself at the end of the film, because stopping Project Mayhem is a pacifist route.

8. If you don’t see the contempt for the weak here and how they only accepted Bob into their fold because the narrator pitied him, I don’t know what to tell you. Tyler would have rejected Bob as unfit and weak. When their homework is to go start a fight, the lesson is that most people will avoid fights (and by extension this makes them “weak”). Fight Club is portrayed as “strong” because they will chase a fight. They’re different, they’re special, they’re enlightened by violence (once again, fear of difference).

These are the ones we obviously disagree on, so these are the ones I’m addressing.

But yeah, 10 out of 14 is pretty telling in my opinion. No, this list of Eco’s isn’t definitive, but it’s got good depth and is a good starting point showing that clearly Tyler has fascist tendencies. Enough that I am comfortable calling him fascist

EDIT: Also while there is no strict nationalism, the entire plot is deeply Amero-centric and treats the rest of the world as though it functionally does not exist when it comes to Tyler’s plans.

“You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”

Not. a. single. foreign. airport. Not even Canada.

In 2007 I was in the passenger seat of my girlfriend’s shitty Kia because I didn’t have a car.

We stop at a stoplight and up next to us pulls up a shiny new blue Audi, and two fratbros with popped collars and sporting Oakleys.

Their speakers are on extremely loud and blasting System of a Down, specifically “Fuck the System.”

I couldn’t help but think “Man, I’m pretty sure these guys are the system.”

I mean, presenting themselves as just standing for the common man and wanting to tear down a broken system and don’t have ulterior motives is one hundred percent on brand for fascists.

Also “waahhh, my penthouse is too nice, my job is too boring, I get paid too much and I’m a bored white man” is the narrator, the man Tyler was covering up, a weak man’s idea of a strong man. “I look how you wanna look, I talk how you want to talk, I fuck how you want to fuck.” He is literally a manifestation of what the narrator, a weak person, thinks a strong person is.

He wants to return to a glorified past that never existed by tearing down the current system, a return to where everyone is living off the land like early humans (“climbing the vines growing along the Sears tower”). He promotes the idea that men must return to being warriors, and something about the modern world has made them “weak.” He promotes that such strength must be used to dominate, and claims it can be used to improve people’s lives, as he claims with Raymond K. Hessel (whom Tyler threatens to murder if Hessel does not follow his dreams), despite the fact that Hessel is most likely left devastated with trauma and unable to move forward due to fear of being murdered. We never see Hessel’s outcome, so Tyler gets to pretend he “helped” by completely traumatizing a person (reminds me of Trump bragging about “lifting people off of food stamps” when he actually kicked them off and made them more hungry, his followers don’t see the outcome so they just believe the lie). Tyler captures the attention of disaffected, alienated young men and brings them under his wing to become part of their in-group, making them more likely to go along with extreme demands because now they have found family in Project Mayhem. He literally beats the living shit out of one of his men, destroying his pretty face, and yet still commands the respect of his men while disfiguring one of them potentially permanently. With Project Mayhem he intends to bring about his ideal world by force.

So we have numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of Umberto Eco’s 14 features of Ur-Fascism in Tyler and Project Mayhem, in my opinion.

But sure, he’s not a fascist.

Why does everyone always miss the point that Tyler Durden is a fucking fascist.

Really changes what this meme means.

I gotta pee so bad, my molars are swimming.

I gotta pee so bad I can taste it.

You really don’t want a snake eye in your brown eye

With the way the Trump admin is going I’m surprised they haven’t totally dismantled the ADA already.

1. People without a mobile device are fucked out of being able to pass a captcha

2. As if this isn’t a way for them to associate multiple sessions on multiple specific devices with one another, this is just another avenue for data collection, period. Hidden under the guise of “more secure.”

Yep, it’s still called scrobbling. I have very old tracks in my history that don’t have any timestamps because of the imperfect database changeover when they went from Audioscrobbler to Last.fm. I found that out when exporting my scrobbles to use elsewhere and noticed that my earliest scrobbles weren’t actually pulling timestamps at all, and it was defaulting to them all played on the same day at the same time.