ben chambers 🏴

remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something

boardroom redemption

historically when white supremacy feels threatened it expands the bounds of whiteness to grow its coalition, and when it feels hegemonic it indulges in retracting those bounds, making finer ethnic distinctions and revoking formerly awarded probationary status

*climatic finish* "...the Meritocrats!"

my fave thing about the sequels is their deconstruction of the 'system of control'/man-vs-machine trope, revealing the matrix to be an emergent biotechnic-ecosystem that humans and synthetic lifeforms mutually rely on but that ai's tried to centrally plan creating periodic runaway externality crises

reminder that the vile "haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets" hoax was an antiblack recapitulation of antisemitic blood libel--morbid rumor-mongering alleging arcane blood rituals by a diabolicized other involving kidnapped innocents anyway vance is a nazi hog wallowing in his own filth