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Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan: started out as a reaction against the “peace and love” vibe of the late 60s. Influenced by Ayn Rand and sophomoric readings of Nietzsche. The old-school edgelord assholes, though these days, the mainstream political right has largely caught up with them.

The Satanic Temple: either Goths for Social Justice or a performance-art project (“what if Satanism, but nice?” and “what if we used freedom of religion against the fundies?”). Very much against racism/sexism/the Religious Right, for LGBT rights, etc. There has been some criticism of the founders and whether they’re Milkshake Duck, though they largely introduced the Nice Satanism meme.

Global Order of Satan: largely UK/European network, influenced by TST but critical of the organisation. Generally good guys. Strongly involved in social-justice activism. They have affiliates, such as Sataniska Samfundet in Sweden and GOS Polska in Poland.

Order of Nine Angles: neo-Nazi edgelords who relish being evil. Very much not the good guys.

The worst thing about Satanism is that you have to do a lot of research to know whether that new group are nice goths for social justice or some kind of neo-Nazi paedophile ring or something. It’s like extreme metal bands.

File under “world’s stupidest motherfuckers”

Next round of elections, Le Pen wins France, Vox takes Spain, AfD establish the new German Reich, FPÖ win Austria and immediately vote for Anschluß 2.0, and the new Swedish PM is Jimmie Åkesson. Hungary remains unchanged. (Not sure if they’d bother with the Polish election, given that Russia, Germany and Hungary are just going to partition it, for old time’s sake.)

If that’s the terrain you have to fight on, there’s not much you can do about it.

If you get high enough, the idea of heavier-than-air objects not inevitably succumbing to gravity may fill you with wonder as well.

You may also want to add Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” to this list. Zweig was a Viennese Jew who escaped* the Nazis, and wrote poignantly about the world he has loved that was lost to Hitler. Today’s Zweigs would write about the mundane, taken-for-granted world before 2017.

* he and his wife managed to make it to Argentina, but then, a year or so before the end of the war, committed suicide. Being safe from physical harm doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve escaped.

What’s stopping Trump from sending the armed forces (or just the FBI in), arresting the Californian government and appointing an administrator?

And second question: who decides whether this is, in fact, unconstitutional?

No, they’ll just blame it on minorities

But he won’t, because that’s Not Who We Are, and When They Go Low, We Go High.

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

Username checks out.