Sure. There are fascist artists where I’ll point at a thing and say ‘yeah but… That one though.’. Dali’s stuff always seemed transgressive only because it was shallow, peurile. Derisive without being insightful or critical. He did not slaughter sacred cows; he only reveled in his privilege and what he could get away with. His art was never engagement, only masturbation. What did he ever subvert? What did he contribute? What did he say that mattered for shit?

And I say this wearing a barely-changed twenty dollar knockoff of a barely changed simplified Chanel pattern made just the way she would have, so I’m literally laying in evidence that I can appreciate beauty or discourse from spectacularly shitty people.

I thought it was because of how often he put himself in peoples’ line of sight.

I don’t see why we let people with criminal skull shapes be in charge of anything.

Maybe they mean in the same way trump is not himself ideologically fascist, he’s just doing it, and the moment he gets a call from mamdani calls him he’ll be a (longian) socialist until he leaves the room.

Or not.

The periphery is of course the past.

You can’t really expect the BBC of all networks to be nuanced about this thing.

Now, ask them about sizes and colors of dicks…

The olds do it too and it’s so much worse for them.

The thing is, expertise can manifest as tyranny.

Rather than using education to find our way around this and equalize power, we’ve just made stupid-fascism and expert hegemony because everyone with certification is sick of a guy on Facebook who describes himself as a ‘ball tanning influencer’ telling them their 20 years as senior person at the CDC on the front lines of epidemiology and decade of med school are worth nothing.

We must never improve. Nothing must ever improve.

There is a market for trash food at trash food prices. Sucks we don’t have any sort of mechanism in our communist shit hole country to fill unexploited market niches. Capitalism, real capitalism, would have fixed this. Its priests told me so.

Can be. Rarely is.

Send? Don’t they yearn for the mines?

Sure, you could just make some shit up. That also works.

‘What we do in the shadows’ if ‘the real world’ house was set in the ‘vampire: the masquerade’ setting, but everyone is just as petty and cringe despite being 500 year old vampires. Spun off from feature film of the same name.

‘Bojack horseman’ whip smart surrealist comedy/merciless knife twisting too-real drama about a washed up actor in 2010s hollywood. Revels in clever tounge twisters, word play, and sprinkling dry humor on the cringe-horror. Animated, brutally real, suffused with a quiet desperation that can be painful to watch while making the jokes no less funny.

‘The good place’ what if moral philosophy 101 was a funny joke? But like really funny. All four seasons. some of the pop culture references aged a little, but the core premise is rock solid and about half the jokes are about people who have been dead for centuries or mythologies originally inscribed on stone.

‘King of the hill’ and ‘silicon valley’ borderline anthropological studies of turn if the century small town Texas and 2010s silicon valley from the guy who made ‘idiocracy’. Affectionately mocking and mercilessly vicious, respectively. They haven’t aged perfectly, but they’re still brilliant insightful and funny. Some of the bits are timeless, the characters are amusing even if some look different from post-2020, and the depth of understanding mike judge gives these people is truly stunning.

‘Reno911’ a parody of ‘cops’, cops, and the city of reno centering on members of the reno police department. Has aged far too well. Watch an episode or two if you’re swamped in copaganda. I have no fucking clue how this got made. Having lived in reno for a year in my youth and interacted with police, I can say I didn’t know it was scripted for the entire first season.

‘Madoka magicka’ just a really good twee magical girl show from a feminist perspective. Pay no attention to the quiet girl with the shotgun, the uncanny architecture, or the twee magic pet thing’s choice of food.

‘Kill la kill’ the sexualization of young girls is a problem. You, young girl, must save us by dressing extra slutty and doing lots of violence. This one is fine for kids.

‘Ghost in the shell: stand alone complex’ its old cyberpunk, so it’s aged a bit, and is somewhat copaganda, but is still remarkably good. Season two is like a different thing and not any good.

‘Doom patrol’ people with big superpowers and bigger mental illnesses spending basically all their time in every part of comic book nonsense absolutely not allowed in an ‘avengers’ movie-too smart, too weird, too gross, too subversive, too hostile to expectations. A self aware ontologically queer street is a major side character, and that doesn’t even stand out. You need to watch it.

03’s ‘battlestar galactica’ a sequel to an older show of the same name that didn’t really matter. Keeps coming up and I endorse, even if its kind of genx shitlib sometimes.

‘Better off ted’ basically likable upper manager at The Evil Company circa late 2000s.

Not sure if I wanted to include it here, because it’s so god damn basic, but ‘breaking bad’ really is spectacular. The acting, and the way they use death as a motif is really fucking cool. But if you can’t with basic-bitch white heteros, you shouldn’t bother. The spinoff ‘better call Saul’ is also very good, and less cringeily basic-bitch.

There was one time they didn’t, and the rest of the libs haven’t forgiven them

Not true! We’ve all heard of the communist part…

Oh they don’t anymore do they?

We can fix that.

With no regard to how big stuff is/was, because OP hadn’t seen Chernobyl.

‘Chernobyl’ is up there. Brutal indictment of a hypercorrupt dying empire that only cares about power and is built almost entirely on lies contrasted with the people it happens to, who largely embody the ideals their government lies about; the heroism of a dead culture striving to save everyone from some of the fuckers who killed it.

‘Andor’ star wars, but about antifascism instead of wuxia bullshit or daddy issues. Some of the best TV ever made. Weaves in links to history and obscure star wars apocrypha. It’s everything it should be and more with amazing layered deliberate fast-slow-fast pacing. There’s a long-payoff joke that is also the serious culmination of the first season’s meta-arc (the first season of that show would be about five seasons of anything else) and half the fans didn’t even notice.

‘Severance’ or the ~decade earlier whedon-directed much more sex focused show it was linked to, ‘dollhouse’ if you need fast pace or a slightly more dramatic version of what the internet is now. Low-scifi corpo-surrealism about the ways we treat identity. The two versions come to very different conclusions.

‘Scavengers’ reign’ beautiful uncanny man-vs-nature space narrative, haunting sound track, amazing in every way that matters.

‘Westworld’ only season 1. Its About Things. No not just the robots. They left some plot threads unresolved for season 2, but they’re not really what’s important and each season is exponentially worse, riding the first season’s nonstop hitting. Season 2 is still okay I guess.

‘daredevil’ Netflix version, season 1 only. There’s more but its not the same quality.

‘Cowboy bebop’ everybody’s favorite film noir space (neo?)western. Dripping with cool. Remade a few years later in a historically accurate Japan right after the consolidation of the Tokugawa dynasty with arguably 10% less style and 30% tighter production.

‘Kaos’ though it was left extremely unfinished. High budget modern Greek mythology soup. As gay and misothiest as you would ex0ect if you had actually read any.

‘Peacemaker’ murder-himbo realizes he might be one of the bad guys while trying to save the world with/from the CIA immediately post-‘the suicide squad’.

‘Harley Quinn’ batman villain fucks around, continues fucking around, occasionally finds out. But lesbianly, sharp unhinged comedy.

‘Futurama’ fox seasons/original run only. Occasionally heart wrenching SciFi comedy that’s not trying to be as edgy as ‘rick and Morty’ later would. Definitely aged, but smart enough it’s aged gracefully.

‘True detective’ season 1 only. The rest are fine, I guess. Southern Gothic neo-noir ambiguously fantasy.

‘Star trek: deep space nine’ a space station on the edge of falgsc utopia orbiting space-palestine as the toned down space zios do space-zio things. 90s in all the best ways and very few of the worst.

Or the more woo-scifi version which aired I think simultaneously, ‘Babylon 5’.

‘Community’ very few comedy shows age this well.

‘Lovecraft country’ endritch horror and american racism standing in frame next to each other, while the arc and the anthology flirt over a meal of ‘how to love SciFi as a marginalized person?’. The most beautiful wholesome profound bed covered in gore you’ve ever watched coincidentally ‘is this gay, and if so what kind?’ sex on.

I’ll add more later, and there are more certain people need to see but others don’t necessarily.

You defeat it by treating them like people who have been ruined by a dangerous violent mental illness. Possibly the only one that makes people more likely to hurt others than themselves. Cut that special exception out of the DSM and just diagnose it for what it is.

Transfer all that stigma where it belongs. Be condescending and cautious as you would about anyone else shouting about their imaginary friend in public.

I don’t think you understand. When you or I do it it’s just sparkling violence. When the state does it; its order.

You can be bitchy at a third party together. Make it a bonding experience.