I think he’s the same guy. I used to try to bust him up but he just kept multiplying into more pieces and then coming back whole every time I saw a new mirror, so I eventually gave up

I added the part about voting for the Democrats, as a joke. He said “you are in the belly of the beast”.

“You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all. You get to vote for the Democrats.”

• Ernesto “Che” Guevara

ich liebe der cuckstuhl

I checked with that other gorilla who lives in the bathroom and he says you’re wrong

I misinterpreted this for a second and thought you were saying you would lynch the ghost

Depends on the gun and the entity. A shotgun is a good general purpose weapon against most entities, especially since you can load it with rock salt, silver, or anything else an entity might be weak to.

A given type of gun might work better against certain entities, for instance a WW2 vintage mosin-nagant will be effective against Germanic entities like the krampus, while a cowboy ghost might have to be put down with a colt single action army. You can also anoint bullets with holy water, stuff like that.

They probably stopped steam-opening letters, so the mail is probably more secure than any kind of electronic communication. But basically, no, unless you have advanced encryption and state-level equipment produced with secure supply chains (i.e. you’re a member of the Chinese MSS using a ministry-issued device), you have to assume that anything electronic is compromised. The internet is a tool of the enemy and must be treated as insecure.

That isn’t to say you can’t criticize the government online. You can (and should!) call them Nazi pedophiles all day long and they won’t do anything about it. Unless you’re leaking classified information or plotting to overthrow the state, the worst thing that could happen is that you’ll be put on a list of people to be rounded up in the event of severe civil unrest.

I’m mildly peeved at the great Satan, the United $nakes of AmeriKKKa

Basic living standards are very expensive, you see. We would like to do something but we can’t

Which part, Tracer Tong, or the MKULTRA total control panopticon?

Tracer Tong is just a character from the 2000 computer game Deus Ex. He encourages the player to overload the reactor and destroy the facility at Area 51, taking with it the infrastructure supporting the Aquinas net and ending global communication. This frees people from control by the secret government, but brings the world into a new dark age.

As for the rest, MKULTRA is probably a stretch, but there’s a lot of evidence that the internet was intended for mass surveillance right from the start. It’s common knowledge that the internet originated as a distributed communication network that could survive many nodes being knocked out in a nuclear attack, but Surveillance Valley (2018) convincingly makes the case that the real origin was gathering and structuring intelligence - computer systems used in the Vietnam war to compile data gathered from sensors deployed in the Ho Chi Minh trail to track VC and PAVN movements, and computer systems used in the US proper to compile data on dissidents.

No matter the origin, it’s obvious that the internet is used as a surveillance tool. Even just on the commercial side, you have data brokers buying up user data from sites and apps, all of whom build detailed profiles on users. All of this information is compiled to build marketing profiles. Naturally, the state also has access to all of this information, and they work hand-in-glove with the tech companies. They also have access to everything on the “internet-of-things”, so every smart speaker, or just anything internet-connected with a microphone in it is a listening device; every suburban street has a network of surveillance cameras in the form of smart doorbells. Almost everyone on earth carries an internet-connected camera and microphone on them at all times.

At the same time, we all give our opinions freely on public forums, all of which can be correlated by IP, e-mail address, or associated accounts with a specific person. Sifting through all this data is no longer a problem now that they have sophisticated machine learning algorithms - dossiers can be compiled and updated automatically.

So, the state knows who you are, where you are, what you think, and can listen in on any conversation you have unless you’re far away from any phone or internet-connected device. Algorithms can be adjusted to subtly shift beliefs and behaviours. It’s a machine for total surveillance and control, and it’s important to remember in light of recent revelations regarding the Epstein files, that it’s controlled by Nazi pedophiles.

Fair enough, then

You’d be better off stepping around, he’s very fat

Tracer Tong knew the way. We have to destroy the MKULTRA total control panopticon known as the internet.

Yes, my father is orange and my mom is green. That means I get my solar panels from a forced labour camp.

That would make perfect sense if it wasn’t for the signs pointing in other directions: The star on a gear is very reminiscent of communist imagery, the green/orange flag is a reskin of the anarcho-communist flag (yes, there are other variants for other kinds of anarchist, but they’re even less relevant than anarcho-communists), and the naming format (greenist-orangeite) is more reminiscent of “anarcho-communist” than the Nazi formulation of “National Socialist” or the anarcho-nazi formulation of “National Anarchist.” I can only see this being about communists and anarcho-communists from a disgruntled anarchist of some type. Perhaps a solarpunk guy.

Death to israel

I think it is? The only other ideology would be anarcho-capitalism (lol), but a star on a gear as symbology would seem to preclude that. All in, it’s not a very coherent comic.

Hard not to look at Peter Thiel or Alex Karp and think they belong anywhere more pleasant than a forced labour camp

I’d actually be all for just keeping this current system, put in Norway style socialism for taking care of sick poor and old, tax billionaires 99%, and make money in politics illegal. Oh and outlaw controlled centralized social media while we’re at it.

Well they’re not going to do that. At this point you would need a revolution to get it done, so why not just go all the way and actually overthrow them rather than just asking concessions?

There was an interesting tidbit in the Epstein files released recently. It was from a third person to Epstein, referencing a conversation Epstein had with Bill Gates about “how to get rid of poor people as a whole.” Given that the only other interpretation of that is “how to ensure all the poor people have a good standard of living and are therefore no longer poor”, and that’s the least likely thing that Epstein would be talking to Bill Gates about, it’s pretty obvious what it means. They certainly aren’t doing much about global warming, and it’s poised to kill an awful lot of people, but I strongly suspect there’s more to it than that.

You say that communism is “easily harnessed by a small power group to starve everyone and have them live terrible lives.” The USSR had its last famine in 1947, and China had its last famine in 1961. They also both had massive increases to the standard of living. Compare that to the capitalist world order, which I will remind you is run by Nazi pedophiles - 10 million people die of hunger every year, and they’ve been supporting Israel’s genocidal bombing and starvation campaign against Gaza. I don’t see how some theoretical communist tyranny could be any worse than this.