User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Pink Winker and Boseph becoming friends in Tomodachi Life

picking over the corpse of the economy, what a great look.

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away.
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

The criminal system (including immigration) is a weapon, and people weaponize it. There's no "neutral" use of police and prosecutors.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

I know I keep beating this drum, but 80% of this country's government based problems revolve around the fact we have infinite friction to create literally any social, transportation, or educational programs, and absolutely zero friction to just kill people.

I think these looks maxing freaks aren’t hitting themselves in the face with hammers hard enough.

"[O]ur tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and [elsewhere] than to feed and educate children ... Instead of spending even more of our hard-earned dollars on war and mass deportation, we deserve a massive reinvestment in making [the US] a place where we can all survive and thrive."

Isn’t it something how this is the default response in every industry, every subculture, every setting, across the political spectrum

Alex says "well, economy's fucked. Time to start camming." She asks herself "what's my niche?" She gets an idea. She has set up a sexual version of Cow Tools. Her friend says "I don't get it..."

my hormones are whack right now too smh didn't sleep last night, been hot for like two days, and now i'm dizzy

the love of my life's urn finally got here today and it's beautiful but my day really shifted after that

Large language models adopt an authoritarive tone and can sound convincing even when they're full of shit, which coincidentally also describes mediocre white businessmen.

nancy sluggo olivia jaimes and caroline cash holding hands and skipping in front of a banner that reads "how life is when you don't read the comments"

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

my husband is married to me, a beautiful woman, and he never spends time harassing women online. have some of these guys thought of trying that?

Hey unless you plan to have kiddos soon, it’s time to seriously consider an OB/Gyn appointment to discuss long-acting birth control.

Links in replies for

- docs in the US who will sterilize you even if you haven’t had kids prior

- docs in the US who will offer pain control for IUD insertion

actual nytimes headline FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides

the nytimes:

And here we have it, tangible evidence that attacks on porn are also attacks on sex ed and sexual health:

Sometimes I wonder if working from home for so long has turned me into a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird. Then I remember that I have always been a goblin who cannot be trusted to interact with other people without making it weird.

I’m not losing my citizenship before Ted Cruz I’mma tell you that right now.

Residential ‘school’ survivors reunited with childhood art, hidden for decades: ‘They’ve survived, the same as all of us’ When a priest reputedly ordered a teacher to destroy children's paintings, he instead hid them at home — now the pieces are seeing the light of day

“All of these paintings were supposed to be destroyed by the instructions of that priest,” said Eugene Arcand, a MacKay survivor from Muskeg Lake First Nation.

“But they’ve survived, the same as all of us have survived.”

Story by Crystal Greene

indiginews.com/arts/residen...

really wanted to get an italian charm bracelet again and had all the charms picked out.....then found out i'm gonna get a $500 radiology bill because my insurance changed the rules??

happy trans day of visibility to all of the incredible trans people in my life. the world is better with you in it and I'm never going to stop fighting for you, because your fight is my fight. we're in this together.

Federal Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Attacks Against Endangered Species Act, Restores Bedrock Environmental Law to Pre-Trump Status Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

“thank you for your service, now get your family the fuck out of this country”

never beating the cartoon villain allegations

The Olympics Anti-Trans Policy Is Really about Policing Women | The Walrus Here’s one more barrier men won’t have to face

“This policy will subject women athletes to extra financial costs to participate […] They will have their bodies placed under a microscope. And any woman who doesn’t visibly conform to arbitrary markers of womanhood will face intense social and medical scrutiny […]”

thewalrus.ca/the-olympics...

just hurt my wrist while pulling my hair up?? 🥀

When you hear them
reminiscing 
about the early weeks
of this pandemic 
by asking:
“Remember
baking sourdough?” 
by asking:
“Remember
zoom hangouts?”
By asking:
“Remember
the tiger show?” 
ask them: 
“Remember
protecting each other?”

as I read this, it's jumping out at me that Dred Scott v. Sandford sought to exclude even free Black Americans from citizenship, so when Trump n em wrongly claim that the 14th Amendment was only for the babies of enslaved people, they're saying the 14th Amendment didn't actually overturn Dred Scott

“But think of all the good things AI could do”

Yeah, rich people have said that about money forever, and yet I’ve almost never seen them use it for good so forgive me if I’m wary