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From:

nastygram

[A beat, and then Darlene laughs.]

Oh my god, dude. Debbie isn't real.

From:

rathercommon

Oh.

[ She frowns, confused. With the slightly resigned uncertainty of someone who's quite used to not having pop culture references and jokes track for her: ]

Then...what's a little debbie treat? Is it some sort of metaphor?

$nastygram: (C:\trollometer)$

From:

nastygram

For what, snatch? No, it's actual snack cakes. Crappy little cakes pumped full of the worst stuff, emulsifiers and wax and oil, which they then make delicious through the power of science. I could straight up live on Cosmic Brownies alone. Those little pebbles on top are like actual crack.

[She goes for a second non-cosmic brownie.]

Are you gonna eat with me or what, I'm stating to feel weird about this.

From:

rathercommon

Hm? Oh, right. Yeah.

[ Kitty leans forward. Even high, she still eats a bit like a bird: tiny nibbles, no more than that. ]

I don't know. I've tried a few of those sorts of things - Billy always promises me they're just so good, like - oh - what are they called - lunch-ables? Something like that, the little pizzas you make on crackers. Or the little pizzas that come on bagels. I think it might be the sort of thing where you have to have grown up with 'em.

$nastygram: (C:\gilley)$

From:

nastygram

Pizza Bagels and Pizza Lunchables are two totally different things, newb.

[She sighs.]

I always wanted that shit, but she-devils do not do pricey junk food for their spawn, or whatever. Kiddie marketing is so fucked up. Get you when you're way too underdeveloped to get that they are owning your brain by associating cartoon pizzas with happiness and parties and everyone standing around in a backyard laughing their heads off.

From:

rathercommon

Well, of course.

[ Kitty leans forward again - not for a brownie this time, but with intense engagement. ]

It's bloody diabolical of them. Same reason that they want to target political education to the very young, isn't it. You don't know that you ought to question.

[ She sits back just a bit, then, though she's no less aggressive for the slight relaxation of her posture. ]

Except here, they don't want lockstep political conformity - they want lockstep commercial conformity. Everyone worshipping at the altar of capitalism.

$nastygram: (C:\ampoff)$

From:

nastygram

Yeah, and fuck capitalism.

[Sitting cross-legged on the couch, Darlene is limited in her movement. She thumps her fist against one of her knees for emphasis anyways.]

Fuck that invisible hand and all those shadowy assholes controlling our lives through bullshit branding and what basically amounts to friggin' mind control. Trying to own us every step of the way. They deserve everything they're gonna get.

From:

rathercommon

I don't know. People like that - they often don't get what they deserve. Rich arseholes, they always wriggle out from under the hand of justice. Or - well - often.

$nastygram: (C:\BFI)$

From:

nastygram

[Now it's Darlene's turn to lean forward, aggressively.]

Which is why they have to get decimated.

From:

rathercommon

[ She sighs - but doesn't immediately disagree, either. A bit of relaxation means a bit more honesty - which means a bit less pacifism. ]

Meaning what, though? Murder?

$nastygram: (C:\derf)$

From:

nastygram

[Darlene rolls her eyes a little.]

Okay, bitch, you were looking for pipe bombs at thirteen. What were you gonna do with them.

From:

rathercommon

[ She shakes her head. ]

Exactly what you think. But I'm not thirteen any longer. I don't think now what I did then.

$nastygram: (C:\gilley)$

From:

nastygram

And that means we've got to go all kumbaya? You know that doesn't work. You just said it. These shitlords are gonna weasel out, unless we do something. Something that sticks.

Assets first. Then asses. I am not afraid of kicking these bastards while they're down because, guess what, that's how they got to where they are today. On the backs of everybody else, who they keep too poor and dumb and beaten down to do anything about it. Inoculated with bullshit to keep them from thinking.

From:

rathercommon

[ Kitty tilts her head to the side and admits: ]

That I would like to see. Very much. But ultimately, other shitty people will just come in to take their place, won't they.

$nastygram: (C:\@-party)$

From:

nastygram

So break their game so no one's got a place to come in. Or break it so it sets back to zero. Give everyone a fair chance to fight. I guarantee those shitlords will still be the ones that eat it the hardest, because they've spent so long screwing other people.

From:

rathercommon

[ The smile that Kitty shoots Darlene is rather opaque. ]

I agree.

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From:

nastygram

[A slight pause, and Darlene narrows her eyes.]

And?

From:

rathercommon

And I guess my next question is...how do you break the system?

$nastygram: (C:\UTSL)$

From:

nastygram

Easy.

[ "Easy". ]

Corrupt it.

From:

rathercommon

[ Tilting her head: ]

And how's that done?

$nastygram: (C:\@-party)$

From:

nastygram

Trojan horse it. That's easiest. Then combo that with sowing distrust and putting people's general fears of Big Brother and Big Business into nice black and white, and start taking heads. Exposing and crippling and leaking to prove a point.

I mean, nobody trusts the shitlords anyways, right. And then you hit them where it hurts which, if we're talking capitalism, is the Almighty Dollar.

From:

rathercommon

Mm.

[ A finger taps against her chin. ]

But how do you keep it from all just going back? To how it was? You bring down a big corporation, show that they're all crooks. Then what? If people get afraid enough of big business, what happens then?

$nastygram: (C:\lenna)$

From:

nastygram

Not a big corporation. All corporations.

[She punctuates this by unfolding one leg and shoving her heel against the coffee table, pushing it out away from the couch.]

Start with the biggest and they will all fall. That takes care of debt. Plus pretty much all money, if you play it right, which also knocks out people's confidence in money to save them.