Of course the reality is sending European Jews to set up a settler-colonial ethnostate was pretty much the next best thing for the Nazis who wanted a "pure" Germany, practically a consolation prize for the ones who survived Nuremburg
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Of course the reality is sending European Jews to set up a settler-colonial ethnostate was pretty much the next best thing for the Nazis who wanted a "pure" Germany, practically a consolation prize for the ones who survived Nuremburg
Unconditional German support for Israel is supposed to be national "atonement" for the Holocaust, "proof" of the country's denazification that didn't really happen (at least not in the western half).
More like Presidn't (for the record I don't think he's actually dead or dying yet)
Completely fair and valid
This phenomenon also perfectly describes the people digging through every one of Toby Fox's obscure songs and social media posts from 10-15 years ago like an ARG but at least they have the excuse that the second half of the video game they're obsessing over isn't finished yet
Excellent summary of Almost Everything Wrong with the Harris campaign. I say "Almost" because they also ran on: Inflation: "Best economy ever! [on paper]"; "Inflation is down [disinflation, not deflation]"; teasing price controls maybe once ever Covid: Everyone's been vaxxed now, Get Back To Work
Vote shaming for an easy "dunk" on people who didn't hold their noses for Harris (and some who did but criticized her too loudly)
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See quoted (part of a reply thread), and screencap: bsky.app/profile/disc...
Does it literally look like this? Jfc
The first SpongeBob movie but from Gary's perspective
Less so if the feelings are actually reciprocated to some degree, but if shit goes south in that relationship later, you want to keep those confidantes close to help you back up
This is one of the rich "intellectuals" trying to steer humanity into the gen AI apocalypse at gunpoint by the way
You might need a couple close confidantes to bring you back down to earth. This kind of limerent high can make you delusional
Agree with one caveat: this is what neoliberalism always was for the neocolonial/former "third world" countries. There's not much daylight between Pinochet and the Chicago school economists' "make [Chile's] economy scream" policy in the '70s and the Trump admin's absurd policy
If this motherfucker still has enough political capital to run for POTUS I will never shut up about this. This is up there with Kamala Harris refusing to let parole-eligible firefighting prisoners out of prison to avoid paying them living wages.
Any time you see a bourgeois politician use the word "efficient" they're talking about cutting costs. Newsom's govt. is cutting corners on fire safety by leaning on a fucking LLM to give nonsense answers to fire safety questions that they could have hired trained/educated staff to answer correctly
Apparently this person has a bsky if you're worried about stolen credit/valor bsky.app/profile/doub...
My husband texted me this from work lmao
This entire thread is just a highlight reel of old-but-gold pro-worker political cartoons and quotes and I am here for it
Staring at this video on loop while listening to the entire song www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GW6...
More specifically: they're saying women with Ph.D.s should only date men with Ph.D.s (or M.D.s, etc.); with master's, only men with a master's or higher; with a bachelors, only a bachelor's or higher, etc. As someone with a Ph.D. I can confirm this rule is fucking stupid
Motherfucker. How did I miss that
If you think the football guy's post is the reason this was showcased and not the unhinged non sequitur reply, your reading comprehension is down there with a lot of the Louvre's subjects
Man what the fuck
This kind of place would be fun for all of 5 hours and then become agonizingly tedious to live in daily
I can tell the difference. As US citizens we aren't to blame for what our government does behind our backs, since the US isn't a democracy. But we're responsible for not being completely willfully ignorant about it. Failing to even at least learn about and criticize imperialism makes us complicit
Dropping this here for the morbidly curious who weren't That Kind of Online circa 2017 (NSFW tag to be on the safe side): knowyourmeme.com/memes/people...
So much so, the paragraph sounds like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8I...
13th, but yes
Honey glazed ham legs
It's easy to forget now but just 5 years ago being vocally pro-trans rights was the bare fucking minimum
(pardon the typo here, I meant "to violently...impose capitalism back onto them")
Have you ever wondered why the hell the US considers Saudi Arabia - a theocratic monarchy that ruthlessly suppresses women's rights and religious liberties - a key ally in the Middle East? How does that make any sense if the US's commitment is to democracy? How is Iraq doing 22 years later?
Contrary to what our government tells us the US has consistently been the enemy of democracy outside of the west, and sometimes in it (look up Operation Gladio). Greasing the wheels of multinational supply chains REQUIRES suppressing the popular will of peoples trapped on fields and in sweatshops
No wonder people living in other countries take interest in following US politics! They haven't been able to escape the US's influence since WW2, it's been the dominant superpower (rivaled only by USSR) for eight decades and its position as uncontested global superpower is only now starting to wane
The Chile example is illustrative of what happens when a nonwestern people democratically decides they want a socialist or social-democratic party in charge: the US (and UK) will step in and aid local reactionaries to violently, undemocratically imposing capitalism back onto them
You don't have to know all the specifics but the US (usually through the CIA) has fucked with nearly every other country's government over the past century, esp. during the Cold War. Examples: the coup against Allende in 1973, mass killings of communists in Indonesia, attempts to kill Castro, etc.
"What kind of horrible person tries to fuck [with] someone else's [country]?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbw...
Banger video essay, thanks for the recommendation
Did this work with Biden? It's not like he showed up in public much more than he would've otherwise
Or at least not *this* type of NT who would, to paraphrase Stephen Jay Gould, obsess over Einstein's brain instead of looking at the exogenous material conditions that produced Einstein
This absolutely has to be pre-Hays Code if it's real
Having to go to NH or RI to get covid shots as if smuggling fireworks
Despite this there's still a huge gap between recognizing both Dems and GOP as The Class Enemy and actually having a viable alternative ready to go. Until we build one we do not have the same agency the Democratic Party does.
And they use the credible threat of GOP's ruthlessness to demand we fall in line into their popular front. This worked for decades but as all the major civil rights gains are eroded the legitimacy of this coalition and credibility of its premise - they're the best defense against GOP - are waning.
But as things stand the Dems have done just about everything to crush challenges from the left (e.g. contesting Green candidates on state ballots), and to funnel every people's movement (including civil rights and labor movements) into their election machine only to backstab their supporters
I suppose I should also blame the big labor unions for wasting money on Dems (and occasionally GOP) instead of using their resources to try to build a real left-wing opposition. Is your point that the people who've been fucked by both major parties should be better organized? If it is, I agree.
People for whom "lesser evil" and "harm reduction" are empty phrases, who would vote for viable Labor or Green Party candidates in a heartbeat if they existed. This isn't just about racism, even if that does play a role in giving the Democrats permission to be their worst selves
And also the people who live in "blue" pockets of GOP or swing states (e.g. Houston) who have a similar experience with local Dem rule to people living in Boston or Seattle, who know firsthand that the Dems are two-faced liars who will funnel as much money into the police as any Republican
...who might sometimes vote Dem locally but consistently get fucked by both parties to varying degrees. The sort of people whose choice in local elections is often either the shitty right-of-center Democrat (the Joe Manchin type) or staying home. People effectively if not literally disenfranchised.
I wasn't talking specifically about the south here. And I wasn't talking about the (predominantly white) voters that swing between GOP and Dem. I'm talking about the working-class and marginalized (INCLUDING Black and brown) voters trapped in these gerrymandered "red" and "purple" states...
WOW. Was wondering why you specified "liberal puritan" and this lines up perfectly The same people would probably tell you that unambiguously consensual sex between a tenant and landlord is possible. Or a boss and their direct subordinate
So when they get the cold shoulder from marginalized and working-class people who learned to read between the lines they lash out at those of you living in GOP-dominated territory first. The bourgeois liberals who run the Democratic Party never fail or make mistakes. It's always someone else's fault
...which is the perfect excuse to blame the victims. Is the GOP ruining your life? Should've phone banked more, donated more money to ActBlue. Should've Voted Harder. And then when you get these demons elected they move the goalposts and tell you to fuck off when you want a seat at the table
The coastal liberal position is basically 3), yes. They think you're responsible for your bigoted ignorant neighbors' voting habits, and if you don't like it you can move to an expensive coastal metro. Also they still think the United States is a democracy instead of a capitalist dictatorship...
Whenever we get around to doing Reconstruction 2/Nuremburg 2/October Revolution 2 (preferably all three of these), these movement-smothering motherfuckers need to be kept as far away from power as the shattered remnants of the GOP
Putting the Psychotic Delusion Enhancer in charge of healthcare decisions and deciding what counts as "pre-crime"
Oh the Macy's Day parade video is a fucking classic. Plugging @donoteat.bsky.social's podcast episode about this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbkN...
That said: why follow the Shark Tank guy to begin with? What's gonna come out of his mouth that you wouldn't find from an NYT/WaPo/Atlantic op ed columnist?
It makes Mr. Shark Tank look like he *agrees* with all the people talking shit at him. Like he's got a humiliation fetish instead of trying to show that he's The Victim of an irrational mob which is what I think he was going for
Seconding this suggestion
Why repost instead of quote posting? This is like basic microblogging etiquette
Yes, destroying materials already paid for is a waste but you're missing the forest for the trees here
This isn't stupidity. This is eugenics. The Nazis literally burned LGBT books to isolate gay and trans people, keep the general population ignorant, and drive the former to suicide
I've heard that "thank you for your attention on this matter" is something that only a specific staffer does when posting on Trump's behalf, I forget who though
Sock shoe sock shoe is as absurd as pouring milk into the bowl before the first serving of cereal
If you're not majoring in pure math, disregard my warning
People might try to cook you for this but as someone who studied math in undergrad this makes complete sense. My advice is to have something (and a few someones) keeping you anchored to reality. Scientists and engineers compare mathematical proofs to masturbation for a reason
It's all different flavors of Gay for men trapped in the cisheteronormativity/masculinity box These people know fuck all about what makes trans women different from femboys and drag queens
I think you've uncovered an entire goldmine/rabbit hole here, Sara Hopefully at least some of these people are trolling
TG = transgender, most likely
On the other hand the Sultan in this analogy is an even bigger idiot than the one in the movie so he probably gets away with this
That uncanny triangular smile's gotta be edited/photoshopped, come on man
"scarce resources" the resources aren't scarce. And we should not even be engaging with the idea they are. The money for those rural hospitals exists and is being used for ICE.
Anyway, cosigning the suggestion to get these little survivors in front of all their favorite meals and toys and games and to spend time with their families AWAY from all of this. Since at least these are still options for American children. Grade schoolers aren't built for this shit man
A lot of grown people are Numb to all this horrible shit and forget all of this is still, in the grand scheme, at least as new and frightening to these little kids as anything else. And we've already forgotten that this shit wasn't normal in the US until a couple decades ago
This seems downstream from a) the proliferation of similar short-form content of crying and starving children in Gaza; and b) further upstream, the photographic documentation of suffering kids in Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc. Just another instance of the Imperial Boomerang coming home
I'm starting to do some Wikipedia digging on Hans Asberger and from what I'm seeing RFK Jr. might actually be *worse* if you can fucking believe that
They might at least put your autistic kid in a mental hospital for "rehabilitation" if they're "high functioning" enough
The latter two thirds of the Dark Matter trilogy have always felt Touhou adjacent and generally more shoujo-esque than the rest of the Kirby series (particularly the ones Sakurai actually worked on which lean much more in a shonen direction aesthetically)
And now LLMs are here to literally steal our honest words and voices. To paraphrase Marx it's the weight of gen X cynicism coming back to haunt and suffocate us after we wasted our youths struggling to slough that shit off So we're back to the arms race, constantly developing new shibboleths
See e.g. Quebec's warm response to earnest figures like Celine Dion vs. the mockery coming from the US and the rest of Canada Like we've seen enough sappy Hollywood romance to KNOW deep in our bones it's bullshit designed to sell us something that we naturally fear and distrust the genuine article
I have had the thought that irony, sarcasm, etc. took off in the first place *because* of the arms race between honest communicators and con artists appropriating their language, mannerisms, etc. Supposedly this is a pathology specific to Anglo and maybe some other imperial core cultures
The leaders of these movements, or at least a majority of them, are full of shit though. They will eventually devour the True Believers who think the 14 words are actually about protecting their children's future, or who actually think the Rapture is coming soon www.goodreads.com/quotes/78707...
Mostly agree aside from that last sentence. The birthing kids question is something we decide only for ourselves. Birthing babies into this hell isn't something I could do either but some people are inevitably gonna have kids and we have to help make the world less shitty for those kids
You do not, in fact, have to hand it to them
Andrew Hussie lurked and participated in Something Awful adjacent spaces back then and it really shows. Like the comic prefigured the irony poisoning that would happen to some of its initial Xennial target demographic (before Homestuck blew up and became a thing for Teenage Girls on Tumblr)
Thinking back to early Homestuck (2009-2010) when one of the characters thought his guardian (his dad pretending to be his older brother) was operating on ten or however many layers of irony and then he grew up and realized his "Bro" was just an abusive piece of shit
I don't follow cape comic movies that closely anymore but from a distance I am quite glad the Snyderverse died
I think right now the theoretical floor is around 33 to 35 percent. MAYBE 30 percent, optimistically
37% is very close to the floor (excepting some major shift or shock that actually breaks his base, something more ruinous than the Epstein scandal), so this is almost if not literally true
At this point "cringe" should be reserved for pathological, anti-social behavior. Like the "nihilists" who think Rick Sanchez (or Tyler Durden, etc.) is a good role model. Or for that matter the real-life cartoon villain billionaires who model themselves after the likes of Darth Vader or Sauron
Doing what you wanna do while you can could just as easily mean Breaking Shit (it'll all collapse anyway!) - the DOGE response - vs. a Hospice or Epicurean response at the other extreme, improving or enriching people's lives before death claims them At the end it's still Barbarism vs. Socialism
How one answers that question if thrust into this fictional scenario, suggests how they'd respond to the prospect of complete economic/climate collapse. And I think the Weird Route maps neatly onto the fascist response (not an original take, see vid below): www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz2s...
The question of whether one's choices (or the relationships they build with other people) matter when all signs point to death and destruction being just around the corner is one of the core themes of that game
Deltarune PFP checks out (complimentary)
And torture was suddenly within the Overton window even after Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo became household names. Because of a fucking TV show on Fox. The skeleton of the alternate reality MAGA diehards live in was built over decades, Trump just had to add skin and muscle
The people who went along with W's bullshit and accepted the "war on terror" at face value two decades ago share a majority of the blame for paving the path for Trump's bullshit. They sanewashed the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act when most adults were too scared or angry to think straight
