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More likely "The Libtard Satan-Worshippers have replaced the God King with the Antichrist!"
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More likely "The Libtard Satan-Worshippers have replaced the God King with the Antichrist!"
fsherman.bsky.social (@fsherman.bsky.social) reply parent
Likewise I see old celebrities who've lost the spotlight they once had and now they're grumbling about PC and how we need to go back to the days of the dominant male.
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Or the guests could volunteer to help out ... but if that was part of the deal, she'd have mentioned it. I've worked retail. She's being very sensible.
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Way too many.
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Yeah, I was about to mention that. Plus vicious about settling scores. Plus his wife helped him write the strip uncredited, at least in the early years (yes, another of those)
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“I think the whole thing is pretty darn stupid,” resident Nancy Fischer told the Democrat. “I know why they are doing all that and removing them all. (It’s) so they don’t have to explain why they are just removing the ones with rainbows.”
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The obsession with not observing the rules of war and talk that the military NEEDS toxic masculinity dovetail with their concept of men’s nature.
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How exactly is she involuntarily doing it if she's choosing not to run?
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I think some of the credit goes to the James Whale/Karloff film. For much of the 20th century it defined Frankenstein more than Shelley did.
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Ross Andru cover.
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I love this poster. Though she doesn't turn into a bat in the film.
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It's very much a YMMV case. I didn't much love it (and I'm still not a huge fan) but I've had friends who read it young and adored it.
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And curiously as soon as the topic turns to blue-run cities, Republicans are completely confident their policies can eliminate crime.
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"Breaks with RFK" — as if anything that's happened was a shock. It was completely predictable, as witness many people predicted it.
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They also seem to think "well, doxxing, death threats and violent threats in response to an editorial is perfectly understandable. We should have been more moderate."
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Meh, this one seems like an awkward misunderstanding. I know people who wear outdoors shoes in the house; I don't but it's no big if they do it visiting us.
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“I had eleven brothers and sisters, I had about 70 first cousins, and I never saw anybody with diabetes. I never knew anybody with a food allergy. I never knew anybody with autism." He's four years older than me. food allergies and diabetes pre-existed us. So he's lying or he never paid attention.
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It's classic, like the people who fantasize about they'd have been happier in the Victorian age of the antebellum South, always assuming they'd have been in the ruling class.
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Yarvin is the stupid person's idea of a deep thinker. He's also argued that as women in Jane Austen's books seem perfectly comfortable and they didn't have the vote, therefore letting women vote is meaningless.
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I’d say being harsh and unfeeling is also what they think of as being a Real Man — being soft, compassionate, thoughtful, those are women’s feelings, women’s work. Being a man means smashing stuff and killing people without worrying about right and wrong or consequences or really anything.
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Voting says women are equal citizens in the United States. Republicans hate that and don't think they should be.
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"A text to church workers from 2021 demanded $50,000 from call center workers before midnight, promising the top nine performers could sleep while the others would study notes until 4 a.m." It gets more insane and vile from there.
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He and Dersh can get drunk and bemoan the incivility of the left together.
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Some dude made the same point after the necrotic toddler's election on 2016 — it proved there were no consequences for being a rapist so it was entirely men's choice whether women got raped or not. I can believe some slime find the thought a turn on.
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It's so nice to know it's not just the American government that refuses to connect those dots.
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"He has no Ratings, Talent, or Intelligence, and the Personality of an insecure child." — the necrotic toddler on Seth Meyers. Never before has any president said anything so utterly ironic.
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Yeah. Any policy on dealing with AI needs to factor in that the Turing Test is bullshit and people are accepting these programs as real friends, mentors and lovers they can trust.
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That's a very skewed definition of "reward" in the original post.
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Sometimes I think some people are saying it, like his cabinet. "Don't you think dictators our good?" "Gosh yes, Mr. President, I think I love dictators!" Love the phrase "necrotic toddler"
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He ain't being childish. Not being there in a medical emergency is being a selfish dick. I'm remembering John "Men are from Mars" Grey explaining he'd refused to take care of his girlfriend when she was sick because her suffering caused him So. Much. Pain!!! What a jerk.
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His post might be the stupidest thing I read on the Internet today. Well, if I don't read any of the other idiots you showcase.
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"Men do not care if you're taller, make more ..." Correct, men are never competitive with each other, he said in heavy sarcasm font. The idea "women like assholes" isn't new of course, but it's always stupid.
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Locally my wife's never had this problem — she uses DoorDash, I don't — but it doesn't surprise me at all that there are creepers.
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On media failures, sanewashing, "the liberal Joe Rogan" and other topics.
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See also the "new character discovers she's living in an urban fantasy" followed by multiple chapters of exposition on how magic works.
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Jeez. Enshittification continues.
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I think variations of this (“if we show we respect their world view they’ll listen to how we can improve their lives”) go back to the 1990s at least
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That's tanking something that never existed.
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Yep. You prove your loyalty to the State by agreeing with the State's dogma. Charlie would have fit just as well into the USSR or Maoist China as he does the right-wing here.
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The GOTV campaign im writing postcards for says more or less that
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I love the way he randomly throws in “ontologically”
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Yes he’s manipulative!
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But they always say they prefer women be true to nature!
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Yes there’s a lot of overlap but they’re not the same. And the misogynist right uses patriarchy freely. Of course they like it
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It’s always been a risk when there’s a series though. I e got a couple of series I bought in the last century and they didn’t finish. Still glad I read them
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Supported the rights of wife-abusers. Whipped his dog.
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Mediocre though Octopussy is, I really like "All Time High." Worst? "View to a Kill." Duran Duran songs read like they're trying to revive Dadaism.
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She's lying but I'm sure those are her authentic words. She has a vested interest in shielding President Friend Of Epstein.
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I doubt we'll lose them. There are too many plotting advantages to having someone with money to burn in the story.
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Bingo!
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Yes it sounds horrible
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Rageahol is a hell of a stimulant
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Lots of conservatives discovered after getting Obamacare that they quite liked it.
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No nominally neutral network should be treating McCarthy as a worthwhile interview subject.
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I covered elections in the Florida Panhandle in the late 1980s. I know how long it takes to do a physical count. I'm sure he doesn't and the media will ensure his voters don't.
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The tale of how I came to write it: frasersherman.com/2025/06/17/s...
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What happens when a)magic comes back and b)it turns out menstruating women negate sorcery? They find themselves drafted as "shields" for police duty.
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It's a very common trap to fall into though. I've seen more than a few "Wow, this hardline politician is really nice in person have we been misjudging them?" article over the years.
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I have an old con photo of my 5' 2" self standing next to Carel Struycken. I come up to the bottom of his rib cage.
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My tall female friends get very annoyed with the very tall men who choose very small women.
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Fear is their operating system. In their head canon we were all supposed to be shocked, awed and numb by now.
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In Marvel's first superhero story about civil rights, the villains were a white supremacist group. In the first story about the women's liberation movement, the feminist is the villain.
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Do you have a link to whatever this is?
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"The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, ... Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future ...We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World." So even criticizing the past hurts his fragile fee-fees.
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Although the OP was right, appealing to principle matters too. We have more than enough atrocity stories of innocents arrested already.
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"Republicans are shutting down your community college and your hospital." Yeah, there's plenty of ways to do this right.
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"Hey you there in the mirror What the hell are you looking at? Who are you to be judging me? You're exactly like me — but flat!" — If/Then
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I presume part of it is a distorted sense of what skills are needed by corporate America. I gather for some administrations that's all that matters.
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Given the crackpots' "instead of insulin they need healthy diets!" view I imagine they'll dismiss this as one more treatment that allows weak people with no self-control to keep walking the earth.
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He's also argued that AI will solve the problems of power hogging and environmental damage — just give it time!
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I didn't get that $1,500 a week part-time work-from-home job with Costco. The unsolicited text message seemed so sincerely interested, too.
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Good luck! I hope you nail the culprit.
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Superheroes try to save the environment, fight for indigenous rights and dive into political controversy.
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Yes the characters had to use “influence” because their only power came through charming men.”
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Stanwyck too.
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Some of her roles were very non-ladylike. And her offscreen sex love was wild. She’s not what he imagines at all.
Underlying this kind of Democratic messaging is an assumption that we care about narrow self-interest. It's a withered sense of human nature resulting in withered messaging. Lots who Dems can reach care about justice, human rights, truth, the rule of law, the protection of nature...
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That's very cool.
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I think cooking fills some of that space for me.
fsherman.bsky.social (@fsherman.bsky.social) reply parent
My wife certainly does.
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Blue Devil was a delight.
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True rhat
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Depends. The party that thinks there's nothing any humans could have done to prevent Uvalde also thinks Big Balls getting carjacked is a crisis.
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Good point. I have no particularly crafts orientation besides writing or I might try it.
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Looking back, it's tragic I never had the money to take advantage of these amazing opportunities.
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Even as you typed this, someone on the right wing is saying "Hold my beer."
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Obviously you are part of the Blue State Crime Statistic Cover-Up. I trust George Soros is paying you bigly for this.
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Similar to the idiot arguments that looking down on AI-using "creators" is discriminatory because not everyone's able to write/draw/compose.
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I was going to say ...
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I'm sure she will have a long, post-political career as a law-school professor or pundit and never face any reckoning. A shame; she's a fascist toady and it would be a better world if everyone shunned her.
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As a business book put it in the last century, "if you think $10 million is enough, you will never have $10 million." To be a billionaire you have to be obsessed.
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Bondi's a mob mouthpiece cosplaying a government official. She has no interest in what's legal or ethical, only what can be gotten away with.
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Yes that’s creepy as shit
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It’s horrible she even wonders if she’s in the wrong.
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Jeez, it’s like every Bad MIL joke from when I was a kid. Son and mom are trouble.
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Some Americans will not. Some are already doing so. As we saw in this video
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Some of it is MLK’s insight—tension is bad, therefore the oppressed should stay quiet instead of upsetting the apple cart
It is definitely true that the 2020 protests made law enforcement very very angry. It radicalized them, in a sense. But that's because the protests demanded racial reckoning and asked police to stop killing people. They got mad. It doesn't mean the asks were somehow wrong.
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Yes, then it's suddenly nothing can possibly be done, criminals gonna crime, thoughts and prayers, blah blah blah.
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