Lol yeah true
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That way they can keep their lab leak theory and not have to discuss the misinformation problem that people either don’t want to talk about because they don’t know what to do about it or benefit from it.
Yeah but even that I would guess they are gonna frame it as “overreach/overcorrection to institutional failure”
I would say that “the CDC failed us” has permeated even most most lib pundit spaces even here even though it’s dumb post truth crank shit. It’s like me and five other people who think public health institutions did a good job with an unprecedented global crisis hence why public health is dead now.
We never had that like “we came together and bent the curve to prevent hospital collapse! etc” instead there was kind of bipartisan electorate and pundit majority that just whined like selfish fucking assholes or went full on conspiratorial smartphone driven psychosis.
We never had that like “we came together and bent the curve to prevent hospital collapse! etc” instead there was kind of bipartisan electorate and pundit majority that just whined like selfish fucking assholes or went full on conspiratorial smartphone driven psychosis.
A lot of this is just downwind from the fact that the CDC and public health institutions actually did a good job with COVID and America pundits and many libs and lefties on our side basically bitched about it and decided that those institutions should die. What can he do?
The most normal accurate and mentally healthy way to look back at Covid is freak shit in our shitty country what can you do?
Seriously the only people who are like “yeah covid sucked but I was glad they made the free vaccine so quickly and be able to go out and do shit again and our great first responders are just partisan libs that everyone apparently hates.
I’m not defending this I mean it sucks but maybe people like Schatz gave up because public health itself lost the debate about Covid in this country so thoroughly to the people who bitched about mitigations and the RFK Jr cranks and psycho COVID maximalists like Taylor Lorenz and Dr Trasher.
A big retcon that is a little crazy making if you were following the politics and discourse around it at the time.
Definitely it wasn’t at least until I wanna say my mid 30s
It’s okay sometimes it takes time. I wasn’t always an expert at it.
Toilet paper should be 100% brownless after wiping if you plan on resuming your day to any degree imo
This is true even if you don’t plan to put your pants back on come to think of it..
Can’t have no brown if you plan to put your pants back on imo.
how common it is. Scarily common and not achieved through overt threat at all either.
In general it’s valuable to keep in mind what pundits and influencers choose to prioritize (like which targets of criticism comprise the majority of their posts). “Well of course the worse thing is so obvious it goes without saying” It doesn’t actually “go without saying”
That Yogurt Shop Murders true crime doc series on HBO does a surprisingly great job questioning the true crime genre itself but also has sections that are very good at explaining how police get false confessions and likely common it is.
Like “voting against your own interests” has long been a tangible thing it just accelerated.
A big thing I would say like are you guys seriously now in 2024 saying that social media narratives can’t take precedence over material reality? Like come on it’s the defining quality in your face of you day to day life everyday now you see or hear examples of it
There must been a large dumb populism element of Stancil hate where they consciously had no idea why they hated him. Like they literally couldn’t tell what argument of his they objected too they just saw the influencers in their social media diet make broad claims.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
A true-blue Hong Kong classic. Movies where gifted comedians encounter ghosts and monsters will always be my jam, and Sammo Hung improves the formula by adding martial arts to the mix. Even the best CGI could never produce anything near as amazing as Sammo's slapstick battle w/ a hopping vampire.
He died. He died on the toilet but “not the way you think,” a White House spokesperson said in a brief statement before declining follow-up questions.
Honestly Trump being too old & sick to talk to reporters serves my purposes almost as well as him kicking it. "What if Trump was president & it wasn't any fun" is a pretty good summary of why the press hated COVID & I am very happy to bring that back
I was reading the CaDSA statement in support of redistricting and going like alright yes yes good point and then way down it notes “we should still be wary of the YIMBY abundance agenda that aims to undo environmental regulations” and it’s like ok whatever works I’ll pretend I didn’t see that part.
Way too much Dench in Skyfall
I believe we can create a country where people like this go to prison
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
The level of the mind of a Murder Bryan follower god bless em’
What what what is that?! Where did you get it who gave it you you?!!!
What was Michael Ragusa doing before becoming principal partner of Shut Down Security (est. 2024) and ascending to his job as Rudy Giuliani's chief of security, responsible for explaining how he got hit by a car? I'm glad you asked. finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nyc-...
Ugh hope you get better soon
Man it’s gotta really suck for trans people that their public advocates like Erin and Parker Molloy are attention seeking nihilists who actually hate them and don’t care what happens to them as long as they get dumb internet clout for a second.
And now I get to see folks share her substack that tries to make people think the governor of California where trans rights are protected is like “Sheriff Terf” who will arrest trans youth at the border trying to escape their shitty red states.
She misrepresented a Biden admin decision that essentially made it hard to discriminate against trans kids in sports as…the opposite of that like she was basically posting screen shots of the decision and cutting off relevant text. You know…blatant lying working well meaning folks up in a lather.
The only thing I know about Erin Reed is she presented her girlfriend or w/e speaking out against a trans bill in the Montana congress as the only reason it went down and got a whole bunch of Montana politics types going "o rly?" And then backtracked.
People at the laundromat love to dry their clothes on high for 210 minutes
You could get a good job in arts, medicine, fashion, publishing, finance, law, whatever but the trade off is a 61 year old man wearing an ironic tank top doesn't think you're cool.
It opens a path in a way to getting some self awareness into social media spaces that bracket themselves off from that. The right winger people who follow film culture people interestingly and not surprisingly by contrast can’t handle that it makes fun of their side.
Reminds me how part of the power of the movie is indicated in seeing young film twitter kids who generally get really into what ever the current radical politics thing is handle the criticism surprisingly well because their ultimate and very real concerns are treated as valid.
Didn’t mean quotations there
It’s also how you get reactionary cranks using your movement to build credibility like Tim Pool and Cassandra Fairbanks and what could currently be prevented if Free Gaza folks here were able to be like “fuck off” to Taylor Lorenz.
Like it’s a quality that was trumpeted as a virtue “notably during occupy” but clearly an albatross.
One unintentional conclusion Ari Aster’s “Eddington” points to just by engaging in the issues so openly and fearlessly in its depicting the protestors as “correct but incredibly annoying and bad at talking about these issues” is this is the natural consequence of leaderless protest.
Exorcist 2 is kind of a fascinating failure. Ultimate mismatch of artist and material and what audiences wanted from an exorcist sequel. Long overdue in that sense. Boorman’s wife wrote a book at the time that was almost like a production diary, long out of print and I always wanted to track down.
Yeah that’s actually rare and needed more now
Maurice Pialat (with scenes from his film "Under the Sun of Satan") - BOTD
Bane’s ultimate goal was to kill everyone in the city with a nuclear bomb.
Like this is the post that starts the thread. Is “libs laughing at fat poors” really what he is doing here or is that what you wish was happening so you justify hating libs over it? bsky.app/profile/rick...
That’s a reductive and way too unfair characterization of the argument you are seeing people make. A deliberate choice you are making to deflect criticism from your representatives and the people who voted for them.
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Oh yeah iirc he was almost a perfect example of someone who had the insane and evil Syria views that kind were common to a degree in that world
Kind of like if “Taxi Driver” was real and someone researched deeper past the “vigilante hero” headlines shown in its ironic denouement.
both Trump and RFK owe their positions to path dependency. Trump lucked in to a media profile that made him the perfect candidate, RFK has a last name that turns off brains
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Oh man that’s a blast from the past….trying to place the name
Yeah no chance of that.
Does he still think he’s getting one?
Yeah
post a meme you made
Somewhat OT but a recent right wing twitter thing has been insisting that “no one ever thought they were getting a DOGE check”
This is fucking pathological and they've been doing it for 8 months straight now. The average voter fully believes big stronk Mister Trump is about to personally cut them a check because that's what the media alerts on their phone keep telling them.
The charitable interpretation is people think “It goes without saying” and no it doesn’t obviously
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
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Joan Blondell behind the scenes of Wellman’s NIGHT NURSE (1931)
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Having it go back that early (even though I know it’s not really m that long ago) indicates some credibility imo and I wasn’t aware of that in his case.
Owen Rumney “Ghost Trace Cathedral Engineer” had his twitter account suspended he should come over here imo
This is essentially how health institutions and pro public health leaders lost the debate on vaccines.
Yeah this is a key feature of both left and right populist conspiratorial influencers. Dramatized in the classic Hollywood film about a media demagogue “A Face in the Crowd”. Rogan does this as does Piker. Dems are inherently averse to it because they are high social trust pro institutions.
Yeah this is a key feature of both left and right populist conspiratorial influencers. Dramatized in the classic Hollywood film about a media demagogue “A Face in the Crowd”. Rogan does this as does Piker. Dems are inherently averse to it because they are high social trust pro institutions.
God if only I could grant my strength and wisdom to my staunchest critics
This is reaffirmed by his countless fans telling me “both guys same” obviously. The fact that it is apparently enraging for people to hear me state that trans rights are protected in Ca points to an information space problem that is bad for everybody. God I wish I could grant everyone my strength.
You know as well as I do that influencers like Murder Bryan co are shorthanding it into “not a dime’s worth of difference between the fascist president ending as many protections as possible and gov of Ca who governs in a way that protects trans people and stated a commitment to continue doing so”
If only that was the criticism. Good god I wish. Unfortunately it became accelerated into a dangerous untruth of overstatement.
They’ll be cordial with Newsom and that itself will be disqualifying.
Yeah I prefer those guys to him no doubt. Again by overstating the case you are on a trajectory of finding those guys unacceptable if Newsom even endorses them (which he no doubt would if they won)
Ehhh his podcast actually did better over time after he had more Dems and progressives on
But yeah mindlessly regurgitating when dumb hack influencers like Murder Bryan ignorantly say that the governor of Ca who governs in a way that protects trans people is “transphobic” is bad for trans people. Bad for everybody really but you’ll still keep drinking that garbage I guess…
No I didn’t say “any criticism” was dumb guy stuff. I’ve criticized him in this very conversation with you!
Well both and that’s not great. Thank god he booked progressives like Jasmine Crockett on after that
Awwww Christ. Is the fish really that big or do you think he altered the pic w an app like how people do to make their fish look bigger?
It’s a mistake to cede the sports thing in an information space like that without stating that trans women dominating sports literally never happens even if it is to achieve the greater good of de-radicalization (especially if isn’t gonna elevate trans voices but that is a wild leap.
Not really
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed a wide-ranging executive order Saturday that includes banning law enforcement from wearing masks in Chicago and requiring them at all times to display what agency they work for.
No that doesn’t work. He was on an extremely popular podcast (which as we saw in that last election were somewhat consequential) and the hosts who help frame the audience’s reaction were receptive to his anecdote about being moved to trans support after talking to parents of trans kids.
Yeah he governs like the right wing swimmer lady in fact we tell our trans youth here “get out for your own sake it’s war on trans lives here now!”
No that happened. I watched the clip that circulated. People on here already with an ax to grind ignored that more important part of that clip and hence a false narrative pile on started. You are using “word salad” incorrectly also.
You already knew that detail about the expressions of empathy and solidarity Newsom has made with trans people (reflected in the fact that California is a place where trans rights are protected) but your brain is refusing to process that info and incorporate into a thoughtful engagement on the issue
No I responded to that but didn’t really have to. Newsom telling a right wing audience that he was so moved by the experiences that parents of trans kids told him that he will always support all legal protections means you shouldn’t have made that analogy.
Nope swing and a miss. Hey do that thing again where you bring up the meme you saw where Newsom is depicted as Patrick Bateman that really showed me you are thoughtful as I am on this/care about trans people
I am not a fan yeah. Never have been!
Yes yes of course he too is touched by the devil’s hand glad our priorities are in order
“Duhhhhh hey Murder Bryan how bout do a “2015 Guys” ep. Crushing Bort, Tiny Baby, and uhhh I believe he guy called Hitler Simpson”
Noooooo not about me. The smarter better argument would be better for trans people and everybody. Pretending the governor of California who governs like a trans ally is actually a dumb meme that will hurt trans people. Guys will just start pretending Pritzker etc are a threat to trans people in a yr