"Ah, I see a cute innocent thing and my first instinct is to want to exploit, abuse, and fuck it. What? Other men say they aren't like that? Well they must all either be brainwashed soyboy cucks or are lying. I will do no introspection on this matter"

I swear I’m going to open an Etsy shop selling only potted grass so these people can finally — likely for the first time in their lives — touch fucking grass!

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gamer men were given a box with pink hearts on it and they bonded with it so much that it became a pop culture fixture

Conservatives have a perception of men completely more demented and sexist than any strawman feminist grifters could ever think off

For real! "All men don't care about kids unless they are pedos" is such a bleak ass view of half the population.

"Every accusation a confession". The first time I read that I thought it was kinda cute, but whatever. But as the years go by it just keeps getting proved true again and again.

OOOF

I really wish we started treating Twitter in the same way we did 4chan. The legacy of what Twitter was and the problematic relationship people have with it prevent them from seeing that it’s 4chan. Yeah it can be funny, interesting, and wild…but you’re still on /b/ and /pol/… it’s bad for you.

If you are anti-gerrymandering, the only viable strategy (given judicial rulings allowing everything) is mutually assured destruction. You HAVE to gerrymander as aggressively as you can at every opportunity, and also be willing to a ceasefire. (The GOP will never agree to it anyway).

Yup. Scrap the presidency, make the Speaker into the Prime Minister.

Americans: but that would cause utter chaos!

Me: that is correct. Fix your hearts or die.

Once control has been established, we can create fair rules. We should not be negotiating terms of engagement with the enemy during the battle they started.

I have negative patience for "it's not fair" what is fair about the nearly impenetrable supermajorities republicans built in the NC or WI state legislatures and their current president thinks it is illegal for him to lose elections

fuck outta here

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

i love that christians are so against magic but still use wards and sigils

And biology is even further removed from this mindset because so many things where you fuck with it too much just lead to chronic illness, cancer, and death.

Software development, the “break things” mentality, and the fact that software doesn’t really have much actual physical cost has genuinely broken so many tech brains where it just assumes more processing power = better results.

But in the materials world economics and scarcity constrains us.

Billionaires are planning to exterminate 90%+ of the human population with robotic drone armies as soon as the technology ever makes it feasible to do so.

They want to genocide us all and replace us with machines.

It's barely a conspiracy theory at this point tbh.

70% is lowballing it.

What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About Anti-Zionism Ezra Klein is right that anti-Zionism is no longer a fringe position.

this reads like a trotskyite insisting the USSR was totally going to become a stable and non-totalitarian system if not for that dastardly Stalin, as if the idea of what it could have been is still more true - more important - than the reality of what it actually became.

And even if Jews were to win the war...[t]he ‘victorious’ Jews would live surrounded by an entirely hostile Arab population, secluded inside ever-threatened borders, absorbed with physical self-defense to a degree that would submerge all other interests and activities. The growth of a Jewish culture would cease to be the concern of the whole people; social experiments would have to be discarded as impractical luxuries; political thought would center around military strategy; economic development would be determined exclusively by the needs of war.

the longer quote hits even harder

I mean, in the sense that it only makes sense in the context of historical fan fiction essentially, yeah sure.

Not accusing OP of this, but insinuating that all former Soviet republics (except Russia, conveniently) of being rabid ethno-nationalists if not outright fascists for valuing their sovereignty is literally a common Russian propaganda narrative.

If Shulman truly believes this, then *surely* as the CEO of the world’s 2nd largest telecommunications company would have a plan for their customer base shrinking massively over the next 2 to 5 years, since unemployed people can’t spend as much money as employed people?

(Shulman does not actually believe this. He’s idly fantasizing about being a Techno-Lord™ in a Techno-Future™)

We need to burn the political capital to make structural changes and not just squeak out a win by pandering to centrists with goldfish memories in 32 to protect our incumbents

Of all the ridiculous dogwhistles they've come up with, that is one of the goofiest.

i like the idea that university educations somehow magically destroy your sense of working class culture

I hate the "🤬" emoji because literally the only context I ever see it in is bluewave boomer accounts posting them, and nothing else of substance, in replies to a post about some stupid and/or evil shit the regime is doing.

No Sheryl, posting "🤬🤬🤬" on bsky dot app is not "Resisting".

Yeah I mean you just straight up can't share a society with people who act like this when given power. They have no interest in sharing with anyone decent and have no limits on what they will do to avoid sharing.

And any failures to prosecute crimes will be remembered as if the crime never happened. Ie "it can't have been that bad, no one was charged with anything". Next Dems have *got* to charge people.