[playing super mario gorgonzola without having seen the second movie] whoa why is peach eating that toad, did I miss something

man why is this fedposting so low effort oh wait nvm

That's fair. It's just wild that a bunch of people who think of themselves as "standing athwart history yelling Stop" don't know any history. Like if I made my whole personality "I need to be allowed to design airplanes" and i had only a vague sense of their shape.

The level of historical baby brain on display from conservative "intellectuals" never ceases to amaze. These people talk about humanity like we were just happily walking around in small family units until like 30 years ago when feminists got the bright idea to ruin a good thing.

yeah i think you can see this dynamic in a lot of romantic fiction sold to women. the gender expectations of the average romance novel/hallmark movie reflect the conservative tail-end of the culture. you can clearly see a shift in what's "appropriate" vs. the 80/90s, but it's slow.

forget "how did truth social spend a billion dollars," let's start with "how did truth social MAKE a billion dollars to spend"

funny way for trump to admit he can't read good

if trump handles a midterm coup as well as he kept hormuz open he may just impeach himself

100%. We often make the mistake of treating reactionary arguments as being significant unto themselves when they're really just a logical backfill to an emotional hole.

I rewatched Jurassic Park a few years ago after only seeing it as a kid and it's pure Spielberg fun but I do recognize just how... kid friendly it is. not in terms of violence, but pacing and theme. they clipped a lot of the book's scientific considerations to make a thrill ride movie.

You can reasonably level some White Knighting criticism at Quigley Down Under but it flexes the attitude liberals need. A coalition of professionals, women, and minorities working together to fuck up the rich conservative gang leader and his incel posse. Music slaps too.

Getting flashbacks to Quigley Down Under, where a white supremacist ranch owner and his goons get reckt by a mild-mannered liberal professional (sharpshooter) bc they interpreted his "I don't use pistols" as "I CAN'T use pistols" so they stupidly challenge him to a pistol duel. and die.

black phillip: what can I give? the taste of butter, a pretty dress, or

virginian democrats: nah bitch. 10-1.

imo part of why cons are so angry at trans people is bc the former wants gender care to be status-affirming for THEM ONLY and trans people want it to be identity-affirming for anyone who needs it. Also, trans people make modification visible and 'normal' - cuts against the desire for exclusivity.

Just to add to your thought, I think that "terror" is bundled with yearning, not unlike what you might feel on a roller coaster. Also, reactionaries want self-modification to be like the codeword to a secret club: The cool kids know it and use it but nobody admits to anything.

"maga is just affirmative action for dead-end christians" continues apace

harvest moon: animal parade (2008)

fine. I will learn Shadowlord from Nier: Replicant on the piano.

or are you normal

RE4 Otome Edition! Also known as "Resident Evil 4 Real" (source: me)

do you ever think about how the modern world has given us a tiny printing press for our homes that can churn out an erotically illustrated edition of moby dick so long as you have the six-figure income necessary to afford the ink

you kids would know this already if you read theory

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

trump has spent the last decade getting republicans to scramble by blowing on them so he's totally unprepared for a political entity that has few incentives to bend to his mad whims. he's genuinely too stupid to grasp why his bullying works in one context but not another.

*logs on to Twitter*

*sees a mutual who used to be into science saying they don't want a tetanus vaccine because "vaccines are for viruses and tetanus is bacteria ergo the vaccine is pointless"*

*unfollows mutual, closes Twitter*

clone this woman immediately

telling the youths that "wearing JNCOS at the kinkos" was 90s sex slang and refusing to elaborate

republicans on X should acquaint themselves with the ancient texts

Republican voters are free to pressure their reps into supporting proportional representation to end gerrymandering and improve the visibility of non-majority voters. Weirdly they never do this.

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it