To be clear it’s less that I have objections and more that I’m curious why it seems to be a recent trend

The trend of neutral site Chicago games probably deserves its own analysis.

love to post "I've been committing crimes" on a public forum acknowledging my guilt of the crimes I've comitted.

it a little like both an obvious cash grab but also the attempt to sanitize the most beloved hits from the darkest stain tainting the man who produced those hits. Like a little permission structure to be allow oneself to say "it's okay that I still like these bangers."

bringing back the yellow fever ravaging expeditionary forces on Caribbean Islands, only instead of the Leclerc expedition dying en masse on Saint Domingue/Haiti, it'll be a Marine Expeditionary Unit dying en masse on Cuba.

Cool and good.

When Trump loses power, his assets should be liquidated and returned to the American people.

Him and a lot of other thieves, too.

Yeah I think it was that one.

This rips, and is about the closest I've seen to kinda sorta maybe encapsulating just how freaking fast and intricate high level foil is.

There once was a Sam Adams commercial that basically boiled down to them bragging about how much hops went into their beer. My friends and I clocked the American marketing idea of "If X is good, then More X is More Better" years ago. I'd add that we've added "with no upper bound" to the formula too.

Shades of Kim Stanley Robinson employing the "Grand Admiral Thrawn Cloak an unknown number of Asteroids" tactic with prions in x% of the global cattle herd in one of his more recent books.

FWIW I don't even think promising that 'your side/group" can solve the problem is central to the model. It relies much more on always blaming "their side"/creating an out-group on which all of the audience's misfortunes can be blamed.

I lived a long time in an area of Milwaukee with crime. There were other areas that it was obviously unsafew to be at night, but the media ecosystem takes [City's absolute worst place] and generalizes that to be [Everywhere in City].

Frustrating!

yeah, this is just the logical evolution of what I was talking about.

When I was a kid it was RW radio, then fox news, now podcasts/youtube shorts/reels/tiktoks.

Just envelope people in a blanket of fear and they'll keep listening/reading/watching/clicking.

God willing it will be.

The "we live in a criminal hellscape far worse than the worst Charles Brosnan movie" delusion is *pervasive*.

Personally, my explanation is that in order to keep engagement, right wing media exaggerates danger and sells fear fear MOAR FEAR on an unending drumbeat, so it's literally all they hear.

As an attorney who sees the results of attempts to deskill labor and rely on ill-suited "AI" processes--the backlash to this endeavor is absolutely going to happen but not until a *lot* of people are hurt by the attempt.

Brutal

Damnatio Memoriae is the least acceptable position

Neato @robertjbennett.bsky.social

For the life of me I can’t figure out how anyone ever took this dope seriously.

Side note, this trend of publications using vague adverbs in headlines is everywhere and it drives me bonkers and would have gotten me failed in my old J classes in college.

Reporter *perfectly* responds? THAT DOESN'T COMMUNICATE ANYTHING.

I assume its just clickbait algo service, BUT I HATE IT.

I'm guessing this is a weird flavor of moral panic in the sense that, yes, some weirdos with an odd hangup over the fiction they read exist, but they are not nearly as widespread as they appear due to their reach on social media.

Adm. King has got to be *on one* in the next life in ways that defy comprehension

There were stories about Saban not enjoying winning football championships because he figured other coaches were out hustling him for recruits while he was coaching in the championship game. This is a symptom of the unique kind of psychopath that gets this level of success.

The Calvin and Hobbes "all X is either A or B" meme is applicable to Stancil.

All Stancil discourse is either argument over semantics or arguments about the applicability of statistics vs. individual experiences.

Vance has chihuahua energy. He’s got no rizz, weird eyes, and everyone who meets him treats him with a mixture of pity and disgust. And so his response is to try and fight everyone, shitty little attacks that are impotent and mostly just kinda funny. Chihuahua energy.

LFG

tweet from @CMGaldre –  Wild be: just getting snack Me: no prob bee Mason bee: just make house Me: build a way b Honey bee:jus sampling the lavenders Me: you know I got an assortment Bumble bee: hey *bonk* I jus *bonk* I h Me: *holds flower still* Wasp: I'LL SEE U IN HELL Me: U TELL THEM WHO SENT U

you have conjured one of my favorite tweets

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.