Fascists are dumb. I really need everyone to understand that. It's driving me crazy. They're idiots. Fascism is stupid. Only idiots go for it. It's accomplished through brute force and intimidation, not careful statecraft. I know some people need these shitheads to be smart, but they're not.

Zootopia is a great movie but it always bugged me how confused the allegory is

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

As a proud pedant, I am constantly annoyed when people use "sentient" when they mean "sapient"

The fantastical nature of reality helps to ground me share.google/iGFbb3pktmsf...

In all the discourse these days about isolation and loneliness, we don't really talk about how it also makes you dumber

Thread on why even using AI as a way to brainstorm a project is a horrible idea.

If the victims could have named names, they would have done so by now. They can't say anything that could interfere with an ongoing investigation. They can be sued for liable, have death threats aimed at them create a mistrial and so on. They are under lawyer advice. Stop suggesting they talk.

One Battle After Another does a good job at ribbing leftists, but especially by being the kind of problematic we enjoy endlessly critiquing

Eugenics is the modus operandi of this entire administration

Here’s an idea: we build a society where people aren’t rich and can’t buy private islands and have private planes

I hate how lazy the lying is with these assholes. I might prefer the evil string-pulling cabal narrative to this dumb bullshit. It's insulting on the one hand, and aggravating on the other to know that millions of incuruous credulous dipshits eat this crap up.

transphobia as a political project is about preserving authoritarian sexual control of children

Empathy is an emergent cognitive trait that continues to neurologically develop past childhood to mature sometime in your thirties. When someone argues that empathy is bad and should be disregarded, they're saying they should be allowed to behave like a child. Because they're a big whiny baby.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.

i stand by this statement every year

Honestly, one meager slice of hope that I have about America's future (mitigating) is that Trump is very unpopular. Autocrats need popular support. This guy doesn't have it.

I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children. They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.

all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere

Eugenics

Great replacement theory is now official US national policy

We need so much more of this

Eugenics

I have more trouble handling the cold as I age, but I think climate change is also screwing with our internal rhythms. The summer gets so hot that our bodies adjust for warmer climes, and then winter just feels colder even though it's not. There's no gradual adjustment. It's a slingshot of extremes.

pvp sucks shit and catering to the demographic has ruined videogames

Finally got around to watching Kokkoku and geez that is a really cool show

The freaks shouting at everyone to hop aboard team fash REQUIRE boosted support to be heard by wide audiences, because normal people think it's gross. Any politician or journalist who does not comprehend this or actively ignores it should not have their position.

This is the best marketing campaign I've seen in years

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

I'm really loving the Playstation phase of the retro game design movement. I predict they'll do N64 next, which I will also love. Then we're done, right? Like, that's it? A few devs are gonna do a 360 thing and everyone's gonna be all... why? Then there's nothing left to mine after that.

The word "doomerism" is horribly abused on here. Some of you use it as code for "telling me what I don't want to hear" and it's childish.

This is exactly my take. I love driving and I love my car. I think most people hate driving, and that's why they're bad at it. They would be happier to take a train or bus if the choice was convenient. And I'd happily park five minutes away and walk if it took ten fewer minutes to get somewhere.

Wooooow I guess it's officially "fuck that guy" o'clock

being canceled is not a real thing, it is a neologism describing the stigma that should come from bad behavior. the only consequences that come from it are the ones we collectively imposed, and as the last decade has shown, no one with institutional power is interested in that.

600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead. Quick summary by me:

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

this reminds me of a friend who thought he was middle class so he donated his car to a charity that helps poor people and a month later, he saw his car at his neighbor's house

It’s a fact that nobody in positions of power is willing to risk eroding their own power by doing anything meaningful to hinder the worst of their colleagues they see the system they preside over as more important than any cruelty no matter how bad and they won’t risk weakening it so much as an iota

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

The administration did not orchestrate the National Guard shooting. Just wait. Info will come out. Fuck's sake. This blueanon bullshit is so tired.

Duffy's recent obsession with everyone being fancy flyers is indicative of everything ridiculous about Republicans' take on government. They want to control our behavior by telling us what to do instead of crafting policy and investing in infrastructure and regulation that encourage that behavior.

I really, really, really wish that old white men I've never met would stop interrupting my day to relate to me apropos of literally nothing. A paltry complaint, but it's very tiring. I do not have it in me to humor you or pretend that having to deal with you is anything other than a nuisance.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

Is there a mass death to profit ratio for these people or are they just bleeding the stone dry until capitalism finally eats itself

It was always pageantry. It's kind of Trump's only real skill.

Sci-fi portrays eugenicists as brilliant masterminds who seed themselves into prominent scientific institutions to manipulate the direction of progress, when real eugenicists are inept anti-science dorks with no tact. Like, look at RFK. Dumb oafish loser who owes everything to his family's legacy.

Just realized that Jordan Peterson's entire schtick is presenting fables as science, and that's pretty much a universal counterargument to nearly everything he says