I don't really buy the "it was staged" thing but on the other hand, how is it weird that someone would assume that about an administration that has never once told the straight truth about literally anything

we started with the simple goal of monitoring everyone all the time and somewhere along the way it turned bad

EVERY politician should release videos as to WHY they vote for or against legislation. Let's have EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS explain ON VIDEO why they vote the way they do on the EPSTEIN FILES.

Needs a photo of the victorious elephants standing above the hunter’s body.

holy shit he just said it

everything in american politics boils down to this

descend upon them: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings... you are a gremlin in the comments now go be a paladin in the public comments

"Or I will sue"?????

Genuinely what I look like every time I try to think about how VC Bros believe they're earning their wealth by working harder and/or smarter, when by their own admission it takes them an entire year of full time work to come up with ideas like "What if we made a candy bar, except... regular?"

Sometimes you get a reminder that not only are "idea guys" unaware that they're just inventing "bus, only worse" but that apparently it takes them absurd amounts of time to come up with their strictly-worse "innovations." This must be why it took Mr. Beast thousands of hours to think up a candy bar

A good overview of what Dems were able to accomplish w/r/t forcing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's abduction onto the national agenda, beating back ICE in places like Minneapolis, and driving Trump's approval on his "best" issue into the toilet. Recall that some pundits advised Dems *not* to do any of this.

a friend asked was caine's actual taste in lingerie for me would be and now u too can view the answer....

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

A lot of folks don't remember how common it was for the anti-LGBTQ industry to push flawed studies by discredited researchers against LGBTQ people. . . For example, they loved to cite a discredited researcher named Paul Cameron who once claimed that gays stuff gerbils up their rectums.

Please ask yourself if you're here to be emotionally satisfied or to actually try to create changes in the world If its not the latter, stay home. You're not actually helping Just shut the fuck up until you can have these conversations based on data and real life, instead of emotions and wishes

If you aren't ready to let go your anger or grief yet, thats OK. It truly is. But. It also means that you gotta stay out of policy and planning meetings because you're actually more of a detriment than a help. Time and place, yall. Time and place.

When it comes time to make policy, create plans, change laws? You gotta leave the emotions at the door. Policy can't be based on feelings. That's how bad policy gets created. We need facts, data, testimony from those with lived experience.

This is gonna be unpopular but There's a difference between being in your feelings and creating social change. It's perfectly fine to be in your feelings. The need to vent, rage, mourn, are all normal. Society is awful on many levels, so do those things as needed. Im not judging However

What really gets me is when people excuse it when this goes wrong (rather than learn and improve) by insisting that since it wasn't their intent it doesn't reflect on them. As if there isn't a whole saying about where a road built on good intentions can lead.

Now. Is this what the average person wanted to happen in practice? No. Does it happen anyways because bad policies and laws exist? Yes. But this is what happens when you make emotional ass snap judgements about policy before considering real life implications.

Just saw it happen again in real time

I think you can glean a lot about an organization when their rules for acceptable/unacceptable kink content is based on whether they think people are too into it rather than whether it is itself sexual. I don't think people unintentionally seeing detailed feet is a meaningful hazard, personally.

I'm crying the Wikipedia page for "Otaku" is just calling out Gundam fans in specific "Not just any nerds. The type of nerd into Gundam" 😭

jailing a bunch of these guys is a layup. it's gonna be extremely irritating if (when) they walk away scot free

Does "upper thigh" mean top 1/3rd? Top half? Does it mean the same proportion of the outer thigh as inner or are they different? We don't know, Vgen, because your rule doesn't fuckin say! And since your "hip" rule points to the fuckin WAIST, we can't just assume colloquial definitions either!

Sell Infowars branded HRT meds.

I understand why people trying to make moderation rules want to have some flex to handle edge cases, but the thing about these kinds of rules is that for them to work in the first place, people have to be able to know whether a particular case counts or not *before they hit post.*

Careful not to draw too many blush lines on Sonic the Hedgehog or it has to be tagged for nudity.

you can just do popular stuff that doesn't cost very much and everyone likes and can immediately see the benefits from, instead of doing immoral unpopular stuff that's very expensive whose putative popular effects are at best a bankshot

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

Every one of these charaters is now too sexy for vgen

(I know, I'm still going on about this. I ain't gonna stop either) Notice how this finds a way to objectify all possible women's bodies? If your boobs are too big, you have to cover your armpits, if they're too small you have to cover your thighs.

inspired by vgen revealing clothes example

I'm so tired

I love how some of their "more explicit" outfit examples cover more than they listed above at points?

Aside from the obvious absurdities, notice how with a diagram they fail to actually properly clarify. "100% of upper thigh" but no definition of "upper." And why is upper thigh okay or not contingent on breast size, aside from "Assume average swimsuits are some kind of ontological standard"?

Excuse me, I need to tag for clothes that I could wear 100% legally outside??? You're joking, right? This is a late April fool's prank. We're not policing fictional bodies. We're not slut shaming pixels. Vgen, are Visa and Mastercard in the room right now? Blink twice if you need help.

I just got denied foodstamps. I won the highest, most prestigious award my community has less than a month ago. I cannot afford food. This country is a failed state.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

I will not be surprised when they try this crap in a college math course and the final outcome will be that specifically the trans woman grad student in particular gets fired.

Absolutely the only reason for the whole "Ok but you can't get steak or whatever with your "food stamps" thing is to feel superior to poor people. Literally the only fucking reason. Can't have those filthy wellfare queen poors eating the same stuff as YOU a superior un-poor.

Apparently we're gonna have to start dealing with Math Truthers now that they're doubling down on their error and turning it into a loyalty signal.

In a rare instance, the Youtube front page recommendations actually delivered something that is of specific interest to me (rather than the usual mix of "don't care," "part of a broad trend of videos I occasionally watch some of," or "weird outlier video that I like just for the novelty")

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

"It's just for porn. We'll only scan your face if you wanna consume porn. Don't you want the children to be safe? Please, won't you think of the children? They might see a boob online. The absolute horror. Won't somebody please think of the children?!?"

OneOnOne's first rule of politics: Any politician who appeals to "the children" is full of shit and trying to manipulate you. I remember no instance where that was not the case.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.