[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Btw, as the Itchio noise and all died down, Adult games are technically just banned now. Some adult games are still being sold, yes, but if you get caught or reported or whatever, all your payment options will be yanked and only a husk remains. Zero comments from Itchio on this, nothing, at all.

I see people my age already falling into moral panics about the youth and then I actually meet young people and they're largely the same as they ever were. We have to chill.

SILENT HILL f

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

i still think we should funnel all the WoT surplus bullshit to the mail cops and expand their remote to "enforcing against other police"

seeing even more discourse yet again about "defund the police" and people yapping again about how it's a Bad Slogan and i think part of the problem here is people imagine themselves and their votes as The most important thing, the only thing, to think about. and it's not. this is about power.

putting aside the calamity that american hegemony has been for so many places on the globe, no one should want a world that takes its cues from a nation that has abandoned any pretexts of fairness, scrupulousness, transparency, ethics. just an emboldening of the worst actors' worst impulses globally

Bonus Discourse: sincerely identifying as a pro/anti shipper in 2025 is so fucking embarrassing. Have gay sex like an adult lol

Savage Beastfly was FUN AS FUCK yall are PUSSIES

you know fighting games really are the most difficult games ever because they give you brain damage. how else could a man forget what the words "assist", "jump-in", or "safer" mean. opening ggstrive for one hour is like being kicked in the head by a horse

People keep crying that it’s more complicated than this but I think we have 9 months of data to conclude that never before have Americans been prepared to make themselves heard. We simply have no leaders.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

i think there was some legit fear that, when white people had to choose between whiteness and obviously bloody hands, they would choose whiteness. many very wise civil rights activists certainly thought so. but the test is upon us and it doesn't seem to be breaking that way to me.

Joining Mastodon is easy! You just find an instance (not that one, not that one, not that one) and then you set up your farble to interact with the jibcrank but be sure to hide your content automatically behind a yuwving or you'll be in violation of the instances TOS and can be banned.

Now that I can actually post again, I figured I'd loop back to this. According to...I can't remember if it was itch themselves or just someone else who uses it, once you've gotten your first payment cleared, other payments should come faster. Anyway my second payout took 23 days to fulfill this time

anyway

i think if you post something dumb and immediately have to get smart alecky about people immediately poking holes in your fundamental assumptions you should just delete the post

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

A lot of people who are purportedly interested in disinformation and the false reality the median voter lives in were utterly disinterested in whether the entire liberal half of our government directly lying to their faces for a year might have some negative effects.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

I remember the "vibecession" proponents point at high consumer spending as evidence that no one was actually struggling. Turns out those numbers were being juiced by the richest 10th of the country doing nonstop spending sprees!

Coates is the guy people think Bouie is

coates has turned out to be one of a vanishingly small number of people who both have something to lose and are willing to put it on the line to say what are clearly truthful if dangerous things. im impressed

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

the question you really gotta ask in response is "what resources? you just shitcanned most of them"

trans people: i don't recommend freaking out every time some whackjob in a state legislature tries to make something about you illegal, state level politicians are explicitly introducing legislation that will not pass to win points with their wackjob constituents and terrorize you

i need everyone to understand and internalize this shit deeply. The antithesis to "weird fanfic with problematic elements" is "Women can't open their own bank accounts because they are property."

It'd be awesome if there was any explanation for how some people will go to claim a payment from itch and it'll take, charitably, a few weeks, and then for some people it'll take 4-5 months

"Two damage" is the "Eggs Expensive" of silksong discourse send bleet

really hurts my enjoyment that the louvre can pick up a post that's both obviously correct and insanely simple and treat it like timecube

Wing Mario Hits the Pentagon

8 Red Coins Frozen by PayPal

they're so weak that despite having a captive supreme court and no respect for the law, they're *still* somewhat constrained by it (and the reality of what happens if they fully ditch legitimacy (they get smoked))

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

i think the answer is unbelievably plainly "one that's afraid it's about to lose." there's no groundswell of popular support, no public invested in reporting to the gestapo, almost no appetite for explicit social murder. we ain't in weimar germany, that's for sure.

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

for all the pearl-clutching (and also the genuine fear) of kicking off kristallnacht, the unifying theory of Kirk assassination responses really seems to be "begging popular movements not to do this without begging aloud." i don't think they actually want it to happen.

This was 3 weeks ago

IT GUY WHO POSTS ON GRUNTSTYLE FB: Valhalla awaits us brothers ACTUAL ARMY GRUNT: what’s up TikTok it’s your boy Jesse27 today I’m doing the cinnamon challenge in my asshole ACTUAL SPECOPS GUY: (lying burned and dead in his car from a heroin deal gone wrong)

The most egregious thing I’ve seen posted online this morning are people who are talking about how disturbed they are to see such brazen violence on their timelines at a moment where it is basically impossible not to have seen videos coming out of Gaza

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

A lot of lone nuts with no coherent political philosophy seem to be very closely related to one specific political philosophy

it kinda sucks big time that all the non-print papers are pretty even odds on being der sturmer too

it does suck kinda big-time that essentially every single print newspaper in the united states is some kind of flavor of der sturmer