I'm not sure I'd go so far as to assume the eight Democratic senators were opposed to a provision which apparently makes it functionally illegal to sue or investigate them

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i'm hearing "vivi has been banned from magic the gathering" is this the name of a rowdy female player who's career is streaming eating doordash and card games or the name of a broken card from like a care bears crossover that costs $1000

the whole cartesian dualism thing REALLY fucked up our intuitions about how much of human cognition happens in your body

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they tell you that dirty pair (1985) has an episode with a trans woman in it, but what they don't tell you is that the antagonist of the episode used her and her fiancee's love of hamburgers to manipulate her

Do NOT do this with any nintendo products or intellectual property. The guy who honey nutted the wii is still in prison

"adventurers" aren't actually human. they're a type of parasitic organism that tricks human communities into feeding its young with the threat of "dungeons" and then once they reach maturity they build more

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

hassling people does genuinely have some effect but tbh if you want to effect political change you're probably better off targeting someone whose bottom line is going to be affected

Warframe lore thoughts: Sentients scarred by the Void can't reproduce. the Orb Mothers on the Vallis are pretty obviously Sentient cores with Corpus materials stapled on... and they CAN reproduce. there are also a number of things suggesting that Sentient tech merged with the Vallis ecosystem.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

our current political moment is literally just "we didn't finish Reconstruction" lol segregation, protectionist tariffs, phrenology, anti-immigrant bigotry, widespread sabotage of educational institutions that aren't exclusive enough like we never left the 1800s

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Can I tell you about someone else whose followers included adult content creators

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I will always tell leftists to read the Jakarta method and killing hope and really process what we will be up against and what that means for the movements we build

We’ve finally discovered what’s wrong with Mamdani

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this is really fucking bad lol there's a long-running debate about how powerful the courts actually are and the extent of their ability to influence government and society. the conclusion i lean towards (exhaustively documented in Gerald Rosenberg's "The Hollow Hope") is that it's very limited...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

one of the strongest links between capitalism and patriarchy is that any field or industry that becomes majority (or sometimes even significant-minority) women is economically devalued. teaching, nursing, legal aid, etc. and the reverse if it's taken over by men, like computer programming.

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i think "hypocrisy is meaningless" is correct. the mistake is thinking that every expression of disapproval or shame is the same as calling someone out for hypocrisy. you can just call them fucking losers and/or murderers, because uncool isn't a flex and evil is only a flex behind closed doors

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because most people don't actually like board games and the TTRPGs that aren't functionally board games are complete cultural unknowns

god damn it. i won't know for sure until i get home but this might explain some shit lol

Modern fascism sees Israel, an oppressive ethnostate enforcing ethnic homogeneity with genocide, as a template for the world. The ADL serves Israel, not American Jews. And so it's unsurprising it has allied itself with fascists. It is, however, very disappointing.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Yeah, I call myself a generic "leftist" because I'd calm right down if our country had a robust social welfare state + woke and gay. I do not need an American Lenin. But I suspect America will need an American Lenin because most politicians here would rather die than fix anything.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

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every so often i remember the bit in, I think it was Fifth Sun, where Camilla Townsend points out that the British publicly executed an order of magnitude more people than the Aztecs sacrificed in the same time period

joining the game vs toy taxonomy war, on the side of the toys

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right on the money. someone else putting effort into something without a gun held to their head means YOU might be socially expected to and for some people that's the most mortifying thing imaginable

that old "you cheated not only the game, but yourself" copypasta was expressing something completely correct, just in exaggerated internetty cadence, and we're living the consequences of the larger cultural attitude the backlash to it represents