like seriously, the romanticization of "grit" is bad, it's bad for liberalism and it's bad for people and it's bad for families.

One of the funnier things about Darktide, since I started playing it after the Skitarii release for a bit, is when you play a Judge specifically, because as the writer for the character said: they're devoted to a horrific moral code but DEEPLY, sincerely, altruistically so for the benefit of all.

This is a good thread that misses the fundamental reason why: holocaust inversion. People have been saying "the Jews talk for the holocaust too much, actually Israelis are Nazis" for decades now.

Hm. ToI publishing this instead of other sources feels significant.

I guess blatant anti semitism is just allowed on Instagram now?

stupid hot take: just as we normalized USB-C, we should normalize a single standard slot for disposable razor blades.

The most extreme positions, the ones most detached from reality, have the widest spread, because those are the ones that can operate best as pure affective symbol. Defending the reasonable is mere material interest; defending the unreasonable is an act of sublime faith. (And that’s bad.)

aaaaaaaaaa save me from bad luddite pop history

And idk to a lot of people that's disappointing? We certainly deserve to have driven ourselves to extinction based on our behavior in some ways. We will not be forced to adapt to a lower energy intensity lifestyle. The power company will install batteries at the local substation and thats that

it's honestly kind of hilarious in retrospect how relatively mundane the surveillance system in TDK looks by today's standards

I'm not surprised. Their plan has always been to erase history. It absolutely goes against Mamie Till-Mobley's wishes, she purposely had the casket open for Emmett Till's funeral to show what #they did to him for his "crime" of being Black in the wrong area.

it strikes me as a problem that one half of American politics is not just weird, fasc-y, or oppurtunistic, but also legit pants on head stupid.

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

In my experience, nobody in the Dem party hates Israel nearly as much as Frustrated China Hawks, and I think that's kinda worth commenting on.

when in reality neither are strictly true

Gonna add a caveat The moment it registers will be when the Dems see the Jewish vote dip below 60% I genuinely think people don't realize how bad it's getting or how they let Republicans claim the high ground on antisemitism by doing less than the bare minimum

People aren't gonna understand why current backlash in America against Israel is angering many American Jews until they understand that it's registered as a direct betrayal of the very Jews the Left claimed to be here for in a time of real, concrete need.

This skeleton key for this sentiment is that the idealized Small Farmer - or for that matter Coal Miner or Factory Worker - is not contrasted with their boss, but rather with the emasculation of the office worker under the thumb of the dread HR Lady. Sing along, everyone, you know the words!

Wanting other people to get medical interventions in order to match your aesthetic/biases isn’t affirming anything but your bigotry and your dominance over them.

Also, please stop making “gender affirming care” quips, because that’s not what this is. Demanding that other people get testosterone injections to meet your warrior aesthetic isn’t affirming anyone’s gender. It’s affirming the fascist aesthetic and nothing more.

Love how this is completely unprovoked to a degree that makes basically any other war look laughably justified -attackin Iran, for all its folly, is orders of magnitude more justified than attacking Cuba for regime change purposes.

Destroying the physical copies of these documents - if this is really happening - would be an extremely on the nose bit of narrative.

This woman and her organization are astonishingly evil

When you think about it, children are a particularly high stakes form of gacha

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

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Oh hey surprising exactly no one, the Fallout New Vegas director does not agree with NCRPosting about the march of flawed democratic liberalism, in favor of a vague future directed by Protagonist Moral License. www.pcgamer.com/games/fallou...

Since Rogue Trader's new DLC apparently has Aeldari themed stuff, it would be extremely funny if the Aeldari corsairs were Actually Kind of Normal & not repulsed by your being human at all & Yrliet is just a weirdo.

Amnesty has basically never been anywhere near as bold and principled as people claimed.

The way “Zio” is just a casual thing that leftists say now is pretty chilling!

Also 4) it would be transparently obviously a move of sheer desperation to respond to defections and deaths in the Senate, we all know it.

1) There's no reason to think this is true, 2) if it is true, there is no legal pathway to effectuate it, 3) anything else is legit coup territory, and that won't work out well for him.

"There's a lot about Israel/Palestine that is complicated. But this part of it is not complicated."

If you want to change the trend of young Jews turning to 1 binational state bc they don't think a 2-state solution is viable & reject apartheid 1-stateism, then you have to make a 2SS viable. Period. There's no secret cheat path thru "cultivating Jewish peoplehood" or whatever to avoid the obvious.

It is truly grotesque that the richest man in the world is Like This.

It feels like Florida here rn. Which is bad because I live in CA.

Well today fucking sucked.

Hey, a good way to celebrate Lindsey Graham kicking the bucket is to contact your senators about KOSA and the KIDS Act. Graham was a big proponent of these kinds of laws, as well as of gutting section 230.

Michael Fanone on Lindsey Graham...

And this is one of many, many reasons why a day zero priority for the next Democratic administration should be making a spectacle out of destroying every single monument to the Confederacy.

Seriously, if you view American political norms of the last decade or so in this light it unlocks so much: American political norms have prioritized making Republicans feel strong and Democrats feel weak. Always apologizing, always reaching out a hand, always begging for acceptance.

It's pretty normal in American politics, it's just something the Republicans get to do because American political norms prioritize psychic wages for Republicans above material outcomes, with the side bonus it leaves Dems perpetually demoralized, emasculated - this is very Gender - & terrified.

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Democratic politicians aren't going to give you the contempt for Graham you want because that's not their job and their voters largely would find it contemptible. Because many American voters are basically timid and indecisive, obsessed with bipartisan decorum.

Been playing Darktide again and I just gotta say, whenever Wolfer starts talking on the vox to his long suffering comms officer it's like "ok this illusion of military competency doesn't match the howling mobs of Basically Rotting Zombies and Crazed Nurglite Soldiers."

Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?

Ugh. Bad vibes lately

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more of a certain sort of person need to play 40k to get out their need to be a shrieking bloody-handed fanatic against the contemptible other in a safe space

The Maine secretary of state says Graham Platner *has* formally withdrawn from the Senate race. This is ahead of the Monday deadline, and so the Democratic party will be authorized to replace him, by July 27th.