anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

Why are you as a man whining about video games being woke and not putting 100 hours into Hades 2

"Most men" have no concept of what this means and would hate it.

Some people here love to dismiss ‘sportsball’ but S. African teams being banned from international competition was an important factor in ending Apartheid because it made their crimes real for non-political folk.

you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

it's fascinating how there's a subset of Americans on the left who basically think they cannot reap the whirlwind of world rage against them simply because americans are too fucking stupid to realize their social position

i'm sorry, but if you think voters should avoid the consequences of what they voted for, you don't actually believe in democratic accountability: Trump ran on tariffs. They are getting tariffs. Voters will learn that tariffs are bad.

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It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one

The game Asmongold asked 'Who is this even for?' over. The answer, apparently, is 'everyone but him'.

Either trying to get Turning Point USA clubs in every Oklahoma school was somehow a bridge too far, or something much worse is coming down the pipe and Walters is trying to leave town ahead of the posse. Either way, good riddance. The children of Oklahoma deserve so much better.

They really do work with any look

just learned about the content warning that open Silent Hill f and this feels like it comes from a parallel world where AAA games took on a whole different meaning for "mature" damn. more of this approach please

The trouble with Austrian Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money

This remains one of the best depictions of what it was like to be a white guy in Asia in the early 2010s

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Great response piece. One of the few actual benefits of meritocratic ideology is that it, to some degree, makes overt bigotry a disqualifier for engagement in various public spaces. And now we’re being told we can’t even have that because it gets in the way of civility porn. Hollowed out liberalism.

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

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Really starting to feel these. The building is swaying, and I'm starting to see water get blown through a couple of the leaky windows. We're holding steady for now, but just in case I've moved any electronics away from the windows for tonight.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

I consider Wakefield a mass murderer and the fact he was never jailed with the key thrown away a fundamental reason why we're all in the mess we're in.

You cannot call for the total social eradication of an entire section of society in a “sensible, calm” way or any other way. How would you like to be “debated” out of existence? GFY.

6 hour Super Typhoon Ragasa satellite imagery to 4pm HKT.

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Tortillas, peanut butter, canned tuna, and bottled water acquired. Extra towels wedged into the leaky windows. Electronics moved away from the windows. Torch and batteries at the ready. Barring the worst, I'm hunkered down here until Saturday. Let's do this.

We have moved from the peasants dying horrible deaths phase to the much more significant things that might inconvenience opinion-makers phase.

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 try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

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great that the majority of the British media has decided that they want these people in power.

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

bear in mind that Ross had a premium opinion-job-for-life handed to him aged 30 despite a lack of any discernible talent purely because he was a young conservative

Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

Oh, and for the record: the Economist article was put together and published without any input from the study's authors, who clearly pegged it as a hack job.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

...or that people are entitled to privacy and dignity. And if you break open the Pandora's Box that some people aren't deserving of certain rights and freedoms, aren't entitled to privacy, because you find them icky and don't like what they do with their freedoms, you've just let fascism in.

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

I got called paranoid and hyperbolic when I said this would happen because one of the long-term goals is to push cis girls out of sports and it would happen because ppl only see the transphobia so they get in board, but they don't realize how they're hurting cis girls too.

The other thing is that women's bodies and sexual freedom are one of the critical terrains of the fight against fascism. It's like asking us to expand the tent by compromising on voting rights.