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Boywhiz88 posted:I’d love it if when she dies, the Brits are like “actually who cares!?” And Charles gets hosed over one last time. There's a legit solid chance of that. The queen has reigned for longer than most boomers can remember, and is really good at keeping out of politics so no one turns against her for her views - even most republicans are more opposed to the institution in principle than the queen herself. Prince Charles on the other hand has been a lot less insulated politically, and doesn't have the long familiarity either. Having the monarch change for the first time in nearly seventy years is going to get a lot of people thinking about it that never did before.
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Apr 16, 2020 11:21
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there wolf posted:They're both independently wealthy so there's no 'taking just enough money.' They're probably just smart enough to see which way the wind is blowing in regards to overall popularity of the monarchy and their own popularity within it, and are loving off while they're in a position of financial and social strength. Also the racism. The sort of people that are big fans of the royal family are also the sort to care deeply that a part of it is black now. It's barely concealed at best.
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Apr 16, 2020 16:48
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I thought it was the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Apr 20, 2020 00:33
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Scratch Monkey posted:I'm unclear why people who appreciate Lovecraft's stories are somehow not allowed to recognize that he was a massive, racist weirdo. I think a lot of it is that once you're aware of it, his bigotry is really clear in his writing - a lot of his stories are about unapproachable monsters intruding on human life and even mixing into it with cross-breeding etc. So if you're a fan of his work, and the work is fundamentally about being racist, it can be uncomfortable to think you've been such a big fan of outright bigotry, leading one to reject the idea. I think that's what Gaiman was getting at in the quote that started this derail - that the appealing parts of his stories (and the genre they spawned) wasn't the bigotry, it was the existential fear behind it, and that's okay to relate to.
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May 5, 2020 15:03
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He's even losing the other terfs at this point. https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/1258357790516666368
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May 7, 2020 17:20
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hooman posted:I can't even work out what his case is. It's begging the question. "My theory is that trans women are just men who want to sleep with lesbians. If so, trans women will never sleep with other trans women." "But trans lesbians sleep with other trans women all the time." "No, you don't understand. My theory is Right"
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May 26, 2020 19:05
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Moo the cow posted:There's a whole extended and pretty graphic fight scene that only works as humour if you think his girlfriend is just a man in a wig. It's been a long time since I saw the episode, but I thought the joke was around her being a better fighter than him. Cause men are good at fighting, see. Still transphobic, just a bit more slapstick.
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May 26, 2020 23:22
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PetraCore posted:The savvier ones know it, imo. But then it becomes a question of, what then? I think if you landed success like that you've got an obligation to promote and sponsor artists who didn't have the same starting point. That's a bit of a catch-22 isn't it? As a successful entertainer, any artists you know to promote necessarily has connections in the industry (ie you).
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May 28, 2020 19:41
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Anora posted:I heard something about German law is super draconian against certain things on social media, which Chuds know by heart, so the fact that it says you "didn't violate German Law," means a Chud tried to report you. As far as I know, in German law it is very illegal to espouse Nazi views, so twitter and other platforms actually have effective policing for german users because Germany is actually willing to prosecute that stuff. This is something a lot of chuds are likely to be stung by, but rather harder for them to weaponise.
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Jun 2, 2020 16:56
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mind the walrus posted:I think it's more that once you step back from the economic hierarchy you can see that the world is still fundamentally the way it was 5,000 years+ ago-- if you're born naturally bigger/stronger and are into exerting that will by forming a coalition with other muscular aggressors, you are the highest natural class and will be protected by those most like you, and the economically insulated are more like tumors. This is effectively saying "if you ignore social constructs, the world hasn't changed since before social constructs existed".
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Jun 13, 2020 13:45
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Even if he wasn't intending the dwarf women as a metaphor for trans people... he was literally writing trans people. Cheery, Hamcrusher and the various others were assigned male at birth and later identified as female. You could argue that it's only because of dwarf culture that they were male-assigned in the first place, but nothing in the books actually says that; their genitals are never mentioned. Why would they be? Given his views on other matters I doubt he would have been disappointed to find out what he'd really written anyway.
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Jun 15, 2020 00:18
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Mak0rz posted:I'm glad I quit after AC3 because I actually cared about the metaplot and it sounds like it's gone Kingdom Hearts level of stupid. Same, but also that post is the first I'd ever heard of any of the games after that even bothering with the modern-day plot.
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Jun 16, 2020 16:02
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Manuel Calavera posted:Why are Oots forum posters the worst. You know how only a couple of weeks ago the company behind Dungeons & Dragons announced they're going to stop releasing works in which some races are just inherently evil?
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Jul 5, 2020 11:24
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Manuel Calavera posted:I'll be generous and that describes June. But that doesn't explain the last decade. Oh, certainly - I meant in the sense that, for decades up to now, D&D has established a world with clearly-defined racist mechanics and that's going to affect the communities dedicated to it one way or another. Fortunately the OotS comic's take on the matter is pretty good.
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Jul 5, 2020 16:50
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's peak boomer to imagine that things are going to continue getting better for future generations Nah, that's more of a general liberal outlook. Peak Boomer is adding "unless we put a stop to it now!".
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Jul 6, 2020 17:11
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Nea posted:is jeffery yospos a bitcoin millionaire?? ?or is this a bit???? It's an unsubstantiated rumour turned running gag. So naturally it's 1000% true.
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Jul 8, 2020 22:35
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It's the difference between "I have never found a trans person attractive" and "I could never consider a trans person attractive". You don't have to date anyone you don't want to and no one will refute that, but if you're deciding you don't want to without even actually considering whether you really would then that is literal prejudice.
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Jul 13, 2020 15:50
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Guess they got Dwarf Fortress writing their tweets too huh
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Gotta post the followup https://twitter.com/KitfoxGames/status/1303421867273969668
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Sep 9, 2020 00:19
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wizzardstaff posted:I liked Braid and I really liked The Witness; that tweet is kind of a bummer for me. The Witness was great, but I think The Talos Principle and Filament have covered its ground better by now.
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Sep 13, 2020 19:28
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Lemniscate Blue posted:No St. Patrick's Cross? Does this person believe the UK should get out of Ireland? The status of Northern Ireland has been a big thorn in any kind of Brexit deal, since the peace deal with the Republic of Ireland, which is in the EU, requires open borders. A lot of Brexiteers would happily get rid of it for that.
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Oct 3, 2020 20:10
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xtal posted:The difference is probably that the Iron Man movie came out between Jobs, Gates and Musk so people associate him with Tony Stark. For real I'd say it's social media. People can follow Musk's thoughts on all the miraculous creations he's paying people to invent in real-time. In the 90's if you wanted to read what Gates thought about the next Windows you'd have to find magazine interviews.
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Oct 15, 2020 14:47
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zakharov posted:Ok give me your hot take on cats Cats are a surrogate to help fulfil the primal need to simp
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Nov 13, 2020 21:45
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Demisexual is functionally being ace with exceptions, same way you can be straight or gay with exceptions. It's a thing, and it's really not silly enough to be worth mocking honestly. Not when there's people out there actually calling themselves animesexual jesus christ
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Dec 24, 2020 12:25
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Andrast posted:so bi? If the majority of the world is actually bi then sure
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Dec 24, 2020 12:47
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Data Graham posted:Understood and that's fine, but I'm wildly guessing that you don't particularly feel a need to have a flag for it Is this a community-adopted flag or is this one person on Twitter that spent ten seconds in MS Paint and showed it off? Anyone can make a flag for anything. I'm sure someone's made a Goon Flag at some point.
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Dec 24, 2020 17:22
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Skwirl posted:I feel like Fanfic communities are both easy targets and often so specific that they are largely incomprehensible to outsiders. As far as I can tell, the 13-year-old complained that they came across a porn fic that wasn't tagged as porn. The doc writer says they're wrong and it was tagged as "lemon", which apparently means a porn fic. Also that the 13-year-old imagines dating a 15-year-old character of some sort, and someone is saying that one day once they grow up that'll be totally paedophilic and they'll have to stop? It's a wild ride.
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Dec 27, 2020 23:59
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RoboRodent posted:Spiders are really cool though. They are Which makes it even worse, he could at least have chosen a spider that does something not everyone knows about, like the ones that use their webs to make air pockets to dive underwater.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:40
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xtal posted:Did the UK try to cover it up as well? China shouldn't be blamed for the virus being discovered there, but it's fair to name it after the Chinese government since they covered it up. That's outright malice. https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-coverup/ If the Spanish Flu is anything to go by, we name diseases after countries that don't cover it up.
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Mokotow posted:He should spend a day at a hospital, being surrounded by abject misery, piles and piles of dead bodies, and heartbreaking stories of absolute human misery around every corner. My fiancé works at a COVID hospital, and the loving thing I hear, jesus. Why does he think these people are dancing? He was personally inconvenienced and the only explanation he can think of for that ever happening is people spitefully hurting him for the sheer joy of it.
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It would be kind of poetic for a second William to be crowned the first king of England a thousand years later.
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Question Mark Mound posted:Wait, is being weirded out by non-medical circumcision an alt-right thing now? It's not entirely, but the alt-right do like to take it up as a "here is evidence men are the real oppressed group!" thing.
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Jan 14, 2021 17:44
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why have sea shanties become a meme? Something about being isolated with a small handful of people for months on end under constant stress while dreaming about a future day you'll get to go out and drink and carouse again gets people in the mood, I guess. Also they're just fun to sing along to.
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Calico Heart posted:the show??? Yes, the Japan show, you know it's all fictional right (It's Madoka)
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Jan 26, 2021 11:14
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Madkal posted:I think I need massive head trauma to decipher this. Other than the frog guy it's a fairly straightforward commentary on the Gamestop Stocks situation. If you aren't familiar with the story, a hedge fund took out a short position (essentially a gamble on a stock going down) on Gamestop corp, far in excess of the actual shares that exist for the company. I think that hedge fund also got into a bit of a fight on Reddit's big investment sub? Either way they pounced on it and started buying into Gamestop in a big way to cost that hedge fund massively, putting it billions in the hole and I think pushing it to bankruptcy. As far as I know they're still getting people to buy in. It's not particularly politically divisive (at least in that both the left and the right consider it very entertaining). If it weren't for him trying to say it was spearheaded by the whole MAGA thing, I'd call it an outright good Garrison cartoon. Tenebrais has a new favorite as of 22:02 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Splicer posted:Tell me more It's where, when you're being owned online because you said something stupid, you claim to actually be a small dog hammering randomly at keys trying to get at a treat stuck under them.
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Feb 21, 2021 01:26
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Indigo is the dye traditionally used for denim. What Newton described as blue is closer to what we'd call cyan nowadays. The colour that was shoe-horned in for sevens was orange.
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Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:I didn't get it either, what is the joke? What makes it tasteless? I've never seen that flag before, and if you made it I can't figure out what it's a variation on It's a Pride-style flag using nazi colours.
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OwlFancier posted:The UK already administrates the falklands and there are minefields for them to play in. They can work maintaining the Falklands penguin reserves
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