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SixteenShells posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/left-wing-authoritarians-shutting-down-the-democratic-party.html The democrats are a big tent party. You’re supposed to get in the tent and be part of their party. It’s their party so you have to follow their rules or you shouldn’t be in the tent
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Once it’s reached the total eclipse you can, so I did, and it was magnificent. I have no regrets. I’m no medical professional but what I’ve been told is the real danger is looking at it when it moves from totality back to even slightly not totality
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pencilhands posted:has anyone here actually tried jenis splendid ice cream? is it good I had some one time it was good because it was ice cream but I didn’t think it was any better than other premium grocery store pints like b&js or whatever
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spacetoaster posted:During the pandemic they interviewed a Republican whom they asked the question: "Why are Republicans politicizing the vaccine?" I don’t remember exactly what she said at the debate but i do remember it was one of those very carefully crafted statements that when you hear in person sounds very clear but if you go back and try to clinically parse out from a transcript or a video clip has enough wiggle room to be deniable
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PoundSand posted:It's wild to me student loan interest is a thing anyways. Like obviously education should be free to begin with but if you absolutely must make it a loan that's essentially functioning as a tax meant to fund education by the people utilizing it, then there's no reason to slap interest on that, the gov is already benefiting from a more educated population, the "interest" is the higher earning potential that can be taxed. The interest is meant to act as a penalty for those who climb above their station, op
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Jimong5 posted:I guess you forgot when the FBI tried to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer lol Lmao that was so loving funny. They had an underground hideout where they discussed the plan and like 80% of them were informants if I’m remembering right Also they like to set up right wing militia types from time to time too, certainly there’s an ideological quality to it but more than that busting a terrorist plot if good for your career and there’s no easier plot to bust than one you set up in the first place, so if your stuck out in some remote field office without a lot of anarchkiddies the militia guys are the low hanging fruit
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HallelujahLee posted:the american people are tired of women
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Uncle Wemus posted:Dumping on swifties is just doing outreach to everyone else
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Apr 10, 2024 19:05
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SixteenShells posted:... why wouldn't i care what a reporter's politics are? I’m somewhat in a minority on this but I actually prefer to know their politics because it helps me more easily spot their biases. Honestly the faux objective AP/NPR/NYT style is far more insidious imo
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Brrrmph posted:I can’t tell if people itt are progressive or righties anymore Torus theory op
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comedyblissoption posted:i voted for dick cheney in 2020 Reminded me he was still alive Which reminded me that it’s still possible for Carter to outlive Biden
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Probably Magic posted:They said Latin-Ecks, and I halfway expected Vin Diesel to explode out of a wall. I laughed so hard at this. I just figured from reading that it would be la teen X or something, like keep the first two syllables, but everyone I ever heard actually say it pronounced it like a drat superhero name
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As far as I know Latinx didn’t have some intentional start beyond academics trying to be gender neutral in papers and then other academics and students noticed and it kind of snowballed into a thing I’m old enough that I was still in school while people were trying to sort out what came after the gender neutral he with various solutions like “one” instead of pronouns and the teacher in high school who recommended jumping between he and she in alternating paragraphs The thing is if Latinx had caught on it would still get backlash but it clearly hasn’t caught on and at this point anyone trying to make it a thing is a dork And I feel bad for anyone who hasn’t heard it spoken, it’s funny every time
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Probably Magic posted:Do... do people not use "one" anymore? It still works if you want to do generalized singular, "they" would be awkward in that context. I’m pretty sure they/their is the academic standard now but I’ve been out of that world for a long time (and was only ever in it as a student anyway) VitalSigns posted:Ah yes, the D&D 3rd edition Players Handbook solution I tried to find a media clip or two of someone saying it but I just got inundated with articles about people for/against it. But it was just Latin-X every time, like a ninja turtles mutagen that turns you into a centurion I remember seeing some people saying it should be latinks for some unholy reason but I’ve never actually heard that pronounced
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Probably Magic posted:Have you seen Discendo Vox's posts, though? Discemdo Vox is a dumb guys conceptualization of what a smart academic sounds like
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bedpan posted:I hate Discendo Vox Nihili Joke would be funnier if they weren’t in fact the same person
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ArmedZombie posted:I hate stancil31b Hey I don’t make the rules. Similar user names? Same person. That’s just the way it is. Ask the hoots
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Apr 12, 2024 16:22
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Maybe these kids should stop saying “cool” and “chill” and start saying “please” and “thank you”!!! 
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Gumball Gumption posted:Succ thread on some good poo poo today, why does language change and is it to make me feel old and dead? Every generational shift comes with tension as the generation aging out tries desperately to cling to their relevance The only difference is that this time it’s actually justified because I’m in the aging out cohort
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://abcnews.go.com/538/vote-back-trump/story?id=109090626 The more you vote, the more you need The more you succ, the more you bleed
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Raccooon posted:Liberals are under the impression that the people are going to punish them unfairly by not voting for them. Like it’s a an active thing (which it may be for some). But the vast majority of the non voters are people that have checked out because they suck so much. And maybe sucking less might bring those people back, but instead they just scold people. This is the thing that they never seem to grasp. Like they’ll say “you had an obligation to vote for Hillary to defend Roe” and then you can ask them “but what about the subset of voters that generally oppose abortion rights but that opposition is soft enough that they might be won over by other policy? Wouldn’t it be better to try to bring them in on other issues, thereby protecting reproductive rights, rather than shaming them for not supporting Hillary to save Roe?” “No! Those people don’t exist!”
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/12/katyal-machine-politics-in-new-jersey-00151795 Lmfao imagine anyone thinking of Neil as anything other than a soulless careerist Love the photo though. I don’t know why but it just suits him 
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VitalSigns posted:I remember the argument also went something like: there's no naturally-occurring blue color in the world, so ancient people were never exposed to blue and thus never developed language for it or even the ability for their brains to process it. Like the experiments where you blindfold a baby monkey or whatever and then it's never able to see properly because it had no visual stimulus when its brain was developing. So humans only gained the ability so see blue once blue pigment was invented and we started painting things blue and so on. It’s basically the same thing as Charlemagne truthers where if you stop and think about it for a few seconds it falls apart but nobody who is buying into it is the type to stop and think
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If a language doesn’t have the words to distinguish between an entire sherwin Williams product catalog on day one then honestly wtf is the point of even having a language
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Fitzy Fitz posted:an inuit: you mean they can't see snow? I know the “50 different words for snow” comes from bad anthropology but whenever I’m reminded about it I laugh because English has 100 different words for things that are discarded as garbage
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Why did they do this? I assume it’s a lot harder to serve ads and YouTube videos this way
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Can’t fool me that’s Salt Lake City
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The Pussy Boss posted:Extremely cool to have US Senators tweeting "Nuke them all. Glass parking lot" and poo poo Remember when john McCain did a beach boys riff on the subject?
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mags posted:what a maverick He was the best senator in the same way Beau was the best Biden
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Lord of Pie posted:i remember when he died Top ten John McCain maverick moment, there, right between the time his mother died after him but if we’re being honest not quite as mavericky as that time his ex wife died before him
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Steven King hasn’t written a good book in twenty years anyway. I used to really love the guy when I was a kid and in a fit of nostalgia I asked for some suggestions of more recent works and out of the four ‘really good ones’ people suggested all four were poo poo
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Scarabrae posted:still remember lmao’ing at the end of the dark tower series, like that was the best you could come up with?! What’s even funnier is even with the end being trash it’s still a rebound from book six which was absolute goddamn trash and also the pettiest poo poo ever
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I was already kinda out by book 5 but i sunk cost fallacied myself all the way to the end. The literal loving Harry Potter sneetches at the end loving killed me Yeah that was bad but at least kind of fun bad. Book six where he writes himself into the book and then kills off a main character saving him from the guy who irl hit him with a van, who he writes as a pathetic drug addicted alcoholic loser, is absolutely peak wtf are you even doing Steve
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RandolphCarter posted:I liked revival and 11/22/63 Didn’t read the first but the second was one of the four. It had its moments but mostly it was a really bad boring nostalgia romp where the narrative read like a 70 year old trying way to hard to imagine the inner world of a guy in his 30s in 2010 and just failing repeatedly
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I got recommended 11/22/63 (bad), fairy tale (really horrendously bad), dr sleep (not great but kind of ok), and duma key (not really what I was looking for out of king but I guess the least bad of the four, by virtue of the inner monologue being someone of the same general generation as king and so at least plausibly believable)RandolphCarter posted:read revival, one of the rare king books with a good ending. or don’t, I have trash taste. If I get the urge again I’ll try but honestly I think I’ve had my fill of the dude after those four
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Pet Semetary was King's last good horror novel before he bloated out of control and got silly, and Skeleton Crew was his last decent batch of short stories. The Stand sucks rear end and "It" needs to be cut down by at least 50% including That Scene You’re probably right about It and I keep meaning to go back and reread it one of these days to find out but as a kid who had a pretty rough childhood and lost a sibling pretty young it really resonated with me at age 13 in a way that few novels have, sorry for the over share I guess but that’s my truth
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Nichael posted:What is the current status on United States President Joseph Robinette Biden? 160.5
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Blockade posted:What do these people think the point of the trolley problem is? Blockade, probably, talking to some random VBNMW: The point is whether you think it’s morally acceptable to actively do wrong (kill an innocent by your own act) in order to prevent a greater harm that will unfold through no action of your own. There’s not really a ‘right or wrong answer’ it’s just a basic thought experiment to make you consider an extremely clear version of do ends justify means and such. It’s intentionally set up that way to make you think and breaks down if you start trying to apply it to voting and national policy VBNMW rando: Uh no dude. It’s about your obligation to make hard choices and get your hands dirty, because only you can save America from Trump with your vote! HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 17:46 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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mawarannahr posted:it's called good genes. Best biggest jeans make the best brainiest babies imo. That’s why all the smartest kids were born between 1995 and 2004
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