firmamenti
2yr ago
People support Trump at this point because of the people who hate him. The media hates him, the FBI hates him, the democrats hate him, the McKinsey class hates him, the intellectuals hate him, etc.
Michael Moore actually summed it up perfectly https://youtube.com/watch?v=TEHekdQSiXg
Trump is absolutely despised by everybody who sees The United States as a resource to be mined, packaged, and sold, and those same people seem to like DeSantis. It really isn't even about the policies. They just want to hurt their enemies.
Some say people who game the system like this actually deserve to have the bike taken more.
Burning man has a set of free use bikes called “yellow bikes”. They’re just left around the city and wherever they are you can take them and ride them.
Some people will take them and try to reserve them for themselves by hiding them, locking them to their friends bikes, or decorating them in a way that disguised their status as a free, community use bike meant for eveyone.
Every year it is considered good sport to spend some time hunting for these bikes and punishing the people that do this.
My favorite is when I find that they’ve locked a yellow bike to their friends bike, to pick up both, and move them somewhere else, not so far that the owners will never find it, but far enough to cause them some panic. Others are if somebody leaves one of these bikes in their camp to loudly and publicly take it back and put it in the street, hopefully shaming the camp along the way.
Somehow burners, often some of the most entitled people on earth, can figure out the concept of a shared resource, and figure out that the people abusing it should be punished, but the people reading this story can’t?
These kids should be getting fucked with for abusing the system. Not only is the pregnant lady in the right to take a bike she simply paid for. She’s also in the right for doing it to these kids, who are effectively acting as thieves.
I encourage anybody who sees people abusing a public resource like this to act like pregnant lady.
Edit: the more I think about this the more angry it makes me. A normal person, the type of person I grew up with, not only wouldn’t bully a pregnant lady, they would get off of their bike and give it to her, even if it cost them money, simply because she is pregnant.
What level of anti social behavior are we at where anybody is defending these kids? I don’t even care if the most charitable version of their story is true. Get off your bike and give it to the pregnant woman you idiot. We are trying to have a society over here.
firmamenti
2yr ago
What is the purpose of recording her, then publishing the video and lying about the interaction?
The goal was to bring harm to her.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I didn’t say “they physically assaulted her”. I specifically said that they didn’t.
firmamenti
2yr ago
They got her fired from her job.
That is actual, tangible harm that they’ve done to her. While this different than a physical assault I think is a valid comparison.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Kingfisher is 4.8%, and by far the most popular beer in India.
Also: I’ve tried pretty hard to buy whiskey for adjacent tables at what few bars there are all over Mumbai and it’s pretty rare that anybody ever takes me up on it.
Camouflage and Harley Davidson cans aren’t going to fix this, and they might just make it worse.
“Hey you dumb fucking red necks I bet you’d like some camouflage on your cans wouldn’t you you dumb fucking fratty racists. Now buy our shit and shut the fuck up while we core out your culture, you dumb fucking idiots.”
If I was in charge of Bud Lights marketing it would go like this:
“Ever had to apologize for saying something stupid?” With a strong implication that you’re talking about being a drunken idiot.
“…yeah we’re sorry. Free buds on us”
The make June 1st official “bud light we fucked up” day for the next 5 years. Here’s how you celebrate:
Commemorative cans that say “Sorry about what we said last night”, and every bar that serves Bud light gets a free keg and a free pallet of Bud light to give away to people who want it. Make it part of the marketing go apologize to anybody you sent drunk texts to. Make ads about people making these sorts of apologies.
Go on a Bud light apology tour where people can throw tomatoes or something at Bud light executives. Free food and of course Bud light for everybody.
I’d go to that, and honest it would probably make me drink some Bud light because of how funny it would be.
firmamenti
2yr ago
Does Yarvin offer a solution or a strategy?
firmamenti
2yr ago
The Los Angeles Dodgers, a baseball team are apparently hosting a "pride night" and have invited a group called "The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" to perform at it.
The "sisters" are of course not sisters at all, but in fact, an anti catholic group of men who dress as nuns and mock catholics.
Originally the Dodgers, a baseball team, after learning that this was essentially an anti-Catholic hate group, uninvited them. However, they recently re-invited them.
Baseball?
What is the fucking point of this? What possible reason does a baseball team have to indicate a sexual preference? And why does this include mocking Catholics?
God this stuff is demoralizing. Is that the point?
firmamenti
2yr ago
But why
Because you hear $48M and think of that as a capstone sort of representation of the culmination of your life. A $48M house on the beach in San Diego is a way of showing both to yourself and to your neighbors that you are somebody who can afford a $48M house.
It's something you'd want to be really proud of, since you probably imagine only buying a $48M once, probably near the end of your life.
Bill Gates is worth $100 BILLION dollars. For math, let's assume your net worth is $1M. A $1,000,000 net worth is not something to be ashamed of.
This would be like spending $500 on a house. Let's say even $10,000,000 - a level at which most people would consider you rich. That's $5000 on a house. My net worth is somewhere between those two numbers, and I have many $5000 "goofy" sorts of toys that I mistreat and don't really care about aside from the once or twice a year they get used.
Even at $100,000,000 net worth, this is still a $50,000 expenditure (proportionally).
Why is it ugly? Because why the hell would he even consider the aesthetics of this house? At that level of wealth, this is functionally no different than staying in a hotel. He might not even know that he owns it.
firmamenti
2yr ago
The fact that there are still no replies to this major event I think demonstrates how I feel about this: I don't even care anymore. Yes the government is completely corrupt, yes this was a major political scandal beyond anything we've seen in a long time, and no nobody is going to be held accountable for it.
It's just "yeah, the FBI worked to delegitimize the president and used their considerable power to do so. We know."
Not to be outdone by Bud Lite, Miller Lite has apparently been running their own "woke" beer advertisements: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_NtBQWZqaHo
IMO the campaign here is actually clever, take this "bad" thing, use money to buy it, and turn it into a "good" thing. Whoever came up with this idea: cool idea.
But here's my question: is any of this old "bad" stuff actually bad? Let's look at contemporary things like onlyfans, instagram, tiktok, the hundreds of reddit 'gonewild' type porn forums, etc. It seems to me that many women, given the chance, enjoy wearing bikinis, being sexualized, being lusted after etc. Not all women, obviously, since some women don't like this, but...isn't this trying to strip the pro-sexualization women of their agency?
Aside from that, isn't Miller saying that women belong...in the kitchen? Don't go out to the beach and get drunk and have fun. Wear modest clothing (like the person in the ad), stay inside in the dark, and make things for people to eat.
Also: the claim that women were the primary brewers historically, is not only dumb, it's also wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihenstephan_Abbey?useskin=vector
firmamenti
2yr ago
I completely agree with this. There is unfortunately a ton of this in the federal government.
For instance: the commerce clause, which seems to be used to justify just about anything that the government wants to do.
Sorry for the doomer take, but I don't see a solution to this. NAFTA, unchecked immigration, the sexual revolution and its consequences, and constant race baiting is collapsing our society.
The problem isn't guns, the problem is that there are millions of disaffected people living in a country founded on the idea of individual human rights. That works when the people are hyper-invested in their families and the future that they'll be living in; that doesn't work when everybody is depressed and hates each other. No amount of restrictions or "doing something" is going to change that.
How do you solve the problem? I don't know, man. Maybe it's something [not so] simple like: Make everybody go back to church, bring the jobs back, undo the social problems created due to the sexual revolution, and encourage people to create families (but like I said, get people back in church, preferably a Catholic church).
How many of these mass shooters have been men living with a wife and kids? 0?
I think that a program to make angry young man with no sense of hope about the future and an intense hatred of the present care more about the future and have some investment in the present might work better than constant kvetching and trampling on human rights. In fact, I suspect that more trampling on human rights will probably make the problem worse.
But hey: it's only the future. Not that big of a deal, right? Let's let some dorky lawyers and political grifters figure it out, they've been doing a really good job on everything else! Hey maybe we can get a McKinsey consultant on the job!
firmamenti
2yr ago
In an earnings call, the Bud Light CEO has blamed the boycott on, what else? Why misinformation of course! https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1654177439893815313
The second guy he brings on is somehow even worse than this. Talking about "leveraging teams" and "moving forward" and "supporting".
Not "we're sorry" not "no we don't support groomers" not "this was stupid and the person has been fired" not "no we dont' think you're all fratty out of touch people that we need to move past". Nothing.
Here are brands that AB INBEV owns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB_InBev?useskin=vector#Brands
firmamenti
2yr ago
Is there any video of what led up to this available?
firmamenti
2yr ago
The right wing sees trans people as essentially equal to child molesters at this point.
If Bud Light had gone out of its way to create a special can for a child molester who was making tik tok videos espousing how fun it is to molest children, that would also not be looked at as "a minor screw up".
It's also not just the can, it's the marketing lady's followup video about how bud light wants to distance itself from the very people who buy it. She called them "fratty" and implied that this was "problematic".
Well, she got what she wanted!
firmamenti
2yr ago
You need to start trying different types of mineral water. "Water" is a broad category that includes many different categories and subcategories of drink that all have different flavors.
"Water" (H2O) is the carrier for the things that actually give water taste. If you are drinking municipal water that comes from your tap, a water fountain, etc, then what you are tasting are the chemicals that the city adds to make it safe to drink.
For mineral water, the things the water is carrying are what you are tasting. Based on the region that the water comes from and how it is sourced, these things are going to taste different.
For an extreme example of what I mean, try 1907 water, which is sweet to the taste: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/1907-water-artesian-water-2-lt-676-fl-oz-b06xhl9528
Or Gerolsteiner for a salty tasting water: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/gerolsteiner-mineral-water-253-fl-oz-b0078dsgdk
Gerolsteiner is also naturally carbonated, meaning it is bubbly as it comes out of the ground.
firmamenti
2yr ago
I wish I could show these statements to people even a few years ago. “Don’t worry, the chemical castration we will do to your children is probably reversible, and we only physical mutilate some of them!”
It’s just incomprehensible. How did we get here?
firmamenti
2yr ago
They’re chemically castrated and physically mutilated. Yeah that’s not death but “we’ve only castrated and mutilated your kids. C’mon they survived the surgery! Relax!” is not offering much in the way of comfort.
firmamenti
2yr ago
firmamenti
2yr ago
For us it was to start getting involved in our Catholic Church.
FULLTEXT here: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?session=ls93&number=HF146&session_number=0&session_year=2023&version=list
Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 518D.204, is amended to read:
518D.204 TEMPORARY EMERGENCY JURISDICTION.
(a) A court of this state has temporary emergency jurisdiction if the child is present in
this state and:
(1) the child has been abandoned or;
(2) it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse; or
(3) the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care as defined in section 543.23, paragraph (b).
This seems to suggest that the child simply has to be present in the state, with or without their parents.
And this is that section:
(b) "Gender-affirming health care" means medically necessary health care or mental
health care that respects the gender identity of the patient, as experienced and defined by
the patient, and that may include but is not limited to:
(1) interventions to suppress the development of endogenous secondary sex
characteristics;
(2) interventions to align the patient's appearance or physical body with the patient's
gender identity;
(3) interventions to alleviate the patient's symptoms of clinically significant distress
resulting from gender dysphoria as defined in the current version of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; and
(4) developmentally appropriate exploration and integration of the patient's gender
identity, reduction of the patient's distress, adaptive coping, and strategies to increase family acceptance of the patient's gender identity.
firmamenti
2yr ago
The state of Minnesota has passed a trans refuge bill.
Specifically, the bill would prohibit the enforcement of a court order for removal of a child or enforcement of another state’s law being applied in a pending child protection action in Minnesota when the law of another state allows the child to be removed from the parent or guardian for receiving medically necessary health care or mental health care that respects the gender-identity of the patient.
From my reading of this (not a lawyer, obvs): previously if a child ran away from home, and was found, the child would be returned to the child's parents. Now, however, if a child runs away from home, and claims a "transgender identity" the state will use its powers to keep the child from its parents.
This seems: absolutely pants-shittingly insane to me? Like I'm sortof reeling from disbelief at this and am still trying to figure out what I'm missing. This also seems to imply that if a child runs away to Minnesota, that the child will be kept in Minnesota away from his or her parents.
Can anybody help me understand this? This goes so far beyond anything that I had even considered in the realm of possibility that I'm sure I must be misunderstanding this.
As a related side note: I am reaching a point where reading things on this topic is becoming incredibly difficult. There seems to be so many seemingly double/triple/quadruple entendre words that its hard to follow.
Trump also needs Bannon as his chief of staff.
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