idkwcpgw
1mo ago
There's a bigger problem here, and it's the perennial story of enshittification: Everybody has a price. The thing you're describing would be worth a lot of money if successful, for various reasons. I say this not as an insult to you but as a description of human nature: what would happen when someone dangled your price in front of you? What about 2x your price? 10x?
idkwcpgw
1mo ago
Of course, with Platner, the story that he got it in Croatia and had no clue what it represented seems likely.
I could potentially believe that he didn't know what it represented when he first got it, but the NYT reported that he definitely knew for years afterwards:
from https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html:
Mr. Platner, she said, knew when they were dating years ago that the tattoo was a Nazi symbol, and that he called it “my Totenkopf.” “I would never have known what that was,” she said. “He would joke about it being a Nazi tattoo.”
idkwcpgw
1mo ago
Gambling you historically don't come back from, unless you're the best pitches since Tungsten Arm O'Doyle and your best friend is willing to take the rap.
At first I assumed that it was a coverup/fall-guy situation, but is there any actual evidence anywhere? I have never found anything but pure idle speculation. Ohtani seems naïve and child-like enough that him being taken advantage of really does seem plausible.
idkwcpgw
8mo ago
For me the thing that put this more out of bounds than most of the batshit things Trump says is that he should be able to relate to it. A father being killed by his son is truly tragic, unless the father has covered for grievous crimes the son has committed. It doesn't look like that's the case here, just that Nick Reiner is a complete and utter schizophrenic nut. I don't know that he's terrorized anyone but his parents, and a parent should be able to empathize.
The reason the left's response to Charlie Kirk hit me so hard is that he was assassinated - again, the form of death matters. If he was hit by a car, the left being a bag of dicks would feel normal. When your own side extra-judiciously kills someone, you should not cheer.
When parents are killed by their mentally ill child, it's a true tragedy that you wouldn't wish on anyone.
Also, The Princess Bride is a national treasure.
idkwcpgw
9mo ago
Okay, you're correct and I am a bad reader. To my credit (and as you said), those examples are so bad that they short circuited my brain and I could not relate them to the opening thesis.
idkwcpgw
9mo ago
I might be a bad reader here and misunderstanding, but I see that article as 3 distinct pieces:
- Does the social contract even exist any more?
- Did Cheating Accusations Kill This Grandmaster?
- Twitch Can’t Protect Streamers
I don't read the latter two sections as in any way related to the former.
The city leadership also intentionally and illegally deleted text messages to avoid any culpability. https://mynorthwest.com/local/judge-evidence-thousands-texts-top-seattle-officials-deleted-text-messages/3786557
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