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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2m ago
Additionally, the Border Patrol posted a video on an Instagram containing an antisemitic slur.
Which is to say they posted a video containing a Michael Jackson song. Of all the controversies surrounding Michael Jackson, that was the least.
A flag with a swatiska embedded in it was spotted in the office of Representative Dave Taylor.
"Was spotted." This was an op... did you send them?
Myron Gaines
Who?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
3m ago
I’m not in favor of even hipsters ironically Nazi-posting, in case I wasn’t clear. My issue is that the conservative movement is expected to denounce their lizard-coefficient portion of the movement, while it doesn’t happen for other groups. The Left can be pretty antisemitic in its own right. There are “pro-Palestine” people who will repeat every trope that the old-school Nazis did (own the media and Hollywood, lie constantly, cry out in pain as the strike you, etc.) but nobody on the mainstream left is asked about it. And even getting away from that, the level of hate for even regular Christians and conservatives is pretty far beyond any good taste or social norms. A guy on the Democratic side got caught texting that he wanted to kill the wife and son of his political opponent. Not only are mainstream democrats not asked to denounce it, the man still has the support of the party. It’s a one sided thing. Both sides have rare extremist elements; all groups do. But it’s very obvious that there’s a KTO KEGO dynamic here where democrats can ignore or even support their fringe movements without being blamed for them. No one sticks a microphone In Kamala’s face asking her about antisemitism on the left, communism.
Yes, it's a big problem, and it's your fault. To be specific, it's the left's fault for calling everyone they disagreed with a Nazi. They called Bush a Nazi. They called McCain an Nazi. They called Mitt Romney a Nazi. They even called Trump a Nazi (how a unashamedly pro-Zionist figure such as him could be is beyond me.) The sum total of all your pearl clutching and ad hominems is that actual Nazis have snuck back into the Overton window.
The very understandable reaction: "fuck it, you're calling me a Nazi, I might as well be one."
So stop using it as a slur against milquetoast social conservatives and Christians, for fuck's sake. You, and people like you, have welcomed the browns back into the political discourse because they are the only ones who have the steel in their spines to tell you to go to hell. And boy, do they look strong in telling liberals and wokes to fuck off. An entire generation of young men thinks it's cool to give you and those like you the middle finger.
What you can do to stop the Nazi menace is to stop calling people to the right of Stalin Nazis. You, in fact, possess the agency to turn down the heat. The left have purged all of the people that could be coerced with shame: now, only the shameless remain. Why are you so surprised at this? Why do you come here and post these links - which amount to insinuating that your political opposition are Nazis? I've never heard of that one before. Don't you see that your actions are counterproductive?
You don't say the devil's name because you tempt him to come. Now he is here.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
24m ago
Posts like this make me think that the only bubble we are actually in is an AI-won't-matter copium bubble.
Have you ever seen a popular end-user technology become unpopular because of some pesky externalities? I can only think of several that produced a stinking trash heap of them and took zero popularity damage for it, like, for example, cars.
Rov_Scam
24m ago
It's even worse than that, because at least Yahoo and Microsoft had viable business plans and are still around years later. ChatGTP and other AI-only companies are more similar to Pets.com than the boosters want to realize. The news stories about the site's downfall always focused on the amount they spent on advertising, but they were selling the stuff they bought for less than what they paid for it, plus free shipping, in a bid to corner the market. ChatGTP is even worse because 97% of the users aren't paying anything, there is no advertising on the platform (and banner ads aren't going to cut it), and the 3% who do pay are likely power users who get more than their money's worth. So it's like if Pets.com gave 97% of their stuff away for free, sold the remaining 3% at a discount, and justified it by assuming that online shopping would be revolutionary and everyone would buy everything online. They were essentially right, they just went about it the wrong way to keep the spigot flowing. Add in spending large sums on infrastructure (i.e. warehouses vs. data centers) and the parallels are all too clear.
Celestial-body-NOS
We are all human beans. Together, we will rice.
31m ago
...saved [G]ermany.
That's an odd way of describing 'got his country squashed like a bug and occupied and split in half for 4+ decades'.
stolen_brawnze
I am the way Sia says "batteries" in that one song.
33m ago
I wasn’t as close to my brother-in-law as you seem to have been. But I can commiserate with you in your concern for your wife. My wife’s brother’s overdose messed her up pretty bad and even delayed our having kids by an appreciable amount of time.
I made this about me somehow, and I’m sorry. There’s nothing really I can say, and you knew that.
I hope you and your family can find peace. Ours is trying in part by memorializing him with various objects around the mother-in-law’s house.
Skeletor
34m ago
It's my impression that the internecine struggle between the pro-Jewish and anti-Jewish right has heated up significantly in the aftermath of the Kirk shooting. Normie Republican wonks versus Groypers. The normie "Israel is our greatest ally, legal immigration is heckin' wholesome, never say slurs" Republicans obviously hold vastly superior institutional power, but long-term they're basically dead. As far as I can tell every right-wing male under forty on social media considers them complete dickless old losers.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
37m ago
I had a climber friend who was super into endurance running, I was pretty into weightlifting, we were jawing back and forth about which one was harder/more impressive. His argument was that running a marathon was much harder because it took much longer and much more effort, one is destroyed after running a marathon where one is just fine after a 1rm. I argued that a big back squat was more impressive as if you can't squat 300lbs, you just can't squat 300lbs, where if I wanted to run a marathon today I could, it would just take a while, give me enough time and I can travel 26.2 miles on foot today no problem, but if you can't squat 300lbs in the morning you won't squat it in the evening either.*
So this bet formed where I would run a marathon, and then he would attempt a back squat at a weight set as a percentage of the world record equivalent to the percentage of my marathon speed relative to that world record.
He basically thought there was no fucking way I would ever finish a marathon without any training, so he was safe.
Ultimately I did finish the marathon, but he welched and started trying to argue about needing to do the squat as a percentage of the world record at his weight class, which I said was stupid because I didn't get the advantage of running a marathon at the 195lb record. Then that argument kind of ended the thing.
I would say that while I did finish 26.2 miles with no training and just guts, it sucked way worse than I thought it would. So we both kinda had a point.
*My argument ignores the option of breaking the 300lb object into smaller pieces, or needing to run the 26.2 miles per hour at a certain speed to avoid something catching you
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
42m ago
in theory there's a big space of possible puzzles, but in practice they're written to conform to very specific formats.
There are only so many ways to cram a bunch of words together and have them all be actual words. The bigger the grid and the smaller the dead space, the fewer options there are for the possible words. The infinite possibilities start to shrink rapidly.
Aside from that practical limitation, the audience for crossword puzzles apparently loves atrocious answers, so puzzles are written to please them. One I did had the clue "lived like a single man," and the answer was "batchedit." I had never heard that phrase, and it's awful (why does it have a "t" in there when "bachelor" doesn't have one???). I cannot imagine ever hearing someone I know use that phrase. Searching the phrase online, though, and puzzle fanatics can be found screaming in delight at how creative it is. So when puzzles are written to please balloonheads like those, it's no wonder so many puzzles have insufferable clues and answers.
So young right are ironic antisemites and young left are unironic ones. This does not bode well for the jews and Israel. There has been way more howl for (and spilled) jewish blood from the left than the right since 2023.
Edit: A bit more - young people like the austrian painter for the same reason they like Tate. If you squish all the moderate versions of nationalism, patriotism and masculinity - the toxic ones will thrive.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
49m ago
I would recommend a notebook for... well, everything. Minor tasks, major tasks, stray thoughts, something funny you saw, a culture war thought you had, a book/music recommendation you saw, something you're grateful for, something you need to order, anything. About an A5 size, but it depends on what you prefer (one that opens flat will be more useable than other kinds). Don't make a fetish of it like the bullet journal weirdos with 13 ink colors and all kinds of formatting. Just get it written down. Portion it off with some tabs for easier organization, but again, the important thing is writing it down.
I have a very good memory and rarely forget things, but find my stress level goes up the more things I'm carrying in my head. When I outsource it to a basic notebook I haul around, it makes life way easier. For example, during the week, I write down everything I want to do over the weekend, and then during the weekend I have my list to work on. Doing a long run turns into the satisfaction of the run itself plus crossing it off the list. Knowing I need to call my Grandma means I know to set time aside. On a weekday evening, I find it easier to avoid some post-work doomscrolling if I know the things I could be doing instead.
You can move from open loop to: put item on list>work on that item at planned time (or when free time pops up)>item finished>cross off item*>less stress. You'll also be able to see all the stuff on your list and balance that against what other people want or your marginal desires. It's powerful to look back at all the crap you've done during the year.
*It's very silly, but don't underestimate the value of getting to cross something off the list. It's almost as satisfying (if not moreso sometimes) than finishing the task itself.
I encourage you to think about this the same way you told others to react to the people praising the murder of Charlie Kirk.
it's not a big deal. These people don't matter. Indeed, perhaps the people who worry you so are not even real. They are a figment of your imagination. Or maybe some curtailed rage bait. Who's in favor of this besides some random oppositional bubble you're in? Wouldn't you rather talk about something the other team did? Do you have statistics to prove who's more anti-Semitic? Have you weighed what's coming out of the other side on that front lately?
I imagine you would find it extremely frustrating to have people react in this way. So, can I ask: what makes this different? Why should I care what the crazy college kids are saying all of a sudden? I am asking you genuinely.
This may come off as a deflection, but the way I see it, this is a lot like those things, except these people were punished quite swiftly. So, why do we care, exactly? Everyone involved has been made an example of. What are you worried about?
hydroacetylene
53m ago
Will this growing trend of Nazi radicalism destroy the Republicans chances among moderates in the future like embracing left wing radicalism hurt Biden?
Biden and his viziers(because let's be honest, he wasn't calling the shots) refused to disown left wing radicalism the way you yourself note republican highers-up disowning nazi rhetoric.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1hr ago
five hour marathon to settle a bet
What was the bet?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
So, uncharitable it is. Dan Carlin sources his stories very well. They often have a slight, particular slant to them because of his political leanings, but I would not call him a "liar" who posts trivially debunked (there's that word again) stories that contradict "basic factual knowledge" (cf. "basic logic," "basic human decency"). Dan Carlin emphasizese a specific set of facts to spin a particular narrative. Some people say this means all history is bunk, but IMHO that's a uselessly sweeping and reductive judgement. There is no narrative-free history.
try and whitewash Nazi aggression and Nazi crimes while shifting the blame for these things to their enemies
This complaint is always levelled in bad faith at people who try to understand the internal state of the "bad guys." If you try to explain, even with disavowels, why e.g. how Communists came to power in Russia by tapping into legitimate grievances that certain groups had, you will invariably be called a Communist sympathizer by those on the right too idiotic to understand hypotheticals or too Machiavellian to feel shame. I see little to indicate that you're an idiot.
Given that he's on record praising reactionary authoritarianism
Am I supposed to shrink back in fear at this? So what? Your words have no power here. I've been jaded by the pearl-clutching about "our democracy" by libs for the last decade.
Cooper is deliberately misrepresenting WW2 in a way that minimizes the crimes of Nazism, it raises the question of why?
He isn't, and you don't get to smuggle your tendentious accusation into the question, sorry. As for why he is telling this story, he is doing it for the same reason he told the stories of the Zionist Jews, the Palestinians, the (leftist!) People's Temple, the (leftist!) early labor movement in the U.S. -- because he thinks it's important to tell stories from within the frame and perspective of the people who lived that story, rather than as a "neutral" or baised outsider. An impossible goal, but a worthwhile aspiration (and given how preoccupied leftists are with lived experience, you'd think they would approve, but instead it's just another case of "no not like that!!"). Do you think Cooper is a People's Temple booster? A Zionist Jew sympathizer (Check his Twitter to find out about that one)?
Are these people full on fascists?
There's that word again. There's nothing I can really say in response to this that won't get me in trouble, so let me just recommend that you find a more effective line of attack, because scolding and panicking about "fascism" is so 2017, it doesn't work on anyone anymore save the most dyed in the wool leftists. And it undermines any concern you are trying to create in me about "reactionary authoritarianism."
Following the recent Politico expose on the Young Republicans groupchat leak among mid 20s-30s leaders of the organization containing comments about gas chambering their political opponents and antisemitic remarks like this
“I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest,”
In the followup to this, yes you heard it right, at least four new antisemitic and/or Nazi controversies in the past day or so.
A flag with a swatiska embedded in it was spotted in the office of Representative Dave Taylor. Rep. Taylor has called it out and condemned it, and it's quite possible he never noticed it before himself but it does seem to be another sign of the embedded antisemitic and pro nazi rhetoric in lower level staffers if one of them put it up.
“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms,” Taylor said in a statement
Additionally, the Border Patrol posted a video on an Instagram containing an antisemitic slur. While the higher ups of the border patrol likely don't have much to do with what gets posted on the social media, it's again another bad sign that the lower levels who coordinate posts and approve them are antisemitic. Someone had to specifically pick that particular verse of that particular version of that particular song, they knew what they were posting and whatever approval process they use, the others would have heard the lyrics and yet signed on.
The third controversy is the most explicit of them all. Myron Gaines, host of the Fresh and Fit podcast (1.58 million subscribers on YouTube alone) posted
Yeah we like Hitler. No one gives a fuck what you woke jews think anymore.
Bro was a revolutionary leader and saved germany. The jews declared war on Germany first.
If can israel deny a genocide with 4k video proof, I'm questjoning everything you guys have said about the painter during WW2.
Now, I never would have imagine that the word woke includes "thinking the Holocaust is real and Hitler is bad", but that seems to be where we are at now. Gaines is also a former employee of the DHS, which is just another point of evidence of low level gop aligned staffers having pro Nazi/antisemitic views.
But in fact, all of this seems to be par for the course, according to Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab. who also wades into the ring of antisemitic Holocaust denialism with comments like
That's right, at least two major conservative names have directly engaged in unashamed pro Nazi/Holocaust denialism/etc rhetoric in response to the group chat leak and both of them strongly believe that many other high level conservatives agree with them (Myron's use of "We like Hitler and Torba saying it's normal).
As Richard Hanania (Writer of "The Origins of Woke" who has been in many conservative spaces before) explained months before the leak, this is actually pretty common. As he's said before, the two types of comments he tends to get "it can't be that bad" and "lol that's exactly what it's like" such as this agreement from National Review reporter James Lynch
Everyone involved with the young right already knew this was happening.
Hanania was first to articulate it in depth from a place of familiarity.
What's interesting is that the one thing both the Nazi denouncers (Hanania/Lynch/etc) and Nazi defenders (Myron/Torba/etc) here both seem to agree on, is that this is common among the young right. There seems to be a broad consensus that this gropyer antisemitic Nazism is growing among conservatives, especially young ones. We've seen this with Kanye and his descent into Nazism, we've seen this with John Reid and Mike Robinson both exposed over their Nazi fetish. We've seen this with Tucker Carlson and Daryl Cooper. The rapid growth of figures like Nick "six million cookies" Fuentes, Ian Carroll and Theo Von. In fact a neo Nazi inspired kid was even behind a recent school shooting in Colorado a few months ago
EW Erickson says https://x.com/EWErickson/status/1978812093773041964
This is why the “no enemies to the right of me” stuff cannot work. There are enemies there and we cannot be silent. This stuff is festering and needs to be excised from the right.
Ben Shapiro says that unity with radicals will destroy the right wing as it pushes moderate Americans away.
Right wing conservative libertarian speaker Phil Magness says
The same people calling for conservative "unity" in the wake of the Hitler chat group leaks also spent the last decade trying to purge classical liberals & free market economics from the conservative movement.
They don't want "unity." They want room for Nazis in that movement.
So with all this recent controversy, how big of a Nazi problem is actually festering, and why do the Nazis seem to feel so comfortable in modern conservativism? They even seem to be dropping hints at the highest levels if the border patrol video was intended as a dog whistle to be dropped before deleting. Is this growing widespread agreement (from Hanania to Torba) that this is just the tip of the iceberg among young conservatives accurate? Will this growing trend of Nazi radicalism destroy the Republicans chances among moderates in the future like embracing left wing radicalism hurt Biden? And how do the non Nazi conservatives and moderates balance fighting off Nazi accusations from the left also working to stem this apparant rise of unashamed nazism and Holocaust denialism?
Mihow
Lipstick on a guitar
1hr ago
Now I have to disagree with our vice president here, I don't think it is pearl clutching to oppose support of Hitler.
Yea but this isn’t really being done except for the lols. We remember those right?
Every chat group with dudes eventually turns into your favorite -ism.
Just dudes being dudes.
The problem with the internet is it went from being handled by libertarians to, yes, pearl clutching progressives that have more in common with 90’s Christian conservatives rather than any sane person today.
They don’t really care about Hitler - they say Hitler is great because it’s provocative. Same reason Elvis gyrated.
Corvos
1hr ago
What tools are you using? I used to use Windsurf code editor but they lost half their team and I don't think they're doing well.
Throwaway05
1hr ago
Maybe healthcare just is a cursed industry.
It absolutely is. So much regulatory burden. Razor thin profit margins that fall and rise with political winds. Failed disrupters (Google, Apple, Microsoft have all entered and left). Outright lies (Theranos).
The deck was stacked against you :/
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Francoism wound up as a de facto theocracy, so it can accurately be pointed to as a genuine example of pro-Christian societal upheaval(and would've gotten away with it to, if it wasn't for Vatican II).
Being anti-gay was an area where the Nazis went above and beyond tradition. Sure, there were a few Nazis who were able to get away with gay sex, allegedly, but the median man accused of sodomy would have very much preferred to be in the Kaiserreich.
So would the median man accused of anything else. 'The Nazis were far more brutal than average' is a statement that's just true, it isn't specific to homosexuality.
Is this just your uncharitable interpretation of them
No.
People seem to get their panties in a bunch because these two guys don't genuflect to the WW2 mythos that has been handed down to the American public through Hollywood and high school history class, but I'm not convinced that saying something like "actually WW2 was more complicated that just Good Guys vs Bad Guys" is in any way remotely near "full-on sieg heiling."
Yeah, but they're not saying that. They're peddling ahistorical nonsense to try and whitewash Nazi aggression and Nazi crimes while shifting the blame for these things to their enemies for having the temerity to resist. Cooper wants to paint Nazi atrocities as tragic accidents in a war they were forced into, using arguments make little sense and that can be trivially debunked if you possess basic factual knowledge^1. This suggests that Cooper is either an idiot or a liar, and I see little else to indicate that he is an idiot. If Cooper is deliberately misrepresenting WW2 in a way that minimizes the crimes of Nazism, it raises the question of why? Given that he's on record praising reactionary authoritarianism, it's probably because he's sympathetic and thinks it's useful to soft-pedal Hitler.
Are these people full on fascists? Don't know. Clearly, however, they do find an interest in trying to rehabilitate fascism.
1: for example, blaming Churchill for the escalation of the German invasion of Poland into general European war
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
But, notably, openai isn't profitable.
When the Heroes of Olden Era was announced I was apprehensive and concerned, but when they announced that Paul Romero was in it, I got hope. But looking at the demo I was disappointed. I did not expect the return of kick ass ost to carry the game forevermore in the memories of the kid who really loved the game. But for the love of god, Kings Bounty games were way better than this stuff.
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