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Tinted
1yr ago
Aye. I think "weird nerds aren't real people" is the most important lesson I picked up from the 2010s.
When you only interact with a group online, you (or I) default to listening to them. All that feminism etc drama gave me enough exposure to notice what kind of people it all was.
Wasted a lot of time trying to make sense of nearly subhuman creeps...
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I haven't mailed anything in years, and I haven't mailed an actual letter in decades.
I'm struggling to think of when I last received a valuable piece of mail (instead of just paper copies of bills and advertisements). It might have been some Christmas cards from pre-pandemic times.
Tinted
1yr ago
That was an observation, not a statement of opinion. Politically irrelevant weirdos are not a constituency.
marten
1yr ago
I share the sentiment. I would especially like to hear about why Andrew Jackson was a “lion” of a president, somewhere in a neighborhood of Lincoln, which I interpret from the context to mean “highly impactful and in a net positive way.”
I don’t necessarily disagree — I don’t know much about the early American presidents — but this strikes me as a possibly heterodox assertion and the explanation might be juicy.
There is still some reserves of social capital left in the red tribe, but they are being depleted at an alarming rate. Red tribe loves television, but Hollywood writers and producers are all blue tribe, so every modern show pushes feminist memes, sexual liberation memes, pro-college memes, and rootless cosmopolitan memes. And people only watch modern shows.
Red tribe fathers who proudly quote the "rules for dating my daughter" cheerfully send their little princesses off to college without a second thought, where they will very predictably spend four years away from any male relative supervision getting covered in cum from head to toe by men who have zero chance of committing to them. A father forbidding a legally adult, academically successful daughter from attending a far away university over fears of promiscuity would be outside even the red tribe Overton window; at that point, his wife and family and friends and preacher would turn against him for stifling his daughter's future.
Even if his society is with him, a patriarchal red tribe father has no legal leg to stand on. Threatening a cad with a shotgun to get him to stay away from his daughter is assault; actually shooting the rake is murder. Physically grabbing his daughter away from a party where she is likely to end up banged and locking her up in her room is liable to end up in a cop showing up to white knight for her. If you cannot drag your daughter/wife home by the hair when she is out acting like a slut and give her a good beating and have your society, your church, and your law enforcement agency back you up and agree that you acted correctly, you cannot control your women's sexuality.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1yr ago
Agreed. I'm a person who does a lot of stuff digitally (more than average, in my experience) and I still mail physical letters a few times per year. Someone who has never mailed a letter ever is way, way outside the norm.
Also, I'll second @yofuckreddit here: mailing a letter is really easy and if someone can't figure it out, they frankly are too stupid to vote. Even if one has never mailed a letter before, it would take 5 minutes with Google to look at how you are supposed to address the envelope and where the nearest post office is. The bar to entry is on the floor here.
erwgv3g34
1yr ago
Righties don't want men to be held responsible ever for wanting to get their dicks wet, not even to the degree that we might say "Tut tut" and socially shun him. Or I guess we can do that but if and only if we also agree that women are property.
You cannot accuse a man of trespassing upon a public road.
Supah_Schmendrick
1yr ago
She's not even all that black. She's one quarter black Jamaican, one quarter Irish, and half high-caste Indian. Zero ADOS heritage in there at all.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
If you simply expand the A in ADOS to include the Americas...
BahRamYou
1yr ago
As a general rule that makes sense. But in this specific election, they only won because the opposition was fractured into two dueling parties. At some point, they're going to coalesce and then they'll once again have the votes. You'd think that labour might realize they have only a brief window of control here where they can act.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Hunter certainly wants Biden to retain power and protect him, that much is clear.
With what endgame? It seems unlikely at the moment that the big guy will survive his son.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
If stupid and lazy people are going to screw up mailing a ballot then I'm not sure why Democrats would expect to benefit.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
You don't even need to address the envelope to vote by mail. They send you an envelope. You just have to put the ballot in, seal it, sign it, and put it in a blue box.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1yr ago
I'm aware of Botox and collagen implants, but what on Earth is this stuff about?
His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
1yr ago
I think that typical minding is a real thing for sure. The unfortunate problem is, it doesn't tell you much useful in cases like this. Perhaps most men really are possessed of sex drives so strong that it is literally beyond their control, as @coffee_enjoyer claims. On the other hand, perhaps that's just an excuse for bad behavior, as I claim. While both could be true for different individuals, they can't both be true as a rule of thumb for the population.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
1yr ago
It does clarify the conversation when people are willing to express themselves in a straightforward manner.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
1yr ago
People aren't roads, as much as some might wish otherwise. Even the past was rarely as Dread Jim and his fanboys represent it.
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
1yr ago
I voted Labour. I'm basically a single issue voter on housing and infrastructure at the moment and the Labour party is the only one with a remotely credible plan (now it remains to be seen how far they go towards implementing it).
Abolish the green belt yesterday!
DaseindustriesLtd
late version of a small language model
1yr ago
Does anyone else feel "there's no other place like home" sort of way about this place?
I do. It's funny, I'be become somewhat prominent elsewhere, yet I never feel such warm rush as when writing for you guys. And that despite being not an amicable type. I've been among you, what, five years? And made maybe three friends. Even so.
It's a damn shame that Zorba didn't do good on his promise of establishing a recruiting pipeline. But that's hard, and now clearer why it's hard.
dasfoo
1yr ago
Most Democrats want him gone. They voted for him in the primaries but now he's a liability.
Did they? He ran (virtually) unopposed and only got something like 15 million primary votes. They didn't need to vote for him, and they mostly didn't.
Will the long-buried Biden hair-sniffing stories finally see the light of day? Or will the media come back to Biden's corner now that he's fighting back?
It's interesting how my Reddit in the last week has been overrun with "Trump's Best Buddy Jeffrey Epstein" and "Trump accused of raping a 13-year-old" posts across a variety of subs. The anti-Trump bots are out in force and aiming low. If "Biden's Top 10 Underage Gropes" doesn't get equal roll-out, someone is shirking their solemn responsibility.
dasfoo
1yr ago
With what endgame?
What happens to unspent campaign cash after an election? Let's say Biden is tanking but has healthy coffers. Would it benefit a candidate to quietly accept an early loss and become thrifty in the final months, setting aside a surplus of funds as a nice consolation prize?
I put 500 hours into TF2 (though I haven't played in years now o7)
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