some swifties got butthurt that i didn’t give a fuck about fox news pointing at her plane and crying hypocrite (because that shit’s been background noise for a long time) and the longer it went on the more deranged and unhinged they got. it was not unlike talking to maga folks and i think i’m just going to avoid talking to anyone about anything at all until the libs either calm the hell down or the fascists kill them all because i’m just done trying to understand these twits
I said, and this is copypasted, “imagine simping for a rich white celeb just because of who decided to hate them.”
I literally do not know what her music sounds like as I don’t care for pop music, and I can’t criticize what I haven’t heard, but please go on assuming the worst of the person pointing out the weird pearl-clutching.
i said “imagine simping for a rich white celeb just because of who decided to hate them” and i got berated for twelve hours about “attacking others with progressive language” or some shit, go off at me about purity tests for thinking celeb worship is cringe though.
getting dogpiled for 12 hours by leftier-than-thous couching everything in vocabulary words and refusing to explain what the hell they actually mean while describing you as “leftist maga” because you said simping for billionaires is cringe will do that to you.
also it’s fucking hilarious that you’re cutting this out as a feminism issue, as if fox doesn’t smear literally every liberal jet owner in this way. they’ve been doing it for 20+ years that I’ve been paying attention, starting with Al Gore.
it was in response to a screencapped tweet about “Taylor out here making fox care about emissions” or similar - basically the same zero-effort take that is repeated literally any time fox falls back on the decades-old “omg private jet emissions HYPOCRITE!” chestnut. I think it was a completely fair shot, and if anyone in particular read that and felt insulted then frankly they need to examine their relationship to media, and not make it my problem.
ITT people interpret weariness of fear-based politics as propaganda, for some reason. i can’t witchall no more, can’t criticize shit, only fearmonger, or you must be working for the other team.
chemistry is an evolution of alchemy, because they strived in that way. Whereas Sovcit belief is a degenerate form of practicing law, more like a cargo cult imo.
thats like saying theyre wrong because words are spelled correctly yes the number is correct but the machine doesnt know what the hell it is, or what it’s for, or in any sense “understand” what it’s regurgitating to the user as evidenced by the fact that it listed it twice. “AI” doesn’t know anything, it just copy-pastes shit.
meanwhile i asked it to write a short simple hello world in a scripting language designed for children, and it spat out nothing but garbage. one of us is leaning on confirmation bias.
imagine living in TYoOL Two Thousand Twenty Four and still thinking the Code of Hammurabi is the epitome of justice, and that convicts are literal inhuman monsters 100% of the time that exist only to kill and terrorize and crime on people. The system can and does fuck up so the question becomes are all the innocent prisoners executed in Texas every year worth satisfying your absolutely bronze-age sense of justice, or do you think you can join the adults in the room in valuing human life even when it’s complicated?
PS numerous studies have showed the death penalty is not a deterrent, so like there aren’t even facts in your corner, just infantile fee-fees and baby-brained fearmongering.
sees source oh it’s gay fox, which means it’s probably sensationalized to the point that the headline is a lie, because that’s what they do over there.
honestly it would make sense and i didn’t doubt it until I saw it was on PinkNews - it’s not about bias, it’s about their headlines too often being the exact opposite of the real story (when there even is a real story; much of their content is sensationalized nothings). Just absolute crap reporting. Thanks for providing the original source.
…and they let the Republicans in committee decide what it should look like.
And then they all happily voted for it while their colleagues voted against it so they could look blameless.
And this keeps getting pitched to me as a win despite the fact that net effect of that “sweeping reform” for me and many others was paying a fine for not buying things we simply couldn’t afford, and when I finally did end up being able to get “Obamacare” “insurance” years after it passed (I’m talking during the Trump admin, my state told me to go pound sand for that long), literally all it did was cap certain types of medical debt from a very, very short list at the roughly the cost of a luxury sedan.
Obamacare was straight up an owngoal and it cracks me up when people try to pitch it as a win for Democrats. It was a win for the Heritage Foundation, who devised the scheme in the first place back in the 90s.
tl;dr the ACA was written by a conservative think-tank and forced in committee by Republicans, when they literally did not have to give that much power to the minority party it was done by choice knowing full well they don’t compromise. And a Democratic supermajority passed it and sold it to you as a win.
i’m sorry your revisionist oversimplified narrative is in conflict with what i literally watched unfold at the time because i was and am an adult who pays attention. Dems gave it away and called it a win. There’s no need to rage at me about it and i have to wonder why you’re the one with an emotional stake in this when i was the one who suffered as a result of that twisted abomination they sold to you as a “reform”.
DNC leadership fundamentally misunderstands that if you want a bloc to vote for you then you need to modify your platform to appeal to that bloc instead of depending on fearmongering about your opponent to get votes from people who are opposed to your platform as it stands because it’s very nearly as terrible and leads to the same outcome.
Don’t blame leftists for not having a dog in this race. Blame the party for treating us like free votes and shaming us when we don’t turn out for their smug corporate asses.
oh they still are, mom likes to work “subtle” transphobia into every single conversation so she can act like a victim when I point it out, and my dad told me in so many words to go fuck my freeloading self for wanting to crash his guest room and stop being lazy and sensitive when I found myself unemployable and facing homelessness after moving to be closer to family after my wife took her own life and my living situation fell through. good christian folks you know?
I am very lucky to have landed in a lovely and accepting community where people truly care about each other, and as a bonus the landscape is jawdroppingly beautiful, so at least a there was a good outcome at the end of it. The US South is no place for anyone who isn’t cis, het, white, male, nominally “Christian” in a way that would absolutely shock Jesus of Nazereth to his core, and neurotypical, and it’s mindblowing to me how much better my general mental state is just for being away from that culture.
that’s a matter of dialect, both spellings are widely used and recognized as correct by english speakers the world over, versus “anglification” being entirely made up by one joker trying to flex how smart they are.
as an aside I really don’t understand the pissing contest over minor spelling variations between the two major dialects of English (a large part of which, a devoted pedant must note, is merely bastardizations of French words), what gets me is stuff that’s the same word for totally different things depending on where you are like chips, biscuit, thong, napkin, pants, etc.
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