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“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

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BREAKING: Matt Gaetz is threatening that if his sexual misconduct gets revealed, he’ll call out all the other pervert Republicans in Congress.

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CONCLAVE (2024) is an inventive thriller that dares to ask the question: what if a senior official in the Catholic Church was a good person?

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One of the things that sucks about being an animation nerd is having to live with the fact that, from a technical standpoint, the Hotel Transylvania movies are absolutely ground-breakingly staggeringly incredible.

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guys. please

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We watched the entire internet, including and especially young people, believe the world’s most obvious wife-beater and gleefully mock and torment Amber Heard. The dehumanization and collective abuse of this woman was a fun pastime in 2022. It was a meme.

This is not unrelated to far too many young people at best not taking 2024 seriously enough to get off their ass and vote for a woman against the serial rapist, even at a time when a key campaign issue was women’s bodily autonomy. Taking women’s rights and misogyny seriously is seen as Cringe. “You can’t believe a woman just because she’s a woman!” and “You can’t vote for a woman just because she’s a woman!” are willfully obtuse statements that share the same lie: that society isn’t biased against believing women, and supporting women for leadership positions.

And the end result of those two statements is the same: holding women to an impossible standard, demonizing them when they inevitably don’t live up to it, and empowering horrible men who are held up to no standards at all. The warning signs that young people and the internet are firmly in a backlash culture against women’s rights have been there for years. Young people made memes out of a woman’s rape testimony; why would they think it was important to stop a rapist from becoming president (again)?

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Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.

"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."

"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."

They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.

"He's one of them transgenders."

"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."

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no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.

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Dudes shouldn't have to prove themselves by having spartan greyscale homes with dollar store rubber shower curtains and a mattress on the floor. Do you know what life is like with linen

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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How to negotiate like Donald Trump

It's always the same thing. In both politics and business. And the media always falls for it.

Declaim that there is an easy solution to any problem, it's just that the people in charge are too stupid and/or too corrupt to make the simple deal that will fix the issue.

Make a fairly banal deal that actually changes almost nothing but that he can claim is a miracle cure.

Break the deal at the last second, usually making outrageous and unacceptable demands that both won't work but that create chaos he thinks he can exploit for benefit.

Renegotiate the deal, usually making minor changes he can claim as big wins. *Perhaps* blow it up again; *perhaps* agree for realsies.

Repeat on loop, thereby ensuring that all the focus is on him and his personality and not the emptiness of his deal-making or the failures of his actual policies and programs.

Watch for the next 4 years. It's going to be just this way. Same as it ever was.

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As a farmer.. homie thinking he is hot shit for hauling ONE BALE is so fucking funny let me put a rack on the back of my 02 dodge and i can haul fuckin 10 bales without needing the headers

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there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.

probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.

I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.

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pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up

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The entirety of Biden’s presidency was marked by him doing key things the left wanted him to do (student loan forgiveness, commuting prison sentences for non-violent offenders, ending the drone war, ending the war in Afghanistan, reclassifying weed, standing with unions, codifying gay marriage into federal law, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza), and them doing absolutely nothing but punishing him for it by lying about his actions and immediately moving the goalposts. It was worse than giving him no credit; they were outraged every time he did anything they asked for. There is no electoral upside to listening to progressives when it turns off moderates, and leftists just double down and continue screaming that they’ll never vote for Democrats.

I would say that these people are too stupid to realize that the backlash to the most progressive president in our lifetimes mean we’ll never get someone as progressive as Biden again, but they’ve made it abundantly clear that they don’t care about gaining any kind of power. They stand for nothing but being internet edgelords. Nothing is more important to them than feeling smug and radikewl, hating liberals as much as their Republican parents do, and endlessly playing a game of holier-than-thou that only they can win. Their political goals start and end online. Truly the most dishonest political cohort that’s wholly uninterested in making any irl progress that I’ve ever seen