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poster for your poster needs (grossly oversimplified but i'm going for broad strokes not intensive academic rigor)

free to use, repost & reproduce, no credit necessary

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The delicate agonies of trying to point out to a friend they have inadvertently been conditioned into making casual jokes about the destruction of their own rights and autonomy without questioning them, but not in a way that makes them think you're such a Debbie Downer that they just stop talking to you and they go down their spiral into destruction anyways

Trying to ask them "who told you that" in a way that doesn't sound exactly like a mad parent who heard their kid swearing and the kid learns that the trouble they get in is worth hiding their mistakes rather than making them in the open and getting constructively corrected

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

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Oh. Oh no. I'm in trouble.

See, this is actual nostalgia. Not reboots of the same property every six years in perpetuity. A return after a long absence. A rumble of a silly little engine thirty years after it went into storage.

I am learning that you can only have actual nostalgia for something if it was actually gone first. I mean, I like Transformers but I don't even have to think back half a year to hit a new and good Transformers production.

Samurai Pizza Cats is 35 years old and I can't recall seeing it since 1997.

You can't miss something if it never leaves.

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Getting my "Nobody's going to see it!" joke out of the way before a cyclops throws a big rock at me

tes THDPSSSSPS 💜

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hot flaming take i’m abt to slap you with: it’s not acceptable to punish children for their grades, no matter the circumstances.

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Watching US current events right now feels like that scene from Family Guy where Peter was at his rich in-laws' while they're showing a snuff film, and he whispers nervously "Are… are they really gonna kill that girl?" and Lois just chides him "Peter, please, people are trying to watch"

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I was just discussing this on bluesky and lamenting that since the government's being held hostage by 4chan memelords, you have to go into 5 layers of internet subculture history & etymology to explain all the coded malice, but no matter how precise you are, you still sound like a you wear a tin foil hat to bed on the regular.

Like, to understand the significance of the three letters "KEK" as a dogwhistle, you have to know about korean language phonetics and internet communication, MMO gaming culture, the tendency of online communities to mutate and reduce language for comedy and swiftness of communication, and the propensity for gamers to be easily radicalized into right wing ideologies through isolation? If you haven't lost the attention of someone who isn't already thoroughly internet poisoned, you sound like you're selling a multilevel marketing scam.

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Thinking about The Amazing Digital Circus being my fixation right now and realizing it's a coping fantasy to along the lines of: "I'm begging to be trapped in a technicolor cartoon purgatory where I forget my name and I'm screamed at on a daily basis by a plastic chatter teeth toy in a tumblr sexyman ringmaster outfit because it legitimately sounds more appealing than being a real live American citizen. The mad god-kings I have to suffer the whims of aren't even amusing in their chaos, they're age-ravaged cocaine-addled real estate agents and vindictive 4chan refugees fantasizing about the first minority they get to legally kill. Fuck me up funny teeth man, there's no way you could do worse. At this point I'd even settle for the fucking Onceler."

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

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bert and ernie go to ikea

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I love this weirdo, I can't wait to find out what his horrible morally polarizing problem is

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Tantrum hole

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They'll come up with some kind of behavioral excuse like "well you should have done/shouldn't have done" but it's basically a mask for "if you don't behave in a way I approve of, I believe sickness and death is appropriate retribution."

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