#look dont get me wrong i do NOT like biden at all

[han-solo-cant-dance]

I did not miss trumps voice its like having to listen to a dumb older relative who believes the moon landing was faked and believes the ai images on Facebook are real

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[brookiidookiii]

JO OMGOD JO (for the ask game thing ^^)

My first impression

she didnt really stand out that much to me but i think once i got to ep5 that was when i really started to care about her. i think i was probably 8/9 when i first watched ROTI

My impression now

yeah shes my favorite of all time. if it isnt obvious. i love her with all my heart

Favorite thing about that character

theres too much. probably her nicknames and her interactions with the characters around her. her voice actor is so good at the role too.

Least favorite thing

there is nothing wrong with her. all my pet peeves are with the writers. like how they createst the hottest beautifulest strongest smartest character ever and all they could do is joke about her looking like a man. sad day in bidens america

Favorite line/scene

'no, welcome to MY team.' she was so badass in that scene and brick is scared for his LIFE

and this ones from her skatoony episode but "i wish the boys were back. theyre easier to boss around" lol i love her

Favorite interaction that character has with another

yeah im biased but brick and jo lol. they instantly clicked and i adore their rivalry, its for sure one of my favorites... jo and lightning as well. her and anne maria are funny, loved watching her tricking anne maria into doing stuff

team dude rocks. wish we couldve had more of those 3

A character that I wish that character would interact with more

heather. if the writers werent cowards they wouldve let them fought more. esp since jo respects her and sees her as "my kind of competitor", just doesnt like her sense of style. just more of her interacting with the other girls. and also scott, they couldve had some blackmail alliance frenemy thing, idk

oh i also like duncan and jo. he thinks her nicknames are cool so i respect him a little bit more. a jo and zoey friendship wouldve been sick. jo hates girly girls, zoey hates jocks. they become besties aw yeah. i could go on and on forever about potential friendships and dynamics i have for her...

Another character from another fandom that reminds me of that character

rainbowdash. both are crazy competitive tomboys and both childhood favs of mine

A headcanon about that character

i think she has a super healthy diet. shed have one of those balance diet charts on her fridge, gotta stay in shape. but her guilty pleasure food would be nachos

A song that reminds of that character

im probably not gonna answer this question but im not good with assigning songs

An unpopular opinion about that character

THERES SO MUCH THIS FANDOM GETS WRONGG her internalized misogyny and body issues that were never touched on.... it makes me so angry. and i dont see anyone ever exploring that. maybe one day ill write something. she has so many issues that no one ever talks about and how she wants to feel pretty. people who call her a pick me are so wrong and dont even know what a pick me is.

her masculinity is my favorite thing about her but being a tomboy shouldnt come with hating on other girls for the crime of liking feminine stuff. idk i think theres something deeper. also she should never be given long hair. it feels illegal

Favorite picture

i like the way she sits. shes so cool

[kopilot-pop]

Okayy I get where you’re coming from with the yunjin defending, and the next questions I’m asking fully genuinely.

Before this incident, somi (her friend) and Giselle (also her friend) received so much backlash for promoting Starbucks (somi) and posting McDonald’s (Giselle). After seeing the amount of backlash she got, she removed all her insta posts with Starbucks. Yet afterwards, she got Starbucks and PUBLICLY drank it? That’s what’s confusing to me — how she knew the consequences but still did it?

and what’s also confusing is how Yunjin is one of the most *chronically* online idols. She always knows what’s trending, new dances, and whatnot. And the g3no going on in Palestine isn’t hidden from Korea. I, myself, live in Japan but my dad lives in Korea, and he’s fully aware of the boycott (a 45 year old Asian man). And his alternative is drinking from other coffee shops, cause there is one in every corner of Seoul. After every street you walk, guaranteed 100% you’ll find a coffee shop. So that doesn’t make sense, why Starbucks, even though she highly knows of the ongoing boycott.

Secondly is how Rachel (her sister) liked dozens of pro-Zionists content on Instagram. And I know you guys say that not everyone thinks the same, but I just think it ties into it (personally).

And thirdly is how yunjin is an adult, she knew about the boycott, the reactions she’d get and how tens of thousands of kids (excluding teenagers) have died in the hands of Israelis. (Look at motaz’s page on insta for reference, big tw). She, if not, should know how severe the situation is in Palestine, specifically Rafah and Gaza. Yunjin is not a baby, she doesn’t need to be babied, just like how you guys are babying them for their icky live vocals, it won’t get them anywhere.

And regardless of wether Starbucks donated to Isreal or not, they’ve clearly shown their support to which side they’re on when they’ve fired workers over TWEETS their workers made over solidarity with Palestine. And to add onto it, they only “apologized” after losing BILLIONS of dollars.

That’s just me and my questions.

Hey I’ll answer your questions one by one, and no worries I understand where you’re coming from. (I’m gonna be a bit out of order so please bare with me.)

Again, (jesus I really dont wat to defend sb, so please understand i’m simply stating facts.) Starbucks sued the union because they used their logo to state a political statement. That was the reason they sued them. As stated in their official website, they do not see their company as a political one and doesn’t want to be revolved in ANYTHING related to politics. So that means even if the Union - per say - showed ‘support towards Joe Biden’, or any other political party or ideology, they would’ve acted the same. That’s how I see it.

Nobody was babying Yunjin. I’m not exactly sure if you’re accusing me or people who supported my post of babying her, but I’m clearly not. I stated directly that, I’m not saying not to take her accountable for her actions. Nobody’s babying her, especially me. I’m also not saying that she wasn’t aware of the war. I’m saying her ‘chronically online’ personality is being exaggerated in this situation. She’s a grown woman with a job, and a persona created for the crowd. Personally, I understand Lesserafim and any group in kpop as a CHARACTER. They’re not always real (even if there are exceptions), and seeing the Hun Yunjin and Yunjin of LSF as same is wrong.

Icky vocals? Not helping? That’s just a rude statement for you to make and completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand. That was unnecessary.

I’m an only child so I can’t say much of the average sibling dynamic, but I’m pretty sure Rachel and Yunjin are separate entities. They’re different people. Just like how my mother’s Christian and I’m an Atheist, just because you’re a family doesn’t mean you have the same ideology. You trying to link Rachel’s actions with her sister is just a hasty generalization.

I understand your father is in Korea and boycotts Starbucks. That’s great, Im also Korean and boycott, too. But the reason I said Starbucks isn’t as wildly boycotted in Korea compared to other countries is based on my personal interactions. From my school friends, colleagues, random people I’ve seen online, and even my family, quite literally all of them seemed to be unaware of the Starbucks boycott. Every Starbucks I’ve seen near my house (albeit which is in Busan) is filled to the brim with people. That includes shops in non populated areas AND tourist destination areas. Additionally, no news has been widely spread about the boycott on any Korean news websites that I’ve seen. MBC, KBS, and other news sites I’ve checked doesn’t even talk about boycotting at all. (It’s not something to be proud of, yes. I am simply stating a fact. ) With all these reasons I came to the conclusion not alot of Koreans are actively boycotting SB.

Are there alot of coffee shops in Korea? Yes. Are there alot of SB in Korea? Also yes. Korea ranks fourth in Starbucks location amounts. However, with this part of my post you’re focusing too much on a reasoning I understood could be a bit of a reach and not mentioning the reasoning I gave which said SB Korea is separate from the western organization. It’s bought out. Ideologies are different. Emart and the investment company has no statement regarding the war.

Somi and Giselle is completely unrelated to her actual ideologies. Just because they’re friends doesn’t mean they all fucking think the same. It is different people to people, but I don’t think every friend group gets together to discuss the society and political wars happening. You’re making a hasty generalization again - similar to your statement about Rachel. I don’t understand why you’re bringing up the two to counter my post about Huh Yunjin.

Yes, she most likely saw the backlash, and again, she didn’t publicly show “oh hey lookie i’m drinking SB”, she was just going to her company quickly and a few pixels of her cup was caught on a fan’s camera. That’s why I said in the original post that the people accusing her of being a performative activist are hypocrites.

My main point of the post wasn’t to a 100% defend Yunjin. The point was to say, if you’re gonna take someone accountable, do it right. Don’t make a mockery of her, you’re not any better than the people protecting her of her actions blindly. And don’t follow the crowd blindly to just simply get attention.

I don’t really want to fill my posts with these long posts, so if you have anymore follow up questions and discussions please DM me.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Learning from Silicon Valley Bank's apologists

My weird hobby is taking pictures of signs, especially “vernacular” signs, handwritten and odd. The best kinds of signs tell you what other people think you are thinking, or what you don’t understand. I’ve nabbed over 4,600 of ‘em:

https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=37996580417%40N01&sort=date-taken-desc&text=sign&view_all=1

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-une-guillotine/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

I think you learn more about the world by delving into others’ misconceptions than you learn from their factual understandings. Facts are out there for anyone to discover, but when someone inadvertently affords you a glimpse into their wrong beliefs, well, that’s something that can’t be learned in any other way.

Which brings me to the apologists for Silicon Valley Bank, who are busily churning out incredibly revealing bad takes about why bailing out SVB was the right thing to do, and why you’re wrong to call it a bailout, and why all of this is Very Regrettable but nevertheless The Right Thing To Do.

Here’s a terrible reason to support the SVB bailout: because if we let all the tech companies who did business with it fail, you might not be able to get into your house anymore after your smart-lock fails because the cloud service it depends on cuts off the startup that made it because their bank account went up in a puff of smoke:

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-fallout/

Look, if you think the fact that my Internet of Shit door-lock failed because the company that designed it made no plan to let me into my house if they went out of business would make me sympathetic to that company, you are out of your fucking mind. If that happened to me, it would make me want to tear the lock out of my door, hunt down the CEO of the company that made it, set the lock on fire, and throw it through their front window.

Here’s another terrible reason to support the bailout: if SVB’s depositors lose their money, every other large depositor will flock to Morganstanley, on the theory that Morganstanley is too big to fail, and will behave just as recklessly, but will never be allowed to go under precisely because they are so structurally important:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/03/can-the-svb-crisis-be-solved-in-the-longer-run.html

I’m pretty sure this is true! It doesn’t make me want to support an SVB bailout though — it makes me want to break up Morganstanley, regulate the everlasting shit out of the resulting fragments, and create massive public banks that are run by and for their depositors, insulated from the reckless, speculative conduct of these maniacs who keep crashing the world economy:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-15-federal-reserve-banking-public-option/

One more very bad reason to support the bailout: “it’s not a bailout.” The Biden administration wants us to know that SVB’s creditors and shareholders aren’t being bailout here, just the depositors — everyday folken with more than $250,000 in liquid cash in their checking accounts. Whomst amongst us can’t relate to that?

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/biden-administrations-message-dont-call-bailout-rcna74628

There are a lot of totally normal people who would suffer if not for this bailout — the people who clean the toilets or answer the customer-service calls for tech companies aren’t stock-option-fattened bros in Patagoinia vests. They’re totally normal working people who took no risks and bear no responsibility for the failure of SVB.

But come on. Does anyone seriously believe that the absolute fucking ghouls who came out against a barely-there student debt cancellation as a precursor to literal Stalinist gulags are advocating for endless billions for SVB’s depositors because of the janitors?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/12/larry-summers-says-now-is-not-the-time-for-moral-hazard-lectures-about-bailouts/

Listen: people aren’t pissed off about the bailout because they want startups to fail. They’re pissed off because they are living in the century of “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor”:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/iaqdrl/as_martin_luther_king_jr_said_in_1968_this/

They’re pissed off because the Treasury official who presided over the theft of millions of houses by corrupt, bailed-out banks after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis and then wrote academic articles defending the decision to “foam the runways” for the banks with everyday Americans’ homes is about to join the Federal Reserve Board:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly

They’re pissed off because Biden reneged on his promise for muscular, sweeping StudentDebtCancellation in favor of a self-immolating weaksauce version that would barely dent the crushing financial devastation faced by millions of young people:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/03/utopia-of-rules/#in-triplicate

Only to have the illegitimate dotards of the Supreme Court make even that symbolic gesture moot:

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159606491/student-loan-forgiveness-supreme-court

(As to what Biden should do about it? The same thing Trump would: Pack the court. Pack the fucking court. Pack it. Just do it. The court’s legitimacy could not sink any lower. There is no downside. Do it.)

The rage at well-capitalized startups being rescued from unearned distress isn’t motivated by a free-floating techlash rage at “bros.” It’s rage born of the fact that young Americans are being put on the hook for their dead parents’ debts:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zombie-debt/#damnation

There is infinite political will and bottomless appetite for money creation when VC-backed companies face distress, but when the death of your parents is followed by years of brutal debt-collector armbreakers chasing you from phone number to phone number, it’s just crickets.

There’s no question that the SVB failure resulted from a series of extremely technical phenomena that offer a fascinating peek into the behind-the-scenes forces that power an economy built on private banking and home ownership as the sole means of intergenerational wealth transfer.

But the fact that this is a complicated circumstance doesn’t mean that laypeople don’t have a right to be furious about it. We should all be suspicious of the inevitabilist narratives of the “experts” who claim that none of this could have been avoided:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-03-15-qa-daniel-davies-venture-capitalist-bailout/

When finance “experts” tell you that you have no business opining on this highly technical matter, just remember that these are the same experts who were paid fantastic gobs of cash to certify that all these failing banks are just groovy, mere weeks ago:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/kpmg-faces-scrutiny-for-audits-of-svb-and-signature-bank-42dc49dd

Those same experts were caught bribing government officials to help their top staff cheat…on ethics exams (!!!!!!!!!!!!):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/04/aaronsw/#crooked-ref

Even if it turns out to be true that the kind of risk that SVB was exposed to is an inevitable consequence of an economy built on private banking and housing as an asset, rather than a human right:

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncertain-times/

Remember that those choices are not inevitable. The decision to make housing the primary driver of intergenerational wealth transfer is both recent and very, very stupid:

https://gen.medium.com/the-rents-too-damned-high-520f958d5ec5

Private banking doesn’t need to be an unregulated free-for-all, nor does it have to be the only game in town:

https://publicbankla.com/

As SVB’s apologists insist that tech startups should be preserved lest our IoT gadgets brick themselves, or that SVB should be preserved so that the Morganstanley cancer doesn’t creep into more of our social organs, or that bailing out SVB is acceptable because it’s to defend elite startup founders, not ultrawealthy bank owners, they are missing the fucking point.

But they’re missing it in a useful way. Like any weird sign, these bad takes teach us a lot about how the people who utter them model our own beliefs. They think that people like smart gadgets. They think that we don’t want the finance sector reformed. They think that we’re motivated by schadenfreude, which means that they also think we’ve forgotten about broken student debt promises, about robosigning and the foreclosure epidemic. They think we are fully onboard with rugged individualism for the poor and socialism for the rich.

These bad takes reveal a profoundly out-of-touch elite, the spiritual descendants of the French aristos who went to the guillotine with sincerely baffled hearts, unable to imagine why anyone would be this angry at them.

Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” It’s even more difficult to get a one percenter to understand something when the system that insulates them from the endless, spiraling economic wreckage of our new feudal economy is on the line.

Next Monday (Mar 20), I’m doing a remote talk for the Ostrom Workshop’s Beyond the Web Speaker Series.

[Image ID: A sign reading 'Pull on handle to open closet. Handle is rigid and doesn't turn.']

[the-firebird69]

there are a couple other things to mention. he is a bigot a chaanist pig and racist to the extreme and says it on camera. we translated it. and post it now all over. and attract. he shows fer of forgieners and weas unhappy today. says they wil lhelp him and more and is right we need it now these are not rational. and we use it.

he is wrong too. he loses all fights he gets in. and is a loserr. is a moron too lost tons of our intel and our clan and to whom we dont know no we do. macs and ohters. and hteyy are barf fo it mean spirited junkies meaning he tosses it out as if it can all be recovred and i have seen this before in terrorists. they are overconfident and have nto come up agaisnt them when they have full gear or half and sme wiht m son you are not aware they fight macs and win and forg too. so your wrong trump and your act stinks to high heaven of ai boy. i looked oyu do not have the computer yu bank on it and it is not yours and your not a programmer. i love running for president but your an unsavory dolt with no platform and no future plan for our people here mixed as it is. and i have a nice plan for us all. and for my son and my grandfather biden. and you ruined is already trump iwth your cow manure and covid nineteen and the economy tankd we pulle dup and amazing some said and hard and you stand iwth those that would ruin it like who. not many. sowe see you doing it

camilla harris vp

and we do and wee press chargesnow on you trump and your character here and you torutedme at casl and had norigt yuor a slimeball low life loser and we shall prove it and stop you and put you on trial for your atrocities and soon you louse president or no true too macs have aplan foryou. and lose due to it. and youhelped them they are narced out

biden

this blwos im stpid ruin stuff nobody likes me true. but from them and him and he says no you make it up. sometimes theother way they are helplss and due to me he says. so i get it. f this i suck abut mac running if in he will stop yuo i not you do the dune 2 your gone. and it will ahppen that way he says good i see it good.

trump

ahahahah yeh right lol written script and your the literaure person also a lie and you cans ee it in dead poet society no clue at all

Hera

Olympus

[thoughtsbeewild]

Why does the media and trump make a big deal about POLLS? Its annoying me because its not FINAL PERMANMENT VOTE , AT END PEOPLE CAN CHANGE THIER MIND..YOUR FIGHT IS AGAINST LIES, CORRUPTION, TWO FACES NEXT TO YOU PRETENDING BE YOUR FRIEND.

The polls are just predictions but look at what happened in 2020 election, that shit was stolen for sure. So I wonder did Obama and Biden work with international leaders on a deal to ensure Biden won and shoved it up trump face 4 years ago, say you lost bitch(biden, demoncrat, felt empowered by doing that to him in front of worldwide mainstream media). I remember that but demoncrat like to censor, erase our memory, where you humans are stronger to fight the control over the mind(certain population of true patriots that exist and some humans are damaged goods controlled manipulated by the media, thier followers, thier woke celebrity's, thier liberal friends right..

If mainstream media is definitely doing equal polling just for attention, ratings and to get viewers to watch thier side. I guess why is that focusing point to call out near the election..

In this debate, this may be your one chance to show the world , from all the comments I've read they hope you would be discipline. Dont appear like a crazy maniac like on Truth social for the debate, but wow us like hott damn, but to a point where you are gracefully exposing kamela in a killing with kindess tone with some comedy not meaning Ill beat you at golf or well race a golf cart and ill beat you childish nonsense.

I like that people are saying your opening up to things they wouldnt think you be like marijuana..its good that he being open minded, more open to change... unlike JD Vance, that dude needs get outside his tighty whitey box, explore like dora the explorer not just stick to just white, explore different cultures, backgrounds etc.

Its like you can tell JD vance is hella vanilla goes to an ice cream shop, goes to a sandwich shop. That's something Biden had already done and JD Vance doing same behavior as Biden. Like for real dude, what an amateur, visit local parlors,cmon man. Whats JD vance favorite ice cream? Vanilla with sprinkles lol..

That's shit so white, how bout something different, make the change, encourage people from other cultures hey your message is we welcome everyone, but his public appearance/campaign trailing shows otherwise.. He seems frustrated so who knows on his debate, i think walz will win he has that fake ass lie of enthusiasm going on,walking out like actor tom cruise/ Chris farley show me the money selling that bullshit ..My money on walz for now on VP debate for now,,but hopully JD vance proves the voters and myself wrong...

Something out of your comfort zone.

[sitten1115]

If people protest vote like they did in 2000, i guarantee more people will die than if Biden is reelected. And i dont just mean Americans. I mean Palestinians too. Trump has been very vocal about wanting to help Israel commit genocide even harder than Biden is helping. It’s an incredibly low bar and Biden isnt that far above it. But ultimately we cant risk a right wing takeover of the supreme court and many many more things.

They plan to redefine the jobs of like 50% of the career government staff and instead make those positions loyalty based hirings. That’s jobs like the fda and more. We know trump doesn’t accept anyone willing to tell him he’s wrong as being loyal. Doing that would make it way easier then for trump to do things like have the fda say abortion pills arent safe. Enact right wing policies, and potentially destroy the tiny facade of democracy this country has left.

Biden fucking sucks, but replacing the incumbent with a new candidate has historically resulted in losses and every single thing that makes Biden suck? Yeah Trump is even more extreme on those.

A third party hasn’t won in 200 years, people voting third party is how we got the first disaster of a trump presidency which happened during a global pandemic. Do you have any idea how much worse this idiot made things?! Even on his way out he caused countless people to die because of his incompetence and stubbornness in being right.

If you really think one president cant make things bad for more than just his term. Look at Reagan, his presidency has caused so much harm and it’s still not fixed. Look at Bush, he used a national tragedy to start a bullshit war for oil and to start destroying our privacy from the government. He also pushed plenty of Islamophobia. Which isnt exactly helping Palestine now that all of America is actually aware of the genocide.

Not to mention, if trump is elected it’s very likely two supreme court justices will either step down or die during his term. We all know who picks the replacements right? A right wing stacked Supreme Court has been really bad so far and if he gets to pick two young new justices, well it’s gonna stay stacked for a while.

And even if you want to protest vote still, you damn well better make sure to vote properly for the smaller roles. Local policymakers may be able to protect people from whatever happens next. And there’s a ridiculous amount of house and senate seats up for reelection.

And no I’m not saying this because i think a trump presidency would personally effect me that much. I’m saying this because i am terrified of what will happen to other people in less safe states. I’m terrified of how much worse the arab hate will get, I’m terrified for the people of Palestine who have been utterly failed by the world already. I’m terrified for the undocumented immigrants, the easy to spot marginalized people, the women who already have to fight to get proper basic healthcare.

[azlovesem]

All people do around here is for e me to gight. Not one smericsn on earth is tough the way i sm.ya look stupud all of you conpared to me. I mufht have to sodomiE america the whole nation. I dont know domethings wrong woth you. But its not like id go talk ro that other team. Thats the devil on earth and itss doomed to failure. They fail nobodyvwants that shit. That giys like 90 he ll be drad soon. I thonk trunp dies soon thats whst i saw. A quick civil war the rebuplicsns lose cause everyone hates them. Those people arent hdlpibg anyone byt themselves. Ivsay kill yhose people sll of them. Its just Gods vote. If you dont do it biden i have then everyone dies. We support an rmergency term fir you during war. Or you other repuvlucans have to lsme duck trump. Bury everything he tries to do. We ll kill him if he really gets oyt if hand. But he coukd be a goif lap dog. Nonenof thaf stupid shit hes tslknig about is good. Whst a fool. The smerucsn people are fools to the redt if us

[anyataylorjoys]

Mexicans and American Mexicans are still deported to Mexico under Biden lolol. No matter what you try to bring up to deflect Biden being just as much as a peice of shit as Trump, Biden has continued or made worse. The cages are still a thing but have a different name now. ICE is even still around. You can calm it down and step off your high horse. I only said "you can do whatever you want, but dont shame people if they don't feel like voting or if they vote third party". Biden is just as much as a dictator as Trump. Just hear me out without going straight to the "do you just want a dictator??" mindset for a few minutes. Once you stop seeing red vs blue and start realizing it's about rich vs poor, things will make sense for you. Money and white supremacy is the only thing that keeps the interest of our goverment and is why they do what they do. That's why the United States and Israel are committing genocides across the entire world, no matter which party controls our government. Vote all you want to, but it's not going to do shit other then maybe make you feel like you did something. Going out of your house and protesting out in the streets, speaking up, and more direct action is what brings change. While you're out in the streets, look out for people and make sure people are wearing masks so they can't be identified, can't spread the ongoing pandemic, plus it helps with tear gas quite a bit. I'm sorry for ranting at you, but it just annoys me when people think voting will fix everything while we're all dying in the streets, without healthcare, and while our tax dollars are being used to fund more genocides.

"Just hear me out" no because I said listen carefully and you didn't and went straight to attacking me in my inbox and proceeded to spew a bunch of disinformation that I don't have time to unpack like "they stopped counting the death toll under Biden" wrong! And thanks to the trillions in covid relief funds under Biden, this country didn't go under and my family survived. But whatever this is besides the point I'm not here to defend Biden or even to defend democrats as a whole but at least some democrats appear to have a conscience, even if they are a bunch of pussies for not speaking up against this genocide in fear of losing their jobs and shame on them, I don't know how they sleep at night.

I don't like Biden, I don't agree with everything he's done. But to claim he's as much a "dictator" as Trump is delusional rhetoric. Trump was actively inciting an coup and threatening vote counters to throw out opposing votes because he's mentally unstable.

You're talking to someone who thinks democracy in America is already an illusion so yes, my vote is an attempt to feel like I'm not powerless as a citizen of this country lol. Voting doesn't solve everything obviously it cannot be that simplified, however I still believe voting is not entirely useless. Our voices do matter and protesting makes people listen. If our right to information, to speak and to protest is revoked, any power we have to make change in numbers will be lost and therefore, I'm prioritizing protecting those rights. I'll be doing everything I can to keep a dictator from becoming president because that's the ultimate threat we face right now. It's unfortunate that you and many others can't seem to foretell just how much worse things could get under complete GOP control in our current political climate of elevated right-wing radicalism.

Democrat or Republican run country, certain things will not get better right away. We have to take the steps necessary to make and maintain progression. But under Republicans, you can guarantee they will take this country back to 1950 and I won't stand by and put the fate of my future and others' lives in the hands of the American people without my contribution no matter how small of a difference you think it makes. People will say "every vote counts" and we all know that's a lie. However, if thousands of people share your mindset and choose not to vote, that's a dangerous game.

[vtori73]

Look... I think it's weird to conflate Zionism/Zionists with Judaism/Jewish people (and actually just downright antisemitic). I mean this coming from BOTH sides, Zionists who are doing it to make excuses for what they are doing and progressive people trying to be allies to Jewish people but falling for Zionist rhetoric & not realizing it.

And, I'm not saying I don't get it because some people definitely are using Zionists as an excuse to be antisemitic but... I'm not seeing NEARLY as much within these leftist groups (& when I do these people are already bigots to begin with such as being white supremacist/neo nazis & let's also be open to ideas of bot/fake accounts being pushed by propagandists because Israel has done nothing but lie and use propaganda, they even used AI to fake a celebrity saying pro- Israel stuff, let's NOT pretend for even ONE second that this isn't a possibility). And, honestly regardless of what side you're on it's wrong to conflate the two even if you are trying to prevent bigotry because you're only further CONFLATING THE TWO! It's COMPLETELY possible to say "Don't let antisemitism influence you and how you criticize Zionists but also DONT let Zionists get away with calling everything that criticizes them and their ethnostate as antisemitism because there are PLENTY of Christian Zionists who are being criticized as well (big example being JOE FUCKING BIDEN) and Zionists WANT us all to believe that only Zionists are Jewish people and that Zionism = Judaism even though plenty of Jewish people are not Zionists and are very much against them.

I think... I just talked in a circle... oh well, lol!

Also as an example, the way Zionists use antisemitism accusations is VERY VERY similar to when white people use their x marginalized identity to excuse their bigotry. When white trans or really ANY white queer people are being anti-black they accuse Black people of being transphobic/queerphobic. When white women are called racist by brown men they turn around and call them misogynists.

And look, some might take offense with me using white people as an example because not everyone believes Jewish people can be white (which sure I wasn't entirely sure about either UNTIL it was pointed out that if Black Jewish people can exist then it's very WEIRD to claim that it's impossible for there to be white Jewish people) BUT regardless we should be able to agree that these people ARE using the same arguments/rebuttals that privileged bigoted white people use and you know the saying of how "if the shoe fits."

Not to mention how quick y'all are to make excuses for colonizers because yes, the movement was originally a response to antisemitism BUT y'all seem to conveniently leave out the part in which a lot of the founders also described their movement as "a colonization adventure." Colonialists don't need or deserve defending, antisemitism may have been why they left but they used that and CONTINUE to as an excuse to colonize Palestine and genocide Palestinians and idk about you BUT I think it's wrong to excuse colonizer genociders REGARDLESS of the reasoning. I mean.. WHY is this talking point even being used because I know for a fact it wouldn't fly with SO many people if other marginalized groups tried using it as an excuse to colonize and genocide, "oh the Zionists wouldn't be like this is is weren't for bigotry against Jewish people and you should work on you're and you're communities antisemitism if you don't want to give them excuses..." Like, WTF??? WHO THINKS THAT IN ANYWAY OKAY TO SAY OR IS A VALID EXCUSE AT ALL?????

(and... UM... is it just me or does THAT reasoning sound eerily similar to what news and media say when white boys shoot up a school "oh they were bullied, ostracized and that's why they did it" but it turns out they were actually bigots or radicalized and became bigots basically.)

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And yes, as an addendum I am not Jewish but this is literally what I have learned from anti-zionist Jewish people and anti-zionist Jewish allies who are ALSO calling out antisemitism. This is also more so coming from my online perspective of what I've seen in comments, threads, tweets, etc and not in-person events and such so I'm willing to admit this might be different for offline events and such.

[areyouafraid]

im really gonna crack up man like im really gonna lose my shit one of these days.

ive sent application after application to all these different dumps for the last 3 months and none of them have come back. none of them pay more than maybe 15 an hour at best. and this fucking freelance thing i just tried to look into to at least supplement me with a form of income while i look for a job is a total shitshoot its garbage i flat out dont even know if i can do it. im 19 right now im lucky im not like fucking paying rent or anything. but i sure will have to eventually! it's bad enough i feel like a fuckup who can't keep a job after i got fired from my last dump but like. only so much time

virtually all of my family and friends age 20 - 30 live in fucking dumpy little tenement apartments and those are the ones who can even get places of their own. dont know if i even know anyone who makes more than like maybe 30K a year. and i think we're still the lucky ones. my parents got a 3 bedroom house back in 2001 and i live with them. but i cant live here forever, like financially socially emotionally thats just not... feasible for me. i think they said a little over 11% of americans live under the poverty line? and then there's a study that says america has the worst poverty rate out of 26 "developed" nations. this country is a fucking sick little joke. an empire built off of genocide that brutalizes the rest of the world while its citizens rot in the streets. a twisting labyrinth of dead-end jobs and unwalkable cities with nothing to do but toil and die. what is new york city if not a giant factory town? and this does not even cover one one-eighth of what is wrong with this stupid shitshow of a country

and whatever i know i should just be grateful for what i have (what do i have?) and i know it's a common sentiment among poor / impoverished people to be like well you just need to hustle harder well this is just how it is etc etc but like just what an absurd fucking way to think like you guys are fucking high. people shouldn't live like this. people can't live like this. it's not sustainable. it's not realistic. we have to have a right to shelter and food and literally at the bare minimum to fucking survive like... i mean for fuck's sake there are wild dogs who live in tiny rock dens smeared with their own shit and blood who still have a better quality of life than human beings in our beautiful utopian capitalist society. at least ants and wolves look out for each other. what happens when you fall sick or become homeless in america? what happens if you don't have enough money in america?

with every new day i feel more and more like anything resembling a fulfilling life is just not possible here. i don't know where else i would go. i know travel is expensive. idk i just like. i know this is my home and it does feel like a cop-out but i can't live like this. nobody can live like this. fuuuuck this. honest to christ even if north korea was actually one quarter as bad as US propaganda says it is that would be better than this. at least under the Cold Cruel Hand of Communism i'd have something to fall back on. i'd be insured and have a place to live. what do we have in capitalist america? a weak nod of acknowledgement? and you know what my least favorite part of "patriotic" american bullshit is? if this is really the "best country on earth" we might as well just start organizing mass suicides.

and now with senile old fuck biden regurgitating israeli propaganda and encouraging the senseless murder of palestinians i just think. and this is the guy democrats wanted. this is the guy that republicans were shitting themselves over telling themselves he'd turn america communist or whatever. god if youre still even taking calls from this fucking tragedy of a planet i hope some sort of incurable and highly infectious plague breaks out inside the white house and all of those stupid fucks end up with abscesses forming inside their brains. it might not fix anything but it'd take some of those perverted vultures off the face of the earth so it'd be a nice pick-me-up at least. UGHHHHHHHHHH

[megashadowdragon]

Trump Gets CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY, Democrat Judge DISSOLVES Company WITH NO TRIAL In SHOCKING Move

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This is fascist levels of corruption. If they can do this to him, they can do it to you.

Judge: "Trump overvalued his properties!" Also judge: (undervaluing his properties by 8300%).

This judge needs to get his legal licenses pulled, and quick. This is straight fucking absurd. This is on the level of the New Mexico Governor banning guns.

A New York Judge has no business even talking about, let alone, using florida property to determine an issue in New York. That alone is wrong... (

Monday- Trump is up by 10 points on Biden Tuesday- Trumps property de-valued and all companies dissolved Totally not coordinated..

From the people who scream that Trump is a Fascist: We don't need a trial where you can defend yourself, we have declared you are guilty. That you happen to be our main political rival is purely coincidental.

yeah trump never did anything like this he never persecuted any political rivals on bogus accusations like they are trying to do to him with the jan 6 hearings or the attempts to paint him contesting the election as defrauding people

or acting like calling for a peaceful protest is somehow inciting violence when its not trump is not responsible for what happened on jan 6 and he told them to leave.

while they actively incite violence and provide comfort to those antifa/blm terrorists like helping them get out of jail

or talking about how there should be more uprisings/if they dont get the verdict they want use violence etc

The fact they are attacking this man with everything they can throw at him makes me want to vote for him even more in 2024. The swamp needs to be drained, they aren't even hiding their corruption anymore, it's all out in the open for the world to see.

The judge can't deny a trail the defendant has the legal right to present there testimony and documents. This judge needs to be fired from the bench this is corruption.

This is amazing what they have done. If you look up the Mar-A-Largo property on Zillow, the history is completely gone. They replaced the history with a starting value of 8.2M in Feb 2020 with a straight line to 24M today, no up or down, just a steady incline. Moreover, they have the buy price in 1995 at 12M. This is incredible. The amount of corruption in this country by the Democrats is just plain scary as all hell.

The outrageous but funny thing to me is, a new York judge crushed trumps billion dollar business based on what some $40k/year barely qualified government assessor employee said mar-a-lago is worth after 20 minutes of research between coffee breaks.. Assessed value does not mean market value.

Kyle is a horrible human being. Panic mode is in full affect. They won't stop even if Trump is out of the picture.

Why aren't Republican prosecutors not bringing charges against these insane activist judges who are clearly abusing their power, or trying to?

I have built houses for years. You can't just write down your own sq. footage, it has to be apraised by county or city aproved officials only. The only person that can do that is an appraiser that does that paperwork, and turns it in at the county/city level. It is divided up the way it is by city officials, housing and businesses are so over regulated there is now way for him to pull this off without being found out immediately. It would flag the system and would be found out. The way it is now is probably the only legal way of having a "club" legally, to not let the general public in. The judge has no power to appraise anything, has no idea what hes talking about, and would only need to send city officials down there to get the answers he wants. This is targeted government courruption at its finest. They create the insane regulations/Law we all have to follow, Trump uses the law as citizens and the rich do They just know the best way of handling businesses withing regulations and taxes. Otherwise they would pay more than whats even made annually each time.Show less

Why is NY allowed to even go through with this case when none of the lenders are even claiming that they were defrauded? How do they have the standing to do that? They aren't even a victim of the supposed "crime".

My sister just sold her house for $160.000.00 thousand dollars, the county assessor appraised it at $90.000.00 thousand dollars. Trump should take this to a high court, that people cannot allow this kind of abuse in our court system.

They are extremely desperate. My anger is towards my fellow citizens that are blissfully ignorant of the extreme corruption

I first found out about this situation via these twitter posts

the property is worth alot on top even besides the business parts

a nearby home that is 10xsmaller is worth 100 million

and found a timcast tweet above that relates to it after I found out about the vid

I found out about the case via this tweet

Democrats Go FULL COMMUNIST, Kyle Kulinski CELEBRATES Rule BY DECREE Against Political Rivals

Trump SLAMS Rogue Judge WHO LIED About Mar-A-Lago To Justify DISSOLVING Trump Org As Trial BEGINS

[rjalker]

Plain text:

"I dont care where you live in the usa or w/e... If you dont vote for Biden you are throwing away your vote and enabling Trump. Because *everyone* thinks their vote doesnt matter and piddles around because of that. Hell, everyone thinks 'its only me, it wont make a difference' about thousands of things, like littering, picking seashells, taking stones from rivers, etc. And in all of those situations theyre fucking wrong. If anything unites us, its our damn ability to think we alone are the outlier despite everything indicating otherwise.

And miss me with that 'Biden is just as bad/is a murderer' shit. 1) cool, and how do you plan to change things in a mr. Nazi-dictator Trump world? How are you actively making a difference? 2) change is incremental. The reason things suck so much is because the left keeps taking slow change as 'no change' and giving up before we can gain any momentum to make big change!

If you vote in Hamas or w/e to protest... You might as well throw dirt at all those suffering innocent people. You arent saving Palestine that way. That is not a helpful protest. You'll only enable Trump to win by throwing away your vote. It is the one bit of actual power you have, so use it right! Stop in-fighting for one moment! Look at what is possible to achieve in reality! Dreams arent fulfilled overnight!

When you feel like your vote doesnt matter, remember this - you have to try anyways"

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ditto rambles#how many times must we remind you guys #left has abysmal turnout #if you would actually take the small victories we can achieve #instead of throwing the game when you cant have thd big change right off the bat #we might actually be able to start evening thr playing feild #the fucking government is set up to work against us right now #but your not helping if you do nothing or throw your vote! #yes biden fucking sucks yes the presidents never do enough #but it can and will get worse if you dont recognize the limitations before us #there is no world where trump is better than biden #if you waste your vote a president will still get elected!!!! #make sure its the right one!!@! #why is this so hard to understanz????#do you really think wasting your one bit of real power helps palistine at all????? #yes things suck we all know that #but you dont get the big win without taking what small victories you can!!!! #unless you are actively fire bombing walmarts and staging protests#you dont get to claim voting is useless!!! #because if that was true then they wouldn't be trying to stop us from voting #and consider this - if the win is too big to deny they cant fucking deny it like with clinton #the electoral college suckd ass but we do actually conrtol and outnumber it#its never just you!!!! never!!!!!!! #we are never alone in our decisions!!!! #so use that damn power!!!! #our voices can be heard if we work together for once!!!!!!

Listen to indigenous people, including Palestinians, the literal victims of this ongoing genocide, instead of dying on the hill of supporting genocide, white supremacy, and fascism.

Everyone please note once again this person pretending we're telling people not to vote at all isntead of telling them not to vote to continue genocide.

I think these people genuinely think they'll die if they listen to Palestinians and other indigenous people.

i dont care where you live in the usa or w/e... if you dont vote for biden you are throwing away your vote and enabling trump. because *everyone* thinks their vote doesnt matter and piddles around because of that. hell, everyone thinks 'its only me, it wont make a difference' about THOUSANDS of things, like littering, picking seashells, taking stones from rivers, etc. and in all of those situations THEYRE FUCKING WRONG. if anything unites us, its our damn ability to think we alone are the outlier despite everything indicating otherwise.

and miss me with that 'biden is just as bad/is a murderer' shit. 1) cool, and how do you plan to change things in a mr. nazi-dictator trump world? how are you ACTIVELY making a difference? 2) CHANGE IS INCREMENTAL. the reason things suck so much is because the left keeps taking slow change as 'no change' and giving up before we can gain any momentum to make big change!

if you vote in hamas or w/e to protest... you might as well throw dirt at all those suffering innocent people. you arent saving palestine that way. that is not a helpful protest. you'll only enable trump to win by throwing away your vote. it is the one bit of actual power you have, so USE IT RIGHT! stop in-fighting for one moment! look at what is possible to achieve in reality! dreams arent fulfilled overnight!

when you feel like your vote doesnt matter, remember this - you have to try anyways

[endivinity]

theres only so many times i can go for a high-powered walk to get rid of absolute incandescent anger!!! i’ve only been in this house for two and a half months and it’s just, destroyed me utterly.

my dad is 65, white, british. he is also terminally online. he spends most of his time looking at memes, hanging out in /b/ offshoots for all his news, and watching opinion piece videos (which, surprise surprise, if he doesn’t agree with the opinion, he’ll mock it or close it before finding something that aligns with his views more).

i dont even know what his views ARE because he’s got so little critical thinking beyond ‘if i don’t agree with it, it’s wrong' and all he spouts are things he read somewhere and my god he’s repetitive. he says the same jokes and repeats the same memes frequently. spouted the ‘avocado toast millennials’ argument thats YEARS out of date. has such a shallow inane understanding on complex societal Stuff.

today he was saying how the will smith chris rock thing was staged, bc a slap is far too minor, tupac wouldve shot him, smith would never have slapped alec baldwin if he’d said it, rock braced before the impact, etc etc

all this garbage, for every topic. he delights in dark humor memes and anti-government rhetoric.

he’s an antivaxxer. he supported the freedom convoy. he blames biden specifically, for what putin is doing. he hates democrats (we are in new zealand, democrats shouldn’t even be on his radar. this is how i know he spends all his time on /b/ boards which are predominately White Americans). instead of the covid tracer sign-in he fills out the forms with his name as ‘jacinda hitler’ or ‘adolf ardern’. he thinks everyone should be infected with omicron to give them full covid immunity (conveniently glossing over health risks and long covid. he isn’t vaccinated bc of the .5% chance it might cause issues with his fucked up kidney). he is for some reason pro-police, despite the anti-government stance. he thinks that jkrowling is entitled to her opinion (conveniently glossing over her financial and cultural icon status granting her a massive platform, and how he refuses to acknowledge different opinions bc theyre Wrong and Stupid). he thinks trans people are wrong unless theyre fully transitioned and surgeried (conveniently ignoring all the things in the way of transitioning. nz’s mastectomy surgeon retired in 2012. our waitlist is 40+ YEARS long), and shouldn’t compete in sports, and how a rapist claimed to be a woman and was put in a women’s prison, and look what happened!! trans people dangerous!! he likes to watch car crash videos and people trying to pull insurance scams. he loves the concept of the darwin awards. he believes that capital punishment should be a thing. he likes posts Owning The Mentally Ill Snowflakes On The Internet. his favorite saying is ‘sacred cows make the best hamburgers’ as justification for punching down on minorities, an absolute bastardization of what the phrase was originally meant to be. i am a mentally ill trans person living in his house. i have a permanent chronic sleep disorder, possible undiagnosed adhd/autism. my brother who lived here before moving out to study, definitely has undiagnosed autism. DAD HIMSELF had to quit his job. his job he had for almost 30 years, because of chronic anxiety and depression. the meds he has to treat it are not insubstantial - they started him in on the big guns right away. he IS the mentally ill snowflake on the internet. he doesn’t know how to interact with anything any more unless it’s mocking and belittling.

he is a horrible person. and i am so angry

[sickkillerzach]

South Park Vaccination Special Review

Okay, so this is the second time reviewing a south park episode since 2018, the same year I quit watching. The first episode I reviewed since then was the pandemic special. Here are my honest opinions on the vaccination special episode.

As always, do keep in mind there will be spoilers obviously, so, if you have not watched the episode and would like to see it for yourself

TURN BACK NOW

You have been warned.

Okay, so, first couple of scenes were actually not all that bad if I'm being honest. The Cartman period prank on Mrs. Nelson was honestly pretty funny.

Everything after though..... not sure how I feel.

The little Q-ties were fucking hilarious ngl, and Butters being like "I'm only joining them because I wanna get out of the house, I dont actually give a shit about this" was a little funny.

And to find out Q was, literally a giant dick, well, is anyone surprised? Q is a big giant dick.

Mr. Garrison leaving office and going back to teach the kids is a little odd tbh, and we never got to see our Biden character, so that was kinda stupid, but I understand finding a voice actor is a little hard during these times.

Is it just me, or was the whole "we're doing this for Kenny" plotline so confusing? I got lost too many times during it, like, I get Kenny was supposed to be sort of the "strong link" between all of them, but why is that the whole purpose of every action they do? And what was the point of the Kyle "I wanna save my parents" scene? He ended up doing nothing, seems like a whole lotta filler to me. At least in the end, however, the boys did come through with each other and they finished the job together.

And heres where it comes out to why I was disappointed in this episode.

The last two years have been bad because of the extreme focus on Randy, and although Randy actually didnt make an appearance until the very end of the episode, the episode overall was still confusing and uninteresting most of the time. Like I said, I got lost too many times throughout the episode, and not just that, but, it seemed like they were trying to make Democrats and Republicans look bad at the same time. Like, I get that they've always had the stand point of "both sides are bad" and they are right to a degree, I think the whole purpose should've been about why Q-anon is bad, instead of making them look, good in a way? Like they didn't say they were good (especially with the Little Q-ties) but they really didnt say what is wrong with them. Where were the Capitol riots at btw? That should've been a huge part of the episode too.

Also, Mrs. Nelson's death was so uncalled for. Like, I know we didnt know/care for her, but tbh, why introduce her if you're just gonna kill her almost instantly after?

Overall Score: 6/10

The beginning was great, and there were some funny scenes, but for the most part, this was a disappointment, but not because of Randy mind you. Is this a sign we'll stop with the Randy show? Maybe, but it seems the first time we had a focus on just the boys it went totally wrong. *signs deeply*, if it's not Randy, it's poor writing I guess.