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@DilettanteryPod We've done that. That's a suburb.

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@memeticsisyphus The $9 thing is galling too. He doesn't know how much money is on his victim. For me it's flipped - you're going to attack someone when there's a possibility you only get 9 bucks?

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@DiabolicalSpuds Your wife is away on a business trip too huh?

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@bobo_circus "That time I XYZ" is also a bit Isekai anime title coded which contributes to the same feeling.

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@cspan @APDiploWriter @StateDeptSpox Matt Lee is 100% right. A blanket statement that 'a false flag attack might happen' is just giving yourself a blank check to cast any event in whichever propagandistic light best furthers your ends. Something else would need to be declass to earn our faith.

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@LeaMaric Shades of anti-golfer sentiment as well ☹️

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@Y2K_mindset I was going to say Wedding Crashers / Anchorman. They probably never quoted Will Ferrell movies in Workaholics because they were concerned with being themselves quotable. But I really thought the Will Ferrell Quoting Man archetype would never go away.

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NATO is planning a false flag chemical attack in Ukraine.

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@Ghost__Goggles @StrawCherryGarn @thebasedfurryv2 @MagsVisaggs It falls upon me to complete the system: don't headcanon

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@tracewoodgrains Genius hack for dying Midwestern towns: form an Amazon workers union with a bunch of unemployed people then sue Amazon for not having ever opened a factory there.

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@giantgio Feels a lot like a retread of the Radical Honesty thing that went around in the late 2000s. They think they're being honest but they're narcissistically oversharing. That movement was a lot more explicit about their intention to reengineer society though.

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Struggle Space

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@wanyeburkett When that woman got punched in the face for trying to steal groceries from Target "as reparations" I realized this. Many people just have some vague sense that they're "owed one" that they can then extract from whoever is nearby.

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@wanyeburkett Another person drawing bad conclusions from a "most accidents occur within 10 miles of the home" -style factoid.

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@buckadeath There will be a community notes alert on a tweet informing people about the Iraqi WMDs before the end of the year.

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@memeticsisyphus Or at the very least they're unable to think of themselves in that hypothetical society as parents, they think "I'll be a kid first, what do I get." and don't think about "I'll be a parent eventually, in what ways will I be permitted to give them advantage."

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Can you imagine how lit the first big picnic wave was?

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@bobo_circus That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, In Another World with My Smartphone, Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon.

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@TheZapken @bobo_circus It's joke-coded.

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@evilvillain1231 Gotta have at least a ceiling or a floor in life.

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@leamaric His layering technique is opposite to oil painting's golden rule: "fat over thin."

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@ClintEhrlich I don't have a problem with him having notes in theory, if it were e.g. economic statistics, but it's funny that they need notes for empty spin.

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@PaulLFranco Wittgenstein said "if an ornithologist could speak, we would not understand him"

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Just saw Richard Wolff, Caleb Maupin, Max Blumenthal and a screenshot from Human Rights Watch Watcher within 15m on RT. They're probably gonna ban it in the USA.

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@giantgio @stone_toss My opinion on stonetoss is that I've seen 5x more edits of stonetoss comics than stonetoss comics, to me he sells blank canvases.

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@DomTechnostate All the Pashtuns joined Khalq, and all the other ethnicities joined Parcham. And then it was just a race war like normal.

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"Difficult process kitsch" is a dead end that a lot of artists fall into, even separate from the AI debate.

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At the core of a lot of the anti-AI stuff is an argument no one really wants to say out loud: ‘it should be harder to do things’. tbh I don’t think this argument is entirely without merit, I think friction is good in some processes. but let’s be upfront about what we’re saying.

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@Slatzism My buddy's favorite counter-argument to the purported "benefits" of poly (it's always sold as a product isn't it?) is that him being monogamous is fully in his self-interest: the best women want exclusivity.

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@giantgio I wanted to reach for "stealing a Banksy on video is better art than a Banksy" but honestly I'm even bored of that. Derivative!

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@zersetzuncle Wanting a beautiful death is just narcissism. Wanting a beautiful funeral is virtuous.

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@tractor_owner Can you imagine having a kind of plain Israeli daughter that didn't make the cut to be propagandized as a sexy corpse?

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We're gonna have to have a "Come to Jesus" moment with this phenomenon of Native Americans and Black Americans embracing mainstream society's benignly-racist noble-savage characterization of them.

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Okay here's the definitive Wartime Linguistics take: Media outlets changing their style guide pronunciation of words like Kiev, without telling audiences the reasons why, is a subphenomenon of the larger anglosphere phenomenon of idealistic "purification" of speech.

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I don't suck, I'm just a practitioner of...

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It exemplifies the contrasting political approaches of liberal technocrats and MAGA. Hillary knows you need to tell people that you CAN'T LOOK AT IT EVEN FOR A SECOND, to maximize fear and minimize retinal damage. Trump knows that actually you can squint at it real quick.

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Reminder:

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"Nazis" really hate it when you're as skeptical with them as you ought to be with anyone who self-identifies. Sorry I can't just take you word for it that you "identify as a Nazi" - I require proof that you're more than what we usually assume about anime pfps.

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Oh no! I don't have my racist credentials! Help me Carlsbad!

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#MAGACommunism isn't (just) about triggering the libs, it's the most successful to-date example of rapid memetic combinatorics.

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@SnakesRiver It seems thematically obvious to me that Bobby is going to "turn out all right"

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@MaoistRebelNews

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@junker_jo Would rawhide chews for women help?

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@notXiangyu My diagnosis: it's a form of self-infantilization.

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@Nina_Compact When she writes "those who actually live within [and as] women" is that a reference to pregnancy? Or just classic deconstructionist stylistic filler text?

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@bad1nvestor I assumed that was the joke.

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@VICE The word salad defense again?

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The western citizen's "responsibility to pay attention to the (real) news" and the consumer's "responsibility to watch the new Netflix movie that everyone is talking about" are the same phenomenon.

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@JasonSzegedi There's plenty of ergonomic and 'anthrophilic' modern architecture, it's the economics of development that are screwed up.

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@memeticsisyphus This might be a simplistic point, but how would one generate sympathy for this thing? This is a design choice that precludes sympathy.

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@betrayedbygod @Y2K_mindset bad times friend ahead

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@Atlanticesque I think even the core NPR demographic, despite being true believers in all this stuff, would actually *enjoy* Car Talk reruns, The Big Broadcast back at its proper hour, and Prairie Home Companion hosted by Joe Pera (pay whatever he and Keillor want to achieve this!).

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Post lefties are mad that history is starting to move again and politics won't just be about gay kids and black history month lessons.

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@realchrisrufo @BillAckman @NeriOxman Either you care about plagiarism or you don't.

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@PYeerk Lets unpack a complicated man

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@PostLeftWatch Pretty reachy. Seek to reduce your derangement.

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@wesyang I listen to an hour a day, every work day, but it's seemed to get farther and farther left-lib without bringing me along. It's always been effete, but that used to mean Splendid Table and Harrison Keiler. Now it's all guilt performance.

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@PYeerk Ironically I think it's a sort of reductive manichaeanism on the part of the liberal cultural critic - wherein one of these two things is "satanism" but it couldnt be both:

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@NoahShachtman The "not as hip as they used to be" media wing of american empire.

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@LittleMammith "Tick tock" is not even aspiring to the subtle art of Sephiroth-posting. That's like something a villain in a Geezer Teaser says.

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@CarlBeijer @LittleMammith I don't understand the proposed mechanism. You can't actually be worried that he'll nazify over joke donations, right?

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@LittleMammith Hard to keep track but I think I'm pro-Stancil on quadruple irony now.

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The liberal approach to History will eventually just be the field which determines "what percent hitler you are"

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I have repeatedly claimed that Putin is today's Hitler. For long, it was not accepted to compare Stalin with Hitler, but then Lord Bullock published his outstanding book "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" in 1993 & we got a decent comparison. We need to start now with Putin.

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@isabellawangbc Every latter-generation immigrant has a unique response to the guilt of not learning their parents' first langauge. Usually the healthiest is "sorry mom and dad, but you didn't teach me!" Never seen anger laundered in this way though.

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This is the perfect encapsulation of what happened with ACP coin. One side driven completely schizo with Hinkle Derangement Syndrome, one side with basic knowledge about web3 that has no power to convince because you would have to give people a 2hr presentation on crypto first.

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@coldhealing DC people get together twice a year and pick one outfit they all have to wear.

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@UESP_net Not breaking TES lore breaks TES lore since Dragon Breaks are gonna happen eventually. Just write something interesting!

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Joyful white boys in the 2000s really just wanted everyone to be able to exercise the same level of youthful indiscretion as they did without major consequence. I think we cancelled, rather than extended, that joy.

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Umberto Eco's definition of fascism is designed to put liberals in panic mode and to convince them to defer to the authority of a judge of who can offer the final diagnosis. What's the Marxist definition of fascism?

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@HussardTailleur @PaulSkallas Guy who changed his pronunciation along with NPR to Keev 3 weeks ago.

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@UberFacts The human nose doesn't actually smell 'flowers' - it's a perceptual illusion based on prior experiences with various terpenes. The human eye doesn't actually see 'colors' it's a perceptual illusion based on prior experience with rod and cone stimulation. The human tongue doesn't

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I'm not buying a new car til we get Chinese imports. If my current car (130k miles) dies before we do, I'll just have to steal one.

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The rest of the world is about to be completely blindsided by Chinese cars

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Another film the "media literate" get wrong. They'll say it's a story told from the persp. of a sidekick (another interview line elevated to dogma) and over-emphasize how "bumbling" Burton is. It's about how having a good heart and courage is more important than cultural fluency!

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@PYeerk It's all a tantrum that they felt they had to ruin the show in order to sufficiently underline that RWers shouldn't be able to even ironically embrace Homelander.

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I realized that my deconversion approach is actually harmonious with Haz's criss-cross theory.

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@CarcosaLobbyist I like haz because he's sick of this boring "smug = I win, mad = u lose" social media value system.

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@NipseyHoussle The HOA rules state you must have standing water in front of your door of at least 1/8" depth.

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@BigMeanInternet I'm bookmarking this don't delete it.

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@PostLeftWatch You undermine real anti-racism by trying to stoke up a witch hunt whenever anyone says "athletes are better now than they were in decades past." Fortunately very few can be bullied off their positions by someone as pathetic as you.

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It will be funny and cool when late-generational zoomers reinvent post-racial American society and meritocracy and and call it their own ideology, counterposed to "the toxic millennial view of race".

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@yanisvaroufakis They've mainly had good things to say about you.

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@ggreenwald I think fully half of it is professional jealousy that Taibbi got an insider scoop.

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@PostLeftWatch Condemn it where it actually exists then.

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Video game that has everything from the Jonny Quest (1964) intro

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Communism isn't sex positive male feminism, it's not transcendental meditation, it's not being a nice guy.

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@orikron Zhou Yaqin, Nooo! It's a reference to prospectors being able to tell gold by its softness!

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@joemayall @BGarcN2 They only dubbed it. Which was pretty bizarre because the PR for the movie went on and on about how respectful it was to natives, but the native characters all sounded like they were from L.A. The French? They spoke French.

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@htmlmencken Liz Lemon nerd-bully sort of phenomenon. It's mostly just resentment that vets have the GI Bill and they work hard, compared to other students with huge loans who don't work so hard.

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I find it very hard to believe that there is 111k market cap behind an ACP meme coin.

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@AnechoicMedia_ I went to the doctor for an annual physical, which is something I thought people still did, and the doctor was like "Why are you here? There are people in my lobby with their feet rotting off from gout."

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It IS that simple. I've even taken to saying that "hunter, fisherman, herdsman and critic" were meant *specifically* by Marx. He's alluding to the pastimes of the leisure class here, who hunt for sport, fish for relaxation, and critique for stimulation.

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Privilege discourse is bad. Everyone should live like the bourgeoisie. That was Marx’s point.

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@abcdentminded If you're visualizing an apple without a cartoon worm poking out, I have bad news for you.

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@Gaye_Tone Resurrecting Makho to solve Ukraine, Trotsky to solve Makhno, and Stalin to solve Trotsky.

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@AndreiCaramitru Kievan what?

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"But it works."

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Death of the Author is important in debate bro'ing. Haz is constantly dealing with streamers whose 1 rhetorical trick is to say "I don't have to argue against your argument because I don't believe that you even believe it yourself." Cowardice!

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@Tyler_A_Harper The Wikipedia talk page for "Turtle Island" is a very nicely packaged microcosm of this debate at large.

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Gene Wolfe is the master of (this thing we've come to call) world-building because he's able to write with perfect apathy towards the reader's ability to understand the world, while at the same time being able to target many levels of understanding. 1/

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@wesyang Mashed potatoes need a little salt and butter

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@williamcson The last time it felt this provocative was right before the last market crash ~2008. There was a little bit of modesty among the rich and on TV in the immediate aftermath, which is arguably even worse since it obscures obscene wealth.

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We should really think of it as something less than writing, something less than reading. A new human activity with no connective tissue to the world of literature.

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