I dislike will stancil because he is aggressively wrong frequently; i realize many of you dislike him because you see yourself in him, and similarly have such fragile egos that you can never ever admit you may have been wrong about a thing you only had cursory knowledge of to begin with - its gross!
And I went to 4 different "events" he had, and one only had maybe 30 or 40. and I noticed that while Platner remained consistent, and answered more and more ?s, the criticisms of him got lazier and more ego soothing, and now "progressives" on here are at the "mainers are just nazis" level of copium
I was more skeptical and critical of platner on day 1, before any tattoos or posts, than anyone else id seen.
But then I saw months of people who should be smarter toss aside any coherent honest criticisms in favor of bad faith, usually dishonest smears applying a moral standard others dont get
If you are under 30 and have ever complained about gas prices being like 3.75 in 2022
first, welcome to Actually Expensive Gas, it is Not A Good Time.
Second, it was over $4 in 2008-09 and I made $7.50 and I think the equivalent would be like $12/gal now so idk learn how to walk to close places?
I was dragged to the coast at an ungodly hour to watch the sunrise with someone a few years ago and I cant remember the sunrise at all but i will never forget how fucking good Holy Donut was immediately after, solidarity for my donut comrades
I genuinely cannot think of a single thing i learned while earning a biochem BS that would make me more qualified to head a government agency than a similarly aged person with no college education.
Lotta you dorks want a degree to = intelligence for sadly obvious reasons
Yeah the settled upon rev methods for "online" seems to be paid subs and/or ads, so basically anything with engagement metrics where payment is influenced by engagement, has been juiced. Most/all platforms, and bafflingly the advertisers too, barely pretend to care anymore.
Major problem we havent solved is every industry relies on numbers, and broadly speaking the 30-40% that are dipshits all mostly like the same stupid idiot-slop but the 60-70% of people capable of thought have diverse tastes and interests and expectations, so "consistent 40%" wins most times
I think Britney Spears should be allowed to drive drunk. I think we owe her that much tbh
Requiring a college degree but not requiring that degree or experience be *related to the job* is in fact both elitist and stupid because one is then saying your desired qualification is literally just "has a pulse and parents who cosigned the debt" - thats stupid!
This is such a stupid hill to die on bc sure its elitist but its also just idiotic. If there's a specific set of degrees experts say is relevant that should be required - otherwise yeah its dumb as fuck to suggest someone with a BA in business is inherently more qualified than a GED to head DHS
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
this is that friend/coworker/ex who apologized and "took responsibility" by saying "i am sorry for letting you fuck everything up" - truly we live in the Golden Age for ppl who embrace archetypical manipulator/abuser behavior and apply it professionally
Just from a numbers perspective its statistically impressive that every single higher-up public facing bluesky employee has a diagnosable pathological inability to ever admit fault for anything. Bro thought this was humanizing
Wealth inequality has become so extreme in our country that it's become basically impossible to show what's going on in a reasonable graph. If the Y and X axes were linear it would just be a flat line that jumps straight up at the very end. Look at the Y-axis here - it's the best I can do!
A post where someone is saying their publication is able to ban ads for unethical things they disagree with, and after listing as examples "betting/polymarket/kalshi" and "ICE" they bafflingly then also listed "GLP-1s" with no explanation
I dont know what TGS is but, helpfully, listing "GLP-1s" next to gambling and ICE tells me all I need to know about them (derogatory, probably believes in "homeopathic medicine")
this is elder millennial drinking from the garden hose
Instead of doing bad things I’d simply do good things rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
The *PR account* really went with "it was on the homepage for 12 hours" and then linked directly to them doing this exact example. Again I gotta ask how journalism became such a self selecting field for people who possess zero self awareness or shame, just real pieces of shit all around lmao
The Democratic "resistance"
Alas I have been told my only option in june and November is to vote for an 80 year old who will do this on literally every vote because she believes in the Spirit of Bipartisanship and the Power of Institutions above all
“I can’t help but notice—“ I can. I can not notice anything. I have no idea what’s going on right now. Skill issue.
Perfect encapsulation of the brainrot here - 1st post he basically takes what Ryan Grim thinks and disingenuously presents it as a major motivator of voter support, before disingenuously presenting *mainers* as "dudes with email jobs and podcasts" - a lot of Making Up Guys To Get Mad At happening
Buddy youre not gonna believe how many people are bartenders and servers in maine, where our economy is deeply reliant on tourism - this is why this shit isnt working, nothings gonna cause eye rolls more than pretending being in service jobs for 10 years is unique *to mainers*
People say im stubborn and its true!
But there is a difference between being stubborn in values, and being stupid, which is why I was able to learn i was wrong about Some Thing while so many of you double and triple down on acting out the Simpsons principal meme
If you have a conclusion on Some Thing that relies on the claims:
1. everyone directly interacting with Some Thing is wrong
2. A massive group of people with well established political/ethical/moral values abandoned all of them and are secretly nazis
3. Presenting aesthetics as material
Well...
