Getting tired of heterosexual culture ignoring the homoerotic subtext in Heated Rivalry. We gotta get over this "they're just friends" queer baiting/erasia in popular media imo.
yglesias is going to write a short essay "why it's necessary for democrats to let republicans build the camps" and maia is going to respond with a 10k word essay where every second word is hyperlinked showing that areas with antifascist partisan activity during WWII correlates with economic growth
spiritually australian take
Lyrics to the second verse of the song 'Maquilados' by billy woods: Fanon said self-amputation how all this is created The irrational rationalisations of the racists (Make America great ag-) The amputee says accept it, there's no escaping Accept the prosthetics They give ill-fitted limbs as gifts and insist you can only live in the present Fanon dreamed of death every night in the desert Woke in hospital bed CIA handlers gently pressing Wishing he died out there in the sand, bayoneted He had the wrong answer to the right fucking question Amputation how you survive Can't get away if you don't leave something behind Trapped a housefly in an upside down pint glass and waited for it to die It's still alive Staring out compound eyes Nine fingers can still tie a tie Keep extremities clear The courthouse close at five (I warned you) Some took it on the arm, caught in a trap Some came of their own accord, a piece already cut Neatly wrapped in butcher paper Had to cut 'em off, I ain't have no option They the type to come back with the choppers choppin'
so uh the new billy woods album is probably definitely the rap album of the year
Also less incentive to run again since he’s not, like, facing treason charges
I think this is plausible if your read of *2016* Trump is that he had no plan for actually winning and was just trying to grift together a media business. Trump running again in 2020 in this scenario doesn’t benefit from presiding over a strong pre-covid economy and probably has to fight a primary
Not sure what places Stancil himself is thinking of but it’s kinda heartbreaking reading the replies and seeing people defend the American system by noting that similar outcomes have emerged in… El Salvador and Argentina. Like you’re the cultural/intellectual capital of the world and that’s the bar?
why would anyone think "what oligarchy is" would be explained by the same things that explain "what oligarchs do" or "why oligarchs are popular" in the first place?
he's so real, not many directors would admit "making star wars content made me want to kill myself"
Sorry but I don’t need another French video game. I’ve seen Rayman, that’s enough
In reverse, this happened to a friend of mine in China. He was at a restaurant and witnessed a murder, the police arrived, arrested him, chained him to a radiator and screamed the n-word at him, then realized he was *not* African but British and were extremely apologetic.
Honestly I’m getting more tyranids vibes from the colours
Every Tropical Fuck Storm single for their new album sounds shittier than the last one but in a good way and now they’ve basically gone full beefheart I love it youtu.be/sRhlXD0LZLc
Trusting you all to develop parasocial feelings about 73 year old men
This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂
critics don’t make nearly enough money for y’all to be whining about us all the time
oh yeah sorry I actually talk shit about it and laugh at it with all my friends (no seriously it's great; I even got an undergrad music student to cite it in an essay he wrote for one of his classes)
idk about life-changing fwiw I think about white psychodrama a lot and bring it up in conversation a fair bit
...there's human pet guy
I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that
In retrospect, I give Meta a lot of credit over Threads. They saw how Twitter and Reddit were destroying themselves and, instead of just doing that to FB or Instagram, responsibly made an entire new social media platform they could destroy instead.
tailor in the crowd at the filming of Stop Making Sense: Stop cheering. Stop cheering you fools. It doesn’t fit! It doesn’t fit at all!!!
ok so when I got here the discourse was slurs and trust & safety which is a fair enough thing to discourse about and then it was ‘anglosphere’ which is a bit weird but hey I learned something I guess but what the FUCK is ‘tpot’ I’m going to bed
For reference, all Emmanuel said was that the word “anglosphere” has non-racist applications.
You cannot convince me Doug’s response isn’t much more explicitly racist than the dumb shit everyone on this app is losing their minds over, but people like him so it’s crickets
that said if we all decide to just say L'anglophonie instead I'm down
Pretty much every time I've seen the term 'anglosphere' used in conversation it's been by people from a non-English-speaking background to concisely refer to the English-speaking world. I'm very surprised to see the discourse on here about how it's apparently inherently 'racist' or 'right-wing'.
very important thread
Why did the Elon Stans put tits on the bird 😭
nah this is australia
