I have to use my ml alt to browse the news mega lmao

“Blot out the memory of Amalek!”

I wish they actually did so they would finally stfu about it.

My hope is every time shit like this happens, every time the liberal is forced to remove their mask, it converts some liberals over to socialists, communists, or anarchists.

It will also convert some liberals into fascists until there’s nothing left but fascists and socialists. This is what heightening the contradictions mean.

Micro$oft walked so Microslop can run.

Thesis: “We got 'im.” - Reuters

Antithesis: Khamenei’s Twitter has started posting again.

Synthesis: Khamenei is posting from beyond the grave.

we don’t have enough activity for a thriving community on our own, so we have to pick-and-choose who we federate with. Too closed and the community dies.

sucks to suck

turning it into a slogan like that, while catchy

Nobody’s treating it anything more than a slogan. Slogans should not be expected to be as rigorously thought out as political lines. That’s for manifestos and programmes.

The PLAN is just going to form a blockade surrounding Taiwan and watch Taiwanese society collapse. This is what happens when 98% of your energy has to be imported.

The essay is nothing more than a polemic in an ever-expanding pile of polemics. I think people fall into a trap of trying to find the best argued polemic when as a science, the principle criterion should be first and foremost how well the science can predict phenomena. “China is capitalist” means that you can say “a capitalist state responds to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z, and since China is a capitalist state facing A, B, and C, it will respond with X, Y, and Z.” Ditto for “China is socialist,” “China is fascist,” “China is authoritarian,” or whatever other label you want to stick to China.

Polemics will often have arguments in the form “China responded to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z, and since a state that responds to A, B, and C with X, Y, and Z is [adjective], China is [adjective],” but they almost always do it after the fact. It’s no different from some astrologist pulling something out of their ass to explain why a relationship failed. You know, the asspull explanation would’ve been a lot more helpful before the relationship happened. Curious how their actual predictions seem to always either be wrong or be vague enough that they can wiggle their way out of getting called out for being wrong.

Fundamentally, people do not take the idea of the immortal science as a science seriously. The thing about science, the only reason why people even care about science in the first place, is its ability to explain and predict phenomena. Predicting phenomena is key. It’s why meteorology replaced killing birds and divining predictions based on their mangled corpses or sticking sticks in the grounds and somehow predicting weather with them. The reason why people value astronomy over astrology is the science of astronomy can be used to predict solar ellipses, used to predict when the number of solar flares will go up, and so on. Meanwhile, astrology doesn’t predict anything. It may offer some kind of explanation of human behavior, but it certainly can’t predict how people would behave. At best, it offers explanation to explain shit after it had already happened. Virtually all polemics are of this character.

It doesn’t smell like cat piss or the piss of any kind of animal lol.

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of a great game by checks notes giving you the option to marry the incel

have all the charisma of a hemorrhoid

Good thing for Vance Gruesome Newsome is even less charismatic than a hemorrhoid. As they say, you don’t have to be good. You just have to be better than the competition.

it had deleted his entire D drive without his permission

mockingly points in their general direction Windows user

Hexbear is bullshit P2W. Why do only paid subscribers get beanis-salute?

They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don’t suffer when it’s not that at all.

They have the absolute nerve to say this while ICE is kidnapping random people with skin color darker than printing paper and the US is about to bomb Iran.

No, the why is only important insofar as to find ways to mitigate or prevent it from happening again. As far as addressing restitution is concerned, it doesn’t mean a whole lot. If I knocked over your vase, the restitutional act would be to replace your vase or pay you money. Examining the particular events which led me to knock over the vase is only important to check whether I knocked over your vase for the sake of preventing additional damage or prevent harm to you. Outside of those two exceptions, the particular reasons why I knocked over your vase (I was too clumsy, I had too much to drink, I didn’t see the vase, I thought the vase was more sturdy) doesn’t alter the proper restitutional act of replacing the vase.

At the end of the day, a whole lot of Black people, from the actors on stage to Black members of the audience to Black viewers watching the broadcast, have to hear some white dude say the n-word. What actions have been taken to address the very real harm caused by this? This thread and the previous thread that got locked have said much to explain why the white dude said the n-word. But the fundamental gap of understanding between the POC users and the white users here is that his intent doesn’t matter an iota. The fact that he said it is already enough.

If you’re not convinced, notice how I used the term “n-word” even though I’m using the word in a completely clinical non-racist context. “John Davidson said the n-word during this year’s BAFTA” is a completely neutral sentence reporting something that happened, but it would be grossly inappropriate to spell out the word and go, “uh aktually, I’m not being racist because I’m just reporting what actually happened.” The word is censored and rightfully so. So, the discussions about Tourettes, while enlightening, is ultimately not very relevant. He as a white man said the n-word in front of many Black people and that is good enough for those Black people to rightfully demand an apology and restitution from him, BAFTA, and the BBC.

Imagine weaponizing the very real suffering of Palestinian to put a POC in their place on a social media website.

Feels like the lizard maid is going to introduced later. They’re missing their right arm and is using their tail as a replacement arm.

Not really. He wasn’t really adverse to technology. He’s no Pol Pot.