The only imaginable bright spot is that the obvious attempt to groom his young son into a predator too happened so recently that there’s some hope that he might receive effective therapy for it before he becomes an adult.

Literally what is there even to say, fifteen women. And that’s just the number who spoke to his wife personally!

Also the most horrific shit he was doing literally like 2022, 2023, 2024.

Neil Gaiman is going to need to hire a private military for life to be able to walk the streets without getting three Luigis in the back.

Recently I’ve taken to just idly browsing secondhand and auction sites to look at funny vintage clothes and the weird phrasings people come up with.

Lots of what I assume to be attempts at gaming search results by typing “BRAND NEW VINTAGE/ANTIQUE” in the title and shit like that.

It’s a common prosecutor folk wisdom that it’s good to gamble on the death penalty because if its on the table then the jury will be more likely to be filled with regimepilled sickos who vote guilty in the name of state violence no matter what.

Ivy league style is pretty sharp.

It seems fine as it’s own work, just sorta comes off like a separate work of fiction that had to be stapled onto the Watchmen IP instead of being its own thing.

Like the whole Hooded Justice thing isn’t bad, but I think it kind of fails to exploit what Moore was going for by making the “first” costumed superhero in his universe a nazi-sympathizing sadist dressed up in thinly veiled lynching iconography and a dark klan hood.

I’ve essentially never seen anything from the sphere of “parapolitics” that actually appears to impart any useful practical knowledge for understanding the past or predicting the future, at best it appears to be a masturbatory hobby that lets you be smug about JFK for 50+ years straight, at worst it makes you some annoying asshole who goes around saying shit like “denying the existence of snuff films is leftist flat earth” for attention.

Also Programmed To Kill is a very stupid book.

Within the context of himself, not the worst look he’s ever had.

But it definitely helps that he’s taken off that dumbass ugly cap.

I think the AI tools used for the last song was primarily to separate Lennons voice and piano from the artifacts of the poor quality demo, including a persistent hiss.

Bad sensationalist headline, should really be more clear about what uses are being discussed. He’s clearly not against the audio tools that helped on the song, but against generative AI exploitation. There’s no reversal going on.

Yes, most critically he later admitted in an article(after being laid off) that he was personally witness to Helen Hindpere receiving verbal abuse on a company call that was so loud that he could hear it from her headphones.

Helen mentions this in the documentary, Tuulik did not, and while he was not the primary figure questioning Hindperes work and leadership, he took a centrist stance between owners and the fired creatives.

Obviously not that any of this makes him deserve being subjected to the crap thats going on, though I do think it makes the goofy radical shit from his studio take on kind of a hollow tone.

If you’re gonna be the gamer maoist studio dropping manifestos with “creatives hold up half the sky” type slogans, I think a gamer self crit is warranted too.

Reminds me of one of the main FOIA guys who runs “The Black Vault” for UFO shit being like.

“I trust the government and appreciate all their good works, I just firmly believe in the civic value of government transparency and disclosure.”

Probably my favourite kind of brainworms within the sphere of parapolitics, just a fundamentally endearing viewpoint to have.

I think a big part is that if you accept for arguments sake the fundamental legal premises and rules of a court trial in the Rittenhouse case, you can arrive at a conclusion that within that premise and those laws the acquittal makes sense. Basically that the injustice is enshrined in the bones of the system rather than a malicious and arbitrary dismissal of what’s supposed to happen.

Meanwhile there just is not a reasonable argument that a trained soldier would not be aware that extended application of a chokehold past unconsciousness would certainly be lethal, and that he continued past the point where average bystanders could tell that he was murdering Jordan Neely.

Theres no legal argument that makes sense in this scenario, anyone who accepts it are accepting it outside of the law.

Support for Daniel Penny is all but overtly just simple support for lynching, while Rittenhouse you can very torturously make a case involving other American brainworms like the right to self defense and the idea that a dumb fascist toddler like Rittenhouse earnestly feared for his life.

Predictably avoiding mentioning the severe reactionary cultural throughline of the manifesto.

Actually avoiding mentioning any politics at all, impressive. Perhaps this shooter is actually a liberal after all.

I really feel like even in this example tweet you really have to reach to argue this. Yes, all his complaints boil down to a core causation by capitalism, but that goes for at least half of any reactionarys political beliefs.

Several of the bullet points are just actually repeating dumb stereotypes, he probably only knows about Don Quixote because of Yakuza. He dedicates a whole bullet point to the societal consequences of conveyor belt sushi.

Genuinely just a reactionary fascist in his social views, it’s really easy to tell if someone has not read the manifesto past the opening if they try and argue that he’s either a leftist or outside of standard politics, cause basically his first complaint is he’s not allowed to use insensitive terms for women, black people, and asians.

Because of woke.

I remember watching a documentary on him and they had a montage of interviews where there was one environmental activist being like “He was right about all the stuff but he shouldn’t have bombed people.”

Which stuck with me for being very funny given that the manifesto is in service of justifying bombing people.

He just EDC’s a suppressed pistol and fake IDs for unrelated brainworm reasons.

The cops are amazed they only have to plant the manifesto and get to side hustle all the other incriminating evidence.

Judging by all the other stuff this guy is into I bet his reasoning is that he’s completely brainwormed on pickup artist redpill shit and thinks that the waiter interaction will give men chances to apply that bullshit and get laid.

Or a funnier alternative is he’s brainwormed on like trad romance media with like relationships starting out of being a regular at a diner or whatever.

This is the kind of environmental storytelling indie devs put in a game specifically made for a Jacob Geller essay.

It’s extremely funny to compare this to the menswear guy doing threads about how the modern Japanese(or at least Tokyo) urban environment is the only place small scale organic fashion culture can thrive anymore.

Also conveyor belt sushi is a societal plague worthy of one of 5 bullet points on your stupid little list? And the reason its bad is you aren’t chatting directly to a food service employee? Not just a weirdo but a really fucking stupid and annoying weirdo.