Theseus, His Sails Unfurled

I have this unpopular opinion where if you believe in the tenets of Nazism, you're disqualified from ever participating in our government, because the Venn Diagrams should be prevented from overlapping by force, and that's not "political" any more than any other disqualifier.

One thing about how I generally consume media (not talking about it with other fans) is that when I first heard "Time Warp" played at a college dance party, my mind was blown that all these people knew the dance from this one niche scene from that cool movie I watched on TV at midnight the one time.

Love to be told I'm being forcibly removed from existence by Max Headroom.

- *tired, but innocuous sarcastic joke with a thousand common variants, pretending to say what a bad person would say*

- "No! This type of thinking is how we got here!"

I do OK, but I'm objectively Not Cool, and I think you should have to log off if you're acting like more stuffy and inconsolable than me. I wish there were a testing kit I could provide.

There are a lot of very skittish people on a hair trigger on this app who need to log off. If you follow a long reply chain long enough, you run into a humorless hairshirt-wearer in desperate need of chamomile tea posting like a middle finger emoji.

This is where the internet should have ended

Quite seriously, I should not be talking to you right now

Yes, but ... that ... isn't ... uh, weird ...

Hm

If you're proud of confederates, you're a fucking traitor, and that's all she wrote

More disgusting, illegal bigotry from our government.

In practice, crunchy types don't have any of this memorized and it's 100% vibes based on look and texture and the length of the words on the label

whichever Democratic politician you’re currently describing as a vile bigot would not have done anything like this

Tired of "Issue an illegal order and wait for someone to pay to sue us" being normal now

The Rock is largely like Schwarzenegger. Probably bad right-wing money policies, but he doesn't seem to actively enjoy watching people die

Camacho WANTED TO HELP

He wanted to get better!

Oh Jesus lmao

I have no idea what that means, but your avatar is my favorite gem fusion, so I'm sure it makes sense.

Exactamundo

I saw the same kind of shame I see now back in 2008, but it was in the service of "Get Obama elected! Change this shitty country!"

Also, the people who busted their ass to get Obama elected are so culturally similar to today's "Stop voting" bloc that it's ... ugh. Like it's clear to me that if they just gave up their thing that runs counter to the electoral process, we'll have a bit better world again for a long time.

I think our Zelenskyy would be Terry Crews

I'm not saying it should or shouldn't be, but that's the analogy to me

Who in the fuck would dare say otherwise what

Yeah, I try not to. Normies I knew IRL started Making Up a Guy who was going to now refuse to vote for Biden and fretting themselves silly after that debate. It really did snowball into a problem in a way Trump's awful performances never do because those freaks always project unearned confidence.

I'm ... not going to say that, because he's always had trouble speaking, and that night in particular was pretty garbled.

I just don't think that's a problem, and I wish no one else did. As long as you can think clearly enough to make decent policy, I'm genuinely not concerned how it comes out.

I mean, I'm not saying someone yanked him out of the chair, but voters could have been more charitable and understanding instead of driving a wedge in over this.

No, but the other part of oratory is "saying words that make sense instead of gibberish," and even at his gaffe-iest or slowest, Biden never sounded like someone put his brain into a bread mixer

This exactly.

It really was hard to watch, and it's awful that it got exploited into forcing him out.

It sucks that a qualification for president is apparently now "Must project some kind of weird overblown robustness"

(Although this guy also bought the "Parkinsons doctor" news cycle. So I do think the mass media was a meaningful part of this.)

My coworker who's just a few years younger than Biden was convinced he looked bad and, therefore, "oh no, people won't vote for him now!" This man didn't read any leftposting; he was Making Up Guys all on his own, based on what he saw. He sabotaged his own thoughts without any help.

But I don't know when I'll have the brain- and soul-space for a whole thread of that shit.