Mako

been on this for awhile but its neat to see actual journalists just come out and say “we are epistemic nihilists who’s greatest aspiration is to propagate the ideas of the powerful”

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

We're so beyond just conspiracy theory and lying. This is like... incoherent spasms of the reactionary id. Statements of surreal illogicality and untruth meant to serve less as justifications, and just as simple tributes to their collective right wing id and belief. These fucks believe in nothing.

Politicians and media: CEOs are our modern oracles. These people are veritable geniuses. The country would collapse if we even slightly inconvenienced them.

CEOs: Siri, google “supply chain”

It's actually tankie antisemitism to want Schumer to take a single stand against Trump I am very intelligent goo goo ga ga

Once again urging people to read @mugrimm.bsky.social 's recap of post 9/11 insanity.
bsky.app/profile/mugr...

The patriarchy and its hate of women and children lives on in our culture. Boys are taught this garbage as they hit puberty because they think it makes them cool. It makes them violent assholes and it makes sicker assholes than they a lot of money and the thrill of perpetuating it.

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

this isn't really the huge font headline you want to see when you're launching a war of choice that you can't explain to your allies in congress

so the podcast that Platner went on as a guest last month and called himself a “longtime fan” of isn’t just antisemitic, it’s also full of anti-Black racism and promoted the racist and xenophobic GOP attacks on Somali immigrants in Minneapolis?

Like Minecraft by itself is basically some kids' entire media diet. It can be literally any genre and it has just enough lore for youngsters to sink their teeth in

This is also why live-service games are so popular among younger audiences: Getting updates in Fortnite or Apex or whatever the fuck is like getting the sequels or expansions to your favorite games back in the day. They've taken the place of having ongoing series

Wow, then I think we're seeing the reason Square Enix is so gung-ho with releasing remakes of Dragon Quest and remasters of classic FFs. It makes perfect sense now lol.

two weeks later and i still can't get this out of head, especially as i work through some of my first FF games

the internet loves to give modern pokemon shit for its graphics, but by refusing to participate in the AAA graphics arms race, they have unambigiously dominated the culture. they won.

Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college and made money spreading conspiracies and hate against the marginalized.

I can't wait for this regime to go down in flames.

MTPE (machine translation w/ post-edit) is just another tool of people who think this way. They don't know and have no way of knowing if their TL is accurate. They stubbornly insist generative algorithms produce reliable work that just needs a little spitshine, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Generative algorithms don't understand language. They see text and generate corresponding text based on a dataset we don't know. They have no memory, no grasp of context, no database of names/terms for basic consistency. Their "reasoning" is a black box. You can't understand a black box's choices.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

He's seeing the polling and realizing how shockingly unpopular he is outside of his podcast circle

They really want fetch to happen lol

repeat after me: “the Republicans are unanimous in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred.”

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

I think there is some truth to the fact that certain groups that claim to fight antisemitism have damaged their credibility by labeling too much criticism of Israel as antisemitism. But a lot of people are way too gleeful that this means they no longer have to pretend to care about antisemitism.

Absolutely insane watching the dem party is falling for the same tricks that the Bush admin did with Iraq. Just can't believe we're doing this exact same debate here. LMAO wow.

Thing is, we don't actually know that it's good for anybody, and conceding this in Trump's favor isn't helpful.

Yes, everyone at the top of the Iranian government was bad. But this does not necessarily mean unilaterally killing them improves the situation! It could make it much worse!

We're ALREADY replaying the "Mission Accomplished" jingoistic victory celebrations along with, "Can't we just celebrate and stand behind our president taking down a really bad guy!?" consent manufacturing.

Its fucking chilling seeing history replay itself. Unreal we learned so little. Wow.

What's so fucking wild is that we've LITERALLY seen this jingoistic nonsense before back in 2002.

WE'VE BEEN HERE. We KNOW where this goes. Just "supporting the troops" and "celebrating the collective victory" that comes from bombing a "really bad guy" never ends well. The guy's a dumbass.

they will happily sacrifice as many troops as they need. i don’t even know what to say anymore. anyone supporting this war is dumb as fuck and will lead to a less safe world every day this continues

‘That’s the way it is’
Like a homicidal Bruce Hornsby