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For people who don’t follow this stuff: leading fash culture war horrors like Chris Rufo will just openly say things on Twitter like “LOL let’s get this university principal fired over bullshit, here are the precise tactics we’ll use, but we’ll need to get the centrists on board or it won’t work”

The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown. “They drove a dump truck full of money to my house.”

Whenever an actor signed to a Harry Potter project issues a statement

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

The basic problem is: the 2008 crash laid waste to thirty years of Common Sense Politics, and our ruling class *point blank refused to admit it or concede an inch*, and has increasingly turned to force, cruelty, propaganda and inertia to retain control. Again, with results you can see everywhere.

The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.

"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

"I'm just asking questions!"

No you're not, because those questions have answers, and you don't like the answers, so you reject them and insist that there are no answers.

thought clicked to me that the group of dems most likely to Just Have Some Concerns with trans people are well to do suburban parents, which is one of the demos that dem consultants consider incredibly important which would explain a lot about why they think ditching trans people is the winning move

This motherfucker said "Anto-communists"...

Anto-communists always end up doing that. It's like a default "Revolution was bad, therefore what they were revolting against was good" position. You get similar stuff for the French Rev too.

That's the skeleton key to understanding this whole episode: there was no lib backlash to the Sweeney ad. There were a few random online comments. That's it. But they ginned that up into a full-fledged, media-dominating news cycle that has been running for *weeks* now.

As they point out in the reply, some might think “they weren’t that smart then”.

If anything, a curious and educated mind allows one to be more careless about dangers around them due to hubris. And a lot of “smart” people buy into Roko’s Basilisk because of its allure of identifying “smart” people.

Google their FAQs - start the call off with one of them and take it to the end of that long road - then when they ask if you need anything else - bring up the censorship.

And where pharmaceutical cheating is so systematic that entire new bodies of law and global institutions have had to be invented to try to keep it under some kind of loose control...

And leading sports "personalities" just keep accidentally breaking the rules, again, and again...

To be clear: even Matthew’s summary “we hate what you’re doing, you’re trashing your own brand” is absurd and insulting horseshit. We hate what they’re doing because it is so nakedly criminal and genocidal that it shows the whole world what this project always was, and what Britain is.

Holy crap!

There's an ACTUAL NUMBER for PayPal in this!

PayPal is NOTORIOUS for never giving out numbers!!! This is pure gold!

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

periodic plug for this movie, it is absolutely ridiculous on every level and also a scammer tries to bribe Statham with NFTs and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off a bridge

I simply cannot recommend it enough

"we will take the people who make your phone unusable by calling 12 times a day and hang them in the town square" would win 70% of the vote

The Orcas of the land in the way they ruin a rich asshole's day.

The reasonable centrist liberal parties are officially to the right of the fascists on trans rights in the UK.

This does not make any of them good. It makes the entire circus a fucking farce, a worthless mockery of politics and sound governance, because it's all just bigots barking at each other.

Cave Johnson, new owner and CEO of VShojo. That's right, you've been bought. First order of business, we're renaming you under the Aperture brand. I'm leaning towards Vaperture. Marketing boys think... something else. So, Vaperture it is. Next, they tell me you people raised $500,000 for charity and

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

I would sincerely appreciate if my executive dysfunction could fuck off for a bit, I have layout work I want to do but instead I just stared at an open .doc all day

Leonard Nimoy saying "a solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on." Craig Charles saying "don't give me this Star Trek crap. It's too early in the morning"

weird how the entire UK media has just discovered what gaza looks like from the sky, when the rest of us have been seeing images of a deliberately flattened wasteland since the war began.

An infograph meme quoting a moment from the movie "The Incredibles". There is black text that reads: Alright, listen closely. I'd like to help you with the ads, but I can't. I'd like to tell you to click on the gear icon and select "Report Playback Issue". But I can't. I also do not advise you to select anything related to how the advertisement is offensive or inappropriate; I wouldn't expect Twitch to do something about the ICE ads if they get flooded with enough reports. Below, there are images that are as follows: From left to right, top to bottom. Mr Incredible whispering to an old lady in an office building. A screenshot of Twitchs' Settings menu with "Report Playback Issue" highlighted. A close-up of Mr Incredible whispering. A screenshot of Twitchs' Report Playback Issue menu with a dropdown menu containing options.

An info-graph regarding this post:

#Twitch #VSky #MeltTheICE #NoICE

Dad: "I don't want a damn cat."

Dad and Cat 1 year later:

As i am sure is the case with many of you, i get anxiety over some dumb shit i did 20 years ago that caused somebody (emotional) pain and they get up every day and go on teevee, proud of themselves