Austin Wilson

That is a *cursed* poster omfg

These losers would be extremely funny if their stupidity didn't have the capacity to cause tremendous damage.

(I mean, they're still pretty funny)

The incredible amount of rhetorical and mental gymnastics devoted to avoid stating the obvious fact that a lot of these people are just fucking stupid will never stop being darkly funny.

Literally me right now

A is a contender but I'd put group K ahead of C (and maybe ahead of A and G if Jamaica wins their playoff)

Jeff Epstein’s best friend thinks I live in a hellhole and that my neighbors are garbage, which I just assume is part of him grieving over the loss of his best friend, Jeff Epstein.

Look cool and are complete shit by literally every other metric (except for repairability, sometimes).

if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way

Could be but Poe's law applies so thoroughly to AI booster accounts that it's impossible to tell

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

I confess as a cis/straight dude I always kind of assumed that was the case until I started getting into it recently and OH BOY was I wrong lmao

Correlation isn't perfect but as a rule of thumb this is correct.

Yeah in cyberpunk the world at large is beyond saving but individuals can still make it a less shit place on the margins (or at the very least, save themselves). Which ironically is probably a generally healthier outlook than sci-fi utopianism.

There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater

All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.

Or talked to that many Americans like, ever? I had a science teacher who was openly advocating for ethnic cleansing of immigrants after 9/11 and nobody even batted an eye. This shit is as American as it gets.

"bring back the guillotine" feeling less tongue in cheek by the day.

truly a great time to have just recorded a pilot episode about Warhammer 40,000 memes bleeding into mainstream politics with @jkass99.bsky.social

Most coherent storytelling/pacing, more mature tone, and the best action set pieces of the prequels. The dialogue and writing are still bad but arguably not as distractingly, painfully bad as Jar Jar or every Anakin/Padme scene from AotC.

can i pleaaaaaasaaasaase stop living in fucking snow crash

It's possible I've just missed it but I don't think there's been a single person implicated in any of this that I've been surprised by? It's like "oh, that rich piece of shit is even more of a scumbag than I thought? Yeah, that tracks"

Not having this shit normalized and everywhere was one of the few ways the USA was *less* dystopian than most of Europe but it seems we're working very hard to catch up.

you absolutely did vote for this, you craven dorks

The Sovereign reveal/speech in ME1 will forever burned into my mind. "You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it."

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

they weren't at the Romans level but one thing I've picked up from reading @bretdevereaux.bsky.social is that the Hollywood "ragtag horde of bloodthirsty brutes" depiction of how Germanic peoples/"barbarians" fought is total bs. They were pretty well organized!

Hard same.

Homer bushes meme dropping streaming platforms and taking up piracy

In conclusion

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.