Blubbator

Why is everything cults nowadays?

It's all tacky, but that weird picture between the two former first ladies is extra creepy.

The level of online radicalisation going on is far beyond what most people realise.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

if only Silicon Valley and its financiers could put half the thought and resources into *anything* that they put into “come up with new ways to be racist while pretending not to be”

Das reichste Land der Erde schickt jetzt seine in Deutschland stationierten Soldaten zu den Tafeln um den Bedürftigen das Essen wegzunehmen?

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Betteridge's Law obviously, but you really don't have to entertain such questions in the first place.

As if they're reasonable to ask.

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

"You are not immune to propaganda," as true now as it ever was.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Like I don’t know if I hit this point hard enough but the existence of his trans child invalidates ALL his kids in his eyes. That means the science doesn’t work. Hundreds of millions gone.

Instead he still believes the science and says his daughter was infected with woke and died. Acceptable loss.

So it’s not just that he’s a bigot and disowns his child for being trans but her existence completely destroys his insane natalist project and reveals he’s just a misogynist and an idiot with too much money.

In an interview she talked
about how fucked up it is that her father essentially bought her as a product, and was promised by this company an army of super genius boys with imperfections edited out… and oops, this one’s a girl.

I’ve been listening to this fascinating CBC podcast about Elon Musk. One episode goes into detail about the company he hires to basically gene edit his IVF kids.

Which is why every kid is male.

Except his trans child. Who he says is dead.

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

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Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson previously told 404 Media in a statement that ICE will prioritize the results of the Mobile Fortify app over birth certificates. "ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a 'definitive' determination of a person's status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship-including a birth certificate— if the app says the person is an alien," he said. "ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans' rights and freedoms."

code is law

Anyway.

Don't waste time with straw men. Respond to the real world, and do good work.

Everything else is bullshit.

Ich finde es krass, wie erbärmlich das alles ist.

Das kostet die FIFA fünfzig Dollar für irgendeine Medaille oder Trophäe und zehn Minuten in der eh schon geplanten Veranstaltung und dafür kriegt man den Obernarzissten gebauchpinselt. Also gut eingesetzte Mittel, I guess.

Aber es ist so armselig.

So, you brag about acing the intelligence test that gets "very hard" after 'tiger, elephant, giraffe'?

And you get an MRI without any specified reason?

And now your people are hanging up signs in your surroundings with the name of the rooms printed on them?

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.

A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

frame: smart glasses are just like an iPhone

negation: no, they're different in important ways

kirby: THIS IS A SURVEILLANCE TOOL. THEY WANT TO NORMALIZE CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE. they are making a bad faith comparison bc they want to move the boundaries of acceptable behavior

Frame: these African women soccer players aren't really women

Negation: actually they were all assigned female at birth

Kirby: TRANSPHOBES ARE ALWAYS RACISTS. They are trying to define whose bodies are acceptable. The league must reject that project, not claim to meet its standards

Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people

Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white

Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

frame: they're targeting criminals
negation: actually they're targeting ordinary people

kirby: it's a fascist attack. they're white supremacists doing ethnic cleansing. which is why they're saying everybody who isn't white is a criminal

frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown

negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown

kirby:

Frame: this public service costs too much, it isn't making money

Negation: it's actually very efficient and it could make more money

Kirby: they are attacking the very idea of public services

Game respects game...in a corruption sense.