Nick Simmonds

Can we talk about how fandoms turn darkly pathological characters into uwu babygirls? For example Minnie Mouse

I don't really love the song but his moves are objectively incredible in that video

We had the same thing happen, I actually played Virtual Insanity for my partner after the show so she could see the reference

Did you feel clever typing this?

This is going on three days on the other site without a community note, which 100% means that Musk is personally intervening to prevent it from getting one.

I think 3 is eventually what will happen. They'll just buffalo the parliamentarian and act like their bill has passed regardless of any rulebreaking and there will be no mechanism to call them to account that works.

There are basically three versions of this -

1. Kill with 60 votes - impossible for Trump
2. Kill with 50 votes + Vance - possible, requires a friendly parliamentarian, so on top of that they have to fire them until they get one they like
3. Hold the vote, say it passed anyway, never address it

This but I think there's a medium version where people voted for 40-60% of what is happening, including some of the worst stuff, and are just mad that the other portion is affecting them. Like a *lot* of people voted for pogroms against immigrants but are mad about tariffs and the White House.

i'm curious how the people defending platner are going to rationalize the next step in their defense of him (the one about how people grow and mature and stuff) after lots and lots of sustained arguing that he didn't know what the tattoo represented or meant. like they're not mutually exclusive, but

Schumer represents the octogenarians, and the beltway consultants who invented the idea that Platner is a blue collar oyster fisherman instead of a wealthy failson working for his mom are the Pod Save guys and their friends

Depends on the city, basically

Zohran Mamdani frequently references Hegel's theories of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis via the dialectic without once mentioning that "thesis" and "antithesis" come from other writers and are not to be found in Hegel's own work.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I remember a previous boss telling me that when you use Excel to fit a plot you have to fiddle with it until it "looks right" or you won't get the right answer, like he was making a quiche.

Yes, but you can't share tips like that because of insider sock trading laws.

Well a belt would look ridiculous, obviously.

It's not a smear to point out the literal things you did! Where is the fucking contrition? You barely apologized and then immediately started clapping back.

Platner on X the Everything App posting a poll showing himself ahead and complaining about a "DC smear campaign" because apparently words have no meaning anymore

I'm willing to believe that this guy got his tattoo by accident and that he's come around on some stuff since his shittiest reddit posts. But this is a DISGUSTING response to his criticisms. You *have not been smeared*, you *got a nazi tattoo*. You *actually blamed rape victims*.

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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Or even "a little racism is good because Real Americans are racists so we want someone who speaks their language"

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With this Supreme Court I'm not sure the 3rd would end up applying to ICE. Courts have ruled in the past that police are not "soldiers" for the purposes of the amendment.

It's basically your demographic destiny according to ostensibly leftist twitter users

More and more I think the rest of the Democratic party just needs to excommunicate the NY state party.

I'm gonna need white male ostensible leftists to stop falling so hard for guys just because the candidate seems like he would have bullied you in high school.

Look as someone who grew up working class, white, and rural as a young man, I can tell you at least 60% of us don't have even ambiguous Nazi symbols tattooed on us.

Right plus like, look, if the average person in the US on the street is something like 5% likely to be a neo-Nazi, people who got their symbology tattooed on them have to be higher than that, right? Even the ones who say they didn't know that.

Well you see a lot of what *I* saw shows bad judgment, like for example posting rape apologia on reddit or, say, getting a fucking Nazi tattoo.