andrewtheblueskier

You might as well privatise USPS

Playing the "it's natural" card wrt any queer identity is a losing game once people figure out the next one doesn't have a 4000 year vintage or was even slightly made different in the last x thousand years

Wait segyges does it count if Christ himself does this and doesn't use a false mask? John 21 is it (and includes the famous miracle of catching 153 fish)

This trope is so oddly specific I'm convinced it's one of those mounting references to a single work and not really an independent thing

They're dogpiling you for factual information

Tell you what fair nuff

I hang with it to varying degrees (know it better as Mafia) but also there's absolutely no way to be taught it on the fly and there's almost no measure of how well you're doing that isn't compromisable by others. If the term friendslop refers to anything it refers to this game

How do you feel about Among Us

There's a very clear psychological line where *zamenice* are a fine and upstanding grammatical feature while *pronauns* are a Western invention that exists to castrate the Serbian race

They also consistently mock "pronauns" with forms like "hi ši dej"

Oh, every time. We have two words for the thing (rod/pol) and our reactionaries have never used *either* of them in this discussion

Social media is never the best indicator but even r/askserbia, unrepresentatively *liberal* if anything, is full of sexual discourse that Americans would stereotypically peg to the baby boomers

Always a fascinating contrast that in the Balkans (and CEE more broadly), it's fairly widely understood that reactionaries raging against "gender ideology" aren't solely or even primarily talking about trans people, but cis gays, feminism, and really any deviation from conservative "family values".

It's a form of reaction firmly stuck in the early 2010s era

Because Godzilla (1954) was a scary movie

Even "woke", a recent import that always leaned one way in English, is 70-30 biased toward extravagant gays

What's the null hypothesis

At the end of the day people would rather imagine themselves Willy Brandt than Gidofalvy Lajos

The minimal bar to clear for a hard truth is that every time you bring it up you are disappointed that Providence has put it in front of you. If you gain any smugness or satisfaction the truth isn't hard enough for you

Relatedly, while hardly a trustworthy signal on its own, think about how many of your beliefs are so horrible in their implications that you couldn't imagine any reason for wanting to live or pretend to live in their implied worlds other than "that's the world where I am now"

I suspect partly just that "being from Babylon" allows them to imagine themselves as heroic exiles at low personal cost

A perfectly sensible way to read the admiration of US systems is "these fellow thinkers have caught onto the holy truth we're onto" and this is just indicative of "we would've done it anyway but here's some consensus"

We're in the pilot episode

In general a great necessity to any empire is dumb luck and besides winning unlikely battles it'll also soften likely falls

Anti-appointment television

Have they come up with Slovakia WW2 revisionism

Though of course some papers have always included a regular dosage of bait-and-switches with clever distribution to avoid people catching on

Limited space and the one-paper-at-a-time nature of browsing the news meant most yellow journalism was moreso weaving tales with no basis in reality than just lying in the headline and reporting disappointing truth afterward

"bait-and-switch" and "sensationalism" were used but also modern incentives just make the dynamic far more favourable to clickbait

Serbia is a country that is many things, one of them is spite that every single time spills from confidence in risk to riding off the edge of a cliff into destruction. Russia is basically us if you cut out every actual comeuppance and replaced it all with inexplicable reward