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wolfinthewoods

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  • When big Tech, especially the biggest video platform in the world, does something like this it is relevant to tech. The better question is, if you do support lgbtq+ people, why the public freakout about mentioning a far reaching tech policy, by one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) tech company in the world, on a tech sub?

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  • nazis and fascists, without ever knowing what those words even mean

    I am Jack's complete lack of self awareness

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  • Sure, if your issue is that it's okay for corporations to remove protections for hate speech towards marginalized groups, then yes, go get bent. This kind of false equivalence between normalizing hate and ostraciszing progressives for speaking out against oppression is EXACTLY what we're fighting against. What in the hell is the 'rhetoric' do you disagree with? Having empathy for lgbtq+ people? Jesus. If so, this is definitely not the place for you.

  • US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

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  • Wow. There's a huge disparity between the brows on those two. No matter how blurry the first pics are, the thickness of Luigi's brows would be noticeable. The person in that camera footage definitely doesn't have thick eyebrows like Luigi :/

  • Booker Today During His Ongoing 22+ Hour Filibuster

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  • I'd argue no. I'm kind of confused. I guess it's a prolonged speech protesting the actions of the admin in general? I somewhat applaud the push back by any member of congress, but I feel like it's a wasted gesture if it isn't specifically filibustering an important bill. This just seems like a publicity stunt rather than a meaningful action of resistance.

  • Murakami: An Observation After Three Books

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  • That does sound equally as torturous.

  • Murakami: An Observation After Three Books

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  • What?! Doesn't everybody do that?

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  • That's exactly how I felt by Kafka on the Shore. I thought it was a really dreamy, surreal journey. Very unique kind of feel. I remember really liking it, to the extent that I thought he might be my new favorite author. But subsequent works I've tried to get into haven't roped me in like that book unfortunately.

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  • Kafka did, but after that I've had trouble getting over that default setting time and time again. I still have Sputnik from the library, so I might push ahead and see if it lures me in, but I'm still annoyed by the repetitive use of the same motifs.

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  • I can understand the occasional reference, or encounter with a character who has those qualities. But almost every book with every main or supporting character gets to be ridiculous. "Meet Amami Tutsudo, she's the owner of the local bakery known for her undying love for Chopin, her mind soars with his transcendent movements, which she plays while baking her acclaimed loaves of bread."

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  • Not surprising at all. He has the vibe of a 8 year old telling me,"by the way, did I ever tell you about how much I love MINECRAFT!," over and over again. I suppose the thing that gets me is that I've never seen an author inject a personal interest in something in their work to this degree. I've read a few authors where you can kind of get a feel for certain things they like, but they usually aren't so obvious and overt about putting those interests on blast. It's just jarring to me.

  • Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been in the hottest 10 on record [Day 105]

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  • Right on, that's good on them. I was honestly disappointed to learn that they were deniers years ago, which definitely effected my ability to watch the show afterwards. I'll have to check out the episode when I can.

  • Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been in the hottest 10 on record [Day 105]

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  • Oh, I didn't realize they'd revisited the gag. Thanks for the head's up.

  • Journalist publishes every damning text from war plans leak

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  • That's exactly it, I almost used the good cop/bad cop analogy for my original comment. It's been glaringly obvious that the dems are just a pressure-release valve for people's anger for some time now. They never live up to any of the expectations that people have for them. At this point it is a cruel Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown facade. And democrat voters eat it up every time.

    Now the biggest sentiment from liberals is "this is your fault, if only you'd voted for the dems", when it is largely irrelevant if voters do. The dems are just a friendlier looking version of a corporate controlled imperialistic government. The sooner the people realize this, the sooner we can actually mobilize people against the real enemies of the people, which is corporate control of both political parties. Until class-consciousness manifests itself on a much larger scale, we'll continue to play these stupid corporate controlled dem vs repub games and win more stupid prizes.

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  • It's this rhetoric that plays perfectly into the class divide that the corporate asshats want everyone to fall for. "It's your fault for not voting for the other corporate shill party!" Disregarding the fact that the main difference is one party is just mask off, and the other is mask on fascist. As many people rightly point out, the dems are controlled opposition. If they weren't there would literally have been much more fight and pushback from them for the four years before Trump 2.0 (especially since they knew it was coming faaar in advance) rather then the milquetoast response we got from them, this was made quite obvious by the dems moving right in many policies and stumping with Cheney of all people. If these people really gave a shit about appealing to their constituents, they would've listened to the damn voters. This is all beside the point as modern American voting IS NOT determined by the voting public, but much more powerful interests. If you really believed your vote was effecting something in this, or any other election in the past 20+ years, I have a bridge to sell you in the Sahara.

  • Had enough of my boring job. Now free lancing doing sculptures

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  • Kudos. That got an unexpected, but much needed, hearty chuckle out of me :D

  • Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been in the hottest 10 on record [Day 105]

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  • That episode is commonly misunderstood. I too had always thought they were lampooning climate change deniers, but Matt and Trey were actually poking fun of Al Gore and An Inconvient Truth as alarmist. They've since apologized for the episode, but it's wild that it's so often confused for satirizing the very thing it was mocking. For me I just assumed that Matt and Trey wouldn't be deniers so it never occured to me until I found out their true intention and now it's pretty cringy to watch that episode since it's a lot more obvious. Here's an article about it:

    https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a25127458/south-park-climate-change-manbearpig-apology-season-22-episode-7/

  • EVERY POST IS AN RPG - Each Post is a Quick, Improv RPG. First RPG is up: Stuperheroes! A parody of the superhero genre inspired by comics like The Tick and Megaton Man.

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  • Just because I'm already on .ml

    It's gotten a fair amount of attention so far, I'm sitting at 49 subscribers now. So, I think it's best to stay where I'm at. I'd hesitate to move it right now after almost 50 subs. I could see if there was less traction, but right now it seems like it's alright where it is.

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  • Thanks, will do!