Folamh3
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Listen to the radio. The only reason I've heard Chappell Roan's music is because I recently started a new job in which the office has a radio tuned to a local station playing chart music all day.
Alternatively, join a gym and don't bring your own Airpods. You will hear a lot of chart and dance music.
Or have female friends (this is how I first heard Olivia Rodrigo).
Folamh3
13d ago
All of this is premised on the assumption that Biden is capable of exercising any agency of his own. One would like to imagine that the person or people who were calling the shots in the last two (three? four?) years have some kind of investment in Biden's legacy and might hence be motivated to do something nice for which Biden can get the credit, but I don't know if we have any good reason to believe that's the case. Probably the people calling the shots are some anonymous DNC staffers who have more important things to worry about, like making sure everyone knows that that Orange Man sure is Bad, huh?
Folamh3
13d ago
One of the comments on the video:
Video: Graphic Design is my Passion
Lyrics: Sapphic Desire is my Passion
Olivia Rodrigo
I thought that song "Vampire" was alright, if a bit melodramatic. Can't imagine getting that bent out of shape about some dude you probably didn't even have sex with.
I’ve liked Charli XCX since 2013 and she’s only gotten better since
There were a few songs off the How I'm Feeling Now album I enjoyed, but I found the marketing campaign surrounding brat so annoying and inescapable (not least of which the "Kamala is brat" "endorsement") that I'm refusing to listen to her as an act of protest.
Earlier this week, I said that everything I've learnt about Chappell Roan was against my will. But after repeated exposure to her single "Good Luck, Babe!", I must confess that it's grown on me and the hype might be warranted: this didn't top the singles chart here for no reason.
Folamh3
13d ago
nobody should have sex with men
getting stretched really wide
There's a joke in here somewhere but I'm not the one to make it.
In a population in which 90%+ of adults or teenagers are carrying a device in their pockets at all times which enables them to film HD footage at 24 frames per second (at least) on a whim and then immediately share that footage with the entire world - if Haitians in Springfield are doing something untoward with cats or dogs, I would expect at least one video (even a blurry, out-of-focus video taken from a distance) showing that taking place.
Folamh3
14d ago
I also lost money on a Harris popular vote. I'm not that surprised Trump won the presidency, but I am floored he won the popular vote. Never saw it coming.
Folamh3
14d ago
Would I be right in saying there were no riots after Trayvon Martin's death? I honestly don't know either way.
Folamh3
14d ago
Folamh3
15d ago
When Trump takes office in January, I want a mea culpa from you, too.
Folamh3
15d ago
Are you capable in communicating in an idiom other than obnoxious Twitter-speak? I made a rather tame joke, you told me you didn't appreciate it, I didn't immediately capitulate - therefore this is a "hill" I want to "die on"? Pathetic.
Also Scott Adams is certainly an interesting choice of person to use when lecturing someone about how sexist they are and how they need to (unironically) "do better":
Folamh3
15d ago
I'm not really sure what you're asking me. "The commentariat" aren't a hive mind.
"Yikes sweaty, let's unpack why this isn't a good look. Per these five key criteria, the fact-checkers have determined that this attempt at humour fails to meet the minimum threshold for a legitimate joke; ergo, you are a meany doo-doo head who's punching down at our brave POC kween with several million in the bank and a Secret Service detail." If I didn't know better, I would honestly think you were parodying a certain species of Reddit janny/Snopes editor/woke moderator. I came to the Motte in large part to escape this style of smarmy self-righteous scolding (which is to the modern internet as asbestos is to old buildings), and can't imagine I'm alone in that regard.
In any case, I don't care if you didn't appreciate my joke. Leave me alone.
Folamh3
15d ago
Brexit, Trump's first term, invasion of Crimea, the Great Awokening, Arab Spring (leading to the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis).
they are pretty close to it, last time I checked
Check again, they get nominated for AAQCs, and deservedly so (https://www.themotte.org/post/983/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/208068?context=8#context, https://www.themotte.org/post/987/quality-contributions-report-for-april-2024).
If you want a joke forum maybe you should consider reddit yourself?
I don't want a joke forum, but I do want a serious discussion forum in which cracking jokes and good-natured ribbing are permitted and even encouraged. Which is why I'm here.
low-effort punching-down
An anonymous rando cracking a joke about two fabulously wealthy and powerful women who each came within a hair's breadth of becoming the literal leaders of the free world (and one of whom is currently literally next in line to become the leader of the free world) now constitutes "punching down". Lol. But thank you for providing such an illustrative example of a point I made months ago regarding how the "punching up/down" concept is so prone to abuse:
In practice, all you need to do is find one axis on which Alice is considered to be worse off than Bob, and then claim that her position on this axis negates whatever positions she might occupy on any other axes which might be relevant to the debate over who has more power in an interpersonal or political debate. (Hillary Clinton may be white, cis, straight, fabulously wealthy, well-educated and extremely powerful in the literal sense of having held numerous high-ranking government positions in a career spanning decades - but she is a WOMAN, therefore all criticism and jokes directed at her are unacceptable punching down.)
Moving on.
But to me, it's not even a funny-mean joke, nor particularly inventive; it's just mean.
Fair enough. Doesn't mean it's against the rules. I never claimed it was "inventive" (and now the goalposts are moving again: "your joke did not reach @EverythingIsFine's minimum threshold for creativity, three-day ban"): it was just playful teasing, which this thread and forum are full of.
Imaginary girls?
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