KingOfTheBailey
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KingOfTheBailey
2hr ago
They do it because it probably still works on the normies. I sometimes read the newspapers while waiting for takeout, and even the local right-wing rag had a piece on Lucy Connolly finally leaving prison. ICYMI, Lucy had the book thrown at her for writing and deleting an intemperate tweet in response to (I think) Axel Rudakubana's murder spree. The article studiously noted his country of birth and his British citizenship, while being noticeably silent about his ethnicity.
I was once told that it was the second- and third-generation children of migrants that are at greatest risk of radicalization. They form an idealized version of their home country because they didn't experience the things that made their parents or grandparents leave, and they don't yet fit in. When I was younger, I would sagely nod along and say "yes, yes, this is why we must provide more community resources to prevent radicalization" or whatever. Now I'm just baffled as to why, knowing this, we're still attempting to import infinity people.
KingOfTheBailey
3d ago
I showed up to the office in a (literal) robe and wizard hat with a tarot deck to do readings with. It was kind of a success even, I expected to play it as an ironic bit but normies people actually took it completely straight without batting an eye, and were even delighted that the ever-reclusive Rayon who never wore anything other than a plain black shirt has a quirky side after all.
That's really cool. And may we never forget bloodninja; perhaps we can fix AI gooners by LoRA-ing the models they talk to with his work.
KingOfTheBailey
7d ago
Perhaps the muse visited our OP and he had to write today. I suggest OP crosslinks to his post when the Friday Fun Thread drops.
KingOfTheBailey
9d ago
Add "birb" to that list, too.
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
Serpentard
If only I had this word for pro-Slytherin edgelords back in HP's heyday. What do they call Griffindor?
KingOfTheBailey
11d ago
The real-life version of James Bond would be The Sandbaggers, where they do sit in meetings a lot but it's also the greatest spy show ever made and one of the best media recommendations I got from this forum.
KingOfTheBailey
12d ago
KingOfTheBailey
15d ago
The absence of specific articles is probably due to the effect documented in The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons. You noticed what was Actually Being Said, not the literal words on the screen.
Here is an eleven-year-old reddit thread that mentions the phenomenon (written by a woman asking why men don't give up), so what you're describing is something that definitely existed at the time you're talking about:
However, if women are going to pretty much shut down every avenue for approaching them (bars ["I just want to hang out with my friends"], clubs ["I just want to dance!"], bookstores ["Don't interrupt my reading!"], grocery stores ["I HAVE to go here, don't bother me."], classes/workshops ["I'm here to learn, only!"], etc), what avenues ARE available for meeting women organically (eg. not via dating website/match-makers)?
There's also this classic compare-and-contrast of the headlines of Jessica Valenti's opinion pieces.
KingOfTheBailey
18d ago
Seems like a cross between The Toxoplasmosa of Rage (Musk is more toxoplasma than man, now), and that quote from The Dark Knight:
Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, we'll give Lockheed-Martin another few billion dollars for nothing, or a flight of scientists will be left stranded in orbit by Boeing, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when Musk says that his not-so-little rockets will get us to Mars, well then everyone loses their minds.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Dr. Jill Biden, 46th POTUS.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Roses are red
Violets are blue
...wololo...
Now roses are too!
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Has anyone made a controller yet that accurately mimics the dead zones and response curves of the original N64 one?
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
A government that cannot maintain territorial integrity is a government I consider to be "too small".
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
I'm sure you don't need reminding that the Canadian government weaponized the financial system against domestic dissent during the Freedom Convoy, but it's worth pointing out that's the sort of action that "first-world Western democracies" now consider appropriate (even if the courts eventually disagreed, and even that is still under appeal).
Such governments should not be trusted with the ability to issue national ID cards, and since it's clear that even "liberal democracies" can evolve into this sort of government, they shouldn't be trusted with them either.
@anon_ is correct that the government is a necessary evil, but even before COVID I felt that it should be kept as small as possible. Now I think the argument is even clearer.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
'toaster fuckers' originated from an old meme (I want to say a 4chan greentext, but I'm actually not certain)
It was indeed a greentext:
Before internet
>i want to fuck toasters
>dont be a fucking retard
>grow upAfter internet
>I want to fuck a toaster
>find a community with 1000+ members about people wanting to fuck toasters
>fuck up your life
Earliest I found was this 2017 pic, and a 2024 repost with slightly different wording.
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
KingOfTheBailey
1mo ago
Now my reading palate has expanded and I can see all the flaws with it. But it still holds a special place in my heart.
Based. I feel the same about Feist's Magician, which in hindsight is almost painfully simple. But sometimes you just want simple comfort food.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Has anyone been following the Unite The Kingdom/Raise The Colors rallies in the UK? Did they pull big numbers (the protesters have an incentive to inflate their numbers, of course, and the establishment has an incentive to deflate them)? Has there been a noticeable shift in the political discourse around them?
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
https://x.com/ChefGruel/status/1966595667637248388
It seems that the "car chase" was a news broadcast that then had breaking news of Kirk's assassination talking over the top.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Fair point, that's unfortunately where the escalating cycle of "punch XYZs"/"everyone I disagree with in an XYZ" ends up.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
I disagree with the "Charlie was like your Republican Grandpa" argument. He may have had similar political positions, and he definitely should never have been shot, but Charlie was definitely in the political game in a way that gramps wasn't. He founded TPUSA, he organized events, he ran streams, debated people to change the public's mind, and judging by the heartfelt tributes that have come out he was an important node in the institutional right's network.
I think the following propositions are all true:
- Charlie should never have been shot
- Charlie was "in the game" in a way that normie (R)s weren't
- Dealing with potential political violence is a regrettable part of holding political office
- Assassination of people not holding office but in the game, with weapons that require at least some planning and skill to use, is a very worrying erosion of the norms around how the game is to be played
- There are enough people on the left made crazy by the memetic environment that normie (R)s are correct to worry when they see a relatively normal "in the game" guy get assassinated to plenty of cheers, excuses from MSNBC presenters, and milquetoast statements from many politicians. (Some thankfully bright anti-examples: Cenk, Newsom).
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
For the right, this is one of those "my rules > your rules, fairly > your rules, unfairly" situations. As much as I fear that you're correct, I still hope that once we spend enough time at the "your rules, fairly" stop, there can be a discussion about how these rules suck.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
Do you have the URL or an archive link? Wondering if it's available on wayback or something.
KingOfTheBailey
2mo ago
The fact that Chase Strangio told SCOTUS that "there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates" during oral arguments as part of Skrmetti should mean that the "dead son or living daughter?" line gets finally put away forever. If there was good evidence that applying these interventions sooner rather than later really helped children, I would have expected Strangio to know about it and deploy it during Skrmetti.
I think it is. GP would have a more solid case if he went after Korra. Suki's "I'm a warrior, but I'm a girl too" line would never be spoken by any of the Modern Girlbosses. Sokka is meant to be young and immature so that he can grow up across the show, and no modern western show would give Sokka the arc that he got. A I'll grant GP that Master Pakku is an idiot, and his refusal to teach Katara (the only living waterbender in the southern water tribe) would have meant that knowledge dying out among half of the water tribes. (His mind is changed by the presence of a trinket, so that the rest of the plot can happen.)
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