the main character in squid game is an ex-worker at a car manufacturing plant who participated in a labour strike and is traumatised by the police violence he saw carried out against the workers
why would girls choose the entitled and misogynistic jocks instead of the quiet nerds, whose attitudes towards women are exactly on par with the jocks but who are less attractive
do we have a name yet for characters who are completely justified in their beliefs but also randomly murder puppies so the audience knows they're supposed to be the bad guys
musk's basic problem is that twitter was not being run by lefty sjw types surpressing free speech, it was being run by business people who were trying to make money. with the same aim he'll end up trial-and-erroring his way back to their exact policies
i don't want to be right or left, but the left's wokeness has gone Too Far, so i was pushed to the right. curiously i do not get pushed leftwards when right-wingers do mass shootings targeting minorities. that isn't Too Far
the monarchy is purely symbolic, they just own real land & get given real public money & have exemptions from real laws & you get arrested if you question their legitimacy. purely symbolic though
so by solving "the bot problem" musk meant disabling the harmless accounts that post pictures of animals, not the crypto scam bots, which have only been multiplying since he took over
conservatives have this thing where they think colleges are indoctrinating students into leftism, & that those students will move right after entering the labor market, which is pretty funny
i'd bet most millennials would happily accept a lowered standard of living compared to previous generations if it was in service to addressing climate change, rather than pointlessly making a handful of rich people even richer
President Biden: "I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful. Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No intimidation. Violence is never acceptable. Threats and intimidation are not speech."
This is what happens when you extend unemployment benefits for too long and add a $1400 stimulus payment to it. Right when employers need workers to fully open back up, few can be found.
saw someone talking about how AI video means you'll be able to tell it to make more episodes of your favourite shows that have been cancelled and i don't even know where to start with that
i scrolled the quote tweets on this for a very long time and saw hundreds of right-wingers saying some variation of "i can't believe the left are melting down over this!" and zero evidence of any leftists caring about this at all. imaginary war going on
musk didn't break this place on purpose. he didn't even want to buy it. his offer was a bluff he never expected to be called, & he tried very hard to get out of it afterwards, but couldn't. every subsequent decision has been motivated by him trying to make some of his money back
do any of these "we can't raise the minimum wage because then prices will rise" people have any explanation for why prices rise anyway, even if wages don't? and if we can't raise wages, what's their plan for workers to continue to be able to afford the increased price of things?
it isnt an algorithm thing or a platform thing, it's smartphones and the internet in general. you're losing kids because they can see videos shot by civilians being warcrimed directly, without the corporate media spin previous generations were subject to
The TikTok War: Why High School & College Kids Are Getting The Wrong Information about Hamas & Israel
I spent the weekend trying to reverse engineer the TikTok algorithm, as I am convinced this is the reason we're losing the information war with high school & college students.
thinking about crowder's weird logic that if his wife takes the car to get groceries then he is a prisoner trapped in the house, so she should take a cab. but why can't he take a cab
if ever you look back through history and see genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing & wonder "how did that happen, when today we see so clearly just how wrong it was?" - it happened just like this, with all the same justifications for it
the best short-term fix i can think of for US vax hesitancy is to have nancy pelosi and hillary clinton put out a joint statement saying they are happy so many conservatives are foregoing vaccination because that means there's more vaccines for liberals and immigrants
a conservative responded to me saying absolutely nobody would risk their lives to try to save children they don't know. what a revealing peek into the mindset of the bootlickers who still back the uvalde police. utter cowards, all of them
"self-driving cars will have to answer split-second ethical decisions, instantly calculating the worth of the lives of the people around them. can AI solve the trolley problem?"
self-driving cars in reality: i swerved onto the sidewalk because i thought the moon was a stop sign
aoc has been significantly better than the dem leadership on roe v wade in that she is willing to both condemn the court directly and propose that the party in power do something about it
the 'hamas command center' will magically teleport directly underneath anything the IDF feel like bombing that day, but will always somehow escape unscathed
what conservatives didn't like about the virus lockdown was that it applied to everyone equally. they'll accept actual tyranny without question so long as it disproportionately harms groups they are bigoted against
matt walsh's fans are mad at him for saying 'the trans agenda' was invented by the nazis. they're mad because they like the nazis & so take that claim as slander
tbf the standard battle strategy back in the day was "let's get in a big gang and run at them all at once" anyone who could think one level beyond that had a shot at getting on the top 10 generals of all time list
the richest man in the world reads his twitter replies, sees an image he likes in a reply, & then instead of retweeting it, he downloads the image and reposts it. sometimes he crops the creators' names off
actors aren't fired for being 'conservative,' in general. they're fired for being bigoted and sharing dangerous conspiracy theories. it just so happens that there's a large overlap between those things
israel is killing journalists because it doesn't want people to see their reporting, doctors because they do not want the injured to heal, children because it does not want them to grow up. we know all this now, today, this is not something we will discover later
if the cops shoot someone and then break all the nearby security cameras and illegally confiscate the footage, we are probably good to skip a few steps and just arrest them for murder
amazing coincidence that nuclear bombs were invented during the only war to ever definitely 100% require nuclear bombs to be dropped to end it, and we never needed to use them before or since. inside a month from test to single required use, what luck
just saw someone say they love bernie's ideas but hate him personally. so what. you don't have to move in with him. this isn't a vote to find you a friend. fuck you, guy
i see a lot of people celebrating trump being banned, but i for one am very concerned about what this means for freedom of speech. imagine: a corporation exhibiting influence over a politician. sounds impossible, no? not any more. welcome to the new cyber reality
netanyahu supporting hamas and authorising hundreds of millions of dollars be sent to them is one of those strange facts you learn where it feels like it should have some enormous earth-shaking consequences, but then nothing happens
musk really went from "i'm a free speech absolutist, i just want to bring twitter's speech policies in line with what is legal" to "i will ban you for mentioning your facebook account" in a few months lol
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
how to be a youtuber tips:
#1
: don't solicit nudes from fans
#2
: don't spit on your dog
#3
: don't fuck your cat
now these might seem obvious, but even the pros struggle with the basics, apparently
there are people who will pick through every word of what some random students at a pro-palestine protest are saying looking for something offensive, meanwhile your average mainstream israeli media voice is saying shit like this on TV without challenge
Israeli journalist and Israel Today political correspondent Yehuda Schlesinger has publicly advocated for the complete annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza on his online accounts.
you need to vocally oppose transphobia not just because of the harm it does to trans people, but because the right see demonising trans issues as a gateway to attack all manner of people they hate. they wouldn't stop with forcing one group back in the closet
unable? biden could stop the bombs with a phone call in the next 5 minutes if that's what he wanted. 'unwilling' is the word you want, the washington post
Biden administration officials say Israel’s counterattack against Hamas has been too severe and too costly in civilian casualties, but they are unable to exert significant influence on America’s closest ally in the Middle East to change its course.
half-remembering a story about researchers who asked a tribe of people to demonstrate their famed war dance, & the tribe, not having a dance such as described, made one up for the benefit of the researchers. where's that memory from
so long as steven crowder still has a channel, any statement from youtube that claims they care about bigotry or radicalisation on their platform can be immediately dismissed out of hand
i worry nobody still at twitter understands how off-putting it could be to a lot of new users to have everything on here have hardcore pornography automatically attached to it
elon musk didn't know not to fire someone and then announce publicly that he did it because he overheard they are faking a disability. a lawyer had to explain to him why he shouldn't do that