I clicked on it thinking “okay, so Unity did something else stupid, but why are conservatives going to bat for them?”

I think DeSantis would have had a great chance if he’d just not participated in the primaries at all. Getting in that race was maybe the most braindead career suicide I’ve ever seen. All he had to do was keep doing a good job as the governor of Florida and then point to Florida’s results this election and say “you see how quickly and with how little fuckery we counted our votes? That was me.”

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"I'm going to say something retarded and dumb, then people are going to call me retarded and dumb for the retarded and dumb thing that I said" is not an own.

"Kamala is Brat" narrative

Okay, I do remember them trying to push this, but what's the slang I'm missing here? Because I know two meanings for "brat," and neither of them is something that I'd want to make part of my image as a presidential candidate.

Actually, I think some of the White Men for Harris group members are now having trouble finding their usual gay hookups.

Jeb! sweeps all 50 states.

Look, we can argue about whether specific examples are good or bad, but you're not addressing the larger point: what in human history can't be called a coin flip under your standard? And what is the value of ignoring the motivations behind something in recent history that is relevant to modern issues just because somewhere thousands of years ago it could have gone a different way?

Maybe it falls under some polite speech/no swearing thing for them? Like how they (presumably) won't put "fuck you dumb bitches" on a sign either, even though they could.

But they're not random, that's the point. Each one had goals and motivations behind it, each one had consequences, and some of them were better than others. If you want to say "the coin flip happened thousands of years ago," how far back do you want to take that? Is it a "coin flip" that we happen to be on a planet with 12 lunar cycles in a typical year, which gave us natural preferences towards 12 unit cycles for keeping time? Is it a coin flip that we have ten fingers and ten toes and that's why we use base ten for our numbers? Sure, maybe (although it's worth noting that the religious perspective, which this system was deliberately made in opposition to is that that isn't random), but at that level we can say that about literally everything in every aspect of human society. That doesn't mean its not worth looking at some of the more immediate causes.

He’s not a vtuber, but yeah, my understanding is that he’s pretty normie. In fact, considering how he accepts getting struggle-sessioned by people like Hasan, he’s arguably more normie-left than anything… he just doesn’t fully go along with DEI.

We can make fun of it because it failed, yes, but it’s not like that failure happened in a vacuum. There’s not someone flipping a coin on whether a given timekeeping system catches on and this one just got unlucky. It failed because it was a retarded and unnecessary change that did nothing but cause confusion at best and a deliberate attack on societal cohesion pushed through in a much-hated attempt to engineer a top-down changing of values at worst.

That’s why it deserves scorn, not just some arbitrary “well, this one didn’t happen to catch on but plenty of others have” silliness.

To be honest, I think of that as “stereotypically millennial,” or even “stereotypically modern.” It may have started with Jews, but it’s society-wide, now.

It’s not very inspiring, but—and maybe my racism level just isn’t high enough—I’m not sure what makes it quintessentially “Jewish.” The vaguely apathetic fatalism?

I don't think it would be a good idea to put sexy, dancing, blonde stewardesses on the deportation flights, but 10/10 advertising.

They’ve made four albums, although none since 2018. They kicked one of the band members out at one point for praising Andy Ngo’s book, and I honestly thought the band broke up at that time. Marcus Mumford made a solo album after that happened, too.

I clicked on the first link, saw it was Mass Effect music, and knew without clicking that the other one would be Halo. Some of the best music in gaming (and probably better than most modern music outside gaming, even) right there.

This reminds me of when Diablo 4 launched with that super fat druid model. There was some hamplanet streamer that I saw a clip of seeing the character for the first time and going "she looks like me!" complete with performative tears. I tracked that version down just now, but when I first saw it, it was posted to reddit or something and of course all the comments were gushing about how "heartwarming" and "wholesome" it was. All I could think was: "yeah, she does look like you. And you, living in your body, must be aware of how hard it is for you to do basically anything. You probably get winded walking up a single flight of stairs. Do you really have no cognitive dissonance here seeing an action hero that 'looks like you'?"

These people should be more aware than anyone else of just how absurd this stuff is. They live their physical limitations every day. And yet their raging narcissism makes them go "yeah, this looks right" when they see an action hero character that obviously couldn't perform any sort of actual action.

Actually, I think I have seen those.

I trust the UN to do the wrong thing.

No, what you said was that he can’t really be Anglo, because he would be left-wing if he was. Hypothetically, how would you feel if a poster here said “I’m Jewish,” and someone responded with “I don’t believe you’re Jewish, because if you were you’d be left wing”? The statistics support that assumption at least as much as they support yours.

So you can make sweeping generalizations about white people as a rhetorical tool based on statistical trends, but when someone else uses statistics to suggest things about nonwhite people they’re being foolish?

Here is what I believe Trump will do if given power again:

• Incompetency

This should be “be incompetent,” or “act incompetently,” or “appoint incompetents,” or the lead in should be “here are things I believe will happen” or some similar change. Now, I get it. When you’re building a bullet point list it can be easy to lose track of making everything line up with your lead-in, and if this were several points deep, as long as the communication were still clear, I wouldn’t rag on it too much. An editor should still catch it, but whatever.

But holy shit, this is the first fucking bullet point. At least make the very first one line up with the words directly preceding it, please.

In this context, it’s a polite way of saying “castrated.”

They might not turn as much of a blind eye for foreigners. Plus, depending on where you’re going to Korea from, your own government might go after you when you get back.