The curtains are blue!
The curtains have a swastika on them.
No! They’re just blue! Not everything is political!
:flag-trans-pride: :uncle-ho-2:
I remember that argument was when I learned that my parents were NIMBYs. It was honestly a shock, they’re lib but I has assumed they would want a playground in the neighborhood considering that at that time there were six kids in the house with absolutely nothing to do inside walking distance.
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I have a theory that part of the function of the “where is your child now?” stuff that really curtailed kids’ freedom in America in the second half of the twentieth century was a reaction to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam movements. Both were prominently participated in by kids, the anti-war one especially, and when society goes from letting kids have a significant portion of the day to themselves in between school and supper to basically forcing them to go from one controlled location straight to another with no in-between, all of that potential youth-lead political organization falls apart because it doesn’t have anything to support it anymore.
I don’t think it was the primary driver - after all most kids weren’t joining the Students for a Democratic Society - but it is a relevant secondary reason. The primary driver was almost certainly “property values”. I remember one of my only interactions with the HOA where my parents lived concerned plans for a playground being voted down based on the logic that children playing outside would somehow lower everyone nearby’s home value (they also made the equally-bad argument that teens would hang out at the child’s playground to smoke). Multiply this interaction by a million HOAs around the country and eventually even the kids whose parents don’t demand that they come straight home still end up going home anyway because there’s nowhere else for them to go.
The only reason they got popular was that they were playing popular Black music while being White, also let’s talk about how Get Back was originally super racist.
and how Cyberpunk Edgerunners subverts it
That show does literally every single thing he complains about, he just gives it a pass because it’s got above-average production quality and writing.
That’s how you can tell these clowns aren’t doing any actual media analysis, it’s all just surface level reactionary gibberish.
The original X-Men trilogy was pretty good slop. It was before all of the personality had been sandblasted off of superhero films and you could cold open with a scene at a Nazi concentration camp.
The first X-Men movie literally starts with a scene of Magneto being separated from his parents at Dachau, which in hindsight makes his willingness to violently resist the fascist rumblings of the US government in that film completely justified and turns the X-men into the fucking Freikorps.
Professor X killed Rosa.
:sicko-yes: me rooting for the advertising bubble to pop and take down all of the largest tech companies with it
:sicko-no: me realizing that the company that will best survive that burst and then expand to fill the power vacuum is Amazon
I can’t shake the nagging feeling that this is fake like every :reddit-logo: story, but I want to believe that we’re niche enough that we haven’t attracted that kind of attention.
I think it’s the “individually tragic scale” that really activates my empathy. On a conceptual level of course shit like napalm bombing Vietnam or blowing up important water infrastructure in Iraq is much worse, but the story of a kid’s parents signing him up to get a black bag thrown over his head and driven across country to be physically and emotionally abused for years feels like something that could have happened to me if things had turned out slightly different.
Learning about the Elan School is a legitimate cognito hazard. Every time I think about it and get doomer about it all over again.
Critical support for people taking as much money as they can from the US Government.
I’ve definitely seen yellow “donate” buttons on personal websites before, but every one of them was bespoke so once they stopped being maintained they disappeared.
Yeah but weebs don’t like that she looks like an adult.
yeah but then what would we talk about on gaming subs? poor treatment of developers? gambling mechanics designed to exploit the nuerodivergent? mainstream games with plotlines that reinforce harmful beliefs in our culture? it’s easier to just argue about popular games instead.
It’s me but with [redacted] :hentai-free:
And the ones that didn’t were frequently grabbed by cops (who had been slave catchers before the war) for the recently-invented crimes of vagrancy and loitering and sent to prison-plantations.
I’m pretty sure it’s only used by us to describe people who call themselves anarchists but simp for the Democrats.
While individuals can find space for weight loss regimes, it really is a society-level problem.
Consider an experiment with two populations of rats. One population gets a normal amount of food, the other gets the same food with a bunch of added sugar. Of course the population with added sugar gets fatter. But, while the average rat may have gained 10% weight or whatever, on an individual level you’ll see a wide range of results - some rats aren’t effected by the increased sugar, some gain a small amount of weight, some gain a lot.
This is basically exactly what we’ve done to ourselves in capitalist society over the past seventy-ish years, taken our previous diet and jacked it up with a ton of sugar (and other additives and a lot of increased volume). But while with the rats it’s easy to see that all you have to do to return the overweight population to normal is to stop adding sugar to their food, with humans we can’t see that because we’ve created a system that blames you for getting sick.
It’s like building a coal power plant in the middle of a neighborhood, and then blaming the residents when they start getting asthma or worse, and holding up the people who won the genetic lottery and don’t get lung disease as the example we should all strive to replicate.