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[lelif]

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[afurioushawk]

[clubcope]

[sprinkledsalt]

He's 100% right. People do think you're stupid if you have a speech impediment. Everyone laughed and called you a cringe lib or a "Biden deadender" if you pointed out it was pure, ugly ableism that made people think the normal symptoms of a stutter were indicative of cognitive decline, but yeah, it really was ableism the whole time

I mentioned before that I don't have a stutter, but I had another kind of speech impediment as a kid. Speech therapy helped a lot. I still trip over my syllables if I'm talking fast, nervous, upset, etc. I had to sit and watch people both online and irl who I'd previously respected throw all sensitivity and progressivism out the window because "lulz old man braindead because he talks funny." It made me realize that people still probably think a certain type of way about me when I need to stop and restart my sentences.

Oh, and notice the date: this video was taken on March 6, 2026. Everyone was claiming that Biden's stutter was clear evidence that he was braindead in July of 2024. And yet here he is, over a year and a half later, giving coherent speeches in public. And no one who shoved him out of the White House to lay out the red carpet for Trump's return acknowledges this or cares.

[pepperoni-oni]

Visit Original Link

[bakersfield-row]

Can’t get this on any other social media

[cuprohastes]

GONDOR CALLS FOR TREATS!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

honestly I'm very grateful that I got involved in queer community organizing basically as soon as I turned 18, because that's how I was exposed to other queer people saying things like "I just wouldn't trust a bisexual" and "I don't believe in that privilege stuff" and "I don't like when people act like you have to be a feminist if you're gay," all of which taught me at a very young age the crucial truth that queer people can be very stupid and very wrong

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I think there's a pervasive tendency among very young baby queers to get kind of dazzled by being among other gay people for the first time and that combined with the heady drug of the first taste of independence can really make you start thinking of The Queer Community(TM) like it's one big enlightened rainbow utopia but unfortunately we have dipshits and malevolent freaks like every other demographic. Peter Thiel is in here.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my condolences to the people learning that Peter Thiel is gay from this post

[sweetsweetemo]

don't worry prev i am coming over and putting you down myself

[lenbryant]

Here are some things to remember when the Heritage Foundation-MAGA Republican idiots start spouting off this same old lie like they always do.

[aunti-christ-ine]

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👉 Just sayin' 👀

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[mariacallous]

As Ukrainian drone strikes cripple Russia’s fuel supply, Moscow faces 'one crisis after another'

Russia's Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery had just restarted operations when Ukrainian drones hit it again. The facility — the fourt

[mariacallous]

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I am aware of what the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat” meant in its original context, but that is definitely not how he’s using it here.

[cosmicsponge2004]

Is it not? I haven't seen much of Hasan since I find him to be kind of annoying but isn't he just a standard Anti-American Communist who came from a rich family (hence the streaming career) and abuses dogs?

What's the context of this Yale event thing?

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

The tl;dr is that there’s been a fair amount of linguistic drift between 1850 (when Marx and Engels coined the phrase) and now. When M&E talk about the dictatorship of the proletariat, they aren’t necessarily talking about an authoritarian regime, they are talking about the proletariat controlling the government. Also (for obvious reasons), their frame of reference is not the communist regimes of the 20th century, but the revolutionary tumult of the 19th—the 1848 revolutions, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, etc. (Side note, this description is intended to be neutral. All I’m saying is that M&E had a different understanding of this phrase when they used it, not making a judgement call on whether it was a good or bad idea.)

I can’t speak to the greater context of this event, but look at what Hasan is saying. “If a dictatorship is inevitable”—clearly a modern usage of the term, I.e. an authoritarian government—“I would rather have it be a dictatorship of the proletariat[.]” He sets up the meaning/usage of the term “dictatorship” in the first part of the sentence, and the implied comparison in the second part transfers that meaning to the rest of it. Basically, “If there’s gonna be an authoritarian regime, then WE should be the ones in charge!” Well…no! You should be pushing for no authoritarian regime whatsoever! And if you can’t picture a radically different world, then you have no business being a revolutionary of any flavor!

I suppose it could be an oratory flourish, but the implications are nasty enough that I would expect a devoted ideologue to stay away from it. That, or he isn’t familiar with the context of the phrase, and genuinely believes that M&E meant an authoritarian regime in the modern sense of the word. Which would mean he doesn’t know much about the ideology he purports to support. Maybe I’m hairsplitting, but words are an orator’s weapon. The twist and turns of the language have as much impact as the jabs and lunges of a fencer’s foil. A speaker needs to understand their power.

[sobcat]

the pressure to have a fulfilling weekend hangs heavy in the friday evening air

[paleonymy]

reading john’s narration in ntn is INSANE bc he’s talking about how he incited a nuclear war and began consuming the souls of planets just to say some shit like “you and i went full fucking hungry caterpillar” excuse me WHAT

[paleonymy]

it’s the way that he talks about it all so callously, like a child that hasn’t yet grown out of their egocentrism. “I didn’t know how to look, you see, only how to touch.” “All those frightened people. All those runaway rats.” “It’s not fair to judge me, right? I didn’t do this thinking” talking about his favorite childhood doll, how he sculpted the soul of a planet in its image. what. a. guy.

[oh-jod-dammit]

Childishness absolutely feels like the point! How it's not just a meme but a very recognizable children's book he references there.

It's a running theme for better and worse, and it's equal parts appalling and tragic. Cytherea with a face that could have been 17 or 37. Mercy's petulance and very young voice. She and Augustine in the candlelight, where Harrow isn't sure if they look unimaginably old or no older than Ianthe. Holding each other like children who had just awoken from a nightmare.

Gideon and Harrow who never got to be children, women before their time. Ortus the grown-ass man still being coddled and swaddled by his crying mother and never taken seriously. Palamedes forcing himself to grow up fast, and growing up so deeply kind, in large part because someone even at eight years old treated him like a human being who knew what he was talking about.

Pyrrha's gut-wrenching "It’s better to die. There’s a power to dying clean … dying free. It’s not love, what you’re about to do. It’s not beautiful and it’s not powerful. It’s a mistake. We didn’t even do it right … we were children—playing with the reflections of stars in a pool of water … thinking it was space."

John, who in his darkest moment when he very much was largely out of his mind desperately grasped for an idea of "perfect" and thought of being 7 years old playing with his favorite doll. John who in one of the most unsettling moments in the series writes that "J + H" in the sand in "blocky child's letters."

And Nona. Nona who is an unfathomably ancient being and a 19-year-old barely-but-still-adult and 6 months old all at the same time. Nona who is also egocentric, selfish and vain and petulant, who thinks she's the most deserving person who's ever lived, and who is bursting with so much love for everyone and everything at all times. Nona who struggles to tell even the smallest lie both even when it's harmless and even when it's vital. The embodiment of innocence, precious, and when combined with any level of power, utterly terrifying.

The tragedy of Jeannemary and Isaac and so many kids like them. Kids like Pash used to be, kids like Hot Sauce and Honesty and even Kevin.

There are so many ways to look at the blurring of those lines, especially if you add too the Christian lens (that Muir does have) of humanity all being God's children (and in this case Alecto's children, emphasized when she wakes up as herself).

It's as if saying... we're never really all that different, it's always more the world around us that shapes up, yet we should always have a say. That none of us are ever really ready to handle things, even if we're semi-immortal grizzled veteran milfs in our 50s. A duality between offering all humans of any age the same grace we would ideally afford to children and the same caution you'd have handing a child nuclear launch codes, which is to say, under no circumstance—

And I don't know. There's something so compelling about John Gaius, age ten thousand forty or close to it, still telling himself and others over and over, "There can be no forgiveness." Next to Hot Sauce, age fourteen, saying "I'll always love you, Nona." (But you ARE on Kevin bathroom duty forever for being a zombie. 😤)

[pallettown]

words cannot describe how much i love showering. my wet contemplative box

[pallettown]

Hey everyone how's it going

[rainbow-femme]

His strength is that he is biscuits

[lichenaday]

Me: Why do I have so much neck and back and knee pain?

Also me:

Lichenology is neither for the faint of heart nor the weak of joint.

[awwww-cute]

An Australian Blue Heeler goes to sleep on top of the flock it has herded

[chutzpahchesed]

henmazzig:

I hate how angry I get in this video.

“I’ll get into trouble for this.”

She won’t.

Nobody has ever gotten in trouble for this.

The takes get softer, the platforms get bigger, and the bravery is announced in advance like a tour date.

Robby Hoffman says antisemitism isn’t the worst thing. In a surprise to absolutely no one, she co-stars on Hacks with Hannah Einbinder, Hollywood’s loudest anti-Israel Jew. Maybe attacking and distancing yourself from your own people is just what that set does for applause now. It’s becoming a genre.

Since October 7th, “not the worst thing” looked like this: Matilda, a little girl shot dead at a Hanukkah celebration on the beach. Yaron and Sarah, shot in the back leaving a Jewish museum. He’d just bought the ring. Melvin and Adrian, killed outside their synagogue on Yom Kippur. Karen Diamond, 82, set on fire at a walk for the hostages. She died of her burns.

They weren’t offended. They were murdered.

My grandparents survived the Farhud in Baghdad, 1941. Two days, their neighbors, the streets full of Jewish dead.

Every massacre in our history started the same way— with someone influential shrugging.

Antisemitism is bad. That’s the whole sentence.

I think he deserves to be angrier, actually. we’re watching this explode in every corner of society, to the point where people are terrified to let strangers know they’re Jewish, to the point where Jews merely existing in public places or at events causes people to cause massive uproars, hurl slurs at them, and accost them. even if this didn’t come with a death toll - and it does - the hate crimes and harassment that precede murders (we know this historically) would be cause for concern. the arrogant, callous reaction that it’s not a big deal is exactly why it’s becoming normalized. everyone engaging in it knows they can get away with it.

[slyandthefamilybook]

thanks for proving his point you weirdos

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.