Morally Ambiguous Strongman

Elijah|USA|22 Gamer, actor, general no-lifer. Plus, I've been scanned by McAfee and am approved as safe for downloads!

[zoehexmaniac-deactivated2026011]

forget living in the world of pokemon, or final fantasy. put me in the lite-cyberpunk alternate-present where the video game crash never occurred causing arcades to become long-standing bastions of entertainment which fundamentally changed gaming as a concept from ours in this world, and where the police got defunded and reorganized and will actually investigate cyber-crimes, and where a sentient AI life coach helps you become your best self while advertising pizza bagels and where there are a ton of gay and trans people and they're mostly widely accepted especially in comparison to us

all of this to say that you should play arcade spirits

[nebulaad]

taco bell takes all those crunchwrap pictures with 40x the amount of ground beef that they will regularly allow, not permitting more than a fucking teaspoon of their meat slurry to put used per dish, and then have the unmitigated gall to tell me its worth ten dollars.

[nebulaad]

and you know I think that's how fast food truly rips us off by selling the impression that their workers are teens/college students, perpetually bored and lazy at their easy job, because that way people assume when they get a shitty serving of food it's because some kid just couldn't be arsed to do his job versus the fact that they won't buy anything that could even pass for food, rely on the franchisee for training, and continually reduce their portion sizes while raising their prices.

[ethicallysourcedhumanmeat]

I don't normally comment directly on posts but I made grocery store grab and go sandwiches from 2020-2022. In that time the meat in one of our more expensive sandwiches went from 100grams to 70grams to 30grams.

The cost of the sandwich went up.

The changes are enforced. Management is supposed to randomly select 3 store made items every morning and weigh them/the ingredients and loss prevention comes in ever 3ish months to more thoroughly check weights.

you're allowed to be over 10% of the dictated total item weight but you can be 'reprimanded' if you're consistently over even if its within the 10%

[nebulaad]

you're so valid for this and it was a valuable addition (me, pacing back and forth: food service is lying to us), but what a fucking story to tell with your username dksjhdflskjhfljk

[huffylemon]

???

[trapny]

She absolutely thought that was gonna be some kind of sick fucking burn but it was not

[doubleca5t]

If I had a nickel for every time a prominent right-wing media figure tried to pull a sick burn on twitter and in doing so, inadvertently implied that they want to have sex with one of their biological parents I would have two nickels

[haaarpb]

i deliver pizzas & sometimes funny things happen

[jessebloom]

i hate when top wildlife predators are just lil babies teeny tiny babies

[ashyfurz]

[bat-demon]

. that is a serial killer

[catchymemes]

[byjove]

I love leather and I love fur and I don’t mind arguing about it.

[byjove]

“Do you think it’s okay to slaughter animals for their skin?” I eat them too AUGH AUGH AUGH AUGH

[byjove]

“doctor I’m wearing a leather jacket and eating a hamburger please you have to take me away I’m a danger to society”

[byjove]

don’t go in there

[moniquill]

Venison and buckskin.

[faggots-wilde]

And mink and coyote and fox!

Listen, fellas.

The problem isn't fur, the problem is factory farming. That's always the problem. Buying fur and bones and shells from Indigenous folks who know how to get them correctly and respectfully is the best practise.

But you know what kind of winter coat eventually decomposes and doesn't cause pollution and doesn't contain microplastics? FUR. You know what kind of fabric stays warm even when wet? WOOL. You know what kinds of shoes last forever? LEATHER ONES.

Plastic is bad for the environment. Are you going to kill a thousand animals or one? Those are your choices at this point, there is no zero. You have to square with the idea that you cannot get the blood off your hands, and you shouldn't feel you have to. We all depend on one another, and it's possible to want an animal to have the best life it can before you kill it for food and whatever else. Domesticity is a good deal for most animals when it's done properly--they get protection from predators, free food, and medical care that they wouldn't get in the wild, and a longer life and a painless death.

Pleather is plastic. Faux fur is plastic. Vegan leather is plastic. It's all plastic and it all releases microplastics into the water supply every time you wash it. It is not 'cruelty free' that is a lie advertising is selling you. You have got to stop thinking with your disgust reaction.

[prokopetz]

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

[petrodykeonicapocalypse]

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz

[vaspider]

[nonpsychotic]

OPEN THE SCHOOLS ‼️‼️

[nonpsychotic]

Bruuh no really kids shouldnt be into aot they cannot comprehend the themes that are being portrayed and its so annoying because then they end up siding with eugenics and fascism and they dont even know what those words mean

[nonpsychotic]

what do i even say at this point bruh

[nibeul]

when Koreans and Jewish people have been talking about imperialist themes + antisemitism in this show for ages and the fans still refuse to see it ._.

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[funtergeist]

[triviallytrue]

i'm a taylor swift centrist. she makes perfectly tolerable pop music that i can't imagine really getting into. dunno what it is about her that makes so many people go insane

[triviallytrue]

i listen to one of these relatively bland and inoffensive but nonetheless well-crafted pop songs and everyone around me demands that i proclaim it a masterpiece or artistically bankrupt or whatever. i just want to grill for god's sake

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

Transylvania approved defense. I know Dracula was SHAKING in fear when he tried climbing through my window that night.

[igor-shestyorkin]

THE NHL????

[toosmallortootall]

For context these were the preceeding tweets, and there are multiple news stories (mostly from Republicans throwing a tantrum over the NHL supporting trans people, which is why I'm not linking to the articles) about the trans draft. So it isn't just an empty statement or an intern going rogue amidst twitters death rattle. This is like, a big deal

[werewolf-cuddles]

#transphobes go on about 'why do you have to be on the women's team why can't you be on your own team'#and then harrass the NHL when they set up a trans league#Almost as if it's not actually about fucking women's sports is it??#Almost as if none of you fuckers just suddenly decided to care about women's sports!#The sports leagues that all these men joked about all the time!

This.

Literally this.

[mysharona1987]

[strengthins0lidarity]

A rock has more self-awareness.

[magic-and-moonlit-wings]

[th4nky0uf0rth3ven0m]

david jenkins is the only one doing historical fiction correctly. absolutely fucking nothing aligns with actual history. thats why its fiction. he is the only one who gets it. everyone can find each other in the middle of the sea with the power of gaydar. roach can jump off the mast and get absolutely OBLITERATED by the side of the boat and be completely fine two hours later. a woman who historically wasnt born until 60 years after the show takes place is here. homophobia doesn’t exist. izzy hands was 16 in the year 1717. con o’neill is 57. stede bonnet died when he was 30. rhys darby is 49. edward teach was english. taika waititi is from new zealand and makes no attempt to do an english accent. i just think that’s all so amazing. absolutely no one is doing it like DJenks.

[thiefiing]

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