It's reverse psychology

she/her

[puppydollcis]

HAI HIII!! I'M SORRY I NEVER ANSWER YOUR ASKS BUT I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THEM THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY MWAH MWAH!!!

Yayyyyyy !!!!!! I missed you :3

[checkyourasianbias]

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[qqchurch]

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[scorpio-system]

lets hear it for fat 30-something women

[captain-price-returns]

Diversity of right wing thought on display

[boringkate]

If you say that you wanna see estrogen sold in vending machines then everyone assumes that's a joke and would have like major societal implications and cause all kinds of problems etc if it were allowed, but in a bunch of countries you can legit just like buy estrogen at regular normal pharmacies without a prescription or anything and it's fine. It's no big deal. It isn't even newsworthy.

[frankendykes-monster]

Media Literacy and reading comprehension is when the thing I like has politics that I agree with because I like it.

[crazysodomite]

when your language is heavily gendered so you speak exclusively in passive voice to avoid gendered endings

has this happened to you?

[only-cat-memes]

[reachartwork]

i think as a society we underrated how funny and also how cunt dracula saying "perhaps the same could be said of ALL religions" in response to the clearly-intended-to-be-literal "you steal men's souls and make them your slaves!"

[reachartwork]

girl it was literal, not a metaphor

[ralfmaximus]

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy

Even as an advertiser (especially as an advertiser), I am convinced that outlawing advertising is the best thing we can do for our world now. More than gun control. More than tackling climate change. More than lowering the price of eggs. Removing these advanced manipulation tools would force everyone—politicians included—to snap back into reality. By outlawing advertising, the machinery of mass delusion would lose its most addictive and toxic fuel.

I started out reading this smugly saying to myself yeah, right.

But by the end I'm sold. Let's ban advertising.

We can start small, maybe with city ordinances. Then roll it out county wide, then at the state level. Once other states see how quiet and sane things can be, they'll adopt the ban too. The ones that don't will remain snarling islands of rage & delusion until the people move away.

Let's ban advertising.

[e-the-village-cryptid]

the entire state of vermont already banned roadside billboards years and years ago. change is possible!!

[syro]

I’m sad 😔 boys show shaft

[xanny]

[deadgenerations]

this is such a classic meme that its a bit like seeing an old schoolmate. i recently discovered the source image from a rulebook published in 2003 so this meme is probably older than some of my followers. but this is one of the first 40k memes, along with kharn is a swell guy, metal bawkses, and armless abaddon.

[pocket-deer-belly]

it's really really funny to me that like "people under 18 might consume porn and that's generally fine actually" is some shocking take. like were you not also young once. is it not normal to develop sexually around the age of 12. is it not normal to experience sexual thoughts as a teen. like it's fucking absurd that we're suggesting mass surveillance of children to ensure they will never see a boob ever outside of a classroom instead of just teaching children how to interact with adult content safely. you're just arguing for abstinence again, plugging your ears going "lalala" when someone tells you that kids should learn about sex or they will have sex in worse more dangerous ways

[trashcan-ann]

got an email from a job website saying something like "hey we took down this job you applied for because it was actually a scam". like, first off all jobs are scams so jot that one down

[freegiftjones]

one time i was making potato soup and i needed broth for it but i was out of broth. but in my dog food cabinet there was a carton of chicken broth that i had bought for my dog. now the box did say HUMAN GRADE and the ingredients were just bog standard chicken broth. it did say something about joint health for dogs on there. but the ingredients were normal. i even compared the ingredients list to some normal person broth and they were the same. so i did put dog broth in that soup and it did taste completely normal. but i did use the dog broth.

[chicknparm]