[rhyell]

feeling very doomed by the narrative lately

[thebreakfastgenie]

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

[sprinkledsalt]

My mom was telling me about this YouTube video she watched (I can't remember the name, sorry) where the person shared a screenshot of some MAGA voter from Florida asking for help, because his wife had been hired for a nursing job with the VA in Texas, so they sold their house and were preparing to move. But they rescinded her job offer after Trump's executive order. The post from the guy was basically like "I already contacted Senator Ted Cruz's office, and they said they couldn't do anything about this. Please help me get this story to President Trump, we love him! We voted for him 3 times! And we know this was just a mistake and he'd help us!"

Just.................a part of me laughs, and another part of me thinks about how cult followers genuinely believe that the cult leader cares about them

[kalessinsdaughter]

This is the part about believing in universal human rights that can be a bit difficult: they're universal, and should never be denied anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done.

You can be – you should be – furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.

And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.

But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.

You can still tell the MAGA who's crying that the leopards ate there face that you're angry with them for letting the face-eating leopards loose. But you shouldn't be fine with their face being eaten.

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

It took me ages to find this post again but. Yeah. Same energy

[thebreakfastgenie]

This is exactly it, thank you!!

[alinethered]

[w0rped-moss]

HATE when a character seems intentionally designed for me to be obsessed with and it succeeds

[duckbunny]

some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

[jessebloom]

[doubleca5t]

part of what pisses me off so much about AI is how confident all pro-AI people are that it can do basically anything when there's literally no evidence that it can do anything even remotely well. it really feels like the only thing keeping this industry going is the refusal of anyone with any amount of money and power to hit these losers with a [citation needed]

[teaboot]

Once upon a time a game developer traded their soul for hyperrealistic human pores and in return the devil took away Finished Game and Only Pay One Time, things we didn’t even know were optional

[afloweroutofstone]

While certain US politicians claim that Iran is only a few years away from producing a functional nuclear weapon, keep in mind that mainstream Western media has been reporting that same line for more than 40 years now

[afloweroutofstone]

The complete elimination of all US aid to Israel would be a modest, conservative response to their decision to bomb Tehran. A global arms embargo and a crimes against humanity trial for Netanyahu & co. is more appropriate

[achillesinhighheels]

[rhyell]

star rail rly has the best endgame content and dungeons for insane people like me

[disobedience]

Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[duallpa]

Megan Thee Stallion Gets Ready for the Met Gala | Vanity Fair

[fishparasite]

i can't lie to you i loveee bad endings sometimes. what if nothing worked out. what if the characters gave into their worst instincts. what if they became worse. what if there's truly no hope left. what will they do out of desperation? who will they become as their worst selves?

[rhyell]

protean hero kicking my ass ive played x3 like 6 times already

[experienceandobservation]

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