double Dumb Ass

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[thememedaddy]

[this-dude-over-here]

in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

[poetrylesbian]

when i buy something and my bank balance actually goes down

[tangledcostellations]

Eminent Elphaba Thropp and her beloved wife, Lady Glinda Upland.

Often referred as "The mothers", Eminent Thropp and Lady Upland were loved by all the people of Oz due to their firm but benevolent governance that advocated the equal treatment for all the people and Animals.

A portrait to mark their well deserved retirement.

[muppetsource]

THE MUPPETS' WIZARD OF OZ (2005)

[gayhoediaz]

free healthcare should include teeth actually

[tricktster]

[depsidase]

[thememedaddy]

[gardenxkisses]

[skopostheorie]

things you need to read 100000 times per day when you're working

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[victusinveritas]

[galactic-dragoness]

[therisingfog]

Bumper sticker I saw on my walk today

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"lying is wrong" what evangelical nonsense is this???

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

listen to me. lying is morally neutral. and for many people in shitty situations it's a survival tactic.

lying in order to cause harm is often wrong, because causing harm is generally wrong. lying is also done for a myriad of other reasons, including because it isn't safe to speak truth, or because privacy is a thing and damn what an incredibly invasive question to ask in the first place.

truth is earned, my friend.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

also, sometimes lying is funny. sometimes it saves time. sometimes it's easier, sometimes it accomplishes a goal, sometimes the truth is nobody's business, or is tricky to articulate, or you don't know what the truth is but are expected to have an answer regardless. sometimes you just straight up want people to stop bothering you. sometimes lying is an experiment to see how much you can get away with. sometimes you just want to be a little mean, yeah.

and in none of these situations is lying automatically "right" or "wrong" it is simply a tool that people will use, and that you will have to make your own decisions about based on situation and context.

climb out of the dark pit of assigning moral values to neutral behaviors. that's puritan thinking that's got its greedy fangs in you, rip 'em out by the root

[letrune]

One of the funniest bit in that everyone's favourite story about lying, Pinocchio, actually has such a moral. Oh, sure, the well-known start is about how lying is bad, but there are some chapters where Pinocchio lies, for instance, to an army recruiter promising glory in war, or a bandit who wants to use him for a heist. His nose does not grow, because he is not lying *for himself*. The whole thruline of the book is that the world is dangerous and you need to be honest ENOUGH to people, but not to everyone, because some people are just horrible.

Oddly, this is one of those parts that rarely, if ever, gets adapted, i do wonder why... oh, right, because the book origonally had a big finish, then people wished to see more and Carlo Collodi added more chapters in later editions, almost like a sequel/DLC. To a book. In the 1890s.

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[catchymemes]