I genuinely cannot imagine the kind of trouble that the guy at game freak who got phished is getting in right now. just like biblical levels of Fired. it's like 1:30 pm on a sunday in japan right now that dude needs to burn his house down change his name and choose a country on a map at random to book a flight to
the hapless game freak employe who answered one too many emails
[ID: an edited Calvin and Hobbes panel where Calvin sits, smiling, at a lemonade stand with a sign taped to the front of the table. It reads: It's time to retire that other meme and replace it with this template. Change my mind. Next image is the same meme but the sign reads: Steven Crowder does not deserve a meme format. Change my mind. /end]
See this just feels so much better. I’ve read enough of those comics to know that Calvin has some really deep insights rattling around in his head. And look how happy and attentive he looks. You could absolutely have a polite, intelligent, and enriching conversation with this kid. Meanwhile Steven Crowder is so financially incentivized to always look like the smartest guy in any given room that the only way to change his mind is with a 2x4 to the side of the head. Which, I admit, would be enriching in its own way.
Attaching the blank because the imgur link was being temperamental for me. Saved you a click.
in the spirit of sharing blank meme templates, don't Drake when you can LaForge!
Republican's love their guns more than they love Americans
“Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let’s discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.”
It is very funny seeing Trump supporters lose their shit over being called ‘Weird’.
It absolutely attacks them at their core.
I think part of why it annoys them so much is because they try so hard to paint themselves as the default, so even the slightest suggestion that’s not the case sends them into a tailspin.
Thinking more about this and honestly I think they’ve cracked the code. Trump supporters (and the far right in general) are creepy and weird.
They’re weird with how they talk about race and their strange obsession with ‘DEI’.
They’re weird about how they talk about trans people and focus on genitals.
They’re weird about how they talk about marriage and abortion.
And the fact ‘weird’ is sticking and getting to them so badly is hilarious. People are genuinely tired of the weirdos pushing this culture war.
Some context, from @urbanprole, who is from Minneapolis - Governor Walz of MN started the "weird" thing:
According to Emet, "weird" in that context has some specific Midwestern/Minnesotan overtones, which matches my experience being raised by 2 ppl from Illinois. Specifically, it lands as "this person behaves in an anti-social way; their behavior is mildly to extremely harmful to those around them." This weird isn't the same weird as "Keep Portland Weird," the kind of joyful, harmless, "it would be a strange world if we were all alike," "to each his own," weirdness of the Seattle Naked Bagpiper or Portland's Unipiper (we like bagpipes up here, I guess). This is more like... hmm.
"That guy is weird. He doesn't believe in tipping and I just don't know, he unsettles me."
"That kid is weird. He throws rocks at the neighbor's cat."
So it's specifically saying, "You don't fit in with us, and your behavior is harmful to the social fabric." That is something that the Arbiters Of Normal And Good Social Behavior can't stand, because it's exactly the kind of "weird" they try to leverage against immigrants ("weird food, weird traditions"), queer people ("weird sex, weird relationships") and especially trans people, who to them are weird in the way we look, sound, dress, and want to be spoken of.
Now add on top of that the fact that Republicans have always had a "heartland" brand. They think they own the Midwest. They refer to Democrats as "coastal elites" (which also just means Jewish) and use that as a way of implying or saying that Democrats are disconnected from 'heartland values' and the 'heartland voter.'
With one word, Gov. Walz ripped that sturdy footing out from underneath them and said, "Actually, we think your behavior is bad and harmful. We don't like you here. You don't fit in."
And by G-d, the Republicans can't deal with that idea at all.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head. There is no behavior authoritarians can't recontextualize as justified and righteous if they're doing it. Those in the conservative political machine will eventually talk themselves into the virtues of fascism and mass ethnic deportation and genocide, they will curtail free speech in libraries and restrict the Black Panthers' right to bear arms and attack the corporate pride created by the free market. There is no principle so cherished or idealized they will not cannibalize it in the name of enforcing the status quo, or reverting to what they imagine it once was.
And when they're not yet ready to embrace something they have an endless capacity to deny reality. They're masters of deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Hell they can even openly acknowledge it to one audience and deny it to another, and the dissonance will be ignored.
But it is all in service of enforcing their place as the privileged normal.
And the thing about saying that someone is fascist or bigoted or close-minded or hateful, with the implication that these things are bad and corrosive to a functioning community, and so people who hold these traits are outside of acceptable norms ... is that norms can be defined to include those awful things. Or that reality can be rejected.
But you can't redefine weird as part of the privileged normal. You can accept being weird as part of your identity, even revel in it, punks and queer folk and goths and nerds have been doing that forever. But the one thing weird can never be is part of the privileged normal.
But it also can't be denied in the sense of rejecting reality! Because calling someone weird is a performative statement, in the philosophy sense that it performs an action. To call someone weird is to describe them as being rejected by normative society, sure, but it is also the act of rejecting them from normative society. Calling someone weird performs the function of making them weird. It defines someone as rejected by declaring their rejection.
So there's no twisting of reality to perform here, there's no turning January 6th into somehow not an attempted coup, nor is there saying that if it was a coup it would be good. And therefore, implicitly, making is so that they have not violated norms by being cool with it.
Calling Republicans weird is rejection from normative society in its purest and most unassailable form. There is no way to not be weird if enough people say you are weird, because that is how weird is defined. And it is what they crave above all else.
So yeah. If you want to stifle conservative bigotry in social spaces you're in, or if you want to try to up the social cost of conservatism enough that they no longer enjoy throwing their weight behind it. Call them weird.
It's well deserved after all. They are weird.
This is a really good additional analysis, thank you!
And this is why desire paths shouldn't be ignored or seen as a vandalism, but be integrated into the process of citiplaning. Sometimes there are no paths connecting individual walkways. Or sometimes these paths exist, but they are in wrong spots that are hardly ever used. But desire paths exist BECAUSE they are used. If there is enough foot traffic that the grass doesn't grow there anymore, that trees and bushes branch around, that the brick edge of the road gets misshaped, then the city should step up and pave it up already, because people have spoken.
“Why is snoop dogg at the Olympics-“
WRONG QUESTION!
WHY ISNT MARTHA STEWART THERE WITH HIM?
she is! she’s joining him for the equestrian events because, and I am quoting her directly, “Snoop is afraid of horses.”
Update:
In Paris this week, he said: “I am interested in the horses that dance and I want to give them some carrots and apples … make sure they’re fed before they do their thang.”
Stewart explained the pair’s dressage plan.
“Snoop called me and said he knows I know horses, and he’s a little fearful of horses,” the businesswoman, philanthropist and octogenarian Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model told NBC on Friday.
“I’m still scared of horses,” Snoop said.
“Have you ever ridden a horse?” Stewart asked.
“No,” said Snoop. “I’m scared.”
“So we’re gonna do dressage,” Stewart said.
This is so lovely and heartwarming that I almost didn't notice that Snoop's wearing knee high spats
He got to meet the horses!!
He even got to feed them carrots like he wanted to, even though he seems to be nervous! Such courage and valor! /Gen!
This is clearly the coolest day of that white guy's life. It's the coolest day of the horse's life. This is the coolest day of all of our lives. Mr Dogg, thank you for being who you are.
Can we just take a sec to also thank Mr. Snoop Dog for saying that he was scared to do something and called a friend to help him. And then did the scary thing. I think that admitting you’re scared of something takes courage and inner strength.
Wonder Girl and Young Justice by Evan "Doc" Shaner"
Superman/Clark Kent & Lois Lane by Matt Wagner. (From Superman: Red and Blue #6)
