“we’re all going to be using and leaning into spatial computing” this is a telltale sign of rich techbro brainrot. “oh lets reinvent the kitchen timer but worse and connected to wifi” fucking idiot
this is even worse cuz i just realized that you’d literally be wearing a $3500 vr headset while your fucking cooking. this shit would be stupid even if it cost $35
briefly forgot Death Note was a thing and was wondering why I’d need to spend $3500 to know if my pasta was transphobic
No one does more damage to their own self proclaimed values than third party voters.
How much environmental legislation might have been passed by a President Gore, in comparison to President Bush’s real life terms? Great job, Ralph Nader–you handed anti-environmentalist Republicans two presidential terms and set the fight against climate change back by a decade.
How much do you want to bet that Jill Stein and Ralph Nader both received extensive financial and legal support from the Republican Party?
No bet. I know I’d lose.
You will not see any political posts on my blog except this one most likely.
Fuck Ralph Nader. Fuck him and his bullshit and fuck Jill Stein.
I’m old. I voted for Al Gore. I sat up all night watching the tallies for each state come in on TV and seeing how Ralph Nader had given George W. Bush juuuuuuust enough of a margin to be able to twist our stupid Electoral College in his favor and take the election.
And then we had to wait for Florida and their goddamn “hanging chads” which is a debacle of its time that will make anyone of a certain age groan and roll their eyes. Because Florida.
George W. Bush received fewer votes than Al Gore. Period. More Americans voted for Al Gore. By all rights he should have been our president. The man who was pushing for climate change science 20+ years ago while everyone openly mocked him in the media.
But Ralph Nader just kept running for president!! 1972, 1980, 1992, 1996… and nobody ever really took him all that seriously. He never had a real political “party” until the Green Party formed in 2000. But the thing is. Ralph Nader purposefully fucked the election. He wasn’t trying to win. He knew he could at best, hope for 5% of the popular vote. Towards the end of the campaign time, the “run up”, the candidates should be focused on states that will matter most. Him being a small, supposedly environmentally focused independent candidate, should have been campaigning to get tons of votes in big liberal states like California and New York where he had the most appeal.
What did he do instead?? He spent all his time in swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania, attacking Al Gore. He knew he was pulling Democratic votes away from Gore in states where it would matter. He was purposefully trying to run as a spoiler. And he spoke often about his support for Bush. Fuck Ralph Nader. Thanks to him we got George W. Bush and watched our civil liberty erode for decades. (Reminder, Bush INVENTED the Dept of Homeland Security. And it was supposed to be temporary after 9/11. Now they treat it like our very own secret police. But I digress.)
Now we’ve got Nader 2 Electric Boogaloo with Jill Stein in the 2016 election. The Green Party strikes again. Using the same old playbook. It’s the exact same story. Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote, more Americans voted for her. But the Electoral College says the other guy is president because Jill Stein and the Green Party did such a good job siphoning off liberal votes. Nice work!! Hope you all enjoyed the fruits of your labor with the state of the world you ushered in.
And now in 2024 they’re looking for a repeat. Fuck off. Just fuck all the way off.
The Electoral College needs to be abolished. But until that time comes, third party candidates are not feasible and voting for them as a liberal is naive. You are not helping anyone. You are not “sending a message”. You are not changing anything. You are wasting your vote on a candidate who will not win instead of voting for someone who actually has a chance of doing some good. I’m very sorry if the Democratic candidate is not perfectly aligned to your particular beliefs. Please think of everyone else and practice harm reduction and vote for them anyway. One of two people is going to win. Would you rather it be the person you disagree with, or the openly fascist racist rapist dictator who wants to turn this country into the evangelical third Reich? Choose wisely.
Honestly after years of watching Ben Shapiro play the genuine good faith debater so his fans can talk about how smart and reasonable and fair he is before going back to his real persona on his show, it is amazing to see someone tear that shit apart while he could do nothing but grin and take it. He comes into these “debates” pretending to be nice and respectful while not truly respecting a single person he’s talking to, sneaking in insults whenever he can, and fully planning to laugh behind their backs for being so dumb as to think their opinions matter, and people have to take it because otherwise they look like the unreasonable ones. It’s all a con for his outrage grift machine, and not a single word of it is in good faith.
So this guy decided to take one for the team and give back overtly the same disrespect Shapiro was dealing covertly. He flipped the chair around to throw him off his game to start (getting Shapiro to praise his masculinity right before revealing he was trans), ripped apart his charade, gish galloped him into silence, and then topped the whole thing off by faking the handshake that Shapiro had been doing insincerely with every participant. All while Shapiro, because he has to play the role, can’t do a thing about it. Don’t know if he just saw one thing too many and pulled this all off the top of his head, or if he planned to make a fool of Shapiro from the jump and was just waiting for the right moment, but either way go off king.
This is a sincerely important video. He came in knowing EXACTLY how Shapiro plays the game and turned the whole thing on his head. The only way Shapiro could possibly look- not GOOD, certainly, but at least not WORSE- was to sit there and take it. Check fucking mate, THAT is hoe you outmaneuver a fucker. Hell fucking yeah
The thing that gets me about it is that I think you can tell that Ben Shapiro had never met a passing trans man who he knew was a trans man before. He probably has never met a passing trans person who he later found out is trans before, but he definitely had never met a passing* trans dude.
And it fucking broke his brain to realize that there are not just trans people out there where he can’t tell, but specifically trans men. You can see it on his face that he thought he was facing off against a cis white dude, and when he finds out this guy is trans, watch his face change. That shit just breaks his entire bullshit sexist & transphobic worldview.
It really, really fucked with his world view to realize that, no, he can’t always tell, and some of the guys he sees just walking around? Might be trans.
*Passing politics suck, y’all. The point I’m making here is about the satisfaction of watching a bigot experience the disintegration of his personal “We Can Always Tell” in real time. I’m not saying everybody can or even should try to pass. Don’t do some weird “piss on the poor” thing with this.
(If anyone missed it, two of the largest papers in the US were planning to endorse Harris, but the owners stepped in to prevent it. Editors have resigned in protest. )
This child who came to my house tonight is literally the funniest human being on the planet. She complimented me on having both lollipops and mini Three Musketeers available because “a lot of houses these days don’t give you a fruit flavor option.” She was very solemn about this.
You are a human being in America, not a lion on the savannah during a drought. It is not normal for you to refer to someone else’s kid as your “genetic rival” and wish them ill. Our species does not work like that. You do not sound cool, you sound like a weirdo.
“Why should I contribute to the survival of another person’s child by supporting food programs and universal healthcare?” idk maybe because we’re a social species and they’re children
Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?
You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”
And, yes, of course, but… 🙂
However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.
Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.
It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…
And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.
If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]
Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.
The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.
Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.
The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.
That will kill all remaining life on Earth.
So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully
We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.
The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.
However, we make it run…
So we can make it STOP. Together.
How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?
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