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James T Carter
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I think most people have a bespoke Horseshoe Theory in their mind, that their *exact* politics is the “rational center” of, and it’s how you can get people saying socialists want to block all new housing construction, or saying Chapo Trap House is cheering on Russian imperialism
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This is the most quintessential image I have ever seen of who cops in the US really are and what they actually do
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He’s pointing a gun at a man fully engulfed in flames.
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A man exactly like that owns this site now
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Taking this at face value and imagining a 50+ yo guy still mad at girls that made fun of him in school
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Referring to people with entry level jobs being able to live alone as an “unrealistic expectation” is such a bereft vision of the future
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@whoknows197563 To be fair there’s another man putting him out with a fire extinguisher because, unlike basically any cop, that man’s instinctive priority was preserving human life
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One last word on "greedflation"-gate. My frustration with high-profile media coverage of out-there economics ideas comes down to fact that, unlike in science or math or many other fields, media coverage of econ has so little resemblance to the actual academic and policy debates.
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Considering that the Biden line is closer to the Trump line than to the target line, this is an excellent encapsulation of Democratic Party politics
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What's at stake for our climate in this November's elections? Absolutely everything.
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@doioweyoumoney Every hiring manager, if they went full mask off: “I don’t think you’re really what we’re looking for. Don’t get me wrong, your skills and experience are impressive, I’m just not sensing that you have the absolute desperation we need to feel coming from our employees”
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@ItsBCJim What’s really freaky to me is that the posturing comes across visually as more drunk gym bro than even typical chimp or gorilla posturing does
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@feraljokes Never mind that the child education they are now trying to label “grooming” tends to, among other things; make children better able to recognize and avoid predatory adults, like the kind who do actual grooming
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@LRonMexico I work at a car rental place at a domestic airport, and one time a kid traveling with his family said to me “working at an airport, you must fly places all the time,” and I was like “kid, I don’t have the time to explain just how much things things don’t go like that”
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@cecil_jesse Whether or not that is literally true, it is effectively true in practice
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@SamtheNightOwl “and or they’re extremely obese”…
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@SamtheNightOwl That’s just undeniable fact. People can say what they want about “explaining” to the child why they’re doing it, but the message that so often gets received subconsciously is “it is acceptable to put your hands on someone when they displease you”
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@butleriano This is why they need to make a God Emperor movie, so we can see those scenes where Leto II is talking to Duncan and stops just short of turning to the camera and announcing “I am a paleo libertarian” to the audience
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@mnvrsngh “nO OnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE” As this quite accurately points out, no one has ever *wanted* to work, ever. Work is meant primarily for facilitating survival, secondarily to facilitate enjoyment of life. Trying to get your enjoyment out of your work is just being a peasant
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@doulbedoink It is amazing how common it is for someone who everyone who knows them agrees is selfish & self-centered to go to therapy & their main takeaways are that they’ve been too concerned about what other people think of them & that they’re not responsible for other people’s feelings
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@danglinghemmie Customers who bought this item also bought:
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@WhackNicholson She has arguably the most perfectly generically American personality of anyone ever. It’s like she was made in a lab to appeal to the children of Big Bang Theory fans
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@SamtheNightOwl About as far as I’ve been willing to go with this info is that I keep the toilet lid down for as much of the time as is realistically possible
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@posting_forever All the people he thinks are cool are to his left politically but everyone with the money & power to make his career more lucrative are to his right politically, and we keep seeing that conflict play out in his publicly stated opinions
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@RoxyTall Every time this subject comes up someone will say that it’s always totally normal for a 55 year old to want to date someone who’s 20, and someone else will question how a 22 year old could have anything in common with someone who’s 19
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@b1g_damage I fucking despise almost all life-hack shit that involves being a customer of a service industry business & the phrase “they have to do it if you ask”
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@feraljokes This is the one that will always stand out for me, because anyone who knows what it’s like to experience what she says in the first sentence, then reads the rest and can only react with a stunned “wtf did she just say??”
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@SamsonsMane To be fair, by the time of the moment of that pic he had already been on fire long enough that it is not reasonable to assume that he was still capable of operating either of those firearms
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@kathbarbadoro It looks like it’s literally all of them
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@SamtheNightOwl Also everyone I know who’s been officially tested went through that experience some time between the age of 6 & 10, as unless I’m mistaken that’s the intended age group for the Stanford-Binet assessment
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@posting_forever All the people he thinks are cool are to his left politically but everyone with the money & power to make his career more lucrative are to his right politically, and we keep seeing that conflict play out in his publicly stated opinions
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@NathanTankus If you took time off in your late 30s to go back and finally finish your undergrad (even if it’s Business Administration - Management, btw) all employers see is that you’re over 40, there’s a gap in your employment record, and you don’t have an MBA
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@offbeatorbit Between the Emilia Clarke thing & this, what I’ve learned is that use of the specific phrase “hit the wall” often indicates someone who openly has a strong preference for women no older than ~22, sometimes even younger, so no, not normal or at all well adjusted
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@papito_ray You just personified the famous meme almost literally
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@RadishHarmers The Simpsons already squared that circle
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@itsmegangraves Right on the heels of “if the women you find attractive are slightly more muscular than the women I find attractive, that means you’re actually attracted to men but won’t admit it”
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@MargBarAmerica As far as I know, the big chains typically make new hires watch several training videos, one of which usually mentions shoplifting & includes explicitly instructing them not to chase people. It’s such an obvious way to avoid a lot of potential liability issues
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The IRA attempted to assassinate Margaret Thatcher in 1984. Here is Joe Biden taking a selfie with the leader of the IRA's political wing in the 1980s. What message does this send to the British people? Joe Biden is a disgrace to the United States and the office of the…
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This is perhaps the most quintessential example of the meme that I’ve seen in a while
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The self immolator outside the Trump courthouse might be the final boss of “can’t go a single conversation without dropping a Simpsons reference” guys
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@Rick960828781 @MargBarAmerica Because not everyone follows the exact same path, aka the reason why many 19 year olds & 22 year olds are in fact at the exact same stage of their respective lives
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@CartoonsHateHer All things considered, I’m still fine with Anna Nicole Smith probably being on the wrong side of that line
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@SamtheNightOwl Also based on my experience I’d guess that his marches being 30-35 year olds most likely means he looks like he’s in his late 30s, as I’ve noticed that for every 1 woman who doesn’t want to *be* older than her bf, there are at least 2 who don’t want to *look* older than their bf
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@NeilNevins The lead up to him admitting that is done perfectly, because all of the foreshadowing is about exactly what most people would assume, then he finally admits to feeling like the odd man out and there’s literally no mention of race or ethnicity
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@lord__mike @cecil_jesse Yes, it is unreasonable to expect that, and even were we to assume the presence of an explosive device there’s no using a gun to stop it once he’s already on the ground and unconscious
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@GoodPoliticGuy “How are Americans in so much debt” asks 7 term Senator representing the Commonwealth of Credit Cards
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@uncle_authority They aimed for exceptionally anti racist and landed on moderately misanthropic
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@HeheWaitWhut It sounds like someone is advocating for policy that is nominally socialist but is heavily nationalist, I kind of “national socialism” if you will. I wonder if there are any historical precedents that might be a cautionary tale about such a concept 🤔
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“There are too many rules stifling my awesomeness” is the thought of a 12 year old and also the basis of libertarianism
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@realteaemoji It gets even better…
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@gayest_tone Four countries mutants in the Marvel universe could flee to: 1) Genosha 2) Latveria 3) Madripoor
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@kathbarbadoro There has to be some middle ground between “Weinstein’s shit was no big deal” & “Each and every bad feeling I’ve had corresponds directly to there being a man somewhere who owes me an apology, and who probably deserves to be shunned out of human society entirely for it”
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@Faith_Salie Thanks for the reminder that attending one of the most overrated universities in the world (the Ivies, *especially* Yale, Harvard, and Princeton), universities that have 25% legacy admissions, is basically the only way to get to the highest levels of media or government. Super
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@queersocialism It’s a mode of cultural critique that is basically this:
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@LolOverruled What was truly annoying to me is that I did this and then with literally no notification discovered that my account was locked (which lasted 24 hours) in such a way as the only thing I could do was RT
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@kathbarbadoro There are clearly a lot of people who think that getting good grades & going to the right school means that they are owed a permanent level of security & comfort that is beyond what most people have, and a large portion of them are super angry at Ken K right now
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@goofxist Right? Like maybe wait until being able to get burger all day every day is being debated somewhere a bit more meaningful than twitter before making that level of declaration
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@katewillett I’m still thinking about her referencing the book of Exodus like it’s indisputable literal human history
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Can we not all at least agree that the walls between different units in multi-family buildings should muffle the sound a lot better than it does in a LOT of buildings in the US?
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@goofxist I’ll see people on here use some variation of “do the reading” and I always think “wtf are you talking about? Almost no one is doing *any* reading. Do you know how many people think you’re a ‘nerd’ about something if you remember a majority of the Wikipedia page?”
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@TheExiledDuck As in “I’d like to get away from this person asap but one of the biggest factors stopping me is I can’t afford rent on my own”?
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My parents were both public school teachers, and as such had I followed in their footsteps I would have gotten no boost to my career from family connections, but this is not true of every type of non-entertainment job, and Jake should know that
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“Okay, but what did Aaron Bushnell actually accomplish?” I say, as I make sure everyone sees my “I Voted” sticker
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@GarbageApe They all trying to convince themselves they’re living The Hero’s Journey
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@LegoRacers2 From what I’ve seen every country’s version of Buddhism at least tolerates if not fully incorporates local superstition while insisting that it’s other country’s buddhists that do that & not their country
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@jonquilynhill Making feminism primarily about how Dating Men Is So Annoying undercuts any calls for broad societal change & places all of the onus on millions of various individuals, while also allowing even the most fortunate, privileged women to get in on the claim of having been victimized
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@timmyutw513 People who grow up in the suburbs have a tendency to think “ghetto” any time they see a residential street with no lawns
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@stepville @katewillett It is crazy to me to see all these JD fans interpret the verdict as incontrovertible proof that AH lied about everything, when it seems pretty clear that the jury treated the “harm” supposedly caused by the op-ed as more important than anything regarding her level of honesty
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@MangYars I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find out they’re trained to do that, but I invite you to watch this video and then rethink what you consider a “good reason”
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@ahouse4all This kind of thing, and the attitude being displayed by this woman, is the exact reason why I instinctively object to people referring to their pets using words intended to indicate human children, because it inherently devalues human children
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@clairewillett This reminds me of the 70s Show episode where Eric & Red disagree about Eric’s future, Red conveys an anecdote about a similar disagreement between him & his father, then says the similarity is not that sometimes the son is right, it’s that he (Red) was right both times
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@asymmetricinfo Yeah, I’m sure you were really teetering on the edge of homelessness, with literally no parental safety net to fall back on, at all…
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@ronanburtenshaw @ByYourLogic Someone (I forget who) said that the ultimate triumph of capitalism wasn’t the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s when people went from thinking of it as a human constructed system to thinking of it as just “the way things are,” like the wind or tides
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