Is there a term for when people understand the artistic merit of a scene that's homaging something older but are so young they mistake that homage as being the original?
“Starbucks supports the IDF” has to be the fastest-spreading myth I’ve ever seen happen in real time. Two years from now zoomers are gonna be blaming the Mandela effect for their own social media gullibility
@watn_tarnation
Catching the snitch should only end the game. So the team that's ahead will be using their seeker to try and clinch and the seeker of the trailing team will be playing defense.
@foushi19
Unpasteurized cheese is legal (I just bought a block of imported cammembert) just heavily regulated.
And the fact that we regulate cheese much more heavily than assault rifles is truly insane.
@CaroltheIntern
In 20 years Afghanistan developed an army/government only competent to last like one month without being proposed up. Surely another 20 years would have bought Afghanistan an extra month though!
@ElGranSenglar
At first I was like “this is pretty cool but like not super strange?” Then I noticed the Black Stone in the bottom left and realized the scale
My Dad is entering into hospice.
Those of you who've known me a while may know of his battle with cancer. When he was diagnosed in 2014, he was given a year to live. Ten years, as he's told me, is a victory. But it's time.
@OceanPicon815
@communist_moon
Spoiler: There are none but leftists like to deny that non-westerners have agency for some reason. He got killed by his own people because he was a dictator.
@ElGranSenglar
The other context is this youtuber had multiple songs/videos encouraging his teenager audience to drop out of school and then got his career ended cause of substantiated grooming allegations
@nikicaga
I saw someone compare his rise to being the equivalent of someone from a decently well-off Puerto Rican family becoming emperor of America and that seems kinda accurate
@ElleDaLD
@JennyENicholson
Oh this was Mr Enter? I knew that voice sounded familiar.
His whole thing had been getting angry at how bad recent spongebob episodes were. I guess it’s not surprising he’s just trying to make that shtick work with animation in general.
@Julio974
@RobertRamcin
I don’t think people miss the point of it as a metaphor. It’s silly cause these supposed scientists think we’re closer to nuclear war now than the Cuban Missile Crisis
@souljagoytellem
These are the worst type of video “essays” because the guy just recaps each episode. There isn’t much of an actual clever point or observation.
I assume it’s the same thing for the 12 hour Survivor one
I see that people are telling me there is a Starbucks in Paris as evidence of American cultural power. My friends, that’s nonsense. First, Starbucks is if anything evocative of European coffeehouse culture. Second…
Poll question from my 12yo:
Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill.
- if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives
- if not, red pills live and blue pills die
Which do you choose?
@WheatPM
Yeah it seems like the whole point of the documentary is an ancient aliens style hoax about a conspiracy hiding that Cleopatra was actually black, which is kinda different from Bale playing Moses
@axleblazeSA
@PoorlyAgedStuff
I’ve watched a bit of Sunny cause I love drama and the 10 minute breakdowns let me appreciate youtube drama without getting sucked into a rabbit hole.
But I started feeling a little sus after his Ninja one which was weirdly hostile to a guy who afaik hasn’t had much of a scandal
@nikicaga
I'm pretty convinced that it was a failed rocket fired from Gaza now.
But the IDF initially going "we did it and it took out terrorists" and then saying "we didn't do it, here's a video from a year ago showing it" really made this a colossal clusterfuck
@nikicaga
Yeah some kind of catastrophic failure is the least bad scenario for me. The thought of being stuck at the bottom of the ocean and knowing you had 96 hours left to live is… dark
@nikicaga
Oh god remember that viral video from like 2008 of the lady thinking the rainbow she saw in the water coming out of her hose was evidence of a conspiracy? Is that just a mainstream take now?
@P0liticsEnjoyer
Madison insisted Congress explicitly have the right to overturn state laws. It didn’t make into the text (aside from maybe the Supremacy clause) but the central government being weaker now than it was when first conceived of is not a good situation to be in
@LucasOfSunshine
Basic answer but Columbus has to be up there right? Wrong about being able to reach India (easily) by sailing west. Wrong about size of the earth (when the Greeks got it right 2000 years earlier.) Wrong about landing in India.
@ChadNotChud
Also, encyclopedias have only been a thing for ~250 years and when they first were completed it was seen as one of the biggest achievements of humanity in its time as well
@Sleepyhead20021
@vanillaopinions
Much of the left seems to have convinced themselves the solution to religion in politics is to insert their religion into politics instead.
@jhtweets_
Pete Buttigieg getting falsely accused of having a sock puppet account, when it was just some Nigerian(?) guy who for some reason was fascinated by Pete Buttigieg
@P0liticsEnjoyer
Things in favor of Dems odds of keeping the Senate:
- Polls
- Terrible R candidates
- Good D candidates
- Favorable map
Things against Dems odds of keeping the Senate:
- Vibes
My Dad is entering into hospice.
Those of you who've known me a while may know of his battle with cancer. When he was diagnosed in 2014, he was given a year to live. Ten years, as he's told me, is a victory. But it's time.
@trappychan_
@nikicaga
I did not have a trappy-chan and nikolaj argument in my 2023 bingo.
But “acshually there’s an evil corporation secretly pulling strings to set up a conflict” is a lot more movie-brained than “invading neighbors for resources bad”
@nikicaga
"Napoleon was just a little guy who barely accomplished anything but also he was a tyrant of an entire continent which justified us invading him six times."
@LucasOfSunshine
At the risk of starting Discourse, this is why I get uncomfortable in general with “punch nazis” and the various iterations thereof. It just comes off as “I reserve the right to hurt people I disagree with, period”
@_sn_n
Look imagine a chain with the same level of availability as starbucks but you can get a coffee and a boston creme donut for the same price as a starbucks coffee