Thistlewick

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I mean if we are deepfaking things for Elon to do, why pick something so on brand? I guess it lends legitimacy to the scam, because if anyone were to be shilling a crypto scam, it’s that old musky ballsack.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Or we call out this weird shit loudly, don’t treat it like some “companies will be companies” thing, and maybe the people who would have worked with PaloAlto previously will reconsider working with the weird company that tried to present women as objects.

Not talking about this stuff is what got us here in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fact-Mistaken.

Fact-Counterfactual, even.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not creepy, aka doesn’t say stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

A quick Google checks out. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Name? Sauce?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the hell is this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another “The gardener of the cousin of the mechanic of the uncle of an aide to a staffer for a satellite office of the Democratic Party says” article.

It’s manipulative, and I don’t understand how so many people can be okay with what this means for the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow, never had such a difficult yet easy decision. Both phenomenal sets, but Gianna is Gianna.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I live in a democracy. Voting is compulsory. Some people will take the monetary fine and abstain, but for many it encourages them to at the very least become informed about the policies of each party on the big ticket issues. It’s not perfect but it means everybody has a say.

Your democracy allows one party to use the strategy of “erode confidence in the very political system we are a part of” to convince people that not taking part in their freedom is a smart choice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What?

Do you know how elections work in your own country?

The US is First Past The Post. Whoever has the most votes wins, even if they do not have a majority of the vote. Splitting the votes of one party, or abstaining from voting only gives more power to the opposition. It is an absolutely shit system, and election reform needs to happen, but it’s what you have to deal with now, and being ignorant of how it works is going to hurt everyone.

Hypothetically there are 100 people voting between the “stubbing your toe” party and the “hot poker jammed in your urethra” party. The urethra party runs a campaign about how horrible stubbing your toe feels, and gets 40 votes. The Toe Party runs on a platform of “the choice is obvious” and gets 35. A small subset of Toe-ers break off and run their own “hitting your funnybone” party because they don’t like feet and get 10 votes. The remaining 15 voters really do NOT want to have their pissholes sealed shut by a piece of red hot iron. But at the same time, stubbing your toe or hitting your funnybone really hurts as well. They equate “pain” as an absolute value, deem both sides equal and abstain from voting.

The number of people who do not want a blistered pisser outnumber the opposition 60/40. But in the end, the numbers come out; Funnybone : 10 Toe : 35 Urethra : 40 The next day, everyone is lined up to get their pissholes branded.

Are you telling me that the abstainers hold no responsibility in the hurt that is bestowed upon the whole group? Or that Funnybone can blame Toe for not marketing themselves better?

You can’t vote against Trump, you are correct on that point, but abstaining from the vote reduces the numbers of literally the only other option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can’t believe Captain America would do something so fascist as punching someone he disagrees with politically.

(The biggest /S that ever existed)

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