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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Haven’t read the article yet but I can only assume the book is “Lolita X” where they find the cryonically frozen body of humbert humbert and they bring him to space

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah in terms of the meme mutation timeline, I believe the initial use would have been from leftists to mock outrageous/outlandishly false claims, in line with Park saying the trains thing. Since then the format has been mutated to also include “thing that exists in culture that is then exaggerated to be construed as dystopian” (see the example that soyweiser posted) and also “thing that is straight up dystopian but it’s something from the west”. So I think the only things that would approach the level of humor/absurdity of the original would have to be something else crazy out of YP’s mouth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m just hoping that i get a plaque or something 1000 years from now in the Harvard meme archaeology department or similar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Happend quite a few times with the “skeptic” yt people in the yt’er to alt right funnel/pipeline from a decade ago. (A few of these people have really lost the plot now

I would love a separate thread on this, more generally a “late 2000s/early 2010s skeptic ytbuers, where are they now”?. The only example (sorta*) I have is thunderf00t, whose yt career track is: anti-christianity, anti-anita sarkeesian, and now anti musk.

*he is not alt right, at least by any mainstream definition of alt-right, afaict.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

re: 2-2yeah that’s what I ended up thinking. Just try the brute force and if it’s too slow, maybe I’ll try be smarter about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (19 children)

Sorry about more insta content. Saw this today and it tickled me:

Left: pinker

Right: Yeonmi Park, who is known for defecting from north korea and speaking about it. That should be enough if she just told the truth, but for one reason or another (grifting dosh) she has started just making shit up, which I recommend you research for yourself if you are interested.

Anyway the above picture probably doesn’t come as a surprise when you consider her current tack: saying that “woke” and “cancel culture” are the first steps in a country becoming like North Korea. She’s been on JRE (where she memeably claimed that there is only one train in NK that often requires people to push it). She has a book with her anti-woke thesis with opening shit-volley by old mate JBP.

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

Ah thanks for reminding me that time progresses and that it is now December.

I have done 1.1 through 2.2 and have nothing interesting to say about them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

a good follow on insta if you use it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Such a good post. LWers are either incapable of critical thought or self scrutiny, or are unwilling and think verbal diarrhea is a better choice.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

presented without comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Guy fused a phylactery and a prophylactic, making a prophylactery.

(apologies for the necro-post?)

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