Sorry gang, not even hate-watching with comrades can get me to watch Marvel slop. Please tell the 1win logo on the camrip hello for me, because I’ve gotten kind of fond of it even though gambling is haram.

Only comments I ever make on people’s appearance are if they’ve clearly put thought and effort into something about their outfit and it may brighten their day to hear those choices validated. And it’s gotta be something innocuous that can’t come off as sexualizing them like, “love those spider earrings” or “the birds on that dress are great”. Basically, validating the choices and efforts someone’s made about their outfit, never anything about their actual body because 1. that’s very invasive and unwanted and 2. there is only a very small degree to which people have any control over their bodies’ appearances.

It’s weird but I’ve gotten compliments from people, mostly women, on my body, out of nowhere, and it’s just come across as creepy. It would have been much appreciated if we were together or had some established relationship but these are complete strangers commenting on how nice my eyes or arms or facial structure is and I’m just like “get away get away get away”

But someone commenting that they like my death to fascism shirt, or some band shirt? That’s totally fine.

Throwing rocks at them

Good. Diverse and marginalized people shouldn’t be collaborating with the CIA. Woke imperialism is still imperialism

Also, not owls, but the US did try to use bats for warfare in Project X-Ray as an alternative to the Manhattan Project (CW, awful animal cruelty): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

Owls are too principled to work for AmeriKKKa though.

RIP Chuck. Love these album covers too

I’m going to yuck this yum.

Also, your wife isn’t minding your consent.

95% sure this is just a bad bit but if not, tell her to not be an asshole about sexual consent and stop pressuring you to do something you don’t want to do

Of course not. They did everything in their power to stop his rise.

They didn’t promote his 2016 primary run because they thought it would make the election a shoo-in for Hillary if he won the nomination.

They didn’t ratfuck the only candidate who paid even lip-service to addressing the economic contradictions inherent to capitalism which immiserate the populace. They didn’t choose to run a corporate-owned, deeply unpopular warmonger instead. They ran a strong candidate who was universally beloved by Americans, someone who is so radiant and pure of heart that she is light itself.

They didn’t play into every provocation from Trump to act as part of his PR machine a la the Streisand effect.

They didn’t bungle governance for 4 years so badly that people were eager for a change.

They didn’t handle Covid worse than Trump and get far more people killed and disabled by it with their grand reopening.

They didn’t doggedly commit to genocide even knowing it would cost them votes in key battleground states.

The Democrats did nothing to help Trump rise to power and did everything they could to stop his rise, but Trump was too much of a political mastermind and he was willing to break rules to win. He’s only won because he lies and cheats, which the Democrats never do.

Frankly, it is concerning and problematic of you to even ask that question because everyone knows the answer is obviously “No”. Would you ask other questions where the answer is obviously no, such as “Does a bear not shit in the woods?”, “Did NATO expansion trigger Putin’s invasion of Ukraine?”, “should the US stop funding and arming Israel?”

I’m getting really strong Russian bot vibes from this poster. Mods, where are you? Why haven’t you banned this propagandist yet?

Just you wait, “/u/Dirt_Owl”, if that’s your real name – or should I say грязная сова – I’ve summoned the mods and they’ll soon deport you back to RuZZia.

Unlimited upon the imperialist colonizers

You write beautifully and convey your agony well. I’m sorry you’re suffering such a horrible cruelty of fate. There is no inherent fairness or justice to the world, and there is certainly nothing that you could have done to have caused her cancer. Cancer is something that just happens to some people. Genetics, bad luck, environmental factors outside our control, and a whole bunch of ???UNKNOWNS??? are responsible. Not burnt food. Not a doughnut here or there. Not frozen food.

There’s a tendency when disaster happens to try to wonder what we could have done to prevent it. The psychological reason is to feel some sense of control and think “well, it won’t happen again”. It’s a protective thing. It’s irrational, because it already happened, but humans are deeply irrational creatures and it comes out of our survival mechanisms.

The anger and bitterness you feel are natural feelings and I hope you do not judge yourself for them. It’s not disgusting for you to feel the way you’re feeling. Grief is a monster. Grief is horrible torture, and I’ve seen and lived firsthand what it can do to people. It can torture people into being angry and bitter and hateful. It can break people of everything they believe, because the most important thing of all is for the pain to end. Torture breaks people, and make no mistake, the agony of grief and loss is torture.

If you’re able to find therapy, you may benefit from it. If you’re able to access a grief support group, you may benefit from one. I briefly went to this grief support group before I had a time conflict come up and they seemed good. It was surprisingly helpful. One thing that was good about it was that it is peer led instead of having a system, so people can speak more freely about their struggles without worrying about getting narcd on: https://kivacenters.org/online-peer-support/, they’ve got a Living with Loss support group. They’re based in Massachussets time so I think that’s eastern time in the US.

I’m sorry, comrade. This life is not fair.

I have never heard anything from Ze Frank that’d make me think he’s a tankie but if he is I will love him even more.

Farya Faraji! He got really popular with his video on Orientalist music vs actual Middle Eastern music: https://youtu.be/LR511iAedYU

Really funny, clever, passionate, dedicated to his craft (the intersection of music and anthropology). I almost never like video essays but his are actually good and actually engaging. His music is great too and i love just he includes detailed descriptions about them.

Man’s channel deserves more love.

On the one hand yes, on the other hand it makes for a lot of fun in Redwall (I’m thinking ‘bout those moles’ accents)

Well, Russia is a communist country after all. But in reality is not wrong for him to say it, since Trump is a russian asset.

lmao what. The Cold War ended over 3 decades ago and the wrong side won.

idk what kind of behavior you’re talking about but it’s really easy to explain Trump’s behavior regarding Russia by looking at Trump’s behavioral patterns and personality. We can Occam’s Razor this shit. Man’s a deeply insecure loser with a pathological need to be seen as the winner and a strong man. So he likes strongmen. He likes winners. Russia keeps on winning – the Ukraine War is clearly a defeat for NATO and has been since about 2023. Therefore, Trump will be friendlier to Russia just because he wants to be on the winning side. Simple as.

It’s not just Russia. He’ll suck up to anyone because the most important thing for him, psychologically, is to be aligned with other winners. Man just praised the bravery of Ansar Allah (with good reason!). It’s all about his brand. If he hitches his brand to winners, then his brand’s a winning brand too, no matter how pathetic he himself is.

He also thrives off chaos and antagonizing the liberals. The more they get themselves into hysterics about Russia, the more Trump has a neuron activation loop of “Russia good because it gets the liberals upset at me, and then they screech about it, and that’s publicity for me, baby!”

I really cannot take “Trump is a Russian asset” conspiracies seriously at all. It’s good to be skeptical of russiagate stuff since it’s largely a fabricated scandal that exists primarily to absolve establishment liberals of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by running Killary over Brother Bernard, and the “trump is a russian asset” shit is just an extension of that same bullshit conspiracy.

Also let’s be real, Russia’s had some very shrewd statesmanship. Why on earth would shrewd and competent political agents trust Trump to be a reliable asset? He’s completely self-centered, extremely fickle, and can’t stand firm on his decisions. Because he cares more about his public image and his personal brand than about any actual policies.

Thanks

Expected start times for Royal Space Force and Fern Gully?

Excited for FG, haven’t seen it since I was in preschool and it was on mg list to revisit

Same because of this sort of thing happening. Or back in the day, the page sometimes crashing. But at this point if it’s a long effortpost of a response I’ll draft it up in a text editor first.

Why does this song go so hard?