garbology [he/him]

I think about this, too. The bloodlust that gets posted here sometimes is very offputting. Advocates for killing all chuds post-revolution don’t make me feel comfortable with the idea of building communism shoulder to shoulder with them.

Good way to see those parents do a speedrun from Bible literalism to allegorical/historical interpretations no glitches any%

never in the US or western Europe

Europe is way more different in Marvel than I thought

Seems like almost every country has been carved up except The Anglosphere, India, and Japan?

Wanda is (sometimes) Romani in the comics, in the MCU she’s “Sokovian” which seems to be a made-up South Slavic country, modeled after Bosnia-Herzegovina.

videos like this almost always try and prove their points with more “concrete” evidence, such as plot, which is arguably more abstracted from the main point than relationship, framing, language, and other more subjective ideas.

Ah, this is an excellent point. Yeah, those smaller mood-setting elements are also very important when analyzing media. I agree, a lot of people forget that the setting of a show isn’t something that the creator has to work around when making their story, but something they also invented in service of the kind of story they wanted to tell.

The Thermian Argument is very insidious, so people don’t notice that the fashy communitty in AOT doesn’t have to “invent an external existential threat irreconcilably different from them that requires selfless heroism, unthinking loyalty, and eternal war”, because the author provides it as a premise. Very convenient!

That ‘vibe’ you had was just unorganized information. Back when you had just watched it you could have explained in detail why all of these dog whistles amounted to a high level of confidence that this was some fashy bs, but you didn’t need to justify not watching something, so it stayed a vibe.

CISC architecture BTFO.

Yeah Tony Stark decides to stop selling weapons to the government (but immediately makes exceptions for War Machine), but then flies to Afghanistan and personally murders a bunch of nameless bad guys. But the audience knows it’s good that he flew there to do murders because they take time out of being murdered to act reprehensible while he’s doing it.

Of course Texas is its own power grid.

Imagine if someone had told you in 2016 that Shoe0nhead would criticise Mother Jones from the left, while Mother Jones is criticising Yglesias from the right.

No point reading any Mother Jones unless the editorial team is completely replaced. “Means Testing Really Isn’t So Bad”

Wait, are we supposed to be happy that they “saved” the golf course? Fuck you, public parks are actually good, unlike stupid golf, which, legally, should only exist in Scotland.

Seriously tho these people can’t be serious, right?

Every single right-wing person in ex-Soviet republics says this exact shit.

It’s way, way, worse than you can imagine. It’s AWWWWFUL.

EDIT: There’s a large overlap with SlateStarCodex if that means anything to you.

There is also /r/SneerClub, dedicated to ruthlessly mocking /r/themotte, but it was never funny enough to keep my interest TBH

It’s not really a new meme format, it’s used heavily by debate chuds who worship HPMOR over at /r/TheMotte.

I’m fine with attempting to retake it, tho.

Why unions aren’t screaming about this issue

Well, some are https://incarceratedworkers.org/

burning your sources

Found The Intercept’s account.