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- Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?lemmy.world ↗Submitted 11 hours ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 67 comments
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- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 4 weeks ago:
The Steam forums are the most repugnant and racist-filled psychotic right-wing shitholes I’ve ever encountered (and I once went to the Stormfront forums). Genuinely, Steam forums exhibit the most pure and concentrated anti-woke, “every single thought in my head was placed there by Ben Shapiro”, “blacks are the real racists”, x-phobic bigoted brain cancer on earth. I block them where I find them, report the ones that seem actionable, but it’s like trying to hold off a tidal wave with a tennis racket.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 5 weeks ago:
Fuck clipping health insurance CEOs and college-touring bigots, these are the ones…
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
There’s a 100% correlation between a child coming into direct physical contact with their family doctor and that same child later being diagnosed with autism. Show me an example where this was not the case. Family doctors are sporing autismomes like a tickled mushroom and no one is talking about it.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 weeks ago:
Why would they not just stay on Twitter, Truth Social, reddit or Facebook? Those places are tailor-made for MAGA 🤔
- Comment on Every action has a reaction 5 weeks ago:
We’re all (as political blocs) guilty of taking away people’s livelihoods for unacceptable speech. I don’t even mean dangerous speech, like vaccine disinfo, but people just being cunts and bigots. Pretending that we’re free speech paragons in the face of the Kirk nonsense is silly and just gives those cretins all the impetus they need to carry on with it.
Also, burn in hell Charlie Kirk.
- Comment on What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos? 1 month ago:
Not sure who came up with it first or why humans are wired this way, but the magic combination of anger, outrage, and the vicarious bullying satisfaction of seeing someone dunked on and made to look stupid/humiliated, is all grist for the mill that is the attention economy. The longer you watch, the better it is for the YouTubes and Twitters of the world. And nothing glues people to their screens quite like their own masochism. It’s like when you have a sore tooth and can’t help but prod it with your tongue. Makes no sense, but it’s what we do. The fact that this stuff is so effective is why the algorithms force it down our throats and why cunts like Ben Shapiro have made careers off of it. Society is being torn apart at the seams by this shit. That pent-up hateful energy gets co-opted by state actors and bot farms, and then we get Brexit and two terms of Donald fucking Trump.
I’ve been making a conscious effort to avoid any videos that have titles like that (and by extension, the creators of those videos), and my life and mental health has improved immeasurably as a result. I have literally no idea how to convince anyone else to do the same. It would probably be easier to get people to exercise and eat healthily (something I don’t fucking do either). People get as much of this content as they can consume for free and at any time and any place, thanks to the inherent portability of cellphones. If you’re into this shit, there is no time of day or room in your house where you won’t have it calling to you like a pocket version of the wee devil that sits on a cartoon character’s shoulder whispering evil commands into its ear. And in this scenario, there is no angel on the other shoulder, because that would cause people to maybe spend a bit less time on these platforms, which is no bueno to Silicon Valley sociopaths.
Debates are almost entirely pointless. Very few people in the audience are actually open to being swayed. It’s just verbal UFC, and the winner isn’t the one with the best ideas, but the one with the best tongue jiu-jitsu.
As for Plato et al., I think having something to fill one’s attention in those days was probably a good way to stop people from fucking their livestock. So debates were necessary to prevent sheepman monstrosities from polluting the gene pool with their woolly nutsacks.
- Comment on Today's date is 3²/4²/5² 1 month ago:
math hurts
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
Why is he like this?
- Comment on You can't make this shit up 1 month ago:
Fucking hell… 🤢
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The actors, along with people like artists and musicians, tend to be exempted from gamer rage when a game sucks or launches in a sucky state. Was that not the case with MindsEye?
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
He should not have been shot. The shooter was, like virtually all such people, a narcissistic main character sociopath who only cared about his own fame and notoriety, and was likely spending too much time in the damp and mushroomy corners of the internet instead of developing an actual personality in the real world. He’s less an anti-fascist soldier and more a Travis Bickle wannabe wanker.
But Charlie Kirk was a humongous piece of shit and I am glad he’s dead. One fewer humongous pieces of shit to have to listen to. I would never advocate the murder of a man like him, and like I said, I think the shooter was a colossal cunt who unleashed way more danger and harm to marginalised groups than Kirk was capable of provoking on his own. But thank fuck he’s gone. Silver linings n’all that 🤷
- Comment on Good evening. 1 month ago:
Me when my keys tumbled out of my breast pocket into a fire I was poking and I instinctively snatched them back out.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
I feel bad that his children had to witness that, and even if they hadn’t been there (which they were) they’d undoubtedly have the video clip shoved in their faces eventually. That’s a hell of a way to lose a parent.
The fact that he died while in the middle of talking about trans mass shooters being a huge problem certainly makes it feel like cosmic karma at work. I struggle to give a shit about the man himself being shot dead. But I do worry about political violence… it’s a very rare occasion when murdering someone sitting in a chair talking is a good idea. Not a single person in his right-wing sphere of repugnance is going to do any self-reflection and change their ways, they’ll just become even more rabidly anti-everything left of Hitler. Shit like this doesn’t go unanswered too often. Violence is a contagion with no cure except time, and the clock gets set back another decade every time someone retaliates. I’m sure we could chain all of these assassinations together into a causal sequence. But even if they’re all independent events, the narrative-makers will be hard at work making it sound like a grand battle of the ages, so the result is the same either way.
Source: History, memory…
P.S. Any bets that the shooter was a MAGA nut? Seems to be the trend 👀
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- Comment on I just ate a little bag of popcorn without getting any bits stuck in my teeth/throat. ask me anything 1 month ago:
Did you forget to microwave it first?
- Comment on It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it 1 month ago:
I gift a riverboat to the otter people in exchange for splashy kisses on my cheeks.
- Comment on Idk if that's what's really happening in that image 🤔 1 month ago:
It’s an ancient astronaut working the levers on his Stormtrooper speeder
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 month ago:
Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 1 month ago:
Any non-cunts in the EV manufacturing space? Or is that a prerequisite?
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 months ago:
The nihilist school shooters of the world are way more litigious than I thought possible.
- Comment on bmw 2 months ago:
I am so terminally carless and unautomobile pilled that I have literally no clue what this is about.
- Comment on That pretty much sums it up 2 months ago:
I have it on good authority that love is
spoiler
baby don’t hurt me
- Comment on New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42" 2 months ago:
It would make little sense for them to release a final version of this game, given that they’ve made Saudi prince money from a perpetual alpha and in-game assets you have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for. They’d never tie-off the areola on this big fat milker.
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 2 months ago:
There’s a legendary family story from my childhood in the early '80s where my dad rented a direct-to-video Snow White sequel for me and my brothers (aged 1 - 10), but it turned out he had absentmindedly picked up a porno parody, shoved it in the VCR and immediately left the room to attend to other things. He didn’t realise until we were a good 10 minutes in and were laughing hysterically at the willies and boobs.
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
If it even partially alleviates loneliness, and if it encourages the person to become more open and confident when communicating with humans, then it’s a great thing.
/cope
~We’re so fucking fucked.~
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