Dragonstaff
@Dragonstaff@leminal.space
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 11 hours ago:
I did not at all lose the birth lottery. Being Black is fucking awesome. I just need the rest of y’all to act like you have some sense.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 12 hours ago:
I’m not sure how many classrooms still do this, but it is becoming less common.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 1 day ago:
As a Black American the number of white people saying “Who could have known” what we have been screaming at them is infuriating.
As a leftist, the people who said we were overreacting about the Patriot Act 25 years ago (and continuously since) are now saying that we devolved into fascism quickly.
Lots of insult intended. More insult than you can imagine. If you’re reading this and you have been complacent, it’s time to get into the streets.
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 6 days ago:
What’s underhanded about it?
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 1 week ago:
You know what they say “When you hear hoofbeats, think of an ungodly castle/knight amalgamation.”
- Comment on EA's new owners are making "a huge bet" on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report 1 week ago:
They’re cracking it open and sucking out the marrow.Just like every other time private equity has “leverage buyout”-ed a company into the ground.
They’ll pay themselves billions in executive compensation and then move on like locusts.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Biglari has been trying to take over Cracker Barrel for years. Not really hard to guess who was behind this.
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
My esteemed colleague’s first 300 books are riveting, but at that point the argument falls apart. They fail to account for the Herman reversal: “I know you are, but what am I” (Herman et al,1985). Amusing, but hardly a work of serious scholarship.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
This is PRECISELY why I’m a big fan of explaining jokes. Most of us wouldn’t have understood any of this context.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
Starting with “Hate to break it to you” is starting an argument with someone on your own side for no reason.
We used to have laws against media consolidation. Yes, the wealthy have always owned media, however, this is still new
You’re making a point slightly different than mine. It’s weird and unnecessary to act like I didn’t know that.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
Why be a dick? You don’t need to break anything to me. If you don’t understand that the present media consolidation is indeed novel, perhaps you should study history. But nothing I said suggested things used to be good.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
This is part of a complete rightwing takeover of media. They used fear of China to make sure that they control every platform.
- Comment on ralph 1 week ago:
It’s the only way I can feel like a man
- Comment on sticker 2 weeks ago:
Do you think furries piss their pants a lot? Because you saw one person on the internet say they saw one person do that?
- Comment on Some nice attention to continuity by the SNW team! 2 weeks ago:
I just really love how they tell everyone the Captain’s dinner is formal the first time they come.
- Comment on Funniest Exhibit at the Smithsonian 2 weeks ago:
There are a good number of real fossils you can touch.
I expect these are more common and there’s not much more scientists can learn from them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why would he have a bad person on his hat? I don’t think a bad person could be a good president, but even if we allow that he still doesn’t have to buy merch.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shakedown.Put a couple million in the “Trump Presidential Library” and you get the workers your business needs.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t need to jump all the way to Wakanda. Thanos is an eco terrorist. Ultron is a peace activist. Magneto is patterned after Malcolm X.
The Marvel universe is the story of how a billionaire arms dealer and the US military save the world from deranged leftists. Disney heroes always fight for the status quo and the villains want to make things better (but also they’re written to be crazy and violent).
Walt Disney was a major force behind the Red Scare in Hollywood, turning in his own animators for unionizing, and they’ve been terrible ever since.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and don’t forget the local politicians handing out tax incentives and sweetheart deals to data centers so we can all chip in together to help the tech bros delete our jobs.
- Comment on Witness me brøther 2 weeks ago:
“People with a victim complex”
Gee…I can’t imagine why Jewish people might feel put upon. Thank God we have a Swede who really understands oppression who isn’t afraid to stand up for naming plants after racist caricatures.
- Comment on political debate 2 weeks ago:
V for Vendetta masks tend to be libertarian iconography.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 6 months ago:
Brandon. Look up Mistborn. Steelheart and The Stormlight Archives are good too.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 7 months ago:
Shitty title. Business school professors claim they trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces.
The article talks about why that is such a stupid and terrible proposal.
- Comment on Get ya every time 7 months ago:
If we are ever invaded by monkeys with balloons, I am ready to serve.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 7 months ago:
Around 1/3 of the country voted for him.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 7 months ago:
if the US government wanted Google to do something, they could storm their headquarters and get the government tech people to go in the servers and change it.
Bwahahahahahahainhalehahahahahahaa
Thanks, I needed that. Whatever movies you’re watching are terrible.
Forcing your way into Google to have “government techs” change something is NCIS level ridiculous. Conceivably they might get a court order to “force” Google to change. Funnily enough, the US and Mexico have the exact same levers to make a company do what they want. The US has more power to push those levers though.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 8 months ago:
Doesn’t everyone cast Tarot to see if aoile or mustard is more auspicious today? If you want to use Bitchin’ Sauce while Mercury is in retrograde then that’s on you, buddy.
- Comment on Absolute slander 10 months ago:
If my calculations are correct, this car is smaller than a football field.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 10 months ago:
fluggelgleckheimlen
The first are hardcore. None have used it yet
