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Captainant

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  1. this is an excellent and salient example of how the main group people who care about pronous are people using them as outrage bait
  2. I don't think it's online ads, I think it's the products that are being marketed at the general public. Hell, when I was in NYC for work I saw one of the most dystopic ads I've ever seen: Every camera app has a filter to make you beautiful, or skinny, or a different color, or a different sex, or an animal. I feel like literally seeing yourself and your peers as other things besides their own selves is a bigger contributor to body dysmorphia than some outside malignant targeted effort
  3. So you're speculating there's an entity using micro targeting like how Facebook did to drive outrage, only driving homosexuality with the express intent of targeting conservative families? Or that division efforts are and always have been ongoing online, and this is just the new button being pressed to get that outcome?
  4. I think it's the new flavor of satanic panic. At least that particular "they're doing sex changes in schools" line of idiotic conspiracy
  5. I don't know of anyone on surly or in actual real life that cares at all about pronouns. Yes, some folks had it in their email signature but I've not once ever in my real life - professionally or personally - seen pronouns come up. Much less as a point of conflict in an actual interpersonal relationship of any type And yeah, you definitely see faceless anonymous accounts getting BIG MAD about it online, but that's just looking for a reason to construct a grievance. Hell, what policy has been advanced around pronouns? Is it anywhere near the breadth and depth of actual REAL legislation that is passing into law? Show me evidence of the feelz == realz .... .... So why do boomers and baby-boomer genX'ers that LOVE to bring it up as the leading indicator the Democrats have gone too far, and nurse it as a grievance?? Lemme know when y'all solve litterboxes in classrooms and eating cats and dogs. Since ya know, every grievance is real and deserves attention.
  6. Bingo - the law exists to bind but not protect the out groups, and protects but does not bind the in group
  7. Real answer: trump effectively uses the Soviet technique of flooding the zone with bullshit and lies and falsehood so that he can operate under a smoke screen.
  8. BO&W and bozo are doing a weird "push all the Republican rhetoric as unimpeachable fact" bit. I have no doubt that the perception of using those terms was damaging, but I definitely didn't see it in regular use in my life and online time. I did see a whole shitload of republicans pushing that as a grievance to motivate their base though. So it's a bummer to see people so uncritically repeating the anecdote as if it's reflective of reality
  9. Ok, whatever you say Steve Bannon.
  10. So scared of violent crime, they're gonna stop prosecuting folks for illegally owning long guns in DC. Totes not setting up a paramilitary force in the seat of power.
  11. Notably, I'm not calling you or this administration "nazis". I'm saying their behavior is fascist and consistent with how the nazis behaved during their consolidation of power and state violence. But don't let me stop you from jumping to victimhood
  12. The crazy thing is that there's other recipients of CHIPS funding via grants that are not receiving demands of equity or compensation for what was a previous act of Congress. Just completely off the rails that the President is trying to take a bite out of a company. I could have sworn folks around these parts felt passionately about the government seizing private property....
  13. In the 1930s, the nazis deployed brown shirts and filled their ranks with the dregs of society that didn't have a job or prospects to look forward to. They then used that paramilitary force to attack their "untermensch" and political enemies. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state We are at the point where the feds are hospitalizing journalists and activists for asking too many questions and taking too many pictures. The posse of highschool drop outs that ICE is hiring is just a modernization of hitlers Brown shirts - a paramilitary force that answers only to their fuhrer and doesn't give a shit about breaking the law or protecting public safety.
  14. Again, is this really true? As an adult I don't think I've ever seen Dems actually in power, and when they """have""" it hasn't been Dems road blocking legislative efforts, or playing identity politics games. Tbh, it feels like you and bozo are internalizing and evangelizing the MAGA framing and messaging by just "many people are saying Dems bad" as your whole commentary. It's not rank and file, it's the fish rotting from the head. It's not AOC or Mamdani being divisive or playing identity politics, but that's certainly how fox frames it to get the uncritical chuds onboard. And then the dem leadership is more than happy to tow that line for MAGA like a good controlled opposition does, because they're scared of letting go of their free insider trading meal ticket
  15. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window My guy, the majority electoral position in the country - the """MIDDLE""" - chose trump. Recalibrate your enthusiasm
  16. Pfft. Not even ultra pasteurized. What's the point, even /s
  17. They're probably in a state of incredulity
  18. Anyone looking for COVID tests, don't go to the old website. It's a conspiracy site now http://covidtests.gov
  19. You're citing a pre-trump47 article to tell me how what trump47 is doing is bi-partisan, just FYI. Reframing a grant as a stock purchase is some pretty rancid deal rewriting mid flight. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-admin-in-talks-to-take-10-stake-in-intel-via-chips-act-grants-125081900100_1.html Beyond Intel, the White House official also floated the possibility that the administration could convert other Chips Act awards into equity stakes. It’s not clear whether that idea has gained traction broadly within the administration or whether officials have broached the possibility with any companies that could be affected. It's going to sour any business from taking grant money for fear of it turning out to be a baited hook. The feds operating with such dishonesty is bad for business.
  20. They're getting bailed out from decades of paying out record dividends and stock buybacks. This is more taxpayer subsidy of executive bonuses. If they're buying back over a hundred billion in stocks, maybe they are the source of their own business problems. God, I love the Almighty Free Market and it's infinite wisdom to punish inefficient firms
  21. There's a stomach bug going through Houston at the moment too I think
  22. That's great for you and all that, but the pedophile you voted for isn't releasing the Epstein files for some reason. I wonder why he's giving his co-conspirator such a good deal at club fed in aggyland
  23. Before the outbreak, most Texas doctors had never seen a measles case because of how uncommon it has become, said Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Jennifer Shuford. She credited testing, vaccination, monitoring and education with helping to end the outbreak. I wonder if that means that the previous antivaxxers changed their minds after they realized that vaccines prevent death, or if that's just preseason sunshine pumping before the next respiratory disease season
  24. The US dead-ass just copied the V1 and V2 for our first cruise and ballistic missiles - our first sub launched nuke the Regulus Missile was a first gen iteration. The base design is well-proven at least
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