Hearing and reading libs says shit like “See, Dick Cheney knows that Trump is even worse than he was, that’s why we have to vote blue” is infuriating. How can’t they see what’s really happening here?

The alternate world where this guy livestreamed the assassination of Donald John Trump and the subsequent battle to the death he would have had with secret service is fun to think about.

Bawhstin

Just like how Michael Moore was bowling during the Columbine massacre.

Watching Kevin Can Fuck Himself, I love the format. If you don’t know the show is a satirical take on King oF Queens style battle-of-the-sexes sitcoms. You’ve got the B plot, which is a single camera brightly lit sitcom in which a boorish husband gets in dumb manly shenanigans in which he is broadly insensitive towards his wife and uncaring of her needs and desires. Then the A plot of the wife, Allison, which is all moodily lit and darkly color graded, like a serious drama, in which she fantasizes about the violent murder of her husband.

So I’d love to see a political thriller done in the same way. Like the A plot is, I dunno, maybe some unelected government bureaucrat who stumbles across a conspiracy and starts getting harrassed by feds and/or non-state actors. Like that movie The Report starring Adam Driver, about the guy investigating the Torture Memos in the aughts. But then anytime he’s in a room with an elected it’s like a scene out of West Wing or VEEP, brushing off his concerns as they’re more worried about that week’s antics and ignoring any pleas for help with a see no evil hear no evil attitude or else so ready to give grandiose speeches about civility and the strength of our democracy that they ignore the cloak-and-dagger drama playing out in front of them.

Edit: I think the show is actually a multi-camera sitcom.

It’s always a minefield talking to the guy at work who likes some of the same mass media as me (Witcher, he’s a big Star Wars guy, a really big WH40K guy (which I have a passing interest in but it’s fun to talk about), and is the only guy I’ve ever spoken to irl who knew what Conan: Exiles and Kingdom Come: Deliverance are) but has clearly had his brain poisoned by the manosphere. Maybe that’s not so surprising, given that particular list of media properties, but we’ll be having a conversation about some obscure bit of Star Wars lore we both think is cool and then he’ll say some shit like “the woke are ruining everything,” or “Henry Cavil will save WH40K from the wokes who destroyed The Witcher,” or “Why does all media have to make men out to be evil these days?” (I think the answer was probably the woke).

He’s a nice guy and I generally like talking him but I’m always wondering when this genial conversation is going to be derailed by vile nonsense.

But I live in a pretty conservative area so this sort of thing is to be expected. I assume everyone I meet here is a deranged christofascist until they give me cause to think otherwise. Perfect example of this, there’s an older man, upper sixties, at work who always stops to make polite small talk with me if we cross paths. Happened to overhear a conversation between him and another coworker who said she was homeschooling her child. And he said “That’s good. I don’t trust the state run schools. Teaching kids about evolution, and gender…”

Which she emphatically agreed with, as did several other coworkers who were nearby, all of various ages.

What if the worst man alive endorses our candidate? Would that be good for us?

Feels ghoulish to even talk about an ongoing tragedy this way, but I do find it curious that the shooter surrendered. Seems like that rarely happens in these situations.

It’s mind-boggling to me how fake the border is. One of the central political footballs of US domestic politics for… I don’t even know how long. As long as I’ve been alive. All the sweat, all the ink spilled, the dems constantly tacking rightwards on the issue, the untold millions of people immiserated, news cycles yammering about it endlessly. And for what? Just naked racism? Who does a “strong border” benefit, exactly? What does it even mean? Some other political bullshit, like being “Tough on Crime” or the “War on Drugs” I can see the twisted logic where you could convince regular Americans that those things were good for them. The only cogent logic I’ve ever heard about the border is that, apparently, back when Labor was strong they wanted strict controls on the border and immigration because they feared employers would replace them with slaves. Not that I agree with that, but I can see a logic at work there.

I suppose I could see where somebody who doesn’t know that cartels aren’t real could buy that the intersection of the war on drugs and the southern border represents some legitimate threat to their safety. But I’m pretty sure I read once that most drugs come in on boats and planes and commercial trucks (and is being done so at the behest of state apparatuses i.e. CIA, cops, DEA, etc.).

I could see where, if you gave a shit about illegal border crossers and lived in a border state then that would be a humanitarian crisis, but that’s never what the news or the politicos are talking about when they talk about the border.

It’s like in America we talk in a nonsense language about made up bullshit that then translates into the mass deprivation of huge swathes of humanity. Of course most of the common political talking points in this country are bullshit, but the border in particular seems almost entirely abstract in terms of the rhetoric surrounding it.

Those not born into wealth will be ground under the wheels of the Great Machine. Like the rest of us. The Machine will not care if they were devotees of Capital or if they memorized every quote from Mao’s little red book or if they never once considered the horrible thing hanging over all of them all their lives. Regardless of belief, whether they understand or not, they live to serve—and this service grants them the only purpose their lives could ever have had.

or maybe not idk lol

Adam McKay is fed up with the dems

this is going to ruin the tour

Lol at The Outer Worlds.

I mean, a perfectly enjoyable game but one with limited replayability and combat could be a bit of a slog sometimes. Probably not deserving of this expensive an advertisement for a game that has, afaik, no meaningful fanbase. Though I guess it sold well enough that supposedly there will be a sequel, so maybe that’s why they’re doing this.

A lot of kids already use TikTok instead of Google for many things

I’ve heard this before and it’s crazy to me because TikTok has the worst search functionality of any service I’ve ever used. Reddit’s was better. Also the content just isn’t designed to answer queries? How can you use TikTok to look up literally anything? I don’t think there’s anything I would ever type into a search engine that could be better served to me by TikTok, unless it’s a video trend that is only on TikTok, like grimace shakes or whatever’s popular now.

On an unrelated note I always found the comments section to be totally useless, at least on any post with more than 10k likes. The top level comments might be alright, but if for some reason you want to open up the replies to a comment they load newest first. Numerous times there’ll be a comment either elaborating on the original post or explaining why it’s wrong or something but because TikTok has like a 20 character limit they’ll have to reply to their own comment to continue their thought. But if a comment has even only a couple dozen replies it means that the reply you want to see is pushed to the bottom, and it only loads like four replies at a time so it just takes forever to get to the comment you want to read.

I used to like and use TikTok quite a bit but recently I’ve been turned off from the app. It just feels like every third post I see is an unofficial ad with somebody trying to sell me something through their TikTok Shop page. And then I get a bunch of posts that are engagement bait like “click on the template to eggplant emoji.” And I’d swear I never interact with those posts but they keep coming up.

All social media is brain poison actively trying to destroy me.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-mastercard-a-queer-ally-is-this-tv-show-my-friend

Posting this so I don’t forget the origin of the format and search for it, wasting five minutes of the only life I’ll ever have. Again.

Scrolled through the interview because I couldn’t believe these quotes were real. From the parts I skimmed this woman seems comically vapid, speaking mostly in buzzwords. Though she is talking to a journalist, maybe she just knows she can’t say what she really thinks about Logitech.

Best part I saw, right before the bits about the rent-a-mouse, was when the interviewer offhandedly mentioned smart homes. And she said (paraphrasing) “those are discontinued.” So the interviewer asks what people who bought smart homes will do and she answers:

We’ll continue to support, of course, what we’ve sold for some time.

Which we can agree is probably a blatant lie unless smart home owners would have grounds to sue. And then almost immediately after that they start talking about her new forever mouse.

I thought the most interesting part of the speech were the several moments where he struggled to read the teleprompter. And the times I got the feeling from his cadence and tone that he wasn’t comprehending what he was saying.

I hate that anyone who makes less that one million dollars a year has a positive opinion of Joe Biden. Mass Incarceration, opposition to desegregation and what was left of the New Deal when he got into power, lifelong corporate bagman. Stalwart champion of Israel. Just sucks. Just what a fucking asshole. But years of decent press as Vice President, and a mostly friendly media as President, and pretending like he’s a champion of American Labor and it seems like everyone just forgets or ignores what this guy stood for his entire career to date.

The weirdest thing about Harris for me so far is a bunch of leftists on Twitter suddenly coming out as shooters for Kamala. Clearly some of these people are left libs, not meaningfully anticapitalist in any way, who call themselves leftists. But where it gets confusing is that some of these I’ve seen are from bigger accounts that are popular on actual left twitter. I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about her perfect left voting record or just about how they think she has the right stuff to beat Trump or otherwise uncritically praising her. As if she wasn’t just another neoliberal. Isn’t she literally the one who said, back in like 2019, that she was in favor of tax incentives given to small businesses that operate in underprivileged communities for at least two years or whatever the terrible quote was. Idk, maybe that was Warren or one of the others, I can’t remember now Even if it wasn’t her that quote sums up her politics, from what I’ve seen (I haven’t poured over her whole voting record or anything, just read a few articles). I mean it was just a debate!

If she was leading the charge for a return to, like, New Deal era Kennedy style plans for making America into a soft welfare state I could get why nominally leftist people would be excited for her. Sure, that welfare would be predicated upon global empire, but it would make many people’s lives here better, so I could at least see the logic. But she’s not even offering something like that.

The only positive thing I can say for Harris is that her public persona comes off as so dorky and strange that it makes her seem like a genuine person, which is a welcome change after Joe Biden’s soulless platitudes or the madness of Donald Trump or the faux profundity of Obama. But even then, I’d say something similar about George W. Bush so it’s not exactly a compliment.

What the fuck is Weren Ice? Is that a knockoff Dentyne Ice competitor? Did you get bit by a door-to-door chewing gum salesman? Bud you gotta go to the hospital for that one, you’ll definitely get an infection. Unless Weren Ice is a special antimicrobial gum that turns the mouth into a microbial wasteland, in which case you should still go to the hospital but when the guy comes back to sell you more gum don’t buy any otherwise you have to eat a little bit of poop from a microbially healthy person.