It's literally insane to me that something so important could be held to a simple majority referendum
a 2/3 majority I could see
It's like at the end of air bud where you're trying to determine which one of you gets to keep the dog by putting the dog in the middle while mom and dad call out "good boy! Good boy!" and whoever the dog goes too first gets to keep him
Nobody appreciates that Air Bud 2 is the real masterpiece.
Six am I invited to your exclusive Brooklyn rooftop fireworks bespoke grillpalooza
Well you are now
I was being facetious Six I'm on a bus from Maryland to NYC right now i am unable to attend
Unrelated but pay no attention to the Exclusive Brooklyn Rooftop Fireworks Bespoke Grillpalooza (2) tickets that have appeared on Craigslist for a 400% markup
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Still working through this but I really liked this part
Above all, Trump supporters are “not politically correct,” which, as far as I can tell, means that they have a particular aversion to that psychological moment when, having thought something, you decide that it is not a good thought, and might pointlessly hurt someone’s feelings, and therefore decline to say it.
Very simple and elegantly put
idk, I definitely think that a lot of the "politically incorrect" things that Trump supporters want to say are gross and wrong rather than (as they seem to think) true and fearless, but I'm still hesitant about this counter-diagnosis. I'd have to think about what precisely bothers me, but a rough first pass is that it tries to stake out the author's politics as really being an unremarkable category of basic decency, and so not even politics. But I think we should be reflexively suspicious whenever someone tries to make this move.
Six am I invited to your exclusive Brooklyn rooftop fireworks bespoke grillpalooza
Well you are now
I was being facetious Six I'm on a bus from Maryland to NYC right now i am unable to attend
Unrelated but pay no attention to the Exclusive Brooklyn Rooftop Fireworks Bespoke Grillpalooza (2) tickets that have appeared on Craigslist for a 400% markup
You joke, but every year we have people from the building just try to come watch the fireworks up here like its a public terrace. Since I'm hosting by myself this year I'm a little worried random people I don't know will just kind of show up and I won't notice. Also people are inviting others who I don't know so I can't be like GET THE FUCK OUT WHO ARE YOU for fear of tossing someone's fiancée or something.
MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
I had a vegan dog at Franktuary the other night that tasted so much like my memories of a generic meat dog that I almost spit it out. I was sure they had gotten the order wrong. I only ate it after someone else in my party who eats there a lot tried it and reassured me that it was right.
It was an occasion to reflect on the fact that I don't really like shitty hot dogs very much, and that although the technical wizardry that it took to recreate it in vegan form is all very impressive I'd really have rather had a veggie-r dog.
Still working through this but I really liked this part
Above all, Trump supporters are “not politically correct,” which, as far as I can tell, means that they have a particular aversion to that psychological moment when, having thought something, you decide that it is not a good thought, and might pointlessly hurt someone’s feelings, and therefore decline to say it.
Very simple and elegantly put
idk, I definitely think that a lot of the "politically incorrect" things that Trump supporters want to say are gross and wrong rather than (as they seem to think) true and fearless, but I'm still hesitant about this counter-diagnosis. I'd have to think about what precisely bothers me, but a rough first pass is that it tries to stake out the author's politics as really being an unremarkable category of basic decency, and so not even politics. But I think we should be reflexively suspicious whenever someone tries to make this move.
Being a terrible and indecent person IS new politics again.
Still working through this but I really liked this part
Above all, Trump supporters are “not politically correct,” which, as far as I can tell, means that they have a particular aversion to that psychological moment when, having thought something, you decide that it is not a good thought, and might pointlessly hurt someone’s feelings, and therefore decline to say it.
Very simple and elegantly put
idk, I definitely think that a lot of the "politically incorrect" things that Trump supporters want to say are gross and wrong rather than (as they seem to think) true and fearless, but I'm still hesitant about this counter-diagnosis. I'd have to think about what precisely bothers me, but a rough first pass is that it tries to stake out the author's politics as really being an unremarkable category of basic decency, and so not even politics. But I think we should be reflexively suspicious whenever someone tries to make this move.
I think what is bothering you is the anodyne, kumbaya can't we all get along description of "political correctness" as a method of defanging the vehement arguments/unhinged raving against it
Which is fair I guess, but this passage is one tiny bit of a much longer article of the author (an avowed liberal) talking to a bunch of Trump supporters to gather some observations for this piece and not directly confronting them for their perceived transgressions. It's interesting writing and definitely more nuanced than that little clip, and the authors politics and stances and how they interact with complex and messy reality are explicated more thoroughly. I like this particular bit because it packages the basic decency argument with the word "pointless", which succinctly appeals to a basic societal code to not start shit for no damn reason
I just finished a super racist story from C.M. Kornbluth about the reason we definitely had to drop the bomb on the Japanese to end WW2.
Basically it boiled down to like... the assumption that they would resist so ridiculously powerfully that we'd lose the war even after beating Germany, then they'd take over the western US and impose a like comically backwards feudal existence where there was no manufacturing and everyone farmed and ate a cabbage a day because they just didn't understand how to use the vast lands of the US for good.
His explanation of how the Nazis would work after taking over parts of the US was "send everyone to the camps if they disobey", his explanation of how Japan would take over took several digressions to be like "Oh by the way: they're real weird and dumb for this list of cultural practices"
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Murdoch is a bad, bad man.
Nobody appreciates that Air Bud 2 is the real masterpiece.
don't forget to bring artisanal small batch rustic wheat hotdog buns
I was being facetious Six I'm on a bus from Maryland to NYC right now i am unable to attend
Unrelated but pay no attention to the Exclusive Brooklyn Rooftop Fireworks Bespoke Grillpalooza (2) tickets that have appeared on Craigslist for a 400% markup
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Fuck buns that taste like the ground.
...I think that may not have come out as intended.
I'm watching the episode this edit is from, more like Geordi LaRekt.
My old pup used to be super angry about horses on TV. Like he would just go off at horses having the temerity to be alive and in front of him.
It is interesting that dogs seem to have little trouble recognizing cartoons!
idk, I definitely think that a lot of the "politically incorrect" things that Trump supporters want to say are gross and wrong rather than (as they seem to think) true and fearless, but I'm still hesitant about this counter-diagnosis. I'd have to think about what precisely bothers me, but a rough first pass is that it tries to stake out the author's politics as really being an unremarkable category of basic decency, and so not even politics. But I think we should be reflexively suspicious whenever someone tries to make this move.
You joke, but every year we have people from the building just try to come watch the fireworks up here like its a public terrace. Since I'm hosting by myself this year I'm a little worried random people I don't know will just kind of show up and I won't notice. Also people are inviting others who I don't know so I can't be like GET THE FUCK OUT WHO ARE YOU for fear of tossing someone's fiancée or something.
so much for doing anything today
It was an occasion to reflect on the fact that I don't really like shitty hot dogs very much, and that although the technical wizardry that it took to recreate it in vegan form is all very impressive I'd really have rather had a veggie-r dog.
@wandering
I just got back into bed.
Hey, who's that creeping kid? I want him to star in my movie, "The Creeping Kid."
Being a terrible and indecent person IS new politics again.
Ya cuz 7 8 9
I think what is bothering you is the anodyne, kumbaya can't we all get along description of "political correctness" as a method of defanging the vehement arguments/unhinged raving against it
Which is fair I guess, but this passage is one tiny bit of a much longer article of the author (an avowed liberal) talking to a bunch of Trump supporters to gather some observations for this piece and not directly confronting them for their perceived transgressions. It's interesting writing and definitely more nuanced than that little clip, and the authors politics and stances and how they interact with complex and messy reality are explicated more thoroughly. I like this particular bit because it packages the basic decency argument with the word "pointless", which succinctly appeals to a basic societal code to not start shit for no damn reason
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And you don't want 9 getting all blushy and touchy at your party.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
Yes you do.
Trust me.
Basically it boiled down to like... the assumption that they would resist so ridiculously powerfully that we'd lose the war even after beating Germany, then they'd take over the western US and impose a like comically backwards feudal existence where there was no manufacturing and everyone farmed and ate a cabbage a day because they just didn't understand how to use the vast lands of the US for good.
His explanation of how the Nazis would work after taking over parts of the US was "send everyone to the camps if they disobey", his explanation of how Japan would take over took several digressions to be like "Oh by the way: they're real weird and dumb for this list of cultural practices"
Yo I heard he ate 9
That dogg is crazy
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Right but how many are monogamous?
Ugggghhh fine Ok neco you may have your celebratory spank
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I honestly don't know. The world of people in their 20's in NYC is mostly foreign to me these days.
Wait is this a ladder theory joke now.