Fuzzy Mike

when people say "Islamophobia is the only acceptable bigotry" they're not really saying "racism against blacks isn't socially acceptable" they're saying politicians can win elections by saying "i hate all muslims and we should kill them all" in campaign ads.

this probably has enough racism that he'll overlook it, but if i was in this admin i'd be careful bringing up the topic of people who don't win the nobel prize

i'm not that worried about AI in K12 schools because it's not like "learning programs" keep being used in schools for 60 years after being objectively proven to be disastrous for learning

it's not unthinkable that a good artist could take advantage of the aesthetics of AI output to make interesting art so it's notable that nobody (or hedging, almost nobody) has. that would take effort so AI users can't be bothered

"my family fled Trump" is the new "my family fled Castro"

This is true but it's also true that US Presidents have said this about most foreign election outcomes they dislike throughout history

again I think "stop signal boosting them! they just want attention!" has limits, and the guy who gives briefings to presidential staff is probably beyond that limit and it's then more impactful (in as far as posting is impactful) to signal he's an out of touch idiot as loudly as possible

polymarket saus it's not gambling because "people with knowledge (insider traders)" push the "market" towards the likely outcome; and it turns out lots of people are too stupid to realize you can't insider trade an election

unfair, there's way less insider trading in gambling

"the cheese factory thing? that's what 2008-2016 was like every day" AND, that period was better than 1992-2000, which was better than 2000-2006

imagine not only doing this but one year later telling your 11 year old daughter "i don't care about you" in the newspaper

we look back through history at "they executed not just the tyrant but his CHILDREN" as excessively cruel and brutal, but, well,

remember "working class people are always serving McDonald's to their guests"

there's a bizarre amount of liberals who think the civil rights movement was all marches saying "George Wallace is still better than the Republicans, and he's with us on everything else"

The actual evil hotel, in Jack's mind: ow. what the fuck. you know you're working for me right. yeah we want you to get the kid but maybe chill out.

i think i have a nonspecific recollection of Art Spiegelman being a dingus a few times in the past too

the thomas friedman "we could've picked any country, but we had to pick some country to beat with a 2x4, to show them all we can," but now for anyone who doesn't conform to fascist aesthetics and/or ideology

looking at the fascist impulse to blame every misstep on "bad advisors" im thinking maybe the Viziers were good and not scheming at all, the sinister Kings were just scapegoating them

we as a society really fucked up when we didn't say "no we gotta make this illegal" the moment the unsolicited pop up window was invented

i can't believe we're here after a significant part of Trump's 2024 campaign was "Democrats will take hamburger"

spider-man comic where it's revealed webbing is microplastics and every time it dissolves it's soaking new york in microplastics

so like what is the possible strategy to deal with Trump pardoning everyone, even under a SCOTUS that wasn't illegitimate hacks it seems plainly constitutional and legal shitloads of state charges?

ok FINE ill bite is the female Malfoy thing supposed to be "nazis (laudatory) are hot" or "trans people are nazis (derogatory)" or what

AI slop is somehow the 2nd through 4th stages of simulacrum simultaneously, trying to convince everyone it's the 1st stage

*sees a kindergarten level analysis of the military industrial complex* this is so insightful and brilliant

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

as his recent rant about "defund the police" shows, matty's reality is just The Discourse. if pundits/politicians are saying words matty agrees with, that means he's been Proven Correct. facts and reality don't enter into it

stunning to me that both ro khanna and brad lander can go through what they did and still come out saying "i wouldn't say the IDF are bad guys"

the closest we've gotten to the debates Real Americans have is "do all parades have a right to exist" and it ruled

i used to pester Yglesias by asking "if, as you claim, Dems have to get more racist to win elections in order to help minorities, but elections are every two years, then definitionally there is no point where they can abandon racism" and he never answered 🤔

searching for something in my old posts and found 🫠

"voters don't understand politics " is like "drivers don't understand how cars work" or "users don't understand how computers work" voting is selecting people who present themselves as politics experts to do politics for us. the job is demonstrate to the people they do car/computer/politics good

With a side order of “people who I think of as less worthy deserve to die”

MAHA is just "I don't like taking medicine so what if pretend medicine was unhealthy and candy was healthy" and im so so so so tired of people pretending it's anything but that

imagine if they kept translating it as "flute" like in Link to the Past. Zelda: the Flute of Time hits different

learning amy action was the victim of severe child abuse puts her throwing trans kids under the bus into a jaw dropping context

i like wording implying it's the diagnosis, not the condition, that kills them (allegedly)

Ben Shapiro is a decent conservative, by which we mean he's a hardcore zionist and honors charlie kirk. Don't ask about anything else he's ever said or done

the light in my hallway is flickering. i don't want to change it because it's still got juice but the flickering instantly sets my teeth on edge so i just leave it off all the time and never use it. my brain works SO well

am i seeing the past with rose colored glasses or are there less different ads in the streaming era like there's now always only 5 ads and you see the exact same ones every commercial interlude

love too poll questions like "should boys be able to tackle girls in football" instead of "should all teen girls be subject to genital and hormone inspections" or "should the government, not sports leagues, mandate eligibility rules"; then yell that gosh we just HAVE to be bigots