yesman

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[–] yesman 4 points 10 hours ago

Oh come on. The strangeness of this story makes it credible.

Being surprised is an opportunity to examine your assumptions, not cosplay as Q.

[–] yesman 3 points 12 hours ago
[–] yesman 6 points 13 hours ago

Remember, when you hear liberals fretting about Kash Patel and Donald Trump's vendetta against the FBI they're not worried that the Feds are going to do injustice, they're worried that they're going to turn their injustice against bonified citizens like Liz Cheney.

Sure, Patel is going to cause innocents to suffer, that's business as usual. But he's also going to damage the FBI. At least in reputation. This is a very good thing.

[–] yesman 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's no secret to progressives that authoritarian agendas thrive when working-class voters feel abandoned

It's nice they included this statement as the first sentence. It's lets you know right up front that if you don't accept this premise, then the conclusions that follow are going to be incoherent.

Progressives need to realize that Marxism is a fine tool for some problems and not the answer to every question. It's not just the economy, stupid.

[–] yesman 36 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

If Batman were a realistic Billionaire, he'd buy Wikipedia to "set the record straight".

[–] yesman 1 points 1 day ago

I will never hear the phrase "Pavel and his mates" the same way again.

[–] yesman 4 points 1 day ago

I was worried that this was going to be gore, and then disappointed it wasn't.

[–] yesman 15 points 1 day ago (25 children)

Posts complaining about "politics" and "propaganda" are invariably made by people who want to see those things, just the kind aligned with their politics.

I think the first time I saw this meme format was around 2002-2004. And I've seen it 10,000 times since then. And if OP is posting this in good faith, this will be the first time.

And BTW, there is no such thing as a space without propaganda or politics. Only spaces where the politics and propaganda are homestyle and cozy.

[–] yesman 23 points 1 day ago

I want the Russian Navy

Mistaken for torpedo boats

I want the real Russian Navy

Fired upon them

No, the real Russian Navy

also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée

Perfection

[–] yesman 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Instead of denying the label "terrorist", we should embrace and normalize it. It was always a rhetorical weapon for the status-quo, and we have the power to take that away.

[–] yesman 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The people responsible for your anxiety are not offshore, they're upstairs.

 
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I've always been told that Hitler was a masterful public speaker; that his support can largely be explained by his compelling, if not mesmerizing hold on crowds. This narrative is not common, it's universal.

Sometimes I think this is emphasized over how much the crowds approved of the content of his speech.

How do native German speakers feel when they view footage of Hitler? Do you think the reputation is earned?

 
 
 

I use a box fan to help dry the dishes in the dishwasher. Recently I mistakenly pointed the fan away from the dishes instead of toward them. This appears to be faster and more effective than my normal method. Why?

 

Internet culture loves nothing more than adopting half-understood academic jargon. And more and more I'm seeing the phrase "media literacy" to mean: being smart enough to come to the correct interpretation, or even worse: being able to decipher authorial intent.

I'm a 'death of the author' kind of guy, but we all should agree that any text will have multiple valid interpretations, so long as you can back it up with the text.

I wanna stress that I'm not gatekeeping the phrase, I just want to promote the idea of media education over the smug notion that one person reads books better than another.

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