the thing about blind hero worship as an attachment to your favorite thing is that is pulls out of people, time and time again, their need to "rationalize" away empathy for the victims to make the thing their fav did okay or non-existent.
kill your fucking darlings.
yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
"Were the poor to vote with full strength, Barber said, they could elect lawmakers who support policies focused on the wide range of topics that impact the poor, such as voting rights, raising the federal minimum wage, housing issues, LGBTQ+ rights, & climate change"
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.
Sometimes you have to love British euphemisms. If someone showed up drunk on live television, the BBC would say that they were "tired and emotional" to evade a libel lawsuit.
Sometimes you have to love British euphemisms. If someone showed up drunk on live television, the BBC would say that they were "tired and emotional" to evade a libel lawsuit.
Are cities for their actual residents, or for wealthy suburban business owners/political donors? With folks like Eric Adams & Providence's Brett Smiley, if journalists pretend not to know the answer, they're revealing they ALSO think they work for the latter.
"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?
gaiman made his own statement claiming he had a “consensual” relationship with a woman decades younger than him that he EMPLOYED and HOUSED, why are you all dancing around that part and claiming it’s all just TERF podcast lies. do you not believe your special comfort author’s own words???
It's perfectly normal to look at your kind beautiful successful childhood friends and think "I hope you stub your toe so much a disorder gets named after you"
i look at pompeii jackoff guy and feel like i’m part of an assassin’s creed type story, a long line of heroes who jack off in the face of history’s most important events.