Sometimes I make video games
Since this is advice given to a monarch by a person who otherwise has no impact on the rich and powerful, I’d argue you could call this a case of Jester’s Privilege
We should bring that back. If nothing I do matters, then nothing I say matters, right?
Dream big, Irwin. I know you’ve got it in you
Sounds to me like more time for pillagin’
Ah, family dinner at the Birb house
Later, mom will visit the kids’ table to regurgitate. Wholesome tradition
Oh sure, I don’t disagree with that.
But I also don’t think a group of teenage soccer players are the people who deserve to receive extrajudicial violence
Reading articles like this you always want to be careful. People are often pretty quick to pick sides when it’s about whether or not a mob was justified.
There’s a genocide being perpetrated by Israel, but not all jews are Israeli, and even if they were you can’t really hold individuals abroad culpable for the sins of their government.
So this mob is racially motivated and engaged in terrorism - what else do you call turning an armed mob loose on a bunch of teenagers? This will surely come back to say that Palestine supporters are terrorists, and now you’re right back to lumping everyone into a group.
There would be a certain amount of irony that goes with racially profiling a racist mob. Too bad that means lumping a whole people in with the shitheels who’d be prepared to threaten kids with knives
This seems to be about oppressing women while uplifting the creepiest sort of men.
To give the maximum benefit of the doubt (which frankly, I don’t think they deserve), there’s evidence to suggest that birth defects become more likely as the mother gets older. I’ve always understood that to happen in women of a more advanced age though, 30 is too young to be a cutoff.
Also, women can’t marry older than 25? What kind of bass ackwards handmaid’s tale bullshit is that? If you want to have a family I guess you’ve got to hitch your wagon to any horse you can get your hands on. They’re so fortunate though that the law doesn’t apply to men, so they’ll have plenty of creepy fifty year old dudes to choose from.
I think as a rule we should start sterilizing politicians who endorse sterilization. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? Of course, a hysterectomy is quite an invasive procedure compared to a vasectomy, so maybe in the interest of equitability we should begin with castration.
Anyway, this kind of rhetoric isn’t really for women - they just happen to be the ones affected by it. For the men that this appeals to, they’re probably believe they’re more likely to attract a virginal beauty if they start removing women’s options. It’s truly abhorrent.
Sensible club owners know never to point your club at something you don’t intend to wumf
I mean… it would have to be?
Is there even that much money in the global economy?
Yeah, I’m sure a soldiers don’t normally face reprisal for refusing to follow orders. /s
Maybe… don’t issue orders that may be war crimes?
The mime rifle is silent, but deadly
You laughed in my face and called my viewpoint absurd while defending the status quo
If you think the status quo is acceptable then I’m not going to be the person to convince you otherwise
If you think 35% of people not being able to afford a home in a world of plenty is ok, then I think you have more to learn about than statistics
Many years ago, I worked at a Walmart.
One of the only events that staff would look forward to was an employee profit-sharing program.
It was essentially an annual bonus, and it was typically worth about half a week’s pay. Most places that would be an insulting low bonus, but when you work minimum wage and don’t get benefits, anything extra is appreciated.
While I was working there, the store went through some major renovations to become a Super Centre. If you’re not familiar, that means they added a bunch of refrigerators and such so they could sell fresh groceries instead of just pantry items.
It was a huge pain to deal with during the renovations, they were super disruptive to operations, but the store never closed. We just had to work around the contractors, and the customers were more ornery than usual.
That same year they opened another store across town. Ours is a fairly small town, at the time I wouldn’t have thought that our town would support two Walmarts. But since our store was going through major renovations, the other location cannibalized a lot of our traffic.
We didn’t get our bonus that year because we weren’t profitable enough. We didn’t decide to do renovations. We didn’t decide to open a new store. We all had to work harder to accommodate the grander corporate strategy of strangling the life out of our town’s economy.
This was at least ten years ago. Income inequality has only gotten worse since then. Why the fuck would I do more than the minimal effort if they’re going to squeeze me for the minimal wage?
‘Most’ isn’t good enough
51% is ‘most’
If you scored 51% on a test, you would fail
Y’know, I think the only silver lining to deepfakes is that if my nudes get leaked I could just brush it off and say they’re fake.
Of course, that’s easy to say until you’re slapped in the face with your own bits
The boss asked us to take the dog out, where did we go wrong?
The man with the gun shoots the gun.
The man without a gun finds a gun.
“Good idea, what’s writing?”
“I don’t know”
“Me neither”
Finally, Ernie has everything he needs to blackmail the warden
It’s all coming together