ottr. SFW account. He/him. Age 26. Pfp by @Yurricanes.
Joined October 2019
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The DC Question truly eradicates the mind of the genre of conservative who sees themselves as smart. They can't let themselves say "duhh no Dumocrats please," cause that's redneckish, so they end up saying shit like "it is physically impossible for the status quo to be unfair."
A lot of people have a conception of fairness that I find fairly alien. If you set up rules that say that Washington DC is not a state (with everything that entails) and then you tell people that are free to live there or not live there, then that is in my view fundamentally fair. It’s a straightforward rule that’s easy to follow, that does not obligate you in any specific way, that does not penalize you in any way that you are not able to easily overcome.
This is just straightforwardly fair.
Fairness doesn’t just mean that you want something and you’re not currently allowed to get it or that you wish the rules were different.
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32 years ago today, No TV and no beer made Homer Simpson something something.
#TheSimpsons episode “Treehouse of Horror V” premiered October 30, 1994.
I’m gonna settle this once and for all with my new two continent model.
Continent 1 is Afro-Eurasia. Continent 2 is All The Other Stuff.
The end. I solved it
Guy who thinks St. Louis, Missouri, has more in common with Atlantic City, the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, and the Oklahoma Panhandle than it does with East St. Louis, Illinois
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I just want nonamericans to understand that this isn’t actually meant to be food. I mean, yes, you eat it, but the purpose of gross nonsense like this is purely and exclusively making a display of excess for shock value
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thread of headlines from newspaper archives about people with the same names as future famous people!!!!
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The thing with Chotiner is that he’s not even a particularly tough journalist. He’s just the only one willing to argue with the person he’s interviewing and point out contradictions
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A big problem with immigration discourse is that everyone imagines a more coherent and sensical system than the one that exists. “I want people to come the right way and not cut the line.” There is no line.
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This is all well and good to say until you actually watch the movies and it's a bunch of actors awkwardly standing in front of a green screen giving deliveries like they've never spoken the English language before
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i think it bothers me that some fic writers seem to peddle the "it's just a hobby! we're not taking it seriously!" thing as if it's a universal truth. i take it seriously. i want to be good at my hobby. and it's fine if you don't, but i do
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Every election the left is presented with the world's easiest trolley problem, and every time they smirk and go "the trolley shouldn't exist" and then walk away.
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Some centrist pundits will be like “perhaps we should grind some trans people into paste, to win independents in OH-09” which prompts some trans pundits on social media to be like “every Democrat alive wants to murder me, they are all Hitler,”
Meanwhile blue states have made approximately ~zero concessions on trans issues (even when unpopular with their own voters!) and writ large trans people are extremely reliable Democratic voters and donors. The whole thing is extremely detached from reality.
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A generation of young men helped destroy democracy and instead of admitting fault and helping to put it back together, they're like "fuck it, not our problem." A generation of self-absorbed nihilistic pieces of shit.
