Cardiacs - Sink to Dog

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

He said “Son (M7) when you grow up (F33) would you be — wait what”

we all know that the primary value of film is crazy visuals. it basically only exists because they couldnt make spiderverse as just a painting. but classic art (paintings) is valuable because its sooo old from back when everyone was stupid. but its important to remember its evil because back then it was all made for rich people and the church also everyone was bigoted. BUT thats why we have modern art which is all about pretending to get it because fascists hate it and only like classic art (paintings) which are evil. and literature is all about writing lines that Go Hard

do what you will but never forget he is fucked up

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

I don't remember what post exactly I said this in, but I remember I once saw someone doing this and had to tell them "sometimes you think you're tricking the racist into agreeing with you when you're actually letting the racist tick you into agreeing with him"

the thing about these careful rephrasings is that they're always designed to center how some progressive policy will benefit the right winger you're talking to, which works precisely until someone reminds him that black people et. al. will benefit too, at which point we're back to square 1. in fact if you analyze the difference between how you're being asked to frame things and how he normally hears them framed, it's always just that

little girl in the checkout line was freaking the FUCK out reaching for a shelf and screaming "GIMMEEEE GIMMEEEEE" at the top of her lungs and the mom kept saying "no 🫩" and I look at the shelf expecting there to be candy or something and it was full of batteries

Transfem peter parker

Italians, huh? Maybe we're not so different after all. .