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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!

The notes are broken. This is what tumblr is all about apparently.

THE NOTES ARE BROKEN!  This has been reblogged so many times, Tumblr just shrugged and said “infinity”

the mercedes clr incident at le mans is one of the only racing crashes i feel comfortable laughing at because a) nobody was seriously injured and b) it is a little funny that mercedes watched their car do That and were like "okay. uh. you know what we're just never doing le mans ever again"

hitomi and her adventures of diving into her black boyfriend's mouse pussy

ttrpgs and derived games clinging to hag's claws (or other named variation of witches having a Melee Attack) is an interesting artefact, mostly because it so rarely makes sense for a character to do that kind of thing in a modern game to the point where it's challenging to visualise. you kind of just need a stereotypical hag, which, granted, does factor in at times

my throwing-darts-at-the-wall theory is that the concept of the witch as an archetype, despite being gendered in a way many people are uncomfortable with (even people who otherwise go big on anti-PC stuff), is mechanically interesting enough to make it harder to rework, so it outlasted a lot of other similarly gendered roles and accordingly outlasted its own aesthetic

the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you

I think a lot about this one twitter post where someone, lacking a few crucial pieces of information, says "you know jesus wasn't real" (not really the popular stance among non-religious scholars these days, but fair enough) "and neither was muhammad" (the degree of historical attestation here is a bit different)

YEAH

I think we should keep spreading misinformation about Charlie Kirk’s death being a inside job within TPUSA because it’s a really decisive thing among influencers on the right rn and it slows down their propaganda machine because they’re too busy arguing about this bum. First time saying this but yeah, sure, that public figure’s wife put a hit out on him. It was Erika, don’t give up on getting him justice, Candace!

ember island players' the boy in the iceberg is satirical anti war agitprop produced under the fire nation's most intense era of media censorship

the ember island players will be vindicated by history

The Good Place is an excellent show for many reasons, but one that doesn't really get talked about enough, probably because of how the season 1 twist obscures it, is that the 'No Exit'-esque "Hell is Other People" scenario for an afterlife of eternal torture is an avante garde experiment from an Auteur demon who's trying to convince the other demons of his Vision while they're like "idk man flaying genitals works really good"

something kind of poetically beautiful in how starfield, the launch of bethesda's new setting that they would have unambiguous intellectual control over, mostly seems to have entered into pop culture awareness for a grotesquely taxing total conversion that doesn't run on most computers, and that conversion is star wars