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brexit is easily the dumbest political and economic decision anyone has made this century. way stupider than the Iran war. trump could pull out of NATO tomorrow and it would be less disastrous than brexit was. complete economic suicide and it's amazing how remain was not just vindicated but things are worse than they said they would be. and there was even more migration after than before!!! they didn't even win on racism. and it was the willing choice of a huge part of the British population, directly from popular democracy. the English are not an intellectual people, to put it mildly!

just ask that person out, the worst thing they can say is an esoteric incantation that topologically inverts your body

I don’t care how big the dick bulge is, I’m not playing marvel rivals

Must not pick that scab off. It will not in fact get rid of the scab and just create a different scab. The scab is not done cooking yet. I am completely normal about scabs. <-gripping the edges of his chair so tightly the wood is starting to crack

I always thought they should invent spray-on scabs that you can pick at safely.

the post going around about how you can't automate various fabric processing/sewing tasks is largely not correct and i think suffers substantially from treating technology as separate from economy/policy/research funding/capital. & have a half-thought-out response but wanted to plant a small flag first. you can cut fabric to a pattern in a variety of more or less automated ways. & furthermore the extent to which automation is or is not happening is partially to do with legitimate difficulty of robotic manipulation of flexible materials & textiles AND partially to do with the cost of automation vs cost of sweatshop labor. i think it rly devalues the role of globalization of the supply chain & exploitation of labor in the global south to just hand-wave textile & clothing automation as impossible when it is not so

I never really get why people think this is so important. When you decontextualize words originating in black communities, you are harming black people, and when you decontextualize words originating in bigot communities, you are helping bigots? Personally I think both of these are wrong, but just logically, at most one of these can be right, no?

Always funny seeing The Falklands War dropped in the middle of a long spread of Margaret Thatcher's horrors. Like. I don't think we can really blame this one on her, friend. I sorta think the fascist trying to stabilize a failing regime via revanchism might be the wrong one here.

To clarify, the point is that it is not fixable merely through purging a minority of "bad actors" and that, while things can be fixed for the better, you cannot simply "go back" there is complexity there.

can I honestly say that it's kinda weird how much the spectre of "purging <undesirable persons>" hangs over this kind of discourse despite not being advanced as a method usually?

I mean the "illegals taking our job", "makers vs takers" "Purge the commies", "get tough on the crimmos" or simply gotta "get rid of the Globalists." don't really seem that uncommon

Yeah I think that's the same thing, for the RIght People participating in markets fully or expressing themselves can only be good, people censoring or regulating me, a Good person is offensive, the Wrong people must be removed so that the right people can have maximum freedom. There has to be something that can be purged to allow us maximum freedom.

a hundred years ago it was the same thing: capitalism and industrialisation and urbanisation were producing results that made some people uneasy, and they blamed it on unwanted social elements.

I want people to be so jealous of my expensive car that they spend 24+ hours taking Adderall in order to b able to continue masturbating to the thought of defacing it with spray paint

Consent isn't the worst framework for sexual politics but I do think the focus specifically on explicit consent was only ever appealing to people who cling to procedures more tightly than morals.

like if we're already making out shirtless on the couch in my apartment it's safe to assume I'm not going to consider it *assault* if you touch my genitals without asking first, even if i'm not in the mood that's on me to say something to stop it from going any further. what are we doing here.

admittedly some people are human doormats who don't speak up when they're not enjoying something and just passively go along with whatever. but some people are also human doormats and lie when you ask if they're enjoying something. it seems counterintuitive to cater only to the first demographic and not the second, and in either case the problem really lies with the human doormat themselves.

orson welles was 25 when he directed citizen kane. steve jobs didn't start apple until he was 21. bobby fischer didn't become grandmaster until 15. mozart didn't even compose his first symphony until he was 8. you have time.