That was cringe but 9 to 5 still slaps and nothing can take that away.

She also did a lot of work with literacy in Appalachia, embraced LGBTQ rights, generally a decent person for the capitalist world we live in.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-119-how-the-right-shaped-pop-country-music

The official website podcast already weighed in a few yrs ago.

I don’t know enough other country to certify this take as

However, Willie Nelson/Dolly Parton/Johnny Cash style country is clearly lost for cosplay and reactionary thought.

The song slaps so hard too.

A child… in the 2010s…

Try getting hit with a scary site that screamed at you from your friends on AIM… goatse or some other shock site…

You are correct on Augustine, who is a goat.

He’s basically got the erudition of platonic philosophy without the pedo shit. He also had a poster’s heart, going hard against manichean and pelagian thinking.

Aquinas is truly a fucking travesty. I’d take Martin Luther for that price, but my god, what a pathetic list.

I said it elsewhere here, but Augustine mogs Aquinas in every way that matters, incredible the original creator didn’t recognize this.

Not taking Augustine for 25 is a sin, figuratively and literally.

Mogs the top tier entirely, Aquinas can’t even hold a flame to Augustine’s ability to be a hater.

The fact that Luther isn’t here is disgraceful. Truly a dogshit chart.

Take Augustine twice and Marx 10x. Absolutely body everyone who shows up.

I had to ditch my 12 year old econobox. Switched to an EV.

I still hate driving, but modern safety features (proximity sensors and cameras) are a bit better at least.

I still would prefer a train though.

Just to be a bit of a devil’s advocate, there’s value in broadening cultural horizons. As an example: I love me some anime and cartoons, and while they are not as stigmatized as when I was younger, they are often associated as childish.

However, I’m a grown ass millennial and have also watched The Seventh Seal and other “adult” films.

I think if you never bother to try other genres, texts, etc that’s not good even if you are hyper fixated.

This is, I think, also why the Harry Potter ppl must be disciplined even beyond the politics. If you haven’t bothered to go beyond the things you read in your youth, you’re not growing as a reader. You can have affection, nostalgia, love, etc. but part of being an adult is recognizing that those things are limited because of the youthful audience and leave things out of their stories that are enjoyable to experience.

Tldr enjoy what you like but if you only consume YA fiction (or insert thing here - anime, scifi, fantasy, genre etc.) consider broadening your taste and horizon. Then by all means continue enjoying whatever you enjoy. To some extent op seems to be articulating this best possible version, but there are ppl who haven’t gone there and need to be told to try new things

This is unironically the Hasan position. Whenever zohran wins, it makes our life easier. When he does dumb shit we critique. We win either way, but he’s much more useful than a reactionary because in his successes we can point to evidence for the kind of world we want to make.

P.S. he makes reactionaries furious, which is a fun bonus as a treat.

Clearly you’ve forgotten how Nanoha works. It’s not so much the power of friendship. In Nanoha, you get BEFRIENDED through starlight breaker. Violence is how we make friends.

See here : https://inv.nadeko.net/qBunw-BxydQ

What the hell, more evidence.

Nanohas wife: https://inv.nadeko.net/uOPFK2Wd2wo

Her daughter (from the previous timeline): https://inv.nadeko.net/j6WStMjuxbE?

Donkey Kong was basically an odyssey sequel, fwiw

I think removal is fine for non-malicous posting of slop without a tag. Either tag it (and yes, agreed that reposting for mockery is fine) or having it removed or, if the attempt was malicious (“look at what I made”), ban of some amount.

I think this is where any claim to authorship/creation is what should actually be a bannable offense. Anything else (getting snookered by someone else’s slop) should be given grace, but if a hexbear poster creates slop and is unwilling to claim it as AI generated, that’s a bannable offense imo.

Transparency is what matters. If a poster is conned as well though, they need to edit as soon as it’s made known.

Trying to pass off slop as original content you created should be bannable imo.

I don’t buy this at all. Not going to say he’s a true ally, but his work for the NYC DSA slate and also AES and Cuba suggest he’s more than just a grifter to me.

If his goal is to make Mamdani unremarkable, our goal should be to make Hasan unremarkable, but I don’t think dumping him is actually the way to do so. Just my .02 but it feels like there’s way more obvious targets out there (Grim after this platner shit, liberals and right wingers) than someone who is already far to the left of the Overton window in America and generally avoids the worst kinds of slopulism. The fact he’s never backed down on trans rights, Palestine,etc. even though it would have been the easiest pivot suggests he’s in good faith even if he’s still an electoralist.

Just my .02 and obviously you’re welcome to disagree but I think there’s way more important targets than someone who pushes for the most left candidates our current system offers. Our job, in union organizing (what I do) and other forms of power is to produce the real material leverage that can change the system beyond electoralism.

Hasan is an electoralist at the end of the day though. For those of us who see it as one strategy (and I should say, my personal position is electoralism is a means to an end, it can open up space for organizing wins ( i.e. if right wing administrations produce organizing energy, left wing organizations make it slightly easier to do the actions to get real wins for my members. This isn’t to say you can’t strike under a right wing admin, but there’s definitely more contingencies in that case. Just my .02)).

I’d rather have someone like DAC in office when my union strikes since they might actually show up at the picket like and push the administrative state to pressure my bosses. That’s just my perspective though, and obviously I understand that anti electoralist comrades think that’s not worth it in the grand scheme. Still, if Hasan got someone like that elected in my state/district, I think it would be worth it.