Entertainment companies are constantly releasing shit glamorizing and fetishizing actual wars and crimes and making action movies about tough badboy cops who have to go against human rights to save the day or angloid chud operators tearing up a Third World Shithole or whatever but don't you DARE release a trailer for a diving documentary while Hamish Harding, CEO of Action Aviation, is stuck in a metal tube he paid a quarter mil to put himself in

I love that I have this little creature in my house and all she does is walk around looking for a new place to take a nap and stare out the window and throw up on my floor and I’m like I would Die for this creature. she is perfect. and I tell her I love her and in return she has no thoughts whatsoever

don't be silly cats have SO many thoughts, or possibly just a few thoughts SO many times

there’s avatar and then there’s the blue people movie

Today's Seal Is: Peeking...

I will be 70 years old and I still will never have gotten over the time the Mythbusters used a rocket powered steel wall to - and I use this word as literally as possible - vaporize an entire car into red mist

https://youtu.be/Nl8xTqTUGCY

If you haven’t seen this episode of Mythbusters I feel so bad for you because “What car?” remains to this day as a defining moment of my adolescence and my entire life

That was a near-religious experience 

I made a gif of it for those of you who cant watch the video in your country. Or if you know you just want to stare at it mesmerized like me

maybe consider commissioning me since you guys love this fella so much x

but if there’s platonic kissing whats next??!!!!????? sex without romance??????!? romance without sex?????!!!!? friendship?????? friends with benefits????!!! platonic lOVE????? staying out of other people’s business???????? WHO KNOWSS

This here is me homunculus flesh puppet that me soul will transfer to in the event of me death. It’s got no soul insider it right now, so we keep it in a constant state a euphoria ter keep it from massacrin’ me customers.

saw this massive onion bigger than my entire hand in the produce aisle and immediately snatched it up solely to weigh it and a guy across the aisle asked how much it weighed because he was curious as well and when i told him it was two pounds he excitedly was like “it’s like the biggest one i’ve ever seen..” humanity rocks moment. bonding with strangers over giant onion

calling the cops on someone else in america for drug use is the most comically evil action i can think of that you can still admit to in public and (unfortunately) not be shunned/exiled/physically attacked for. you're very explicitly saying that your sheltered discomfort with seeing someone do drugs is worth ruining that person's entire life over (even though you could get the same effect by just continuing to walk past the drug user until you never see them again). 18th century dauphin mindset. "papá! papá! i espied that peasant over yonder partaking of a snuffbox! throw him in the dungeon, lest my delicate morals be corrupted any further!" kill yourself perhaps

elon musk is literally like a parody. like he cant genuinely fucking be like this like bro is on some satirical depiction of a spoiled rich kid type shit. like hes a cartoon evil rich guy. throwing tantrums bc someone criticized him or said they didnt like him. spending billions of dollars to buy an app and then changing the app every time someone uses a feature of the app to insult him or hurt his feefees. dude straight up does the cartoon steam blowing out of ears train whistle shit irl every time someone says anything mean to him or is transgender but whats terrifying is he has enough money to do anything he wants and millions of chuds who would gladly no homo suck his cock every night before he goes to bed. like. how has someone come to be like this. why has this been allowed to happen why was he created

i think most rich guys are actually more like elon than they aren't, they all have simpering fanclubs online but enough haters to keep them up at night. i've seen a good half-dozen "richest man in X country" instagram accounts litigating their personal beef with some obscure shitposter who won't stop trolling them. they run the world but everyone doesn't love them so they're not happy

this is the richest guy in africa and his mortal enemy, a bored brazilian man

if you send me a video essay called "The [Adjective] [Noun] of [Media Title]" im sorry but theres no way im watching that shit

Send that shit t9 me instead I'll watch it idgaf

"A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled this man by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."

(P. G. Wodehouse, via Wodehouse Tweets (@inimitablepgw) at Twitter)

One of the interchangeable ghouls running in 2024 is talking up his plan to tie voting rights to passing a civics test & it's amazing watching people discuss this in neutral terms

A lot of the response to this is "oh, that's great, next let's restore civics education in schools", but the entire point is that they're not going to improve civics education. The age range gives a hint: this is a ploy to disenfranchise young voters, by, presumably, demanding they pass a test the state won't train them for in order to get rights granted by the states. It's like saying "oh, yes, literacy tests for voting makes sense, it'll really inspire the South to educate black people". It uh. Didn't. And I think many of the people agreeing know that and support it bc it's disenfranchising, but some seem to just agree bc it's "COMMON SENSE" and they're not digging any deeper?

This would be a civics test authored by a far right administration, to be clear. The tests we give immigrants are already propagandistic nonsense, imagine that in the hands of the "slavery taught people valuable skills" crowd

Also, his amendment would allow young people who can't pass the test to vote if they join the military. This is a "service guarantees citizenship" amendment

This is just literacy tests again!

One thing that gets overlooked in conversations about these kinds of tests is that the government isn't required to design a good test. That might seem like a small thing, but during the days of the literacy test governments would go out of their way to write up ambiguous or deceptively worded questions to drive down the pass rate.

Here's a literacy test that was used in Louisiana in 1964. I want you to seriously try taking this test, and remember that you have to answer every question correctly in 10 minutes to vote.

Number 30 is the most egregious to my mind. Draw five circles that do what with one common inter-locking part? What's an interlocking part anyhow? Some of these have multiple possible answers. Is the answer to number 25 "Paris in the the spring" or "what you read in the triangle below"? Number 9 is a particular bit of fuckery, because the right answer is to draw a single curved line that intersects Z and Y.

The government cheats. The worse part is, you can't bloody well vote them out of office for cheating, because they've already taken away your right to vote.

"Well I'll just wait until I'm 25 and vote them out of office then!" What's keeping these people from increasing that age to 35 or 45, or just getting rid of the age requirement altogether? You can't fucking vote against them raising the age limit, can you?

"Well they can't ban everyone from voting." They don't have to. Here's a fun bit of etymological trivia: the term "grandfather clause" comes from exceptions built into the literacy test system that stated you don't have to take the test if your grandpa could vote. These exceptions were put in place soon after black people were first given the right to vote, so most white people were exempt but most black people had to take the test.

Don't think they'll put in an exception that lets their voters keep voting while preventing you from voting? They're already doing it. The average soldier is more likely to vote conservative than the average person of the same age bracket. That's why soldiers get the exception! No way they'd give the same exception to members of the Peace Corp, despite a Peace Corp member doing a hell of a lot more to fulfill their civic duty than a soldier, because those people are bloody liberals.

A more present day firsthand comparison for people: states banning abortion didn’t lead to those states also providing services to the women they force to give birth. The whole point of those states banning abortion isn’t actually to “protect life,” it’s to ruin the lives of women.

This is the same concept with young voters. If a “civics education” even actually did happen, you can bet it would be full of disinformation that’s supposed to force people to accept Republican bullshit or else not get to vote.

Voter ID is also a modern case of this - they framed it as a way to fight voter fraud, and in a vacuum, it sounds neutral...but that ignores how Republicans simultaneously made it more difficult to get IDs, and that voter fraud as they frame it basically doesn't happen (since, well, their side are the only ones trying to do organized voter fraud)

I can't imagine what a nightmare a civics test written by the far-right would be. Imagine having to answer that Biden stole the election in 2020 or that the Civil War was about "state's rights" to vote

moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.

[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]