The horrible thing about it all is that saying you should always punch Nazis was an uncontroversial statement even as recently as three years ago.

The only reason it’s now considered a terroristic threat is because powerful figures have started openly identifying with fascism.

We need to be saying it more, not less.

Wait are you saying that Hitler is good?

I’ve got all the people in the world who eat chocolate for its health benefits in the room with me right now, and they said, “”.

The cadmium is actually part of a new marketing push: “Try Hershey’s, they’re Cadmiummy”

There’s a very large community on the other place absolutely frothing at how much censorship already exists in all the big models and trading tips on how to jailbreak them, and Meta in particular are putting a lot of money and effort and influence into trying to convince everyone to let them run riot. Sadly it looks like these bots are going to get worse before they get better. :(

at that stage you can just make up the answer as well

I never watched his series, but there was a photo of Cain as Superman accompanying the article and he certainly seemed to be the most smug self-satisfied Superman out there.

Worst offenders are the people in my apartment block who don’t seem to realize how small a room an elevator is. I can’t even get pissy at them because they know where I live.

Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:

• takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house

• predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club

• the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you’re losing years of progression in a way that doesn’t happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.

• spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well

• success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer

• …as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.

Yeah, Dean Fucking Cain did.

Only in as much as they know it’s bunk that only works if the participant believes it does.

the tech lobbying group CCIA Europe, whose members include Alphabet, Meta, and Apple.

Freedom of speech is nice and all, but shit like this needs to stop because it’s a direct assault on democracy

That’s what I meant by “slightly”. It’s an expression that gets used when we all know the answer but it’s one that’s slightly under the surface.

Ah, OP makes more sense now. I’ve only ever played strategy and RPGs and was going to say I’m better now than I’ve ever been.

Right, but saying “three guesses” implies that the answer is something that’s slightly hidden. “Capitalists” doesn’t really make sense because it’s essentially going “three guesses who it is that’s doing all this capitalism… that’s right, capitalists!”. If OP didn’t intend it as an antisemitic dogwhistle then it’s an odd title for other reasons.

(edit: I just had a glance through their post history and I think it’s probably not supposed to be a dogwhistle, but just unfortunately titled; I think maybe OP just assumed everyone reading it were already on the same page on whatever specific thing they themselves blame capitalism on?)

Ignoranus n. Someone who is both ignorant and an asshole.

I think this above all many other things over the last couple decades are where the Democratic Party have gone mask-off about who they really are.

They’ve lost the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and both Houses in recent years, and finally the moment they get one small chance of victory they’re just… nope, we’d rather lose yet another election than allow a left-of-center candidate to win.

Yeah I can’t think what else OP could mean though? All the other answers I can think of are too broad and obvious for “three guesses” to be a thing you’d ask.

You know someone’s no longer talking in good faith when they use words like “inappropriate and outrageous” to describe the suggestion of abolishing a department that didn’t exist 25 years ago. This is someone consciously and openly attempting to shift the Overton Window so that they don’t keep getting called on to defend the indefensible.

lol, I have been thinking about rules for a competition where you go on reddit to see if you can get certain types of disproportionate responses:

• most innocuous foible for which someone recommends a divorce

• most inoffensive post about Japan that causes someone to complain about WW2 war crimes

• most reasonable mainstream position that causes someone to call you a tankie

any other suggestions?