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  • Frankenstein’s monster is an early incel. It’s so ugly that society violently rejects it despite herculean efforts of the monster to find belonging. It’s solution is to terrorize the Doctor into creating a “female” monster for companionship.

    So the monster is miserable, hates society, and has a plan to punish and destroy leading up to a climactic suicide. And it’s only hope is for a waifu created by science.

    I think about this sometimes.


  • yesman@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTerrible people
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    The absolute fragility of the right. I mean people on the left have been feeling pretty low this week, but I haven’t seen a single lefty so openly seeking validation from the right. You can’t “both sides” some random cruel rhetoric with specific stated cruel policy goals.

    You are a bad person for voting Trump. And you’re fretting about being labeled a bad person because you know it.





  • yesman@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldHarris' Messaging problem
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    Harris is missing 10 million votes that Biden got in 2020. It looks like many of those 10 million were suburban men who didn’t vote Trump, just sat on the couch. misogyny is a viable explanation for this because otherwise you’ll have to explain why Biden set the left on fire, or why Biden was so inspirational to men.

    She lost the scrote vote, simple as that.




  • yesman@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzChance
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    It turns out that it’s hard to tell the future. Polls have to make assumptions and the safest assumption is that this election is going to look like elections in the past. From the early voting data, we know that this election isn’t like 2016, or 2020, and what that tells us pretty reliably is that the polls are wrong.

    This is how Trump got an upset in 2016, he turned out loads of people who normally don’t vote, and were therefore underrepresented in the polling. It is likely that many of these same voters are going to sit it out this year while all the polls are counting them double.


  • Why does “freedom of expression” always mean “let’s hear the Nazi out” in practice?

    Is it equivalent to burning the cross? The Swedish flag?

    Not all flammable things are the same. The flag and cross are literal symbols of State power in Sweden, the Quran is a book that’s only precious to an oppressed minority.

    I don’t feel like someone burning my symbol or flag should be punished with prison

    I wanna stress that the people sentencing this man to jail are not the same as the people offended by the burning. This power dynamic is important.








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    During the early '00 flight sim fans were enjoying a Russian game called IL2. The other offerings from Microsoft and Janes just couldn’t compete with the level of detail in the flight models. Turns out, the people working on the game were all trained in aerospace engineering. The guys who went to school to work for the famous Russian aviation firms were making video games instead because it paid better.


  • Systems are not the sum of the individual actors who participate in them. Systems can influence and even control individuals back. Therefore, individual flaws in character or intellect are necessary, but not adequate to explain why systems are flawed.

    Consider the future imagined in the movie “Idiocracy 2005”. Society is collapsing because people are dumb. This is the explanation for all problems in that society. Capitalism, Resource extraction, environmental degradation, political corruption, and a rather authoritarian government are all blameless. The implication is that capitalism an authoritarianism are good if we could just be smart about it.

    This is a big difference between left and right thinking. Republicans argue problems can be solved by reforming individuals; the police are good, there are just a few bad apples. Or that the right individual, at the helm of a system, can clean up all the issues with strength and resolve. This is the central pitch for supporting Trump.