People on a budget can just slow the fuck down. Speeding tickets are not cheap.

Because most people have a parasocial relationship with media personalities so it kinda feels like it’s happening to people you know.

It’s not obvious to people who like evidence. What you describe is called suspicion.

Suspicion is a reason to start look for evidence, not a reason to stop.

Your opinion is that secret assassins killed a man in prison. And you aren’t interested or even curious to back that up with anything.

I’m not going to just buy “secret prison assassins” without any evidence that they even exist. Especially when ‘jailbird kills himself’ is reasonable and likely.

What you should take away from this is not that suicide is difficult in prison, but rather that suicide is so common they have specific policies in place.

It makes 10000% perfect sense that Epstein would kill himself. He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over. People killing themselves in this situation is so common that it’s a trope in media.

The idea that some CIA-Mossad-Legion of Doom joint operation to assassinate him is the claim that’s short on evidence.

Gnome get’s up and out of my way. 9/10.

I don’t understand what you mean. How is one “memory holed”? Presumably this means to encourage people to forget, which is why Sandy Hook is a weird example. Not only was that one of the biggest stories of that year, it echoed through the news cycle for years through lawsuits, the Alex Jones thing being the most famous.

It’s ironic to use anything as an example of something people forgot.

2 more weeks and that’s vanilla beans.

You could have just said ignorance is bliss.

In so many ways ‘Donald Trump’ is a victory of liberalism. Arrogance and incompetence flourish in societies where the beneficiaries of great wealth and power are two or three generations removed from the people who were clever enough to steal it in the first place.

And America has been such a place of abundance for the highborn for so long. Their blatant criminality is tolerated and normal. Is it any wonder that people who’ve never faced meaningful consequences have trouble with making big decisions?

I think it’s interesting to contrast Germany’s fall into Fascism coming from humiliating loss and economic ruin, to America’s slide from a position of global dominance and unimaginable wealth. Maybe second time as farce?

The Barber’s hair is long because he’s not allowed to cut it himself.

One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.

Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.

This works on libertarians too.

Fiat currency is socially constructed and would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It’s just that the value of gold works exactly the same way.

Sci-fi eugenics is still eugenics.

The Nazi term is “useless eater”, but I suppose “drain on society” is a pretty good translation.

Media criticism has become so full of right-wing messaging, that quality-slop doesn’t sound off-base. Kinda like poes law.

These CHOADS take the time to learn media-criticism jargon and aesthetics, but they use those to make single-digit ‘your Dad’ type complaints. The most popular being the existence of black actors.

I’ve seen people vehemently argue scientific accuracy in Star Wars. People are aggregated right now at the “unrealistic” casting of black actors in a Cyclops movie. Next to this insanity, quality-slop sounds pretty reasonable.

All the talk of games ownership and preservation overlooks the fact that I can play my first steam game today, while so many of my disks have been lost to time.

And let’s not forget how much bullshit came with those disks. DRM schemes up to and including root-kits. Serial # and activation codes. And don’t forget, though you had physical media, what you actually owned was a licence.

Con man Albuquerque

Anybody can cook like Paula Dean. All you need is lots of butter, cheese, and racism.

Being the “black friend” providing cover for White Supremacy is hardly anything new. Relying on black identity to legitimize racist ideals is some nested dolls of irony and hypocrisy.

I know a white guy who admits his is a race isn’t so good at critical thought.

It’s for people who want to skim but not to read.