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Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right:

• Trump starts a contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir company to create a database of ALL INFORMATION on EVERY LIVING AMERICAN

• Its revealed Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have had a very massive fight, supposedly because Elon Musk is sleeping with Miller's wife

• Trump ousts Elon from the administration, after over five months of being besties. Leaves with Stephen Miller's wife, who he just hired at one of his companies (!?)

• Elon starts saying the Big Beautiful Bill sucks

• A GOP Representative reveals that most of them didnt actually get to read the Big Beautiful Bill, GOP leadership basically made them rubber stamp it and they are pissed to find out it makes them all look horrible. A lot of them are now discussing a shakeup in GOP leadership.

• Trump says Elon has "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (🤮)

• Elon escalates massively, stating that Trump is in the Epstein files and THATS why they havent released them yet

• This comes right as Alex Jones loses a massive chunk of his audience because he's endorsing Trump's Palantir contract, and his fans are basically all very concerned about their privacy. They want a new conspiracy to follow and they just got one

• Trump starts threatening Elon's government contracts

• Ian Miles Cheong calls for Trump to be impeached immediately, and for JD Vance to become President. Elon Musk quote retweets this with "Yes"

• JD Vance was mentored by Peter Thiel

• Steve Bannon takes to Fox calling for the immediate deportation of Musk, and making SpaceX a public company

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this is basically a short horror film

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Ipnotico

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my hottest take

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THEY MIGHT HAVE FIGURED OUT WHATS CAUSING LONG COVID?!?!???

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I literally heard myself wheeze at one point reading these. 😂

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literally crying laughing at this

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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Yosuke Amemiya

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My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.

With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.

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It’s telling, almost bleakly predictable, how many readers/viewers bend over backwards to redeem Nick in The Handmaid’s Tale. The irony is thick: in a story centred on diminishing women’s rights and bodily autonomy, there’s this impulse to extend compassion to a man who, by design, helped build the world that made those violations possible. A few decent gestures and suddenly he’s a romantic lead, a “good guy” lost in a bad system. For the love everything, please be serious.

What this really reveals is one of the novel/show’s quieter lessons: the danger of male-centred women and pick-me behavior. Women who align themselves with oppressive systems, believing that proximity to power will protect them, often end up reinforcing the very structures that harm them. They think they’re the exception. They think they’ll be spared. And when they’re not, the damage is already done, not just to themselves but to others who counted on their resistance or even crossed paths with them.

Nick isn’t a rebel. He’s a functionary. A cog. A man who chose survival countless times through allegiance and only offered help when it was convenient or emotionally safe. That’s not heroism. It’s self-preservation dressed up in a softer light. And people begging for his forgiveness ignore the bigger truth: that it doesn’t matter if he “cared” when he still upheld the system that killed, raped, and dehumanized women.

But my biggest issue here is this: The desire to exonerate Nick is a symptom of something deeper and more troubling: the refusal to let go of patriarchal frameworks, even in dystopia. It’s the hope that if just one man can be kind, maybe the system isn’t that bad. But it is that bad. And clinging to a few scattered good deeds doesn’t absolve anyone of participating in its violence.

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Tidbits of jonsa in the script that I think about a normal amount

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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet

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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

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this duck LOVES pink drink