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Hey, OP, show me anywhere that anyone ever said "older things are 100% indestructible."

Oh wait, you can't, because no one said that, you just decided to conflate "this thing is better" with "this thing is unbreakable." When someone says "I like pizza more than hamburgers" do you think they mean that pizza contains all the nutrients anyone would ever need throughout their entire life? Oh, you don't? Because that's not what they said? Weird, almost like you're being willfully disingenuous or something.

And yeah, ivan, more than one thing can be true. It's almost like no one fucking said the thing OP claims and you're equally disingenuous and trying to clumsily backpedal.

“They don’t build them like they used to!” If old things were indestructible then antique furniture restoration wouldn’t be a thing.

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I sincerely think a lot of the regression of and backlash to feminism on this site comes from people on here spending way too much time online and not enough time in the real world.

"Umm these people on my dashboard are stanning fictional female murderers and that's Bad :/// Women CAN do bad things, guyz. Ur mocking my dorky little dude blorbo and saying men are dumb and misandry isn't ok :'''("

None of this is a problem in the real world. In reality, the internet gleefully sided with an obvious wife-beater and said his victim was a crazy, lying bitch while they made tiktoks out of her rape testimony, women are dying from Republican abortion bans, the UN found that 9 out of 10 people are biased against women, men in South Korea use spycams to film women in places like bathrooms without their consent, and the Taliban banned women's voices in public. Nothing you see on tumblr outweighs the real life prevalence and impact of misogyny at every level of government and society around the globe. Go outside and get serious.

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They'd just ignore like they do for any trans person they don't like.

hillary clinton spent her entire life trying to become the first female president with the singular bloody-minded devotion of a ming dynasty court eunuch and kamala harris just ambienposted her way to the top

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Which is also something they've already said, only it was 4 years ago and about Biden

Attention Fellow Leftists!

We can complain about, and TO, Kamala Harris when she is president. For now we girl boss coconut her cringe butt into the White House to defeat Donald Trump. The revolution is not coming before the election. November 5th is happening, you can meet the moment with all its complexities or you can sit this one out and fail your country.

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"But the anti-Zionist Jews!"

Man, good thing the people screaming this didn't spend years going on and on and on about various types of "internalized bigotry," including "internalized antisemitism," or anything

Try replacing “Zionists” with “80% of Jews” and repeat your sentences that way before you say them.

“Zionists are incorrect.” —> “80% of Jews are incorrect.” Okay, sure.

“Zionists are evil.” —> “80% of Jews are evil.” Unless you think 80% of the world is evil, that’s a messed-up (and bizarre) belief to have.

“I wish all Zionists a very painful death.” —> “I wish 80% of Jews a very painful death.” That’s really gross, don’t you think?

Hope this helps.

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Me: we should do this thing to help with an issue

Tumblr: well actually the issue shouldn't exist in the first place, so it's pointless to try and help to make the issue less bad instead of just completely getting rid of the issue

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why do y'all think your brains can perfectly, constantly separate fiction from reality

Well, probably because it's a well documented stage of childhood development that starts around the age of 5 and not being able to do that means you have a disorder of some kind.

they make it sound like a bad thing that people can separate fiction from reality

fandom and life would be just a bit more peaceful if all antis did was talk about things they like

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So we just going to ignore that these people have apparently found it harder and harder to believe that people shouldn't be rounded up in camps and exterminated because of how they were born?

Because that is and has always been Magneto's MO for non-mutants. If you have found it increasingly hard to recognize that that is wrong then you need to seek help.

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OP do you have a career involving the movie theater?

Because you are amazing at projection.

"weird" really is the perfect descriptor for modern conservatives because I would argue the defining feature of the current american far right is that they exist purely in their own bespoke media ecosystem that is both highly conspiratorial and mostly untethered from the truth. this is a group of people whose belief system has been debunked and disproven so many times by legitimate sources that they've resorted to just telling each other increasingly absurd lies in order to justify those beliefs. the upshot of this being that the minute you remove any of those lies from said bespoke media environment, there's really no appropriate response other than some varient of "bro, what the fuck are you talking about?"

how am I supposed to respond to someone who says that Democrats are running a satanic cult where they ritually sacrifice children to harvest their adrenachome - a theory that is not only insane, but is also a throwaway gag from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. what do you expect me to say to someone who says that trans women are dominating in women's sports, and when asked to give examples responds with a list of non-white cis women? How am I supposed to take someone seriously who thinks that wildfires are caused by space lasers controlled by the Rothschilds or that schools are installing litter boxes for children who identify as cats or that most large corporations are "Marxist" because they have mandatory diversity trainings?

like sure I can take them seriously as a political threat but how am I supposed to have any respect for them as *people*. because as people they are just deeply fucking weird. we should be able to dismiss them out of hand because it's not like they'd care about whether or not we're making a reasoned argument

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Michael Crichton:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

It's so funny when someone who is aware that the media is a manipulation machine takes reported statistics as indisputable fact.

You know they lie to you 24/7, why doesn't that extend to the numbers??

You know that when they do report facts they distort and shape the discussion around those facts until they are unrecognizable so why can't you see that the stats they highlight are part of that?

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I see this shit and I wonder: is there, even theoretically, anything which can be done about it in general?

(To back up Domenech, here is the 2021 interview, the clip is taken from about twentyfive minutes in.)

The obvious first problem is the lying. Legally, this is protected by the First Amendment, and one has to clear a high bar of showing specific harm (such as being defrauded) to prosecute lies in America. Socially, it is one of a great many lies being told by a great many liars. Getting just one to stop would be ineffective, getting them to stop en masse would be a Herculean task. Specifically a task like cleaning the Augean Stables.

The second problem that comes to mind is that even if there were a remedy like "Legally compel @harris_wins to issue a correction", such remedies are extremely prone to abuse as a class. It would take law-writing that is both unusually clever and unusually moral to give Vance some way of punishing @harris_wins for this, without also risking collateral damage to speech protections, and exploitations of the power to punish.

The third problem is that an account like @harris_wins is disposable and replaceable. It is not the official Kamala Harris account. It's a sort of credibility-printer or the product of one, that can be spun up, tell loud and flashy lies, and be ditched when it comes under fire. It's cheap chaff, it's moderately polished with the signs and language of journalism like screaming "BREAKING" on everything, and it gets a million views.

The sort of punishment one can practically inflict on an account like this is only a cost of doing business for whoever's paying the cut-outs and interns and troll farms for Kamala's campaign.

Fourth, I think, is the aggravating nature of this particular lie.

Trump's lies usually involve saying he's the best, he's the greatest, everyone loves him, he'll fix all your problems, et cetera, which are colloquial English for him being moderately above average, some people love him, he might mitigate a couple of problems. I'm autistic and I dislike the way people casually lie in ordinary speech and say "it's hyperbole", but it's hard for me to feel any extra hate for Trump over exaggeration-to-the-point-of-falsehood when it's so common.

Whoever is running @harris_wins does not have the hyperbole excuse. This is not partial support for Project 2025 being exaggerated into complete endorsement, this is a false source and they're claiming it contains something it does not contain at all. Vance never mentions Project 2025 at all (how could he, in 2021?) in the clip, he is saying routine politician things about taking power and replacing the existing ruling class, that is not "Vance completely endorses Project 2025".