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OMG U SUPPORT CENSORSHIP AND HATE FREE SPEECH U MONSTER!!!!111111111eleventyone
Seriously, the best way to handle stuff like this is simply to have two versions available: censored and uncensored. Then people can be free to pick whichever one they want to enjoy.
Plus whatever lobbying brought mild (to-not-mild) swearing to PG-13 movies.
Oh, yeah:
>politicians wonder why people don't seem to trust their ability to do things
>can't Brexit for two years straight
>need extension on groupwork because nobody can even agree what project they're doing
>complain that it's group-leader's fault for trying her gosh-darned hardest
>hold meeting to decide on new project without group leader
>can't
>repeat steps 3-6... forever?
* "OMG we love Brexit, screw all good sense, I just want to spite the EU over some money and/or immigration issues"
* "so Brexit may have been a bad idea but we can't say that because the idea did technically pass in a referendum even if people didn't take it very seriously but like we have to figure out some way to make it happen now or we're even more screwed"
* "can Brexit please remove itself from existence because Brexit is a horrible idea"
Of these groups of people, the third deserve my support, the second deserve my derision, and the first deserve an obscene gesture.
It seems the one thing everybody can (marginally) agree on is even more extensions, which the EU will probably gladly accept despite their PR hardball. I mean, eventually maybe people will notice that the British parliament is basically playing for some sort of double negative where they do somehow manage to erase Brexit but I'd really rather they just do the thing they were asked even if it is a nightmare.
For some reason I still want to say "so people can learn to treat the democratic process with respect" even though Donald Trump is the president of the USA because a bunch of people made him president and somehow those same people want more of Donald Trump being president.
On the Democratic side, we have the cult of Joe Biden who somehow all forgot that putting Joe Biden in front of a camera ever is a severely bad idea (he already accidentally announced he was running for president), then somehow marveled when it turned out he has personal space issues (before of course immediately rushing to turn this into a Big Deal where there were more victims of his... awkwardness?).
Of course this is all just sucking away air from any of their viable candidates and the many things they've done wrong.
I understand that there are genuine people who have genuinely suffered at the hands of others, but taking the energy of a faux #MeToo campaign against every one of your own candidates (Amy Klobuchar is a difficult boss!) in addition to all of this painfully overwrought value signalling (Pete Buttigieg is nowhere near gay enough, apparently? Beto O'Rourke is... white!) is only serving to hurt everybody's prospects.
But like, nothing really matters till primaries so all of this is just a bunch of hot air that even I'm caught up in.
Unsurprisingly, no internet service though, either because of stolen cables (there's a cut off one I'm pretty sure wasn't there earlier) or because of a problem (unrelated to the blackouts) I was told they're having at the central. Data plan fees are high now so I'm really going to need it back at some point, until then I'm going to be posting much less.
As for Brexit, they really messed up by putting themselves in a situation where you can't call it off without implying you only care about democracy when people choose the way you want to.
Also, fuck currency controls.
The part of me that wants things to be new and different all the time wishes that another Brexit referendum would still result in a leave vote (I mean, it wouldn't be hard to double down on "The politicians are in bed with the EU!!!1!!1!!/It's all a CONSPIRACY").
Yeah I'm not a fan of currency controls either (they used to be really bad here when I was a kid just starting out collecting stuff) but I don't like the idea of big multinationals essentially doing Yet Another Thing they can do that the average layman can't even dream of.
I tried reading a few alternative takes of the Joe Biden thing aside from my usual haunts (read: Vox is being particularly insane about this and I just don't agree with their seemingly endless take on it) and it turns out [places I will not dare to even link other people to] that claim they're "standing away from the insanity of the right and the left" are actually just secret soft conservatives with all that pervasive heteronormativity and other stuff that usually comes with said territory.
So, yeah, I learned my lesson. I feel particularly daft about this actually, and a little disappointed in myself even.
I just now realized that the site is basically called "The Local No".
Also for some reason my household has been spared from the massive energy rationing plan going on in Zulia.
Gotta keep going.
Unfortunately some killjoy spotted it during (what here was) the night.
Now we get articles from professional news sources that are just "some people said this, but other people said the opposite, fair and balanced!" when really, nothing is, and most of the dialogue on either side is over-inflamed grandstanding.
Unless you meant YouTube reaction videos or reaction images, in which case those suck too.
Anyways, a few days ago I think I may have given a knee-jerk reaction to the allegations against Joe Biden. I already knew his candidacy was a bad idea, and what he was accused of seems light in comparison to what's happened to others.
But, as a person in a position of power over others, he should have known better despite (or even because of) his touchy instincts. I mean, he certainly made a great number of people severely uncomfortable in way that was totally avoidable.
* thanks! i hate it
* various subreddits on odd finds on the internet, e.g. "title gore"
* kids/teens/etc. react to whatever
* YTP-watching reaction videos
* virtue signaling (or what i call "social posturing") by having and disseminating opinion on controversies (to the point where a person not having an opinion can occasionally be seen as implicitly condoning something)
* chat logs screenshot and posted just to show someone doing something stupid
* or outrageous
* "let's troll people and post the result online"
* etc.
i liked it more when memes involved more creativity than just reacting to stuff.
Those aren't really reacting to things since the posts are just whatever relevant thing with submitted as-is.
edit: the first "odd finds" subreddit that came to mind for me was r/engrish and despite hundreds of thousands of "readers", most posts have very few replies, and quite a few with none at all, looking through the first few pages.
"occassionally", he says.
Those are the best ones tho
Is there, like, no stability at all in this guy's opinion on the situation?
Not to mention how he's basically a motor mouth.
Maybe this explains the one guy whose schtick is wearing a top hat and always carrying a cane when all he does is review games.
Or CNN's Richard Quest.
This is the gist of what I resent about the internet these days.
See; Instagram (vaguely NSFW, I guess)
Also; Today I learned about this horrifying scenario on which Mao's China accidentally/purposefully killed off all the natural predators of stuff that really liked eating their crops. Crops they needed to like, survive.
It's the normal sort of projection you'll find in the average person's social media (hey my life is great all the time!) taken several times too far.
This account skewers some of the most popular posts on instagram, for example, that claim authenticity. It's not just instagram, try watching a lifestyle YouTuber like Safiya Nygaard. You might even believe her life is normal, but that's because as a former Buzzfeed video reporter she has the charisma (and now means) to make it appear so.
Nobody who is posting a 10-18 minute video to YouTube a day is normal, because that's their livelihood right there. A professionally edited YouTube video doesn't just magically happen, after all. However, they will attempt to claim authenticity till the bell tolls.
Unless they're Logan Paul, in which case they'll fake (maybe?) being a flat earther for a bit before interviewing Alex Jones for their millions of impressionable audience members.
Well, like I said, it's not a new thing, it's been there for like a decade if not longer.
Also the part where they had people melt off stuff they needed so they could make low-quality steel in their backyards.
^ Speaking of which, the other day I overheard my neighbor at his home speaking in English non-stop (as in, not talking with someone else). I wonder if he was recording himself for a Youtube video or something (that or he was making an audio message).
or summoning Cthulhu (Basic ver.).I wonder if the Flame Wars of yore (oh my gosh how are Flame Wars old now) were a precursor to hyper-angry social media discourse. We just replaced nerd interests with every single one of society's ills.
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