No word on this from the “Western workers = labor aristocrats” crowd.

SLOP THE STEAL!

Don’t you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you’d want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the tanks?
Quick, send in the tanks!
Don’t bother, they’re here…

I think it’s less “cult of personality” than “clash of personalities”

As a lib in high school, I remember reading ODitLoID and feeling very enthusiastic about the mission of the gulag. Buinovsky was unironically my favorite.

The usage on this site came from Twitter dunks, which, based on the GIFs people posted in reaction, were framed around the slam dunk, a performative way of scoring points in basketball. As it involves getting past all the opponent’s defenses, it’s often seen as humiliating for the opponent.

The choice of “the dunk tank” came from lexical similarity. Kind of ironic, because I’d be willing to bet that “dunking” in the basketball sense came from AAVE.

Trump will make him literally get on his knees and beg, then 2 years in they’ll have a rift and he’ll be out. SpaceX and Tesla will still have abominable levels of government funding though.

It’s used slightly differently from the origin of the term, for the past decade it’s been used especially by the online left (semi-ironically?) to refer to a very drawn-out and public fight within a party, especially over doctrine.

Yeah, his reversion back to extremely-online made me scratch my head.

rare and precious Tervell rantpost

Polyrunning, polylifting, polysweeping, polydating, polyeating, polylaughing, polyspawning babies!

I’m gonna go with extremely proximal responses to this.

What brought me here: A casual thought, 3 months after the fact, of “they had a lifeboat Discord they were talking about, I should check that out”.

Why I’ve stayed: Because I wasn’t banned, I guess.

Millions of people walking to their nearest police station/jail to be incarcerated for civil disobedience and jam up the works, but the police refuse to arrest them and they all just remain standing out in the cold.

After 5 hours they decide that instead of contracting pneumonia and overflowing the hospital, they will converge in the nearest Starbucks or Whole Foods, where the management is happy to accommodate a mock proceeding by bunch of sign-waving people while the libs are buying overpriced treats.

I lathed this but for Burkina Faso. Close enough.

Somewhat self-important? Maybe (aren’t we all tho). But “annoying”? Certainly not.

After distracting myself and returning to the subject later, I have to step back from the position that closing the tanks was a good thing. The inevitable result is that the pillory content will spill out or disperse into other comms. Much as I’m iffy about what their effect is on our mental health, they really were the best compromise.

Oh and also, what is the party line on the word “binch” and its derivatives, which came out of the dirtbag left around 2018? Is it good practice to say something like “clarence thomas retire binch”?

I’m sorry, the only things I want to block are Cop City and weapons shipments to Israel

Y’know how they used to say that was good for your kidneys because it looked similar?

Carcosa is what I would consider a Rightly-Guided admin. They’ve always been responsive and judicious from everything that I’ve seen.

We’ve had controversial policy changes before, even larger ones than this and they’re never easy.

Ultimately I accept the reasoning behind closing dәnk and drec; I think anyone who’s that attached to them has probably been engaging with them to a level that can be characterized as mental self-harm. I was talking with a friend just yesterday about how sometimes it seems like we’re constantly fixated on people whose opinions we will not change, and have this morbid commitment to locking ourselves in the dialectic of opposition. This is not just rent-free, this is a whole public housing project in our brains.

Give me one thousand cases of a misguided person who’s half-right but stumbles into incorrect conclusions, before even one case of a wilfully ignorant, egotistic Australian college student trying to be edgy while having a 9-year-old’s understanding of the world.

Also I do wish that other people across the lemmyverse would see this instance as a fierce bastion of altruism, like I do.

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