Crazy Eddie

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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dongcroncher

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"C'mon Olympians it's bedtime, time to go to your anti fuck beds!"

freckledsweetpea

wtf is the "weight of one person"?

they're acting like some of the athletes aren't 95lbs and others 300lbs+

juani-de-molina

Yeah, you bring a good point. I know weighlifters and other fat athletes get treated like shit on the daily, but this is excessive

autisticshonenprotag

this is completely fake btw. these beds are intended to be recyclable and can hold up to 440lbs/200kg. there are no reputable outlets reporting on this “anti-sex” beds and the only ones that do are citing the tweet above. here’s another article disproving it like yes fat athletes get treated like shit and it’s important we talk about it but this whole anti sex bed thing is 100% untrue lol

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loki-zen
soulvomit

We used to have a narrative about girls who were the only child of a working man and learned his skillsets, and became dad’s apprentice. Of girls who were raised in a family full of brothers and weren’t intimidated by even relatively rough or boisterous men. And that same girl might be “one of the guys” in a friend group. We used to have a narrative for tomboy.

What happened to this narrative? Why was it demonized and how? Later on, I started to hear “cool girl” stuff and “you think you’re not like other girls” with the implication being “get back into the girls’ line” and that any one woman actually just being where she felt comfortable or being non-conforming, actually represented a threat to women as a group.

Isn’t the idea that one woman’s presentation and way of life is necessarily damaging to all other women, kind of… parochial? I’m not even sure how that’s feminist or when that came to be feminist?

flakmaniak

When I would read posts about the “cool girl” archetype (or occasionally “one of the boys”) ages and ages ago… Things from mainline feminists on major-ish blogs…

It just read to me as cartel-y. Like “curb your expectations, boys; how dare you fantasize about a woman who shares your interests and is easy to get along with and is a raunchy bastard like you are”.

With a certain kind of jealousy over… The notion that someone might authentically be Like That. Mixed with the notion that no one could be, and it’s just pandering to men. (And that merely portraying it in fiction is dangerous precedent!)

And then… The undercurrent of jealousy over… Well, the notion that this hypothetical woman might actually get along easily with men, might have easy casual friendships and relationships.

You can say I’m psychoanalyzing too much from too little… But when it’s this “betraying the sisterhood” thing for being gender-nonconforming and having interests and preferences that align with stereotypical men’s ones… I’m gonna call jealousy before I call “deep-seated distrust of masc women”.

loki-zen

No you’re right

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crazyeddieme
konjurx

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crazyeddieme

what about “thinking people should struggle because you think it’s the entire reason you’re at all competent now”

crazyeddieme

when the actual reason was “they were wrong about you, you weren’t actually an idiot, and that’s the reason you were able to learn things despite the bullshit they put you through” and you don’t realize the struggle won’t necessarily “work” on anyone else…

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quasi-normalcy
quasi-normalcy

I actually think that one under-remarked-upon reason for the intensification of the culture war is that the left has pretty much turned its back on from the sort of cruel “edgy” humour that was popular ten to twenty years ago whereas the right still likes it.

quasi-normalcy

I mean obviously there are other, greater reasons, but I think that the fact that the left and right no longer even a “common language” for calling each other idiots is probably a contributing factor.

loving-not-heyting
sonofmeatthawsmoth

The thing about “kill pedophiles” and “castrate rapists” and all that is that it’s a flat-out reactionary sentiment that gains a lot of traction in Leftist circles and it goes practically unchallenged because anyone who does challenge it can be accused of advocating rape or sex with children.

sonofmeatthawsmoth

Some radfems have found this post and of course they’re treating it with all the nuance such a sensitive subject deserves (telling me to kill myself).

bayesic-bitch

I made a joke a couple years back saying that it seems like for a lot of anarchists, the actual issue with the justice system was that the government wouldn’t let them have lynch mobs. And dear god has that one come true, I saw something just the other day saying that the problem with capital punishment was that the government shouldn’t have the right to kill people, but if you just let me bludgeon people to death with a baseball bat it would be great.

loving-not-heyting

“No, see, the problem is not the torture and killing and mutilating, it’s that they get some semblance of a fair trial instead of letting me just brutalise whoever the fuck I want”

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fullof4nswers
daggers-drawn

If the president and congress really wanted less crime they'd make less laws regulating behavior through criminalization. Instead they make more.

They are the ones who produce crime. With more police and more regulations they can manufacture a crimewave.

If they ban menthol cigarettes, for instance, now selling and buying them is a crime. Now people who weren't breaking any laws before are criminals without changing their behavior at all.

That means crime statistics go up. "A crimewave! We have to make a task force of police to go after the criminals, obviously."

And with more eyes on the street and more surveillance they catch more people. Higher statistics, another crimewave!

And by now this commodity is involved in gangs because gangs make money off prohibited commodities. There's an association made in the media and now anyone and everyone selling that commodity is an instant suspect of gang involvement both to the public and police.

This acts to justify the war on dissident communities that they always aimed to have in the first place.

Don't fall for it.

daggers-drawn

Remember this when they clutch their pearls about crime: decriminalizing drugs on a federal level would result in a ~20% drop in the crime rate and that could be done at any time.

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mellifluousbenthictones
lets-steal-an-archive

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BREAKING: Joe Biden today signed an executive order ending new federal contracts with private prisons.

This is great news, and a reminder of one of my three favorite memories from LEVERAGE (longtime humans know this one, you can skip)
The S2 finale – which would have been a perfectly good series finale – left Nate Ford in the hands of law enforcement. And Portland had this perfectly good empty prison sitting there. So S3 started with an episode about Nate, in prison, discovering a cash-for-inmates scam.
This episode was of course based on the famous “kids of Cash” scam where two PA took kickbacks to jail over 2000 kids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
So @Dean_Devlin as was his wont, arranged for the premiere episode to be shown in a proper theater, but party, etc. It was (insanely) shot on 6k, so why not?
At this screening I was sitting next to an older Hollywood agent …
During the screening he leaned over to tease me. “This one is a bit much, isn’t it?”
“No, this one is real,” I whispered back.
He stared at me.
“Except in real life, it was kids.”
A beat, then in full voice, in a crowded theater, he exclaimed “IN AMERICA?!”
Yeah, man. Welcome to the country you don’t know exists, in the dirty little corners of your shining city on the hill.
I don’t think we changed his politics. But we opened up his world a little. So I’ll take that win.

Axios | John Rogers (thread)

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