ObjectivityIncarnate

He’s the second biggest piece of shit on earth….Trump is number 1 for those keeping score.

American detected.

It’s not pattern recognition when the event within the ‘recognized pattern’ is made up, lmao.

Dogecoin is also not his. It came into existence in 2013. Elon’s first tweet about it was in 2020.

If anything, you could reasonably argue that both that department name and his interest in that particular cryptocurrency are based on his affinity for the same original meme. But neither the meme nor the currency belong to him.

Is it confirmation bias when I know Trump and his team are gigantic liars so I

believe every negative thing you hear about him/them without the slightest bit of scrutiny/skepticism?

Yes.

named after the cryptoscam

“doge” became a meme in 2010, long before cryptocurrency was a thing the mainstream were even aware of, let alone the one named after it.

Cool unsourced/debunked fabrication from a literal tabloid, took me all of two minutes to find this, after looking for an actual source, when the OP-linked article didn’t have one:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reported-transgender-military-plan-called-out-charity-1991052

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. For shame.

I mean… No? I dont see where it would imply that its men fault. The word mean that men rule.

But they don’t. Which is my point–people like you assert this is the case, so that when stuff is shitty, you can say things like ‘well, the men are in charge, so if it’s bad, it’s men’s fault’, and in turn imply that women have zero agency in society and exist as nothing more than victims. You seem not to realize how deeply misogynistic it is to infantilize women this way, not to mention misandrist as well.

99.9% of men have no ‘ruling’ power whatsoever–they’re in the weeds right alongside the 99.9% of women who also don’t. To categorize either sex as ‘the ruler’ in American or any Western society is absolutely ridiculous.

But you can t deny that men did vote in favour of the rapist in the last US election

The majority of US voters are women. If all of the women voted for the same candidate, that candidate would be guaranteed to win, every time.

But all of the women didn’t do that, did they? Well, guess what? Neither did all of the men.

Well over thirty million women voted for Trump. Stop stereotyping the sexes and acting like they’re hiveminds, it’s plainly sexist bullshit.

Face it: the blame for any societal ill does not belong to one sex.

It’s not “patriarchy”, it’s the collective of the social norms and pressures put in place by, perpetrated by, and maintained by, the majority of both sexes. The word implies it’s males’ fault society is the way it is, which is demonstrably bullshit.

How mad you are is 10x funnier than the OOP, lol.

A large amount of racists and bigots are into norse stuff? Maybe. Almost all people in the norse stuff are racists and bigots? High doubt

In my experience, people are, on average, extremely susceptible to this very basic logical fallacy, and truly believe the two sentiments above are equivalent. In other words, believing that “most X are Y” implies “most Y are X”.

It’s fucking everywhere, pervasive all over the political spectrum too, it’s universal. Radical feminists use the fact that most physical assailants are male to malign half of the human population. Racists use statistics about what percentage of violent crime is committed by a race, to draw conclusions about what percentage of that race commits violent crime. Hell, Reefer Madness, a propaganda piece with a well-deserved reputation of being completely full of shit, rests its premise on the exact same fallacy: “practically everyone dying from hard drug use is/was also a weed smoker, so we’ve concluded weed use leads to hard drug use”.

I see it over, and over, and over again, online and in real life. It makes you want to grab someone by the shoulders and shake them while yelling “all oranges are fruits, does that mean all fruits are oranges?!”, lol.

That’s enough venting for tonight, though, haha.

It was a joke, and still is. It’s just that there were enough extremist imbeciles out there who didn’t realize it was a joke, and took it seriously.

That doesn’t change anything about its origin as a joke.

Can we reclaim pepe?

We never lost it, imo. The vast majority of Pepe use is by people communicating nothing resembling a message of hate in any way.

Yeah, I’m very much in the camp of “fuck you, you don’t get to have it” when it comes to extremist groups trying to co-opt other symbols.

It’s extremely doable–the LGBT population has largely succeeded at doing exactly that with “queer”, for example–these days, basically nobody utters that word as a pejorative. Fuck you, it’s ours now. See what I mean?

There are way more of us than them, we could literally do this for everything these dipshits try to ‘claim’.

I am, because my jokes are actually good, since I know how to actually construct a good joke, lol.

Struck a nerve, huh?

It’s like writing a joke based on the premise that exercise makes you gain weight. It doesn’t, so any joke based on that is going to fall flat, except for people who think it does, lol.

The whole premise of the analogy is that the typed characters are random, which is why the animal in it is one that doesn’t understand written English. The point being that over an infinite amount of time, even totally random typing will, by definition, eventually produce any specified sequence.

OOP doesn’t get it, nor does anyone who finds this clever.

So, 4% less in 2024 than in 2016, the last time he won. That by itself stands in pretty stark contrast to those who want to blame his victory on people who voted for a third party.

Trump won in 2024 chiefly because millions upon millions of Dems who voted in 2020 stayed home in 2024. That’s the reality.

This is major league copium. The fact is that Trump’s opponent got way more votes in 2020 than in 2024, and had the blue turnout in 2024 equaled what it was in 2020, he would not have won in 2024. Period.

I’ll be honest, I’m burned out. I need a break from morons and their stories. I really do.

You need to stop going out of your way to doomscroll on social media, then. It’s ultimately entirely in your power to not be exposed to them.

I’m being serious. It’s not good for you–social media makes it extremely easy to be exposed to negativity 24/7 if you’re looking for it, since you’re 1 person in a world of over 8 billion. You don’t have to get even close to 1% of the people being assholes, for this to be not only possible, but trivially easy.

The human psyche is literally not designed to withstand the kind of barrage technology has made possible. Please do not feel guilty about giving yourself a break at times, to say the very least.

Google says Steam has 132 million monthly active users. Even if you count Pepe (which is absurd, the vast majority of use of it has nothing to do with anything hateful), that’s still far under 1% of users.