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i remember liking the number 7 a lot as a child, being glad to turn 7 - this was partially because aesthetically i liked 7s, i definitely found 6s very bland.

3 is the best number

490

No one actually cares about when Bernie Sanders conceded in 2016. 100% of the people who blame him for hurting Hillary Clinton's chances would still blame him if he had withdrawn three months earlier.

yep

For all the criticisms of Bernie, that one was always the most toothless

If he'd withdrawn three months earlier it would have been before the Russian Bear infiltrated the DNC, which means no leaks during the convention. So no, I think insiders really do care when he conceded. That it miiiiiight be unfair to think Sanders should have thought of Russian ratfuckers in his planning is another thing.

Iow, it's scapegoating, but the trauma is real

To Fred B

Thanx for Danesplaining

Sincerely yours,

Julie Newmar

Hi Neanderthal

We have twitter in Denmark, and I probably follow more neoliberal Dem insider scum than you do

Sincerely yours

Someone in the 21st Century

It's scapegoating = those 'insiders' would just find another reason to scapegoat him

If the Russians' goal was to hurt Clinton, idk how much difference it makes that they leaked the DNC emails four days before Sanders conceded (and a month after anyone had a chance to vote for him in a primary) or months afterwards. Anyone who was pissed off about the contents could have been pissed off either way. Anyone who think Sanders bears some responsibility for Russian ratfucking would have pointed to Russian social media trolls instead of DNC emails if they had never been leaked.

It seems as if ‘the dnc emails’ was less something to be disclosed, some mass of data, and more something that was constructed. The meaning of the emails was something made by a whole system of influence, mass communications, ideology etc.

I think the timing of the release was important for this process, the resulting meaning being chaotic. Of course maybe he result has more to do with the shape of the system processing the media than the contents of the media itself. Would the mass of beliefs about the political process be actually different if this process was starved of data?

There was no significant decline in Clinton's poll numbers following the July DNC email leak.

Sorry, I was more thinking about what the leak was seen to mean rather than it’s effects.

"And being a congress member is somehow better than being Secretary of State and First Lady of US and Arkansas." -- frederik b, expert on the nuances of american politics, january 2016

children should be emancipated from their parents no later than age 5

and vice versa tbf

on board w this

if you don't follow sports especially basketball you can't truly understand hip hop

That would explain me, at the least.

if you don't follow sports especially cricket you can't truly understand prog rock

if you dont follow sports especially wrestling you can't truly understand what the rock is cookin

if you don't follow sports especially bocce ball you can't truly understand how to please a man

I agree with all these

Films aren’t art.

What are the Roaring Twenties like from up close? I've always wondered.

much louder

my less controversial but still controversial opinion is that film isn't a narrative medium. Neither are television, or novels, or video games. Basically only drama is narrative.

"people are stupid" is at worst untrue and at best a poor explanation of anything

Most people who say it resemble the remark

otm, there just isn't any such thing imo

As stupidity? How noble of you.

i've certainly never seen any

Stupidity should be seen and not heard

people are stupid all the time but any one person is very rarely always stupid and vice versa

you can fool some people most of the time if i may

people are stupid" is at worst untrue and at best a poor explanation of anything

stupidity, which is a kind of intractable inability to learn things, certainly exists, but ignorance and credulity explain a lot more of what often gets called stupidity.

Anyone who has worked in a service job understands the specific kind of extrapolated "stupidity" that is observed when dealing with people at their worst in large volume. If the service person understands that the nature of their job pretty much requires them to filter out the good qualities of the customer to only focus on the qualities that have often brought the them to seek the service that they are providing, I can accept the statement, "People are stupid" as a sort of lazy shorthand for, "dealing with a lot of people who ____, and are impatient or angry about it, sucks". Otherwise, I agree that it's a shitty and wrong thing to say, and that the person saying it is probably at least as stupid as the target of their vitriol.

controversial only to the left internet:

the U.S. Democratic Party is not right-wing
a market economic system is not inherently right-wing

Bad Santa is overrated

I used to think so

but it's grown in my estimation over time

you can shave yr own butthole you just gotta be fuckin delicate, touch like a feather

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original lyrics to "Creep" iirc

🎶I use Veet🎶

lol neanderthal

what the hell are you putting there
it don't belong there
i don't belong here

Tintin is bad. Writing is exceptionally poor, pacing is random, characters are little more than stock phrases and caricatures (often racist caricatures, especially in the early books), stories are a hodge-podge of "exotic" locales and meandering plots that rarely follow any kind of narrative structure. The one thing that is exceptional is the line-work and the fine level of detail. Unfortunately even this can't make up for the overall flatness of the effect, compounded by his reliance on stiff layouts and an apparent compulsion against every varying the POV or scale of what's going on within the panel borders. I never read these as a kid but since they're everywhere now I've read my son probably about a dozen and was surprised to discover that I've enjoyed approximately zero of them.

ever varying

They're super Orientalist in the mystical-easty way that passed for acceptable up through the last decade. I feel the same way about Curious George.

They never really got completely past it, but The Blue Lotus was some kind of breakthrough. It was pretty rare to have anyone point out what militarized Japan was doing, much less so a children's cartoonist. The whole series is honestly a lot weirder and uneven than people say.