It doesn’t matter. Nobody is going to be convinced by anything you say. The protesters won’t be especially hurt by a really good burn. You could yell gibberish into the megaphone. The important thing is that you are there, loudly showing your support for the drag queens.

I unironically love it and think it will be a cult classic in 10 years. It’s so stupidly ambitious and unapologetic. It’s beautiful too. I love how you find out in the first scene that the main character can stop time (the only one with any kind of superpower) and that turns out not to be very relevant for the rest of the movie. Fuck Chekhov’s gun, amirite. Frank stockpiled wine money for years to make exactly what he wanted to make and damnit he did. I’ll happily see it in theaters.

A few of my friends recommended Eraserhead. It felt like David Lynch was seeing what he could get away with.

White person who is part of the in-group now probably doesn’t realize they won’t always be part of the in-group. They stand to gain from the relative balance of power in society shifting more toward them while it lasts. Even if their groceries are more expensive, their opportunities more limited, their freedoms curtailed, they will benefit from a higher social status of being part of the in-group and loudly supporting the oppression of the out-group. The out-group will have even more expensive groceries, even fewer opportunities and freedoms. By comparison, the in-group is elevated. I don’t think we should pretend that fascists and the complicit are not acting in their best interest. They are, for now.

In the very long term, yes, people act against their best interests. But a poor white person stands to gain something in a more racist world. A far right dictatorship sounds inherently bad to you or me. Even if we weren’t personally affected by it at all, it would be bad. But a lot of people don’t notice or don’t care. Before society completely collapses, a straight white Christian male does stand to gain from others being oppressed.

Y’all don’t sneak in snacks? It’s cold out and it’s easy to sneak in soda bottles in a jacket. I snuck in a KFC meal in my jacket to watch Avengers Endgame.

I’m genuinely dumbfounded that you even managed to spend that much at the movies.

Peoples’ values generally align with what’s in their personal best interest. Zuckerberg and Musk see the trend towards oligarchy and are happy to signal to the kingmakers that they are on the same side.

I grew up in Spartanburg, SC and find this unsurprising.

You guys are gunna freak out when you find out about dynamo hubs.

It would be bullying and misogyny.

Wash chickens lunch?

What do you mean “skill against skill”?

In my perfect world, sports wouldn’t be gendered, but would have some sort of class system like boxing weight classes. The best boxers in the world will be the heavyweights but smaller people can still compete against somebody their size. Why did boxing figure this out before basketball got height classes? I’ll never know.

Another way of interpreting your comment is dismissing differences and simply making people all compete against each other. This would obviously exclude all women from most sports so you’d have to be a pretty committed misogynist to think that was preferable to gendered sports.

That’s a crazy comparison to make. Segregation excludes people while women’s sports includes people. Many “men’s” leagues are actually just open. The only reason women don’t join is due to sociological and cultural reasons. As women integrate more into the culture, women’s leagues are less and less needed since the women who want to compete will prefer the open league. It’s an inclusive force.

Frankly, if you start by trying to include women and end up segregating based on race, I question whether you were ever working in good faith.

Exactly. I know chess has women-only events and open events. There is no men’s event. There just wouldn’t be any women if a space weren’t dedicated to women. The culture is so male dominated that it’s needed with no respect to advantage. I imagine e-sports is the same way.

Is this worth bragging about? The purpose of the Shahed is to keep air defense systems busy. They’re cheap for Russia to mass produce and expensive for Ukraine to shoot down. Russia lobs a bunch of them at cities, forcing Ukraine to divert air defenses away from the front line.

I like it. I’m a cyclist and the bike lane is already blocked all the time by delivery trucks. These are a more human scale alternative to those. The visibility of these in the bike lane will spread the idea that the bike lane is serious infrastructure that should be plowed and maintained. Even if it isn’t the last step, it seems like a step in the right direction.

A cis man getting breast reduction surgy is a form of gender affirming care. Tranphobes won’t acknowledge that fact because cis people get surgeries and it’s normal. When trans people get surgeries, it should be made illegal.

The only way to find new music you like is to occasionally listen to music you don’t like.

Is this trolling? I’ve never heard any of these fake quotes.