marikobean.bsky.social
I mostly lurk. My dog is dumb.
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Peppermint Pattie, Marcie, and sometimes Lucy, and sometimes the Little Redheaded Girl all have crushes on him. I’m not saying he’s successful with the ladies, but he’s definitely in a better position than your average hoe-less dude!
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Ohhhhhh that explains the disorienting mix of like millennial waggish internet list + Facebook boomer drink from the hose content
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I’m curious if anyone shares my experience of this smear campaign being way less visible than Amber Heard. Is it not being on Twitter, or the landscape of TikTok changed, or have I just done a good job of locking down my YouTube algo? Or since we lived through Heard, the investigation came sooner?
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For sure, I think we’ve all encountered Bellatrix-thirst
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Nooo I want to read the screed!
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I have often thought the fascist takeover in those books, and especially how people like Umbridge played a role, was insightful (ironic given JKR now). The rich and the racist and the criminals were into it. They took over the govt and school and newspaper. They weren’t masterminds, just cruel.
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I think this is literally true, in the sense that they don’t interact with enough black and queer people, so they are always a decade behind trends. I think this whenever I see a Mormon influencer who looks like a 2015 era beauty YouTuber.
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I remember your theory that some alt-text complainers are just mad they aren’t in on the joke, and then not long after I saw this post confirming it
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Seeing it written like this, literally feels like patriarchy/misogyny. The double standard, boys will be boys, look what she was wearing, boring mom and funny dad.
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And for “is not investing in competence a kind of maliciousness” I’m torn. It’s like trying to explain how epistemology connects to morality - it’s complicated? Plus once you get enough people working towards something, even if they’re bad at it, it kind of works, in a Twitch Plays Pokemon way.
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I would read that blog, esp focusing on how this plays out in organizations. It comes up so often in interpersonal conflicts and the line between lazy and manipulative is hard to parse. (I searched “weaponized incompetence Reddit” and this was 3rd result)
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Honestly just curious, why do you reply with the same pic of Oliver Willis every day?
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I got my PENCIL
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I’m not excited about the Mufasa movie either but that at least does make sense why you would spend a hundred million dollars to make a CGI lion.
I respect the swing though.
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It’s even funnier bc it’s a good movie apparently!
The brits are annoyed, but they’re also making what I assume are puns/references to Robbie Williams songs that I don’t know.
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I annoy my friends by yelling “reality is constructed!” every few months. By which I mean, reality, as experienced, is subjective.
I have also been viewed as crazy/untrustworthy, and sometimes it’s been true bc my brain was lying to me, and sometimes it wasn’t but it’s shockingly hard to prove.
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I think people also use gesundheit (and salud, etc) because they specifically don’t like saying “bless you” for its religious vibe. And it’s also just fun to say, which of course is true of OP’s other examples too. Fun as in delightful, not funnily absurd.
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Many such cases :/
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I hear you on all of that. Saying “go to therapy” is basically cliche now, but boy did it help me. Took several years though… and it’s still hard to walk the line between being too hard on myself and giving up.
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Which is crazy, bc I’m smart and hot!
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(And of course for the misogynists, it reinforces reasons to hate women for being shallow.) But also, it provides an easy mental off-ramp for guys to just say “well there’s no point, I’m too ugly and dumb to even try.” And it’s not like women don’t do this too, I know I’ve let my brain tell me that.
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I don’t disagree, but I think I was getting at a slightly different flavor of entitlement related to not wanting to change or grow or sacrifice. I think the blackpilled guys like the “you gotta get rich and jacked” advice bc it fits with things they already admire/desire for themselves.
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*Jenna Maroney voice* Did you know that before Steve Alten was a novelist he was in sports medicine
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“It was Kendall,” she whispered, hating herself for being the first person to point this out on a post with almost a hundred interactions
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It feels meaningful that there’s a number of men in the replies (not at all the majority, just some) who clearly *dont* want to hear this. Like, what’s going on there, and how much of it is depression not wanting to let yourself get better?
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Also I enjoyed this thread about Disco Elysium from the other day
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but it’d be hard to accuse Metaphor’s message of being too appeasing or whatever.
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I have also been impatiently waiting for the discourse to begin. Also “change isn’t overnight” feels particularly apt for a game that literally forces you to “spend time” to do things, often at the (at least short term) expense of other goals. A lot of online seems to hate incremental progress,
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and like, a LOT of military support for your political party.
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while the vision of utopia is kind of childish and naive, it’s also a better motivation than any of the alternatives. So yes, the game definitely wanted to cut off right at the high point of youthful optimism (Maria), but I respect that it even acknowledged the necessity for capitalists, schemers,
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Yes. I’m guilty of way overthinking it, but seeing the “where are they now” have everyone in a mostly-relevant-to-their-skillset leadership position felt very West Wing, in the sense that we’re assuming that good campaigners will be good leaders. Then again, I felt like the game understood that
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Realizing that the main plot of Metaphor Refantazio was basically about an election… I wish I could describe it better, but that game really was fascinating and, in a way, healing.
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Imo one of the reasons SNL is good and continues to be popular and relevant is *because* kids like it and always have. Adults take it too seriously, expect a greater hit rate of sketches. I don’t mean to sound like “comedy is above critique”, I just mean that… I think it’s cool that SNL is dumb.
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If you this is a unique historical moment, then why did you ask this in the first place?
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It also gives Lady Catherine vibes, that some rich out of touch people just unironically think like this
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I was being facetious haha. But also, I do think it’s inevitable (not bad even, just natural) that you get enough fans in one place and they’ll find things to fight about. I don’t want us to become like Star Wars fans :P