Whatever site that is really knows their audience. Not only is Yasuke, famously a real human being who actually lived and was black, “originally depicted as a black man”, the mod also apparently turns him into an “authentic Japanese character”. Which is apparently a more fitting description for whatever generic Japanese dude the modders think up than an actual historical figure. Christ.

Makes me so fucking dejected. Not even just for myself, but I have wonderful nieces and nephews and they don’t deserve this shit

So public support for Palestine is just straight up outlawed then? Wonder if they’re already handing out fines to people wearing keffiyeh yet?

My story is implausible because elderly people can’t hear? That’s certainly a take, given how the “angry old lady downstairs knocking on the roof with a broom” is a super common trope. This woman was in her 60s, they can generally hear just fine lol. If you literally believe people would never complain unless there was genuinely something to complain about, then you have been extremely privileged in your selection of neighbors. There are tons of unreasonable and shitty people out there. There are also people who have aforementioned hypersensitivity or other mental issues. These things cause people to disagree on what characterizes a normal level of noise. Negotiating this shit is part of what it means to live in close proximity to each other, and it’s way harder in an atomized society where most people in the city don’t know their neighbors.

I saw the letters she would dump in their mailbox, and they didn’t look like the work of a healthy individual. I also happen to know that my sister and her husband was (and still are) very chill people who don’t party, listen to loud music or have screaming matches which also wasn’t what she complained about - it was literally things like “talking loudly” and “moving furniture” (half the time the complaints and “logs” were dated to times when they were both in bed). They noped the fuck out of there because there was no reasoning with this person, and they wanted to start a family. I can only imagine what would have happened if there was an infant in the mix too. Which is, incidentally, another source of noise that you sometimes have to put up with when you live in an apartment (my own downstairs neighbor had a baby with colic. It sucked, but that’s life).

Like, I get that nothing is ever true on the internet etc. but for real, what the hell is implausible about this story?

This is common sense and while I agree, in principle, I feel like 90% of noise complaints that get escalated have to do with two groups that don’t follow common sense on the issue: power-hungry assholes who just want to control people and start shit, and genuinely disabled people whose noise tolerance is completely different than most people (hypersensitivity to sound, auditory hallucinations etc.).

My sister got harassed out of an apartment by an elderly lady downstairs (not sure which category she fit into) who would complain about literally any sound they made upstairs. Normal conversation, in the early evening, would prompt angry letters in their mailbox. She would write meticulous logs of all their “transgressions” (like, “1 AM, chair moved across floor”) and threaten to send them to the police, talk shit to other neighbors trying to spark drama etc. I don’t feel like there was really any way my sister could have fixed that situation by being “better”, because she didn’t do anything wrong. Life makes sounds sometimes, maybe even at inconvenient hours. Sometimes you gotta move a chair real quick at 1 AM. It is what it is. All she could have done was accept that her downstairs neighbor has extreme needs, and then work to live a completely silent life. She didn’t, she moved out instead. Like most people would probably do.

I guess my point is that having simple “common sense” rules about this doesn’t really work in a system where vulnerable/sensitive people live next door to neurotypical/non-sensitive people whose ordinary lives makes a baseline of noise. People like my sister’s upstairs neighbor would probably need detached housing or a heavily insulated apartment, which I imagine a better society could probably provide to those who need it.

nor will we in fact, not defend Taiwan

Don’t know if it’s deliberate, but he’s using a double negation

Nasty mental illness known as “some semblance of a conscience”

A Mexican taxi driver once told me that “gringo” came from “green go” as well, but his explanation was that once you get your green card, you go. He definitely joking, of course, but interesting that there are two versions of the “green go” etymology.

Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg

Those solar panels were installed right on top of peaceful demonstrators in Tinman Square

How would one theoretically do such a hypothetical thing?

Trots make me so confused. My local trot org (most successful left org where I’m from) have very good opinions on Gaza/genocide. They also hate China with a glowing passion. Really hard to make sense of people like that.

Wasn’t he also accused of being behind the Lockerbie bombing?

“supporting and being complicit in genocide isn’t sufficient to be Hitler. That Hitler requires a desire to be a dictator as well.”

Such a chef’s kiss of smug, willful ignorance. Like, this person knows Hitler is shorthand for ‘terrible person’, here, and not literal. So why suddenly be overly literal and pedantic about what characterizes a “Hitler”? Oh right, because Trump wants to be dictator! Meaning the entire point could have been expressed by typing “yes Biden genocide, but no because Trump”

The absolute adorable naivete of someone who thinks the US will only export fascism if the red guy wins

I was a big fan as a teenager (militant atheist debate pervert phase), and I have to say I think he was always like this. But I think “free thinker” “politically incorrect” assbags like him generally felt more welcome among the broader left/democratic party umbrella back then, and I think it rubbed off on the audience (or at least on me back then). Wasn’t he always just kind of a Clinton-democrat? Neoliberal economics, yuppie suit, but also weed is totally cool, dude

But if we’re being generous, his first (only?) big controversy was saying that the 9/11 hijackers were brave. Sure, I think he was just saying that shit to be a contrarian, but it was probably the most based thing he ever said.

I saw a thread on praising the Macklemore Gaza song, in which he explicitly says he won’t vote for Biden. Someone wrote a comment like “yeah, I won’t vote for Biden either. Genocide is a dealbreaker” or something like that, and the comment had like 50 downvotes and a bunch of nerds going “what, you prefer Trump who will do genocide but on steroids??”. Honestly hilarious that they were seemingly fine with the song, but the moment a “normal” had the nerve to repeat the lyrics their lib attack dog mindset kicked in.

shitfuck I fucked it up

When you prompt the AI with “human being most deserving of atomic wedgie”

a notably right-wing fascist state masking as socialist just like the Nazis did

You’re doing a bit, right? Please say you’re doing a bit