andros_rex
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- Comment on Pow-- 1 day ago:
The second Klan was formally disbanded for tax reasons in 1944, a couple of years before The Clan of the Fiery Cross. I think the argument might be more that the Superman episode kept the Klan from rising again. It was already profoundly unpopular in the war era due to some connections with the American Bund.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 day ago:
It’s credited pretty heavily with weakening the Klan
That’s interesting, because the Klan was fairly weak by the 40’s. It peaked in the 1920s (something like 1 in 3 white Indianans were members in its heyday, to the point where Klan chapters would have baseball teams), but there were some huge political scandals and infighting over embezzlement that absolutely demolished the Second Klan.
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 days ago:
“I’m not angry” “[entirely made up person I’ve never encountered] can go fuck themselves”
Usually, when I say someone can go fuck themselves, they’re being actively shitty. You’re just mad at someone asking you to use certain words describe them. If that pisses you off, you must have a really short temper.
Also, the “control” aspect remains. You want to decide what people be called. That’s just weird - how does it matter to you? Maybe consider DBT therapy, that’s all about dealing with how the world doesn’t have to be your way all of the time.
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 days ago:
Has anyone ever asked you to call them a neopronoun? Like I’ve been in some queer as fuck spaces and I’ve never encountered someone with neopronouns. I don’t most people have. So it seems the anger is more at an entirely imagined scenario where someone might ask you to call them (oh wow, so confusing) a neopronoun?
It’s just so fucking weird, to be upset at a scenario where someone might ask you to refer to them in a way that you personally think is silly. It has literally zero impact on your life. It gives weird control freak vibes - that other people need to live their lives in a way that makes you comfortable.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 3 days ago:
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
Fountain drink dispensers just don’t get cleaned. I worked at a fast food restaurant for 3 years; I think I saw someone go after the ice maker once. The nozzles get soaked overnight, but the inside might as well as been a black box.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 3 days ago:
The real trick is to buy the sauces at the supermarket. Ranchero sauce and Diablo sauce on some tortillas with cheese and canned chicken in the microwave is pretty good.
Otherwise, a beefy five layer and make sure to leave with several sauce packets stuff in your pockets.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 3 days ago:
“Tex Mex.” Folks shit on it for not being “authentic” Mexican food, but that’s not what it’s trying to be. It’s fusion.
- Comment on Getting Taco Bell 5 days ago:
In Oklahoma, to get your drivers license you need to be in line at the DMV by about 4 am. If you aren’t in line by 6, you aren’t getting a test today. (This is absolutely so amazing if you are a young adult trapped in a sexually and physically abusive household, and can’t drive yourself to the DMV!)
Don’t you love “small government” red states?
- Comment on And now it's time for your favorite segment: Sex Tips w/ Mike!!! 5 days ago:
Ben Shapiro on “Wet Ass Pussy”
When I first saw the lyrics to this song, my first concern… is that these women are describing a serious gynecological condition. I’m serious. I mean, a bucket and a mop? There’s something going on here that is not biologically normal … there’s a problem. There’s water pouring out of the front door.
Fortunately, I know a doctor, who is my wife, and I asked her for her medical diagnosis. And she looked at the lyrics herself, and after being kind of appalled by them, obviously, she had a few indicators on how she could diagnose the vaginal condition these women are apparently suffering from.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 week ago:
It’s achingly frustratingly clear that the dumbasses at ClearLabs accidentally contaminated their samples. This is horseshit.
- Comment on bingo 1 week ago:
The sims don’t really build anything on their own. I play the Sims 2, because it’s got decades of mods available at this point. The newer games don’t really seem worth it - the Sims 4 is very much focused on parcelling our everything as DLC.
Basically, I have a bunch of STALKER and Fallout 3 assets ported into the game and use them to decorate my little post apocalyptic setting. I try to destroy/rebuild in a way that looks sorta organic - having them squat in abandoned bowling alleys and the like.
Imho the Sims 2 is worth getting into. We’ve reached the point in the nostalgia cycle where the ridiculous early 00’s clothing is endearing. It’s a really open ended story telling tool, and with modding you can do things like historical simulations or weird sim cults or prisons… but even just playing the vanilla game has a lot of charm of its own.
- Comment on bingo 2 weeks ago:
My favorite thing to do in the Sims is to use a bomb mod to bomb pre made neighborhoods, and institute a post apocalyptic “Handmaid’s Tale” setting where most of the women are put into re-education camps.
- Comment on What a welcoming party 2 weeks ago:
Not a splatter movie, but Stalker was a hell of a movie on shrooms. 11/10 experience
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 3 weeks ago:
The documentary Marjoe is a really good exploration of this. Former child preacher who stopped believing, and invites a documentary crew as he does a tour.
It’s in the public domain - they forget to register it, so you should be able to find the full movie online.
- Comment on Spokesperson 3 weeks ago:
Emmanuel Macron enters the chat
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 4 weeks ago:
Sneak is basically useless with the code patch though. Even with max sneak, iirc the max chances of pickpocketing even like a spoon is ~30%.
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spokesperson 4 weeks ago:
Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)
Why do MAGAts love fucking kids so much?
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 4 weeks ago:
There’s an interpretation that she did it in purpose to get away from her controlling mother. Kinda like that version.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 4 weeks ago:
The only part of the religion that matters is the part that lets them treat women as sex slaves anyways.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 4 weeks ago:
The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s kinda funny how both you and a commenter replying to you misspell the name in two different ways) is going for a “The Lady or the Tiger” ending. Do you believe that Nick is actually part of the Resistance, or is he part of the state secret police? The narrative tricked us a little with the “relationship” between Offred and the Commander - can we trust anyone at all?
The epilogue also gives the narrative some verisimilitude. It’s pretending to be a historical document - how would the world post-Gilead react to accounts of what happened to women during Gilead? How would you interact with the “Diary of Anne Frank” if you didn’t know that she was killed in the camps?
I fail to see how it’s similar to “The Mist” here.
- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 4 weeks ago:
I worked for a movie theater for a while, and once I got off at around 3 am and had to be in the next day at 8 am.
I routinely clocked more than 40 hours a week, once making it to 100 - but they didn’t have to pay OT because it’s the “performance industry.” Despite me being a hourly projectionist.
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Robert Redford in his prime vibes.
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- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 weeks ago:
Mongolian throat singing is nothing.
Gotta whip out modern classical music.
I like studying to Penderecki myself.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 1 month ago:
It teaches them the thought stopping cliches and mantras that they can use to “own” libs in drive by Facebook comments.
I think about the classic creationist “if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” It’s not intended to be an actual question - you can try to explain that no, we didn’t “come from monkeys,” that we shared a common ancestor, etc… but they don’t care. It’s just supposed to be a quick catch phrase that lets you not think about the question anymore.
That’s the whole point of all of these right wing “debaters.”
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 1 month ago:
“Dr Laura” (receiver of that original letter) is a fucking shit stain of a human being. One of those right wing women that absolutely hates other women.
She’d tell women and girls calling in that they needed to quit their jobs and dedicate themselves full time to their children, when she herself was happy to ignore raising her children to play pundit. A Phyllis Schafly style gender traitor, someone happy to have a full time job and make lots of money telling women that they weren’t capable or deserving of full human dignity.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 1 month ago:
Don’t forget when he retweeted BDSM fetish porn, thinking that Chinese men are being bound and “milked” for their semen.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 1 month ago:
There have always been /leftypol/ threads.
Also, it’s anonymous and anyone can post. You can go there right now.
- Comment on Ditto 1 month ago:
