WizardofFrobozz
@WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red. 1 week ago:
The base knows too. They love how upsetting it is for the people they hate to watch them do this. Their willingness to debase themselves is fueled by spite.
- Comment on name too hard? brain go ouch! Vote red. 1 week ago:
This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, “ha! how can anyone be this dumb?” “HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!” Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.
This isn’t stupidity, it’s a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it’s a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or thinking it is so far from the point. It’s about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. “The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you’d look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line.”
For the rest of you, it’s a demoralization tactic. They’re rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won’t abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. “We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?”
“The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried,” Trump says. Not because he’s an idiot, but because the truth doesn’t matter when you’re not actually trying to convince anyone of anything.
This isn’t persuasion, it’s a demonstration of impunity. They’re showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
🙄
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re fine. Stay home and do nothing. I’m absolutely fine with your country becoming a cautionary tale for everywhere else the Nazis are trying to make inroads.
You just keep doing fuck all, vote like you were going to do anyway, attend a parade or two and wave a snarky sign. Really. Don’t do a damn thing, and watch what happens. There’s literally no one I’d rather see made an example of than some cowardly white liberal on Lemmy projecting insincerity onto actual antifascists.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Americans are the biggest bunch of fucking cowards.
- Comment on It's a wild life out there! 2 weeks ago:
Oh, look what you’ve done. You’ve created a political morality in which the government’s entitlement to your obedience increases in direct proportion to how willing it is to fucking kill you.
There’s no country where people should be fighting back harder than the one where the government is most willing to murder them for daring to resist its authority. You’re part of the problem.
- Comment on I'm tired 2 weeks ago:
“We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”
- Comment on Pfft 3 weeks ago:
I guarantee your writing class has a syllabus. The problem here is a disconnect between what you think the syllabus says and what it actually says.
- Comment on Pfft 3 weeks ago:
English prof up on a soapbox here.
Comments like “you have to learn the rules before you break them” are kind of off the mark. For the most part, those of use who teach English aren’t particularly concerned with enforcing “rules” (with the exception maybe of English as a second or foreign language, where conventions/rules are used to scaffold learning rather than as universal truths). English teachers are familiar with linguistics and the fluid, messy nature of language and all the fun things we can do with it. In short, the grammar Nazis you encounter online are VERY unlikely to be English teachers, who are often the first to point out that language is constantly changing and that what’s considered “correct” depends heavily on … everything, really.
But we’re talking here, ostensibly, about a “class.” And if we’re talking about a class, we’re talking about a syllabus. Specific outcomes on which a course is responsible for improving and checking proficiency. Your English class isn’t a place for you to learn English, especially if English is your first language. It’s a place for you to become proficient at doing a specific selection of specific things with your language. Very often these things aren’t even about rules or grammar, but that doesn’t mean the expectations aren’t strict- and what most people read as strictness is usually just specificity.
It’s damn near impossible to know whether a curriculum, teacher, method, or activity is successful without an outcome to measure. Lack of specificity makes measurement difficult and potentially unfair. If you’re told to “write a persuasive essay,” what exactly does that mean? What separates an A from a C? How does the teacher justify that distinction, and how does the student know what they need to improve? Without very specific target structures or a “can do” inventory, assessment becomes messier and we leave students guessing about what an given teacher might want from them, which isn’t especially fair (or useful, from a pedagogical POV).
A teacher can understand perfectly well that language is flexible, that different contexts call for different kinds of language, and that conventions change over time, while still expecting students to demonstrate a particular skill according to given criteria. There isn’t one correct way to use English, but a class DOES needs to establish what it’s trying to do, what students are expected to be able to do, and how anyone can tell whether they’ve been successful. That’s not necessarily prescriptivism. That’s just how a curriculum works.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks ago:
Hey look, I found one of those people!
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks ago:
You’ve spent half a century watching these people and knowing exactly what they will do. Sure, I guess if it makes you feel better, you can “blame them” the same way I’d blame a bunch of 12-year-olds playing with fireworks in a warehouse full of gasoline. But at a certain point, the people who knew exactly what was going to happen and kept allowing them to obtain matches are the ones who need to be held responsible.
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks ago:
No, the people with crumbs STILL doing nothing despite having nothing to lose will allow America to be destroyed.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 4 weeks ago:
People forget how much was going right in the 90s. Boomers were in their prime working years, paying into Social Security instead of collecting it. Women’s participation in the workforce had hugely expanded. Also a decade of strong economic growth and job creation meant more people working, lower unemployment, and more money going into the system. It allowed the US to briefly reverse the decades-long decline in the number of workers supporting each Social Security beneficiary, and then kept that ratio stable for a while. Obviously some of that was demographic luck, but the Clinton economy was actually putting people to work.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 5 weeks ago:
Did I suggest they were any better?
I mean… they’re not. But fuck you for that disingenuous little sleight of hand where “they didn’t fight fascism hard enough” somehow becomes equivalent to “we voted for the fascists,” and also fuck you for making me defend their cowardly asses.
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 5 weeks ago:
Oh, okay- so you’re just cowards who spent half a century allowing it because you didn’t want to risk your relative comfort.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 5 weeks ago:
Nobody gives a shit about Kirk anymore. I’m honestly surprised how little anyone cared a week later.
More Charlie Kirks every day, please.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 5 weeks ago:
This bullshit argument has been shut down every time it’s been leveled, and always results in a page full of moderator-deleted comments.
Your schtick is tired.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
The one just north that’s been telling you for 30 years to get your house in order. ‘What country are you from?’ bullshit is clown-ass deflection from comfortable white liberals. We’ve been telling you for decades you were on this path, you refused to fix it and got belligerent and renamed french fries in response, and now your failure is spilling across borders and becoming everybody else’s problem. You don’t get to export your Nazis and then suddenly discover nationalism when somebody outside your borders points out that your cowardice is responsible. Keep sitting on your ass, you pants-pissing coward, while 30% of your country jokes about annexing mine. Fuck you.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
You’re a fucking coward.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Every Charlie Kirk moves the needle.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Geography is a hell of a substitute for an argument.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Only one thing ever stopped Nazis
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Could start with another Brian Thompson.
We’re talking here about someone who has already given up. He could do nothing, or he could move the needle a bit.
You know what isn’t going to help him? Waiting for you to get off your able-bodied ass.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Fascist enablers, always REAL defensive 👍
Enjoy MAGA. You’ve earned it.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Cool. Enjoy allowing your high profile Nazis to continue to feel safe in public. You’re not part of the problem at all.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Americans, forever incapable of imagining solutions above the level of individual behavior (though at a certain point one suspects you’ll fall back on any talking points that allow you to avoid actually doing something).
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Charlie Kirk got pretty well “solved”
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 month ago:
Slaves aren’t armed to the teeth. Stop letting these people pretend cowardice is helplessness.
- Comment on How did he do that? 1 month ago:
It’s so fucking bizarre- I once thought plastic surgery had mostly peaked in the 80s and everyone pretty much agreed it made people look like horrific nightmare creatures.
Yet here we are
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 1 month ago:
Show your work.