NotTheGodOfHammers
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Way more people in the UK think immigration is a national issue than an issue in their own community.
Between this and the polling on Bidenomics (voters siad the national economy was bad, but their state's economy & personal finances were good) this might be a sharp razor for manufactured bullshit.
Between this and the polling on Bidenomics (voters siad the national economy was bad, but their state's economy & personal finances were good) this might be a sharp razor for manufactured bullshit.
Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Polling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaigners
A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.
www.standard.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Way more people in the UK think immigration is a national issue than an issue in their own community.
Between this and the polling on Bidenomics (voters siad the national economy was bad, but their state's economy & personal finances were good) this might be a sharp razor for manufactured bullshit.
Between this and the polling on Bidenomics (voters siad the national economy was bad, but their state's economy & personal finances were good) this might be a sharp razor for manufactured bullshit.
Man, people back then really didn't know how to hydrate did they.
Man stood like this for 7 minutes and 18 people died. Stop playing with his name.
November 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Man, people back then really didn't know how to hydrate did they.
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the people demand lego warhammer 40k
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the people demand lego warhammer 40k
tbh, "medieval doomsday cults and preasanr revolts, as depicted in a fever dream by the Tory-est of Tories" is the closest analogue I can think of, and even that is reaching a fair bit.
Big key to the Skaven's success is their sheer novelty and alien-ness.
I don't know for *sure* that "rat people but pathologically obsessed with backstabbing and ladder-climbing (and ladder-kicking)" has never been done before, but I also can't think of a near analogue off the top of my head.
I don't know for *sure* that "rat people but pathologically obsessed with backstabbing and ladder-climbing (and ladder-kicking)" has never been done before, but I also can't think of a near analogue off the top of my head.
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
tbh, "medieval doomsday cults and preasanr revolts, as depicted in a fever dream by the Tory-est of Tories" is the closest analogue I can think of, and even that is reaching a fair bit.
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turns out you can have an always chaotic evil fantasy race that nobody has a problem with if you just make them really fucking cool and funny
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
turns out you can have an always chaotic evil fantasy race that nobody has a problem with if you just make them really fucking cool and funny
There's been a lot of ink spilled about where the PT went wrong, but it was in the opening scroll: "anything cool and new that could have happened didn't, now here's the same old story you wanted right?"
Honestly, all I want out of Star Wars post prequels is a warring states period where creatives and gamers have permission to make their own weird little microfactions. The sequels suck for gaming because they explicitly rule out cool stuff happening anywhere else.
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
There's been a lot of ink spilled about where the PT went wrong, but it was in the opening scroll: "anything cool and new that could have happened didn't, now here's the same old story you wanted right?"
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The sheer contempt I feel for videos that misuse POV. "POV you are a cheeky dog!!!" Then why can I see the cheeky dog, hmm? Explain that? How dare you? I went to film school.
October 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The sheer contempt I feel for videos that misuse POV. "POV you are a cheeky dog!!!" Then why can I see the cheeky dog, hmm? Explain that? How dare you? I went to film school.
I'm genuinely starting to believe that the first and most crucial test of a democratic system is figuring out how to distract, coerce, bamboozle, sideline, misdirect, shame and browbeat the roughly 35% of people who are just authoritarian fucks.
And no, I don't think that's a paradox.
And no, I don't think that's a paradox.
Feel like modern crazification factor might be about 35%
Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.
Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:
October 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm genuinely starting to believe that the first and most crucial test of a democratic system is figuring out how to distract, coerce, bamboozle, sideline, misdirect, shame and browbeat the roughly 35% of people who are just authoritarian fucks.
And no, I don't think that's a paradox.
And no, I don't think that's a paradox.
Not a historian, but in a 2012 politics class at uni, we had a comparative research essay: compare two political (technically federal) institutions between federal governments. I chose the US filibuster & PLC's liberum veto, saying "this could fuck shit up".
Not the first to notice, but *damn*
Not the first to notice, but *damn*
I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.
Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.
“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”
“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Not a historian, but in a 2012 politics class at uni, we had a comparative research essay: compare two political (technically federal) institutions between federal governments. I chose the US filibuster & PLC's liberum veto, saying "this could fuck shit up".
Not the first to notice, but *damn*
Not the first to notice, but *damn*
I don't know who's playing this baseball game or what innings they're in, but I think in half an hour they'll technically be playing cricket.
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I don't know who's playing this baseball game or what innings they're in, but I think in half an hour they'll technically be playing cricket.
They got me good
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
They got me good
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Okay this is a good headline
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Okay this is a good headline
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You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
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"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit
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It’s National Poetry Day.
The greatest poem in the English language.
The greatest poem in the English language.
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It’s National Poetry Day.
The greatest poem in the English language.
The greatest poem in the English language.
Even ignoring their grasping lust for power, there's a lot of folks who've done (and will do) genuinely illegal things that could send them to prison. The rats will feel cornered.
Do think the single most likely do or die flashpoint for this administration is gonna be the seating of the 120th Congress
Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort
I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol
More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...
I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol
More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...
October 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Even ignoring their grasping lust for power, there's a lot of folks who've done (and will do) genuinely illegal things that could send them to prison. The rats will feel cornered.
Ludonarrative dissonance is a fun concept to think about, to talk about - hell it's even fun to *say*.
But it's not even worth applying to, like, 10% of games because it's patently clear that 90+% of games aren't designed to make you feel anything besides "I'm playing a videogame - cool!"
But it's not even worth applying to, like, 10% of games because it's patently clear that 90+% of games aren't designed to make you feel anything besides "I'm playing a videogame - cool!"
My sense is that a lot of game design underrates 'make the player feel a feeling' and perhaps loses sight of ways to do it.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
People like Skyrim, for all its flaws, because that are moments, gazing out at the desolate vastness, or fighting a dragon, that you feel a feeling.
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ludonarrative dissonance is a fun concept to think about, to talk about - hell it's even fun to *say*.
But it's not even worth applying to, like, 10% of games because it's patently clear that 90+% of games aren't designed to make you feel anything besides "I'm playing a videogame - cool!"
But it's not even worth applying to, like, 10% of games because it's patently clear that 90+% of games aren't designed to make you feel anything besides "I'm playing a videogame - cool!"
My only experience with surveys was a phone survey on religiosity at ~ 12yo. At first I answered yes I was religious, but as the questions mounted I quickly learned that no, in practice I wasn't. But I was embarrassed to say it so I gave bs answers instead
I think much survey answer bs is like that
I think much survey answer bs is like that
fwiw I think one possibility that people are discounting when they read these median voter profiles is that lying is cognitively harder than telling the truth. so people give bullshitting answers that sound dumb
September 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My only experience with surveys was a phone survey on religiosity at ~ 12yo. At first I answered yes I was religious, but as the questions mounted I quickly learned that no, in practice I wasn't. But I was embarrassed to say it so I gave bs answers instead
I think much survey answer bs is like that
I think much survey answer bs is like that
I once read that Aristotle (or Plato?) had a concept called the golden mean, arguing that the opposite of a vice is not virtue but a different vice, and virtue lies somewhere in the middle. eg, cowardice<->bravery<->recklessness
I always wondered what would be the taken-to-extreme vice for empathy.
I always wondered what would be the taken-to-extreme vice for empathy.
“After somebody is publicly murdered for participating in politics…is a time when we can try to sit with each other...and say, ‘I see you. I can see your friend...and I can grieve with you.’"
Ezra Klein explains to Tim Miller why he said "Charlie Kirk did politics the right way."
Ezra Klein explains to Tim Miller why he said "Charlie Kirk did politics the right way."
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I once read that Aristotle (or Plato?) had a concept called the golden mean, arguing that the opposite of a vice is not virtue but a different vice, and virtue lies somewhere in the middle. eg, cowardice<->bravery<->recklessness
I always wondered what would be the taken-to-extreme vice for empathy.
I always wondered what would be the taken-to-extreme vice for empathy.
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"War sucks [except that maybe it's awesome???]" is a surprisingly common ambivalence that you see in real life soldiers.
Orwell's depiction of trench life in Homage to Catalonia strikes me as a counterpoint to the "this shit sucked" narrative. He seemed genuinely enthralled by various facets of life, its various deprivations, and the people around him. I mean the message is that it sucked but that's not the tone.
“The commonly held literati view of the trenches as a hellish and pointless experience was not shared by all, or even necessarily a majority, of soldiers”
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"War sucks [except that maybe it's awesome???]" is a surprisingly common ambivalence that you see in real life soldiers.
Agreed.
And the kamikaze winds should never have saved Japan from the Mongols.
And the kamikaze winds should never have saved Japan from the Mongols.
the Sea Peoples did nothing wrong.
can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms
September 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Agreed.
And the kamikaze winds should never have saved Japan from the Mongols.
And the kamikaze winds should never have saved Japan from the Mongols.
*long intake of breath*
The Deluge was a world historic tragedy that set back the cause of democracy by centuries and ruined a powerful counterweight to encroaching Russian authorita-"
The Deluge was a world historic tragedy that set back the cause of democracy by centuries and ruined a powerful counterweight to encroaching Russian authorita-"
can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms
I love how at least once a month we litigate WWII on this website
September 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
*long intake of breath*
The Deluge was a world historic tragedy that set back the cause of democracy by centuries and ruined a powerful counterweight to encroaching Russian authorita-"
The Deluge was a world historic tragedy that set back the cause of democracy by centuries and ruined a powerful counterweight to encroaching Russian authorita-"
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Anti-Stratfordianism is a fundamentally classist argument that relies on a host of logical fallacies to argue that the man universally identified and recognized as a playwright, actor and poet by contemporary sources and for a hundred and fifty years thereafter could not possibly be Shakespeare
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Anti-Stratfordianism is a fundamentally classist argument that relies on a host of logical fallacies to argue that the man universally identified and recognized as a playwright, actor and poet by contemporary sources and for a hundred and fifty years thereafter could not possibly be Shakespeare