Yes, it does

I was promised soapy tits

God Awful Movies literally just reviewed the last stupid film

Every podcaster jumped on this movie, because it’s so easy to tear apart. Idk who else bothered to watch it, outside the die-hard incels that give Ben Shapiro money to hear him speak.

It’s an incredibly dumb and hateful movie worth laughing at

The irony of the movie is that conservatives sympathize with their fantasy Muslim terrorist. The bad guy just stands up and says all the things Benny Johnson and Ben Shapiro actually believe.

No Jewish person ever dies in the movie. No chud dies. Only the Stupid Leftists ever have anything bad happen to them.

Jihadism is like Noah’s Flood. It’s a divine punishment that only hurts those damned leftists.

Why this is just catastrophizing.

70s is the mortality age. Boomers hit that line for a few years and then it’s no longer an issue

also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.

In fairness, it’s not the 1M crashes I’m worried about so much as the 40k deaths.

I’ve been in a few fender benders, and I’ll argue that cars are pretty safe when they are small, move at low speeds, and aren’t operated aggressively.

I might argue the problem with cars versus planes is that the standards for plane Operation are much higher. Meanwhile, any asshole is given a car license.

one is even convinced that I’m gonna get divorced just because he did and views all marriages that way

Classic Divorced Guy

there is one friend in the group who agrees with me that our wives are our best friends and soulmates

Wife and I joke about how we can never get divorced because it would be too awkward when we kept hanging out as friends.

But we also have a friend couple that did get divorced, and still hang out regularly on very good terms.

Sexy Losers already answered this question

three and a half hours if you want an actually usefull line that stops.at places where people wanna stop at

You can run a multi-stop and an express train concurrently.

Why use mass transit when AI transit do trick?

We built the library

Shame you forgot to take ownership of it.

Here’s the Reddit rumor mill, but it’s consistently with what I’ve also heard.

It basically boils down to his home life falling apart, him doing pornography (VGLewds) to make ends meet, the toxic stew of internet culture wearing away at his ego, and him giving up on any project almost entirely for the last four years.

Hardly the only webcomics artist to have a tragic spiral. The Sinfest guy also really went hard off the deep end and has taken to churning out some of the most nakedly fascist comics I’ve read to date.

VGCats? Oh man, talk about a tragic tale.

It’s funny, because I remember playing Persona 5 and seeing that statue in Shibuya Square every time I’m running to the train.

And then I visit Tokyo and there it is. Like getting to meet a celebrity IRL. Except it’s a statue. And there’s a someone next to it with an Imperial Japanese flag screaming fascist shit in Japanese. And at the crosswalk there was a guy with his dick out flashing people.

Japan is a magical place.

“I don’t do politics” could mean a lot of things.

Which is where the critique falls apart.

I’m not saying you need to endanger yourself by talking about politics

It doesn’t have to rise to the level of existential threat. Plenty of people don’t feel comfortable voicing outside views in front of what could easily be a hostile audience.

What’s cowardly is presenting the “I don’t have a politics” person as nebulously white and atheist and male, while the counterpart is explicitly brown and muslim and a woman. The bitter truth is that it’s far more often the opposite. Women and religious/ethnic minorities are the ones who are perpetually under pressure to “hide their power level” so to speak. Either because they really do fear some kind of physical or social reprisal. Or because they just don’t want to have a screaming match with a MAGA shithead at a BBQ they didn’t want to be at to begin with.

It’s the Entitled Asshole who feels the need to vomit political views into every discussion and “have a debate” on every issue.

when people do have the social capital to spend on supporting those who can’t easily express their views, they should take the time to understand and help them politically

Who the fuck says they’re not? Do you think it’s your job to audit someone else’s life, to see if they’re doing enough and for the right people to meet some bar you’ve set for sufficient political engagement? It’s none of your fucking business.

It gets worse

That man is Miami nightlife impresario Hai Waknine, who in addition to running Bacara operates several other clubs. Waknine lives a glamorous life

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Waknine frequently wears a chain bearing the Hebrew term “chai” (“alive” or “living,” but often loosely translated as “life”) and customarily ends his business activities before shabbos each Friday. He is a very different sort of person than Clavicular used to hang out with. Just a few months ago, Clavicular was vibing to “Heil Hitler” in a Miami nightclub with the likes of white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes.

But Waknine’s new alliance with the internet’s hottest “looksmaxxer” is notable for another reason. Waknine has a lengthy criminal record, and he has maintained close connections to some of Israel’s most feared organized crime groups, according to federal prosecutors. He has a history of terrorizing his business associates and served several years in federal prison for extortion. Just last year, prosecutors alleged that Waknine used members of the Crips and Mexican Mafia gangs as his enforcers.

Going into business with the club owner poses other kinds of risks for the appearance-minded Clavicular. Waknine has boasted, according to prosecutors, that he once cut a man’s ear after kidnapping him over an outstanding debt.

Meanwhile, Clavicular’s surprising new alliance with an Israeli-American ex-convict has enraged many of his antisemitic far-right friends and followers, who now fume in the chat whenever Waknine appears on one of Clavicular’s livestreams. For the rest of us, Clavicular’s new arrangement with Waknine offers some insight into the opportunities available in the tumultuous right-wing media world for a charismatic young man who may care deeply about his looks but evidently has little regard for his actual, physical well-being.

Are your views stupid or is the other person stupid?

Views differ. All I know for certain is that if two people have divergent views, the best thing for them to do is to grow increasingly angry and disparaging towards one another until one finally concedes the other is correct and admits everything they’d believed up to that moment is wrong.

Unironically though, saying you don’t do politics because you want to avoid conflict is a form of the privilege

Which is why the people with the most social privilege are always the most soft-spoken, while the people with the least privilege are the loudest and most agitating, right?

I remember driving through Vidor, TX with a friend and him turning to me saying “Just don’t get us pulled over, because I’m not going to make it back if we do”. That coward was attempting to avoid conflict with a notoriously racist local police force. I, of course, did donuts in the Vidor PD parking lot. Because I believed it was my duty to provoke a conflict in order to prove that I was sincere in my liberal beliefs.

Saying you don’t want to discuss it is fine

Literally what’s happening in OP’s comic.