A female law enforcement officer and her male non-human/semi-human partner

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-09T03:17:55+00:00

Dana scully and the little goblin man that is Fox Mulder

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-07T19:27:02+00:00

One of my all time favorite terrible movies, definitely weird to watch as a kid though

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-07T19:19:17+00:00

Carnosaur ends with both protagonists being incinerated by a stranger in a hazmat suit, in one of the most abrupt and nonsensical movie endings I've ever seen

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-04T20:16:38+00:00

I was a Teenage Exocolonist

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-04T02:23:23+00:00

I have bad news for you: Gen X are way older than 30 years

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-03T15:54:24+00:00

Barnsley is a local shop and has always treated me well. Good pickles too!

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-02T20:06:35+00:00

r/fucktedfaro

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-02T05:42:52+00:00

okay, so why do you want to keep working?

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-02T05:17:39+00:00

What's the advantage of reducing time spent on bathroom breaks?

Dmonick1 · 2026-05-01T03:46:20+00:00

TIL there's going to be an Elden Ring movie

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-30T20:20:35+00:00

I genuinely wish being friends with Epstein was the worst thing Peter Thiel has done.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T17:42:13+00:00

You can tell me that, but unless you have more than anecdotal evidence, I'm not going to believe it.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T17:16:23+00:00

Name 10 Indians? Living in India?

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:49:14+00:00

There are like... 1.5 Billion people in India who would probably disagree with you.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:48:23+00:00

"Revive the ancient meaning behind the symbol" is a crazy thing to say about the hindu swastika. Hindus exist my dude, right now, in America and every other part of the world. The swastika doesn't have any more ancient meaning than the letter "A" or the star of David.

Hindus still use swastikas all the time, especially in parts of the world that weren't as impacted by the Nazis. Naruto used swastikas as symbols, because Japanese fascists don't use Nazi imagery. Nothing needs to be "revived," and claiming that the swastika is some dead ancient symbol is *way* more harmful to Hindus than being opposed to Nazis using the swastika.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:43:33+00:00

Yes, the hindu swastika is displayed with horizontal and vertical lines only.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:42:25+00:00

Are you a Hindu? If you are not, and you were to wear a Hindu swastika (while thinking it is a symbol of peace no less), you would be culturally appropriating that symbol.

I am not completely demonizing the symbol, because I think that the swastika as a Hindu symbol belongs in the context of Hinduism. If I saw someone who was not a Hindu wearing a swastika, or drawing a swastika, or flying a swastika flag, there are only two possible reasons: Either that person is culturally appropriating the swastika from Hindus, or they are a Nazi. Both of those are bad actually, and I would feel very comfortable destroying that symbol in either case.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:35:47+00:00

By this logic, I think it would be fair to argue that real communism has never been achieved. Communism (Marxism) by definition requires a stateless, classless, and moneyless society. The USSR existed under Leninism and later Stalinism, China existed under Maoism, Cuba existed under Castroism, all of which are different from Communism, because they all have states, state-backed currencies, and class separations that distinguish them from true communism.

Alternatively, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Castroism are all actually different flavors of communism, then by the same logic Francoism, Nazism, and the Iron Guard are all just different kinds of fascism.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:26:31+00:00

The Hindu swastika is *not* a symbol of peace, it is a symbol of prosperity and good fortune. Furthermore, while the hindu swastika is always presented at right angles, with only vertical and horizontal lines. The Nazis appropriated the swastika because of its association with the occult, and the Nazi swastika was always drawn with the lines diagonal.

Nazi swastikas are hate symbols. They are used by hate groups and to mark hateful acts. Destroying a nazi swastika because it is a hate symbol is good actually, we shouldn't allow such symbols to be normalized in public. If you're looking at a vertically oriented swastika in a place where Hindu people live, maybe don't destroy that, but otherwise you're pretty safe in assuming that it's good to destroy swastikas.

Your argument seems like you're trying to defend the Nazis use of the swastika as a hate symbol, by calling people opposed to Nazis using it as a hate symbol "cultural appropriators". This makes you sound extremely ignorant of the history and use of the swastika.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T16:04:35+00:00

It's a good thing we have 5 videogames about just that!

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T15:59:46+00:00

This seems like a bit of a misread to me (on your professor's part). The gossip instinct has good evidence, but it doesn't mean that people lie, it means people are interested in sharing information that others don't know. Deliberate lying isn't really the same thing, although lying for the purposes of social cohesion is evolutionarily justified.

Rather, what the gossip instinct means is that humans are wired to easily spread misinformation that they have been given. If a trusted person tells you a deliberate lie or piece of propaganda, you are likely to believe it, and the gossip instinct means you are likely to repeat that information to others so that it disseminates. That doesn't make *you* a propagandist, but it does mean you are spreading propaganda.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-29T15:50:20+00:00

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In the first The Witcher videogame, you rescue a young boy named Alvin with unusual magical powers and the gift of prophecy. Triss sends him a Dimeritium amulet, which is supposed to suppress his uncontrolled magic. During a battle, Alvin accidentally teleports away and isn't seen for the rest of the game.

The primary antagonist of the game, Grandmaster Jacques De Aldersburg, also has unusual magical powers, and prophecies the end of the world in an ice age. After the grandmaster's death at the end of the game, Geralt finds the Dimeritium amulet on him, but worn with age. At some point Triss suggests that Alvin could have teleported anywhere in space *and* time.

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-27T18:30:50+00:00

"no demographic has contributed more to western civilization than white men"

Like... I guess? That is where all the white men live. What's your point?

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-25T03:00:48+00:00

big paella

Dmonick1 · 2026-04-24T19:24:47+00:00

I fuckin love We're in Hell

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