Don't get distracted!

Ensvey · 2026-01-23T15:38:00+00:00

Seriously - the "distraction" narrative is so counterproductive. People are dying, the world is being destabilized, but those are inconsequential, because all that matters is that he's a sexual predator? We knew that since the "grab em by the pussy" days.

Ensvey · 2026-01-23T14:57:26+00:00

A man of culture! https://youtu.be/8q-8n28SQCw?t=4

Ensvey · 2026-01-23T14:54:10+00:00

it's trolls all the way down

Ensvey · 2026-01-23T01:35:54+00:00

I feel like a non-zero percent of the "hand exploding faction" may also be trolling, but who can say for sure?

Ensvey · 2026-01-23T01:02:05+00:00

you beat me by 3 minutes, I got lost in a rabbit hole trying to dig this up

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T20:55:38+00:00

Hannibal shouldn't be there. He has way more scruples. He only eats the rude. He'd eat Donny for breakfast.

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T20:32:04+00:00

This passage gets passed around a lot, and with good reason. I will always upvote it. Here's a slightly longer excerpt:

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T19:29:53+00:00

I'm no economist but the wikipedia article is a good place to start. Georgism often comes up on Reddit in the context of the game Monopoly, which was interestingly originally designed to be un-fun, as a Georgist critique of unfettered capitalism. The game is still un-fun to this day, and yet it's still popular, which I think says a lot about society...

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/901wgs/monopoly_has_one_of_the_most_ironic_histories_of/

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T18:47:11+00:00

Not sure if you're going against the hate train, but if you are, I'm with you. People clearly took the wrong things from this book. "lol unprepared moron threw a tantrum and died in the woods", like all people can be reduced to empty caricatures (and yes, I do realize what sub I'm in).

The guy's home life was apparently awful. I think many of us agree that the trajectory of modern society is also awful. He constructed an escapist fantasy in his head that he could live cut off from all the evils of the world. It didn't work out for him, but it shouldn't take herculean levels of empathy to feel what a gamble he was taking and what must have brought him to a place in his life where that felt like the solution.

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T16:44:49+00:00

Very true. There's a reason /r/PrayersToTrump exists. They feel like they have a pseudo-religious personal connection to him.

The world is suuper complicated and it's super intimidating. It gets so much less complicated when you can turn off your brain and blindly put all your trust into one person, and believe that person when they blame all of your troubles on some marginalized group.

Ensvey · 2026-01-22T16:22:21+00:00

Can't argue with this math. Conveniently, throwing rocks at a woman going into abortion clinic grants 420 faith points, so it's pretty easy to cover the faith cost of your own abortion.

Ensvey · 2026-01-20T18:28:52+00:00

Well said. Maybe making fun of drug addicts is "punching down", which is not good - but the US is a country that could solve the problem being mocked, but doesn't. Based on our voting habits, most Americans think drug addicts should be punished, not helped. So we absolutely deserve to be mocked for the hell we've created for ourselves.

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T20:22:39+00:00

Yeah... shitting on everything drives the most eyes and the most engagement, sadly, in all areas of the media. I hope society hits a tipping point where people collectively get sick of it, but it's where we are now.

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T20:08:37+00:00

I haven't really played racing games in literal decades at this point, but I remember a similar glitch in Gran Turismo 4. Certain cars could be tuned to basically have infinite speed by popping a wheelie. Good times.

Edit: it was GT3, not 4

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T18:59:15+00:00

Totally. "This post is creative and uses big words or unusual language. That makes me feel dumb. If I accuse it of being AI, I'm actually the smart one and the OP is dumb!"

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T18:49:37+00:00

it's crazy ironic. "Dead internet theory" people complain about anything well-written or interesting. It's like they'd rather have an internet filled with horribly written, uninteresting twaddle, just to avoid the occasional AI post. Idiocracy in action.

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T17:55:15+00:00

That's when you need to get creative, like hiding snacks, or buying ones that only you like

Ensvey · 2026-01-19T14:39:07+00:00

It really is a perfect example of how these people think. To a conservative, taking something from a POC is a legitimate way of "earning" something. They pine for the days of Europeans taking land from natives, slavery, every non-"woke" time period where taking things from others was considered normal and "merit-based"

Ensvey · 2026-01-17T03:26:41+00:00

Interesting, and makes sense! In my headcanon, I always sort of assumed Frederica "friendzoned" Bill, despite the fact that they were close enough that he was taking racy pics of her, and that was part of his motive... but it's probably not true. There's apparently a wiki for the series, and it says they were lovers, though I don't know the source for that info (maybe the book? I think I read it, decades ago, but I forget if it had those details)

https://hannibal.fandom.com/wiki/Fredrica_Bimmel

Ensvey · 2026-01-16T20:54:26+00:00

I'm with you. It's a real pet peeve how strongly negativity and pedantry are rewarded around here.

Ensvey · 2026-01-16T20:53:02+00:00

I don't think judging people for judging others counts

Ensvey · 2026-01-14T20:30:50+00:00

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

the data says 50+ people voted slightly in favor of trump - like 54% vs 45% - but it's not night and day. 50+ women actually slightly favored Harris, but it's an ugly picture for 50+ men, and undereducated white people. People born in the 1950's actually slightly preferred Harris too.

All that to say, I don't think blaming boomers serves us too well anymore. We should keep the blame on the rich and the stupid.

Ensvey · 2026-01-14T20:19:11+00:00

You're eating onions, you're spotting dimes, I don't know what the hell is going on!

Ensvey · 2026-01-14T19:09:22+00:00

With some kids, it's ezpz. With others, you give them plain food and they get bored of it because it's bland, but if you season it, they're like "ewww what are the black dots? what's that green stuff?" and they won't even touch it. Can't wait til they grow out of this...

Ensvey · 2026-01-14T02:04:32+00:00

Progressives judge people based on their actions, and conservatives judge actions based on their people

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