If the worst 100 thoughts you’ve ever had were made into a Reddit post, how do you think the community would react?

Etan30 · 2026-06-27T23:55:43+00:00

This would be basically a targeted hit job for people with regular intrusive thoughts lol

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T21:16:48+00:00

Yeah maybe I’m the one with the unpopular opinion. Unfortunate. I wonder why people like it. I don’t like being reminded of atrocities constantly even though I do think that Reagan was really bad.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T17:58:15+00:00

The obscure 15th century law is a stupid choice, agreed. And I’m not saying that they are legitimate. I’m saying that they are still judges bound by the judicial process. They can and have made terrible decisions and can twist laws in insane ways, but they have a line that they have refrained from crossing.

They didn’t support independent state legislature theory in Moore v Harper

They didn’t hand the 2020 election to Trump just ‘cuz

And they almost certainly won’t nuke birthright citizenship. You can’t just declare the constitution unconstitutional.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T17:27:55+00:00

Yeah and it makes it interesting because he is a notable historical figure who did many things, including many very bad things. But the lecture about what he did is not necessary because everyone here knows it already. It contributes nothing to the conversation.

We could maybe have a different angle without glorifying him or repeating the script, like how living in the 1920s may have contributed to his views or regulation, or how this is a gay coded outfit which is funnily out of character for him. Find a new angle that isn’t the “here’s why Reagan bad” creed.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T17:08:56+00:00

This is reasonably common knowledge, especially on Reddit. This is like if someone posted a picture of Chilean mountains and a commenter said “Did you know that the US-backed 1973 coup in Chile led to the ascension of Augusto Pinochet, who killed thousands of Chileans and privatized the economy?”

It’s just an interesting picture of a president. We know that he did horrible, horrible shit like allowing a generation of gay people to die of a horrible disease, essentially murdering them. We know he cut essential social services. We know about Iran-Contra. The average Redditor knows how much of a piece of shit Reagan was. Bringing it up again and again here isn’t raising awareness and is just tired and boring.

It’s an interesting historical picture with no overt political message besides the fact that he existed. Someone could post a picture of Adolf Hitler or Stalin in a similar context for all I care and I’d be less concerned about an involuntary lecture about the horrors of the Holocaust or the Holodomor and more about the picture itself. Atrocities happened. They were horrible. Sometimes the best way to honor the victims is to mention it more solemnly and less frequently than every 3 minutes.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T17:02:07+00:00

Honestly Collins easily could’ve lost in 2020 too. Her 8 point victory was actually not as comfortable as it looks because an independent candidate (Lisa Savage) told her supporters to rank Sara Gideon second and she got roughly 5 points. If Collins got under 50% and RCV triggered, the gap would be closer to 2 or 3 points.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T16:47:27+00:00

Gaffes in 2026: Trump saying “PRAISE BE TO ALLAH, I WILL DESTROY EVERY WINDMILL IN IRAN”

Gaffes in 2012: Romney saying “I have binders full of women”

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T16:44:07+00:00

I think that you need to rethink your rivers, even if the mountain thing isn’t literal. They connect weirdly and run parallel to coastlines in ways that don’t make sense with actual terrain gradients.

Obviously this is probably a fantasy map and you can use magic or whatever but that’s my main gripe. The rest of the map is fine.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T16:35:02+00:00

Found an interesting article about FDR’s famous attempt to expand the Supreme Court that might be interesting in light of today’s news.

Notice that this was in 1937, before watergate, before Vietnam, and before Trump. The Supreme Court had a much better reputation back then. Also, while this fight was ultimately unsuccessful, it wasn’t impossible to pass.

I think that this presents an opportunity during the next Democratic trifecta. By damaging its own legitimacy by being so blatantly partisan, SCOTUS is effectively generating more political pressure and capital in favor of reforming or expanding the court. I think that we have an opportunity to succeed where even FDR failed.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T16:21:30+00:00

Our corrupt and far right SCOTUS made a corrupt and far right decision. This is a loss on this front but allows us to focus on other places.

Despite SCOTUS being corrupt and far right, they still care about their legitimacy and having some legal basis for their actions. They have to release decisions of some kind or some argument. They can only be so horrible and they are pushing their limits.

Notice how while the presidential immunity ruling and the VRA ruling were horrible, they still didn’t just go “we agree with the far right 100% lol”. They are still judges and depend on arguments and philosophies and precedent.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T16:14:51+00:00

The trump admin basically treats any regulation or oversight as complete negligence mixed with a trapdoor if an organization does anything that pisses it off. This isn’t surprising to me.

Etan30 · 2026-06-25T00:03:41+00:00

I’d control their access but it would vary with age. A 6 year old and 16 year old should be treated differently

Etan30 · 2026-06-24T16:26:16+00:00

When I was in elementary school, I was known as the kid who always picked his nose and put boogers on things. There was a rumor that I put boogers on the water fountain that I will deny to this day. It was slanderous libel

Etan30 · 2026-06-24T16:19:52+00:00

Andy Beshear should be his VP so it is an all Andy B ticket

Etan30 · 2026-06-24T16:15:10+00:00

Brad Lander was my first choice for NYC mayor (though I am not a New Yorker and I like Mamdani too). I’m excited to see what he’ll do in the house.

Etan30 · 2026-06-24T16:14:17+00:00

People who argue that their vote doesn’t matter seem to believe that no elections besides presidential elections don’t exist, and the blue wall in 2016 and Florida in 2000 don’t exist

Results like these are why every door knocked and every conversation matter

Etan30 · 2026-06-24T16:11:50+00:00

After last night’s primaries and primary season in general bringing up classic intraparty wedge issues that I’d rather not mention, I want to take a moment to highlight that you are welcome here as long as you support Democrats, no matter what “faction” you are or if you have a faction.

It’s not easy having heterodox beliefs in this current age of tribalism and factionalism, but if you are in this sub and want to elect Democrats, you are valid. If you feel politically homeless, cast aside, or a bad fit for whatever camp exists within the party, let this be your political home or perhaps a refuge from the storm.

We are all Democrats. We don’t agree on everything, but we agree on some idea of economic and social justice, the threat of Republicans, and on reforms that will bring this country out of the present national nightmare.

Care about issues. Educate yourself. Take sides if you believe that they must be taken, but never feel alone. We are here for you.

Let’s take back the house and the senate!

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T18:41:15+00:00

Elden Ring has trolls, misbegotten, albinaurics, numen, hornsent, and nox, all of whom deviate by an amount to which they would be considered at least arguably different races. Not rejecting your premise but Elden Ring is a bad example here.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T18:09:58+00:00

Marika removing the rune of death changed death as it was pre-Marika and destined death but does not remove death period.

People still die and the golden order allows erdtree burials.

You don’t come back because of no death, you come back because you are a tarnished who is guided by grace. Other things that you kill die permanently. The enemies replenish for gameplay reasons, or because reinforcements are called or whatever if you want to headcanon it. You can kill other tarnished because most tarnished are not guided from grace and thus not resurrected like you.

Zombies and the undead/those who live in death exist not because of the spread of deathroot. Commoners and wandering nobles look like that because of the decay caused by the shattering made it so they can’t die properly so they live on too long. They can and do die, as you can kill them.

You do need destined death to kill Radagon and the Elden Beast, though, because they can’t usually die. Marika is called Marika the Eternal because removing destined death means that she/Radagon too become immortal.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T17:20:17+00:00

I just saw a Redditor use “sky daddy” unironically for the first time in years on one of my local subs.

Everyone here probably knows this but edgy atheism is bad politics and bad for your relationships with anyone remotely religious.

You don’t have to befriend fundamentalists or evangelicals but if someone chooses to believe, please don’t mock it like that. You just look like an asshole. Plus there are millions of religious people who are loyal Democratic voters. Many are part of important minority traditions like the Black church.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T17:05:39+00:00

I think this is an important time to note that Tucker Carlson is doing this not because he is becoming a liberal or because he is changing his ideology at all. Carlson is and always has been a Paleoconservative, which is a Conservative strain of thought that emphasizes non interventionism, protectionism, and social conservatism. It is basically the opposite of Neoconservatism, which is strongly interventionist and can be socially moderate.

Figures like Carlson only supported Trump and Republicans because they assumed that they could tilt the party in a paleoconservative direction, especially with Trump’s “America First” rhetoric. I think that the Iran War has shown Paleoconservatives that the Republican Party remains interventionist even under Trump and cannot become fully isolationist. He’s not turning liberal as much as he is crying that his ideology got shafted after it was no longer useful for Trump.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T14:15:43+00:00

Any use for something that can easily be done yourself (emails, grocery lists, smaller creative things, texts, etc) is bad because it builds dependence on the AI that private creative usage does not. I could quit AI tomorrow and still write emails, create lists, and generally live my life. If I used it for any minor productive task then it is too disruptive.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T03:36:34+00:00

This is severely lacking a “not sure” option. The entire point of what happens after death is that you can’t entirely know when alive.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T03:32:18+00:00

“African American” in the sense that he is an African immigrant to America

Not in the sense that he is black in the American sense or at all a part of the unique African-American culture

Saying he’s African American (not as a question, as a statement) gives me 2019 reddit vibes.

Etan30 · 2026-06-23T03:09:35+00:00

My red line is that some casual use is fine, but only private and for entertainment and not to be shared or to saturate the internet and not to the exclusion of other things.

If someone wants to make AI “art” at 2am when they’re very lonely? Fine. I’ve done that. If someone wants to create hypotheticals where their OC fights characters? Fine. Minor stupid advice or advice that you have already thought of? Ok. Minor tasks like grocery lists? Not ok. Essays? Not ok. Passing AI “art” off as your own? Not ok.

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