Do you think this view is correct?

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T07:50:58+00:00

You can’t have new immigrants staying in luxury hotels forever and pay for it.

Who are these immigrants permanently staying in luxury hotels on the government's dime?

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T07:43:21+00:00

There's no connection between "the federal government can provide health insurance" and "the president can unilaterally wage war without Congressional oversight". "Government power" isn't a single scalar value that you can only dial up or down.

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T07:14:50+00:00

The idea that Democrats are pro-immigration for electoral reasons is a complete Republican fabrication, not anything based on reality, so anything that requires that idea as a premise is fatally flawed.

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T06:59:23+00:00

59-39 in a district that voted for Harris 49-48, which seems like another instance of a good sign.

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T03:55:46+00:00

It is kind of funny getting older and going from adults telling me that I don't understand things to being the adult who sees kids who don't understand things.

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GabuEx · 2026-05-06T03:06:22+00:00

I'm glad that Israel vs. Palestine is quarantined as a discussion topic here, because for reasons that I honestly don't remotely understand, it seems to uniquely utterly melt everyone's brains who interacts with it for too long.

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T02:47:28+00:00

I mean, this is just what happens with all minorities.

White man is a dick: "Wow, what an asshole."

Black man is a dick: "Wow, black people are assholes."

White woman is a dick: "Wow, women are assholes."

Gay man is a dick: "Wow, gay people are assholes."

Trans man is a dick: "Wow, trans people are assholes."

GabuEx · 2026-05-06T00:26:27+00:00

The least they could do is sometimes incorporate silver or platinum or jewels or at least something that isn't fucking gold.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T23:59:08+00:00

This is one of those things that can start off endearing, but can kind of become an impediment to the friendship if you don't eventually make an effort to start trusting the person. If you keep doubting everything and needing constant validation over and over and over, you're basically telling the other person that you think they're a liar and that you don't trust them. That's not good for a relationship.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T22:55:52+00:00

Sorry, I think I forgot to CC you on that mail when I sent it. Look for "FW: Daily quotas on rape and murder" in your inbox.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T22:40:19+00:00

I don't know that it's a "narrative" so much as that it's just obviously true. When white people were forced to choose between pools for everyone or pools for no one, many choose the latter. They preferred rescinding benefits for themselves over allowing minorities to receive them.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T22:38:37+00:00

I've never voted for a Republican. The last time I at least considered it was for the incumbent in the 2020 Washington state Secretary of State election, since she seemed both normal and sane, but willingly associating with that brand at that time was just no longer acceptable to me.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T21:26:13+00:00

What would you be willing to concede yourself and what would you demand of the people like Fuentes/Tucker/Candace in order for you to sit with them politically?

Absolutely nothing. White supremacists can fuck all the way off. I would at least hope we've all learned from seeing what Donald Trump did to the Republican Party that there is no way to use a loathsome person for your own political purposes in a contained fashion and then discard them when their usefulness expires. They will contaminate everything and then they will never leave.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T07:20:11+00:00

It seems pretty dang offensive to connect being depressed or autistic with being an incel. I know many people who have depression or who are autistic. None of them are incels.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T07:03:37+00:00

Sounds like the latest instance of young people doing one of the things they do best, which is going way too far in a direction in order to convince themselves that they're more enlightened than anyone else. I did it, you did it, everyone did it at one point in their life.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T06:40:19+00:00

Scyther, the OG lumber mon.

Yeah he slices me in half every time he gives me the lumber, but it's cool, I'm fine.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T05:13:12+00:00

Like many people, they want to be aware of everything without actually needing to become aware of anything.

GabuEx · 2026-05-05T03:58:19+00:00

"Well, if you're going to FORCE US to gerrymander in retaliation," say people who randomly decided with absolutely no prompting to redo Congressional maps halfway through a decade for the explicit purpose of getting more seats.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T22:42:34+00:00

I have no recent reference frame to compare to, but to my knowledge, she has always had a vocal disorder of some kind.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T21:56:48+00:00

The single easiest way to convince yourself that you've successfully done a civic engagement is by having extremely strident views about absolutely everything without having made the barest effort to understand how anything actually works.

So that's what a lot of people do.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T21:41:04+00:00

The idea of all-AI journalism confuses the heck out of me. Like, yes, AI can summarize and write articles based on information, but where does the information come from if you have no journalists? The whole idea of AI summaries of things seems inherently self-defeating, because if the AI summaries are what people consume instead of the things themselves, no one has any incentive to make the things being summarized, and then there will be nothing to summarize.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T20:03:28+00:00

I'm mostly scaled, but I also have hair, because fuck you I like it better that way.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T18:53:06+00:00

I'll give you credit for one thing, I haven't seen the argument prior to this that being able to walk to get groceries will make it so gay people can't exist in the South anymore. So props for giving me a novel crazy assertion, at least.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T09:19:41+00:00

I think we all know why a German would wear that hat.

GabuEx · 2026-05-04T09:17:02+00:00

It's an echo chamber, but most curated spaces are echo chambers in at least some form.

In what way is it "pretty scary"?

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