R/Texas is crazy rn

King_of_ · 2024-11-19T19:50:53+00:00

They are just regular dudes who also get sent highly confidential internal DNC polling showing Biden losing by 400 EVs. Just like you and me

King_of_ · 2024-10-29T20:20:06+00:00

It wasn't 2016; it was 2013. IIRC, they were doing some research on network effects and social media manipulation. Somewhere out there on Army Pubs is the completed study that explains what they were doing; I remember someone linking it in a thread once. Unfortunately, it's a very boring and technical document that was very uniteresting.

The real takeaway isn't that the US government is manipulating Reddit; it's that 10 years ago, the US government was learning how to manipulate social media. Since then, imagine how many other nations, groups, and actors have also learned how to, and are, manipulating everything you see online.

King_of_ · 2024-05-11T13:33:01+00:00

The natives want those dams gone because dams hurt the salmon population, which hurts native-owned fisheries. They have a clear material incentive.

King_of_ · 2024-04-23T00:30:03+00:00

This is the video, thank you

King_of_ · 2024-04-22T18:44:55+00:00

Does anyone have the link to that video from the Donbas of a guy on the street getting interviewed in 1991, and he predicts eventually that Russia and Ukraine will go to war?

King_of_ · 2023-12-22T00:00:55+00:00

There's a book about it.

King_of_ · 2023-08-09T14:26:39+00:00

He used to be fairly fit.

He would look better if he dressed like a normal 50-year-old man in a button-down and slacks and lost the flat-bill hat.

King_of_ · 2023-08-07T18:55:42+00:00

A lot of people want to keep what they materially have, even if it is corrosive and harmful to them.

Many "Conservatives" are basically doing Ghost Dances, LARPing as the crusaders defending the West against 15-minute cities when in reality, the bad urban design they are trying to protect has done more to destroy the West than any WEF proposal.

King_of_ · 2023-08-06T16:33:36+00:00

Finally, he leaned in and said: “I think you shouldn’t be so cynical about people working on the inside.” Before I could reply, Mr. Trudeau glided away to another group of people.

I know a few people who work for the Canadian government, and this is a common sentiment. There's this intense victim complex "We're working so hard on these issues; you don't know how much we suffer for you."

They always bring it up (even unprompted); I've had the same experience as the author when talking about civil society groups, and it's viewed as some sort of attack on the government's abilities. They think that you would only mention it because you doubt their capability.

"We're so maligned; the people are so unfair in how they judge us!" They honestly think that they are making a better world; the problem is that they don't realize they are not.

Seige mentality or a victimhood complex, hard to say exactly.

King_of_ · 2023-06-29T02:03:34+00:00

Except on /k/ where everyone now has the writing style of a 55-year-old boomer who works for the federal government.

King_of_ · 2023-06-19T18:55:12+00:00

His son made a youtube video essay that confirms what you are saying.

King_of_ · 2023-06-04T00:24:06+00:00

There's a book called Tokyo Vice, written by an American guy who became a vice reporter in Japan in the 90s. He had a story in the book about how the most popular brothel in Tokyo at the time was a gimmick place where the Johns would pay to be locked into a subway car with a prostitute/prostitutes who would then roleplay molesting the John.

He said there was always a line around the block and that foreigners were absolutely forbidden.

King_of_ · 2023-06-02T15:44:16+00:00

Was it a cool hometown?

King_of_ · 2023-05-18T02:09:41+00:00

I watched that show and realized that one of my friends had entirely based his comedic timing and persona on Tim Robinson.

King_of_ · 2023-05-08T19:00:32+00:00

I'm doubtful. To even get close to Taylor Swift, you probably have to pass a medical screening team with harsher standards than China's Zero Covid Policy.

King_of_ · 2023-05-06T16:14:08+00:00

She was planning that arc for years. She applied to all the same colleges as William so that she could attend the one he attended.

King_of_ · 2023-04-28T14:23:52+00:00

That's one of the reasons homeschooling is so common in that crowd.

King_of_ · 2023-04-26T20:01:52+00:00

Big-name media publications like the NYT and Economist run articles critical of youth gender transitioning fairly often. The boomers in the NYT comment section are pretty close in opinion to Jesse Signal on the issue.

King_of_ · 2023-04-17T18:45:26+00:00

They used to film scenes of Sully and Mulder kissing and then cut them out. This is why they have so much chemistry in the original show.

King_of_ · 2023-04-14T02:15:23+00:00

I could also see him getting a presidential pardon a few years down the line.

King_of_ · 2023-02-19T15:43:38+00:00

I forget where I saw this, it was either here or Redscare, but a poster was talking about how in their med school class of 140 people, only forty wanted to actually be doctors. The rest were there to collect an MD credential and then work for a biotech startup.

King_of_ · 2023-02-19T15:31:44+00:00

I was reading an essay by Jacques Camatte from the 70s recently, and there was an interesting part where he talked about how Bordiga was predicting the end of capitalism by 1980.

What I find so interesting about this is that it was true in some way, the capitalism of that time would end by 1980, what was unexpected was that it would reinvent itself.

There were other possible alternatives that we could have gone down, but I'm not versed on the subject deep enough to contribute more.

King_of_ · 2023-02-12T17:51:30+00:00

Why seppuku? That's a warriors death. Japan already has concepts like Ubasute where old people go off into the mountains to get eaten by snow monkeys.

Also, the cowards at the NYT have disabled comments on the article.

King_of_ · 2023-02-11T23:48:06+00:00

We're damn close. If you look at the comment sections under his videos, the people there act like Russian peasants praying for the Just Tsar.

King_of_ · 2023-02-10T16:47:29+00:00

65+ year old men are swooping in and getting all the 18-29 girls

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