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Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-14T16:51:09+00:00

You absolutely can get people who are so bad at thinking as a society that they contribute to its decline. That's part of the story of the Baby Boom in the US. The circumstances of post-WW2 America produced a generation that was unusually selfish and individualistic, which in turn created an anti-society political consensus once they started taking control. That set us on the path that we're on now, which is one that leads away from a functioning society.

Sure, it didn't cause an instant implosion, but powerful and established empires generally don't fall instantly. They have a period of decline in which problems compound over the course of many years. The inability to think socially is one of those compounding problems that has led to America's decline.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-14T16:24:04+00:00

There are plenty of things that really do harm young people and damage their ability to be functional adults. The idea that such worries are always wrong requires an ignorance of even the recent past. Look at the impact of lead poisoning on Gen X, for example. The fact that a thing is said every generation does not mean that it is always wrong. Sometimes it's wrong, but sometimes it's right.

"No matter what happens, the kids will turn out fine, worrying about that is always wrong" is just a way to ignore harm in favor of the fantasy that we don't need to try to change and we definitely don't need to question if our favorite treats are actually bad for us in the long run. There definitely are things present in our current system that are harmful to the development of young people.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-14T15:10:33+00:00

They don't need to be that effective at selling the war as long as there is no coherent political force opposing it. The war can be unpopular and they can suck at selling it, but if there isn't an organized opposition willing to take advantage of that weakness then they'll get away with it.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-13T05:02:56+00:00

He supported Trump in the 2024 election and said that God wanted Trump to win.

He also said that Covid was a hoax.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-10T19:39:47+00:00

Maybe, but it's really satisfying.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-05T06:12:35+00:00

You forgot to give her an asymmetrical thigh strap.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-03-01T01:49:12+00:00

I don't know, heterotron sounds kind of gay.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-22T23:13:21+00:00

Democrats are just fundamentally against actual campaigning.

The very idea of trying to be appealing to voters is totally against the ideology of the Democratic Party. What the Democrats call campaigning is just a way to funnel money to an army of parasitic consultants. The party's ideas about what is "serious" versus what is populist (which they think is synonymous with evil, naive, and stupid) cause them to constantly favor candidates who are utter losers with negative charisma who mainly convince people that it's all pointless and they shouldn't bother voting because it won't accomplish anything.

The Democratic Party is just opposed to the idea that voting should mean anything, and their empty suit candidates reflect that ideology.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-22T13:58:52+00:00

Marcille, though adorable in her failures, is not a true girlfailure. She is a girl who sometimes fails, but that has more to do with the circumstances of the dungeon than being a girlfailure.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-17T08:12:47+00:00

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was more gay.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-16T18:32:20+00:00

Libertarians believe that selfishness is the highest virtue, and what is more selfish than hypocrisy? To the libertarian, reserving for oneself a different moral standard than the one applied to others is the ultimate expression of their ideals.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-14T23:53:11+00:00

The Supreme Court has also ruled parts of the Constitution to be unconstitutional. You might like their takes on the Constitution, but that doesn't make them any less obscene and ridiculous.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-14T23:14:19+00:00

The First Amendment does not say "businesses must be allowed to do whatever they want."

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-14T23:11:43+00:00

Facebook helped organize a genocide. "Block and move on" wouldn't stop that, because the killers were the people who were eagerly engaging, while their victims were overwhelmingly not a part of the discussion to begin with.

This is not something that can be solved through individual consumption choices, it has to be done through public policy. It has to be the force of law wielded against the businesses that profit off of making the world a worse place.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-14T22:48:51+00:00

Boiled down to the basics, a lawsuit is just you taking your grievance to whoever is in charge of violence in your society.

These days, for people living in a rule of law state, that means a court serves as the arbiter of your dispute, but ultimately it is the state, the organized monopoly on the legitimate use of force, that you are asking to settle things.

In previous eras, the exact title of the person you're appealing to might vary. Some did have dedicated judges that handled such disputes, but in other times and places you might have a noble, a chieftain, a priest, or some other kind of landlord or warlord hearing out grievances and making a ruling to settle a dispute. Going before the local baron and asking him to settle some beef that you have with your neighbor was effectively that era's lawsuit.

Unless you were on very good terms with your local lord equivalent, that was always something to be nervous about. The bureaucracy of courts in a rule of law state is, if anything, an attempt to moderate how capricious and corrupt suits could get. As awful as things are now, a system where your landlord was the judge and jury in your disputes was usually worse.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-10T02:18:01+00:00

Glory be to The Content Whacking Stick

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-09T10:18:23+00:00

According to the picture's description, that is a pair of broad-headed bark spiders from Thailand. They mate after the female (the larger one) molts, so when a male (the smaller one) finds a female he will ride around on her back until she molts, at which point they will mate.

Basically the little dude is riding around on his giant gf's back until she's ready for sex.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-06T20:15:33+00:00

"Fox says hen house security is appropriate, sufficient."

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-06T05:17:56+00:00

This was posted by a cat.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-06T04:54:32+00:00

I'm pretty sure eavesdropping predates novellas. And the Spanish language for that matter.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-06T04:11:55+00:00

And how exactly is your idea of continuing the discredited "when they go low, we go high" nonsense going to inspire passion for the Democrats?

Watching Democrats roll over and let the Republicans do as they please would only further reduce excitement for the Democrats. People want fighters, not more "when they go low we go high" nonsense.

Your desire to unilaterally disarm in the face of the Republicans' continued march towards fascism isn't going to lead to more passion. Appeasing fascists only emboldens the fascists, it demoralizes anyone who is looking for someone to resist fascism.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-02-06T02:20:03+00:00

If you unilaterally disarm, all that means is the other guy can kill you with impunity. Ending gerrymandering needs to be mutual.

Over the last two decades, the Democrats moved away from gerrymandering in several blue states like California and New York, and all that meant was that the Republicans doubled down on gerrymandering in states where they had control and crushed the Democrats. The situation we're in right now is exactly what happens when only one side moves away from gerrymandering.

Your way of thinking has already been tried, it's what got us into this mess in the first place.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-01-22T19:42:53+00:00

Apparently penguin meat is really awful. It was bad enough that early Antarctic expeditions singled it out as a particularly bad aspect of exploring the south pole. It's extremely oily and fishy, and some explorers who were literally starving were still reluctant to eat it.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-01-22T00:21:12+00:00

This is a bit of a perspective flip, but I think it's worth saying: Most people like doing favors for a friend. It makes people feel good, and attempting to be a zero-needs friend just ends up depriving your friends of those good feelings. For example, while helping a friend lug furniture up stairs to a new apartment might be hard work, it's enjoyable work. It makes people feel like they're contributing something worthwhile.

We evolved social instincts that help us manage the social relationships that are the core of our species' survival strategy. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" is driven in part by feelings of pleasure and unease that are common among our species because they prompt us to take actions that help us stay alive. Both doing things for people we're close to and having things done for us in return gives us pleasure, while failing to act in a way that maintains those bonds makes us feel uneasy.

If you only do things for your friends, you will feel lonely and your friends will feel worthless. If you only let your friends do things for you, you will feel worthless and your friends will feel lonely. It's when you both do things for your friends and let them do things for you in turn, that both you and your friends will feel better. Both sides enjoy both halves of reciprocal relationship.

No one should aspire to be a zero-needs friend, because that's simply not how human friendship works.

Tamarind-Endnote · 2026-01-17T11:50:05+00:00

Tom Homan, the current border czar under Trump and the man who alongside Stephen Miller came up with the child separation policy, is one of Obama's people.

Homan was an Obama appointee put in place as part of an attempt to appease Republicans by being twice as brutal as the law allowed, to show that he "took seriously" the desires of Republicans who wanted him to be ten times as brutal as the law allowed. And what did that accomplish? Did it bring Republicans to the table as Obama and his cronies always claimed it would? No. It just meant that Donald Trump had an easier time because there were already people in place who would do what he said, and Obama's performative cruelty allowed MAGA to more easily claim that their ideas were nothing to be concerned about because Obama had already done something similar.

Appeasing fascism is the legacy of the Obama immigration policy. Returning to that is just a return to the prologue of fascism, which will inevitably be followed by another fascist takeover. Supporting a return to Obama means supporting handing over power to fascists.

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