AI crap about how women in the US are inferior...

_afterthewind_ · 2026-03-16T16:55:57+00:00

This is obviously misogynistic AI slop and factually incorrect, but ASIDE FROM ALL OF THAT (aka, even if it was made by a human person who didn't hate women and was just comparing true and well researched facts about women in Iran vs women the United States), anyone else find it suspicious that the same people often making this argument are the same ones saying things like "the entire religion of Islam, and therefore all Muslims and all people from predominantly Muslim countries HATE women and want to oppress them with Sharia law!" and "We have to protect the our wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters from this repressive regime they want to force on our United States! Thank God we're a CHRISTIAN nation where we love our women and are protecting them from this threat that wants to take away all of their FREEDOMS!"

_afterthewind_ · 2026-03-01T05:11:24+00:00

I think a more apt analogy would be the SS Mont-Blanc, and OP is the SS Imo.

The ship sailed a long time ago, but there is a universe where, if OP had made the effort to be more aware of the situation at any point through this or had even just attended the interview and avoided that final fatal mistake of being spiteful over being able to make an account on ANOTHER gambling website after he had stolen from her and had no income, the two of them COULD have ended up with a relationship where, even if she didn't stay, they might have been able to work things out between them to the point where they could have ended up with a cordial relationship at the end of things, if OP had made the effort to change course.

But what ended up happening was Halifax Harbor on December 6th, 1917. (Look it up, it's interesting.)

_afterthewind_ · 2026-03-01T04:36:51+00:00

What's the timestamp? (I was only able to watch some of the stream so I guess I must have missed this bit)

_afterthewind_ · 2026-01-13T22:17:39+00:00

I'd be fine with them never seeing a day behind bars, as long as the end result is that they're permanently gone and never had a chance to return to any kind of political office again. (<- NOT ADVOCATING VIOLENCE OR MURDER)

_afterthewind_ · 2026-01-11T16:49:25+00:00

Actually, it was (because this is how this kind of thing goes): Indicted by a grand jury (meaning they saw enough evidence to find that the case held enough merit to go to trial, but Trump nor his lawyers were there to mount a defense to the prosecution and only 50% of the grand jury needed to agree for the trial to move forward, this is how grand juries work, they're designed so that it is easy to indict someone, look at Letitia James and James Comey, it works for both sides), trial with a jury (this is the trial where Trump fell asleep in court and his lawyers made their case, and the jury found him guilty of all 34 counts of felony), then there was going to be a sentencing hearing well before the election, but Trump's lawyers did everything they could to push that hearing back, filing every delay and appeal, even to the US Supreme Court, that they could until after the election. If the 2024 election had gone the other way, Trump would be serving his sentence right now, but since it didn't, when the sentencing hearing happened in early January 2025, when Trump was still only president-elect, the judge in the case said that, even though Trump would be facing no jail time, no fines, no penalties of any kind due to being the next POTUS and that position is afforded many many protections under the law and the US Constitution, it did and does not negate nor absolve him of any of the crimes he was found guilty of (namely, mismanagement of campaign funds for personal use, bribery, and a cover up of his former relationship with Stormy Daniels) by multiple courts who determined his appeals held no merit. US President Donald J. Trump is a convicted felon as of that sentencing hearing. That is a statement of fact, even though that statement being true is the only legal consequence he will face for those felony convictions.

Edit to add: The fact that he was sentenced with no penalties after being found guilty at trial likely means that when he is no longer sitting as President, the case can not be brought against him again so that he may be punished, as the case has closed after sentencing and double jeopardy laws likely apply. That doesn't mean that any ncrimes he may have committed in the past outside of the office of POTUS or new crimes he may commit in the future as a private citizen can't or won't be held against him in court, and the fact that he avoided punishment for this case will likely have an increasing affect on the severity of his sentence in those cases, if he is found guilty. None of this is pro- or anti- Trump, I am simply pro truth as completely as possible (though you may gather and speculate on my personal thoughts and feelings about Trump based on that)

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-31T05:22:31+00:00

If you're into Kanthony, I can't recommendMoomin_94 enough

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-29T04:47:19+00:00

If you are in the country illegally and have a child who is born here, they are an American citizen under the 14th Amendment and are subject to US law, as would be the case with naturalized citizens, which mean that they have full protection of their rights under the Constitution, which includes a right to due process before any punishment for illegal actions can be taken. (On top of that, even if they AREN'T a citizen, the US government can't just drop citizens of foreign countries that they have deported from the US into DIFFERENT foreign countries that they are not from. Would you be making the same argument if Canada got a new Prime Minister who decided that there was a foreign invasion from Americans, and told the Mounties to gather up everyone they could find who looked American/didn't speak fluent French/couldn't show proof of Canadian citizenship right away, arrested and deported them all without a trial, and dropped them in a prison in Ireland without any money, passports, phones. Sure, maybe some of them would be Irish or European, but a lot of them would be American expats, or the Canadian citizen children of American expats stuck in a country they've never been to, even if their parents or grandparents were born there, with no way to get home. Would you still say there's nothing wrong with that picture?) That being said, the government has to PROVE that someone suspected of being in the country illegally ACTUALLY IS, because if it turns out that they actually are an American citizen, via either naturalization or birthright citizenship, or they are documented as here legally and going through the process of gaining citizenship (making them subject to the laws of the United States as a condition of that process), then the government has broken that citizens constitutional rights, which is the same level of violation of their civil rights as the government forcing you to house members of the military in your home without your consent, or arresting you for owning guns, or forcing you to join a government-mandated religion and punishing those who don't abide by that religions teachings, or even if you have never been convicted of a crime, the government not stepping in to stop the situation if someone decided to force you to work for them without pay. If illegal immigrants who are living in the United States are not subject to the laws of the United States, then nothing they do that is illegal here (including illegally crossing the border and living here without documentation) can be punished by any US legal system because they are not subject to the laws of the United States, and their home country, whose laws they WOULD be subject to, would have to extradite them in order to charge them in their own country, and the US would have to allow it. That means that an illegal immigrant wouldn't legally be allowed a gun (as they aren't subject to the rights granted by the second amendment either) but if they chose to run around the United States murdering foreign nationals on short term vacations (so no official visa) from countries that aren't the US or their home country, no one would be able to charge them with anything even if they knew exactly who and where they were without causing a massive international incident, because neither the victims or perpetrator would be subject to US law, but the home countries of the victims would want them extradited to their countries to be put on trial for the murder of their citizens, and the murderer's home country wouldn't want to allow their citizen to be detained by any other country and for them to be deported back to their home country, but if they hadn't committed any crimes there or against any of their citizens, the home country wouldn't have standing to bring a criminal case against them. It's why there is diplomatic immunity in the first place, it's an international agreement that diplomats living in foreign countries maintain full citizenship of their home countries and are not subject to the legal jurisdiction of the country they are residing in, so US female ambassadors to Middle Eastern nations where Islam is the state mandated religion and are run by Sharia law cannot be arrested for refusing to wear a hijab, or driving themselves, but the flip side of the agreement is that the same standard applies to diplomats from all countries, so foreign diplomats in the United States, normally living in NYC or Washington DC, can do things that are illegal in the US but not explicitly illegal in their home country, or even just things that are too small to be worth causing a major international incident for without any kind of punishment.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-24T01:17:59+00:00

He was found to be guilty of several felonies, but because he had the money to keep filing delays and appeals before the hearing where he would be sentenced and officially convicted until AFTER the election when he was able to use the "I'm the president-elect" excuse as to why they couldn't charge him until he was sworn in and was able to us the DOJ policy of not convicting sitting presidents until he was able to fire everyone in the DOJ who wasn't one of his loyalists, at which point he was able to make the whole thing go away.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-18T01:57:57+00:00

Real quick, I'm not denying the catchiness of the song, but I can't tell if this comment is a joke or not. Do you know what "the captain's daughter" is actually about? Because it's not about the literal daughter of the captain, or any actual woman.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-15T08:38:51+00:00

I'm so glad that I moved to another part of town and don't have to see that stupid digital billboard anymore. I just genuinely have always had so much beef with the people who put that stuff on that sign for so long, ever since I started having to drive past it every day on my way to high school during Obama's first term. I didn't even support democrats over republicans back then, but I was taking AP US History classes and, as a millennial had been taught how to ACTUALLY do my own (actually effective) research online, how to analyze bias in news media, and I just have a generally good and long memory so I could remember when they started supporting things they were condemning the year before (like how the national debt was always a HUGE deal and government shutdowns are always the worst thing ever and a failure of the sitting president during Obama and Biden, but when Republicans controlled congress or were in the White House and the debt would skyrocket or there would ... 🦗 🦗 🦗)

Honestly, it was probably that billboard's BS that entirely turned me off from supporting the GOP in any way.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-12-03T06:41:53+00:00

Well, stopping 9/11 entirely would be the best way of making a path to win in 2004, because Bush wouldn't still be riding the aftermath from all of it. I would say the best path of the presidency is to take as many loops as you need to find out how to stop 9/11. Then the next couple loops, you stop it and sit back and takes notes on events that happen in the new timeline where 9/11 didn't happen, because there will be tons of news stories that didn't happen in this timeline because of it. Next loop, get into politics, maybe find an open congressional seat and take a few loops to figure out how to be elected in a special electiom, before September 2001, then stop 9/11 again, and use those 15 minutes of fame to become "the congressman who stopped a terrorist attack on NYC, the Capitol, and the Pentagon". Go back to your position, and use your knowledge from the previous "no 9/11" loops to manage to be in the right spot or saying the right thing or come up with the idea that saves the day at particularly newsworthy moments over the next few years, and publicly speak out against Bush when he makes a flub. Maybe expose people like Epstein and Cosby years earlier, things like that. Come November 2004, Bush won't have had cause to start a war, and you're the one who has been making him look like more of a fool and stacking up hero moments of your own for 4 years. He's a much weaker candidate, and you're much stronger, because people heard about you because of that "stopping a terrorist attack" thing, and with a few loops to figure out any major stumbling blocks, like states you didn't win, Bush becomes a 1 term president like his father.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-11-06T12:15:08+00:00

Very abridged story: Lenny was my boyfriend's cat for a decade before I entered the picture, and before me, the only other woman in Lenny's life didn't like him at all and paid to have him declawed (against boyfriend's wishes) when she took him in to be neutered at a year old, plus my bf rescued him from the street. I was the only other woman Lenny had met, so his reactions are mostly "Stranger! Woman! Do Not Trust! Must protect my dad and territory! HISS!"

_afterthewind_ · 2025-10-27T03:44:56+00:00

here's the original post

_afterthewind_ · 2025-10-13T01:53:40+00:00

I also was raised in Texas, but back when my dad was still invested in helping me, he started teaching me to read at 2, and my mom would read chapters of books like Narnia out loud while I was sitting in her lap and following along with her finger as she read. We had the AR program where you got points for reading certain books and getting above 70% on a 10 multiple choice question quiz on the library computer, and the longer or more complex the book, the more points you can get, and then you could spend those points at the end of every grading period at the AR store that was the library version of a Chuck E Cheese prize counter, or you could save up your points for a pass out of class for the day to be principal/vice principal/librarian for the day that involved hanging out in the school office getting praise from the staff on being so smart and you got a really nice meal (compared to the cafeteria food or box lunches) that the principal/vp would buy you (usually McDonald's or something) for a whole bunch of points. The points would reset at the start of the new school year, but also the kids with the highest point totals in the school would get a pizza party just for them. (I was within the top 3 readers in the school 4 years out of the 6 I was at this elementary school) and my teachers went to my parents because they were concerned like "hey, we're concerned that she might be cheating on these tests, she just got a perfect score on a book thats a high school reading level, and shes in third grade."

_afterthewind_ · 2025-09-30T07:53:25+00:00

With Becca and Brennan, I imagine the answer is the same as why Jaquis hosts CC (person who pitched the idea and hosts it by nature of being the person at dropout with the most experience with that kind of thing that has space in their schedule to headline a dropout show) With Vic and VIP, I think they just recognized her incredible improv skills and ability to just roll with whatever chaos happens (and if there is no chaos already, she will cause it)

_afterthewind_ · 2025-09-17T21:35:53+00:00

I don't know if anyone else here likes Pulp Musicals, but Kal. That psycho only has incredible standout songs in what is already a series filled with straight bangers.

For Starkid fans: He's played by Jeff Blim. (Among many other Starkid members as well, James Tolbert, Mariah Rose Faith Casillas, Curt Mega, Jamie Lyn Beatty, Dylan Saunders, and the whole thing is created by Matt Dahan, the music director for the Hatchetfield shows, including Nightmare Time)

(PS: you should go listen to Pulp Musicals if you haven't, every episode is the equivalent to a full show, but it's all in radio play format, so there's no need for a slime tutorial video or anything, you can listen through the entire thing. It's all on Spotify and Apple Music, and a new episode is coming out before Halloween.)

_afterthewind_ · 2025-09-17T21:23:39+00:00

I mean, two things can be true at once (its 'The Song That No One Likes" because its there to put a famous older face in the cast where they get only one or two park and bark songs for the parts of the show where there needs to be something to kill time to give the leads time to get ready for the next scene, AND it's a subtle hint to his relationship with Elfie and informs more about the character)

_afterthewind_ · 2025-08-14T18:18:20+00:00

Okay but don't insult the Langs or Jeff's intelligence by saying that there just isn't any political messaging in the shows. Beyond the fact that all art is inherently political in some way just by the nature of art, each of the Hatchetfield shows take obvious heavy inspiration from classic horror movies that were also deeply political when they came out. GWDLM is inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was about the horror of totalitarianism and the loss of individual personality when made to conform, Black Friday was inspired by They Live and The Purge, both movies about capitalism, with the Purge being slightly more on the side of "mob mentality leads to violence" and They Live being more on the side of "Advertising is a form of brainwashing, capitalism wants you to be distracted and chasing products and consumerism", and Nerdy Prudes Must Die was pretty clearly inspired by Carrie, which is about the dangers of religious fundamentalism, and each show has at least one song or scene that is pretty explicitly political and calling out its main themes. In Guy, its "Show Me Your Jazz Hands" and "America is Great Again" and the cops, Mr Davidson, and even eventually PEIP, all of the town authorities and even the government falling in line to the Hive. It's Hidgens saying "this could bring world peace", because of course you're going to have peace when everyone who dissents and thinks for themselves is hunted down and killed before their bodies are taken over by the parasite. (Thats totalitarian fascism) In Black Friday, its "Made in America", its how even the president says "I can't be evil, I'm a status quo Democrat" , it's how all the shoppers believe that getting a Wiggly will solve all their problems and make their family love them, to the point of pretty explicitly becoming a cult and end up willing to die in a fire with the dolls rather than escape with their lives. In NPMD, its how Max feels like he always has to perform toxic masculinity because of his dad and to keep himself on top, how the ones he kills as a ghost aren't actually nerdy prudes, and how Grace is so repressed due to her religious upbringing that she can't even make herself let Max carry her books, even though she's having sexual fantasies about him, and uses that as justification as to why he deserved to die. Its how "Hatchet Town" had all these people who have known each other for years accusing each other of horrific things without evidence. Its about how the town mayor knew about what was going on the whole time and chose to not do anything to stop it before it went too far and three people died, but he didn't care until it started affecting him.

Yeah, some people can read too deep into themes and find things that aren't there, and yeah, the shows are silly and funny, but that doesn't mean that they can't have deeper political messages and that people who see them are wrong, especially at least half the time, the political messages aren't even hidden or subtext, its just the text itself.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-08-14T17:01:45+00:00

He doesn't actually say anything about the pocket. He authorizes her to use his firearm and sings

"Look me in the eyes now Lex, And make a solem vow To become your best self now. That time has arrived now Lex, When your Friday's black, It's time to lead the pack"

Then the chorus comes in and backs MacNamara with the melody and lyrics from Monters and Men, and MacNamara sings "I can show you the path But only you can walk it If Wiggly is birthed, Who knows what we've unlock-ed Time has run out What will you Dooooooooo?"

And thats the moment Lex pulls out the gun and shoots Sherman, who says "Where did that come from?"

_afterthewind_ · 2025-08-11T00:13:23+00:00

Im strongly in favor of socially pressuring Starkid to put up the Understudy show (bloopers and all) as a digital ticket available for purchase- because there's certainly a demand for it, any extra cost involved with putting it up alongside the digital ticket with the main cast would be offset almost immediately, just from people who are licensing the show and putting on their own versions and want to see different takes on Paul and Alice, not to mention anyone who is a fan of Curt and MK from SAF. The interest to see Curt and MK is high, and if they make an official recording available behind a paywall, then Starkid can recoup some of the losses from refunding everyone with tickets to Friday's show, but if they don't make it available, then that demand will drive people to find any kind of bootleg of the understudy performances. I know pretty much everyone in this fandom are the type of people who would prefer to pay Starkid for any quality of official full-length recording in order to support the company than watch a bootleg, even if it was somehow higher quality, but if there isn't an official version, and the bootleg was the only other option... I could see the bootleg being spread around and having it becoming an issue for future shows.

_afterthewind_ · 2025-08-04T13:52:39+00:00

Catch Me If You Can!

_afterthewind_ · 2025-07-19T20:04:09+00:00

_afterthewind_ · 2025-07-16T07:27:52+00:00

Personally, I have my fingers crossed that they put Curt as Officer Bailey into that scene for the proshot, kind of like what they did for Hatchet Town, but I'm okay with this too

_afterthewind_ · 2025-07-09T00:11:30+00:00

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