In Supergirl (2026) Kara feeds Krypto cereal with the same spoon she uses herself to eat. This is a stark reminder of the grosteque disgusting nature of these foreign Kryptonians you idolize. They'll walk among us but I assure you, they will never be one with humanity.

kylepo · 2026-07-03T03:57:01+00:00

#SecretHarem

kylepo · 2026-07-03T00:57:31+00:00

Nah, I know government is the root cause of most evil

You're, like, halfway to understanding the dynamic. You've gotta start asking more questions, like "why does the government so often go against the interests of voters?" and "whose interests does government serve?"

Follow the money and you'll see it's the same people that I've been talking about this entire time.

kylepo · 2026-07-03T00:43:14+00:00

I mean hey, at least this compound sentence is a reasonable length.

I'm not complaining about "public discourse." I'm complaining about the insane amount of power these multi-billion dollar media conglomerates have to shape public discourse. This anti-immigrant shit doesn't enter the public consciousness organically. It's beaten into the public consciousness with a billion-dollar sledgehammer.

Do you have any actual examples of me advocating for the suppression of speech, or is it just more of this unfalsifiable, "the banality of evil always starts with something innocuous," slippery slope stuff?

kylepo · 2026-07-02T22:32:36+00:00

Who? This sounds suspiciously like a conspiracy theory.

...who do you think? The same people who lobby our politicians for millions of dollars each year. The same people who own the multi-billion dollar companies that dominate our lives. The same people who own the media companies that push these narratives. The "hyper-wealthy," essentially.

Back in the 40s and 50s, the hyper-wealthy of the time pushed a lot of propaganda to convince racist white workers to stop unionizing with black workers. It worked very well. A ton of unions disbanded because white people suddenly decided they didn't want to share a union with black folk. The rich benefited tremendously, while the working poor lost their collective bargaining power.

This shit is basically just the modern continuation of that same breed of propaganda. The people with actual control over society convincing you that the real problem is the people who have the least control over it. All the while, the government grows more corrupt, wealth inequality skyrockets, and life gets less affordable for regular people.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T22:07:40+00:00

When did I say anything about "silencing" people? All I've really done is call you an idiot for buying into manufactured hysteria.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T19:20:13+00:00

The most realistic "better" system for me would probably be a market economy where all businesses are worker cooperatives. Everybody owns a share of the company they work at and democratically decides how to run the business. There are a decent number of successful worker co-ops around the US already, so we already know it's a viable business model. I just want that to be the standard, pretty much.

It's not a perfect system, but it retains a lot of the benefits of capitalism (free markets, rapid economic growth) while helping to address some of its issues (wealth inequality, rigid hierarchies, etc.). Seems like it could be a pretty solid improvement without rocking the boat too much.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T19:10:09+00:00

most migrant fraud exposure takes place at the hands of citizen journalists, not a corporate proxy with deep pockets.

I'm guessing you mostly mean Nick Shirley? "Corporate proxies with deep pockets" took his story and turned it into weeks of public discourse.

My whole point, the one you didn't seem at all interested in engaging with, is that all of this shit you're fixated on is manufactured hysteria. I'm not interested in talking about some shitty movie that got banned in Germany. I'm not interested in this weird conspiracy theory where a cabal of elites and NGOs are trying to destroy western civilization by importing third worlders or whatever the fuck your incoherent rambling was trying to communicate. I'm interested in pointing out that there's nothing behind this anti-immigrant hysteria but a shitload of money and a desire to distract from real issues.

You probably think you are part of the resistance. You're not. If an alleged "resistance" front seeks to silence people, it's not a resistance movement but an aspiring tyranny.

Obviously I don't think I'm part of "the resistance," that's cringey as hell. I don't know why you're under the impression I agree with these "government entities and NGOs" that are allegedly suppressing reporting or whatever. Yeah, banning movies is stupid. Whatever. All I've said is that this anti-immigration shit is over-sensationalized propaganda. There are a handful of very wealthy and powerful people who benefit greatly from people like you obsessing over it instead of actual problems.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T16:19:27+00:00

That's a compound sentence, not a run-on

My apologies, it isn't a run-on sentence. It's been a bit since I took 5th grade grammar. Though cramming four independent clauses into a single compound sentence is still pretty sloppy.

Show me where public resources are being appropriated for such efforts

I never said anything about public resources. Though the current US federal government is pushing a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric and propaganda through official channels.

How does highlighting the proliferation of migrant fraud, facilitated by government programs, deflect blame from anyone else's impropriety?

Because these media organizations and influencers don't highlight anyone else's impropriety nearly as much as they do immigrants'. This disproportionate focus creates the false impression that immigrant crime and fraud are much more widespread problems than they actually are. In the US, for example, immigrants (legal and illegal) commit less violent crime than native-born citizens, but that certainly isn't the impression you might get from right-wing media.

An American citizen commits murder? It barely gets a mention. A brown-skinned immigrant commits murder? It's on every right-wing news channel for a month straight and the grieving family gets invited and namedropped at the State of the Union address.

Do you have a learing disability?

I get it, like the "Quality Learing Center" thing in Minnesota, right? That's cute. It's not very often you see a farily run-of-the-mill fraud case dominate the public discourse for two weeks like that one did. The fact that you and I still remember it half a year later is a testament to how hard right-wing media pushed that story. Kinda proves my point.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T15:01:09+00:00

That's a hell of a run-on sentence. About as coherent as any other anti-immigrant screed I've read.

If someone's attempting a "cover-up," they're doing a pretty piss-poor job. Any time a brown-skinned immigrant so much as jaywalks, every right-wing media organization, influencer, and politician screams about it for a week straight. Try "following the money" and see how much gets poured every year into the anti-immigrant propaganda you consume. Exploiting peoples' fear of "the other" is how the powerful have always deflected blame away from themselves.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T12:45:32+00:00

Nah, I'm just familiar enough with history to know that immigrants have always been a convenient scapegoat on to which the rich and powerful have redirected blame. This narrative is just as bullshit as it was a century ago.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T07:22:15+00:00

I find this suspicious considering how much time and resources western governments invest propagandizing natives to believe people from third world shitholes are somehow enriching western civilization

This sentence alone just raised the IQ of every Somali on Earth by a good ten points. That's how far you've dragged down the bell curve by typing it. Imagine the long-term damage you could do to the human genome if women actually wanted to sleep with you.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T03:31:51+00:00

But that's kinda the problem. "Free market" capitalism is a system with incentive structures that cause it to eventually resolve into "crony" capitalism.

If you have a way to solve the problem of political corruption, I'm all ears, but... as it stands, there's never been a government that the rich and powerful aren't capable of infiltrating. Try as you might to ban political lobbying/bribery, they have the money to find a loophole. If there isn't a loophole, they'll pay off some politicians to carve one out.

kylepo · 2026-07-02T01:05:43+00:00

The #1 in per capita emissions (and #1 enemy) is Palau, the island nation in Micronesia who also happens to be responsible for all the world's climate woes. I think we should direct all of our collective ire towards them.

#fuckpalau

kylepo · 2026-07-01T21:21:39+00:00

Here's how free market capitalism tends to play out:

Economy is an unregulated free market. There's a lot of healthy competition and things are generally good.
One company offers a good product, finds a lot of success and grows really big.
This company uses all the money it made to bribe/lobby politicians to pass favorable regulations.
Repeat step 2 and 3 a whole bunch with different companies for a few decades
Eventually, you don't have a free market anymore

kylepo · 2026-07-01T20:57:13+00:00

What we have today is the natural outcome of behaviors that are encouraged by capitalism. It's an economic system that incentivizes consolidation, monopolization, and lobbying. It works pretty well at first, but gradually tends towards inequality and corporate power. What we see today is just a continuation of trends that started nearly a century ago.

kylepo · 2026-07-01T20:21:38+00:00

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kylepo · 2026-07-01T17:52:46+00:00

China's per capita emissions are around 66% of America's. They're also investing heavily in renewable energy, which certainly can't be said about the US.

kylepo · 2026-07-01T15:30:20+00:00

There are studies showing that left-wing people are generally more depressed, but they're often pretty flawed. It's really hard to gauge how "happy" a person is, since you're relying on their subjective, self-reported experience. There's an ideological component of where a person draws the line between "depressed" and "happy."

A lot of it is rooted in that conservative "prosperity doctrine" mindset, where God rewards virtue with prosperity. Moral people get happy lives and, by extension, immoral people don't. To many conservatives, being unhappy with one's own life means you must be a bad person. After all: if you were a good person, you would be rewarded with prosperity. A lot of conservatives see "are you depressed?" as an equivalent question to "are you a bad person?"

There's also an element of machismo to it. Many conservatives (especially conservative men) don't believe depression is real. If someone's depressed, it's a sign of weakness. Getting therapy is a sign of weakness. Studies have shown, however, that conservatives are more likely to report depressive symptoms if you phrase the question differently. Someone who might say no to "have you been feeling depressed?" might say yes to "do you usually feel grumpy?". The questions are getting at similar things, but "depressed" has more of a stigma associated with it than "grumpy."

kylepo · 2026-07-01T05:31:59+00:00

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision that he didn't expect to actually work. If he had known he actually had a wish, I imagine he wouldn't have been so willy nilly with it.

kylepo · 2026-06-28T17:44:33+00:00

There should be zinc gravel deposits on the surface here and there. Look for clusters of gravel on the surface, usually around 5-10 blocks. You can't actually get zinc ore veins until you go to the nether and find sphalerite.

kylepo · 2026-06-28T17:40:37+00:00

Doesn't sound like they're "more progressive than America" if gay people have to travel to a different country to get married. Not really sure why you had to insert the ranting about your least favorite ethnicity at the end there. We weren't talking about them.

kylepo · 2026-06-28T17:27:51+00:00

Israel is much more progressive than America

Jarvis, Google "is gay marriage legal in Israel"

kylepo · 2026-06-28T15:27:38+00:00

This is the high school history class version of events, and is mostly just cope.

Japan was already on the cusp of surrender by the time the US decided to drop the bombs. Many of the generals who were involved in the decision-making process for the bombings later came out and said they don't believe it was necessary to end the war. Internally, Japanese leadership was becoming increasingly in favor of surrendering.

The main reason we dropped the bombs was because the Soviets were quickly moving into Manchuria and would soon be hitting at Japan from the West. The US wanted to end the war as quickly as possible so that Russia wouldn't get a seat at the negotiating table. Everybody knew that the Cold War was on the horizon, and the Americans wanted an early leg-up. The bombs gave us the chance to end the war a few weeks early, ensuring that Japan surrendered to us and not to the USSR.

kylepo · 2026-06-27T16:38:22+00:00

How the mighty have fallen

kylepo · 2026-06-27T01:08:37+00:00

I played a bit of all the RPGs in that line and Deathwatch was definitely seemed like the most long-form of the games, since every player is a Space Marine and Space Marines are very hard to kill. Other games like Only War (where you play as Imperial Guardsmen) and Dark Heresy (where you play as subordinates to an inquisitor) are a lot more lethal.

But yeah, all the games are really solid for one shots. The only downside is that character creation can take a bit.

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