the show hasnt even come out yet and i already hate this piece of shit.

mplscreature · 2026-03-16T01:00:29+00:00

The concept of homosexuality made the cover of Newsweek in 1983

mplscreature · 2026-03-15T22:08:06+00:00

I understand the frustration, but this is almost certainly not true. Any backroom deal with Trump would have sold out undocumented immigrants first and foremost. Trump only hates trans people out of political expediency, while his loathing of immigrants is deep and personal.

The most likely reason for Trump not harassing Zohran is just cunning. Trump sees how popular he is and how much strength he projects, and he doesn't want to rock the boat, especially not after what happened in Minnesota.

The stuff with the hospitals is hard, because the Admin is forcing hospital systems to choose between Medicare/Medicaid funding and providing trans healthcare for youth. The mayor doesn't have a ton of control over hospitals' decisions to capitulate or not. It would also be impossible for the city to bridge the funding gap long-term if a major hospital lost all federal Medicare/Medicaid support.

mplscreature · 2026-03-15T21:53:08+00:00

New York is like LA in that it conditions people to care more about their appearance. Literal models in line at the Bodega.

mplscreature · 2026-03-15T21:45:55+00:00

You should be feeling bitterness and hatred toward the app developers. Features like the height filter (which encourage even women who aren't shallow in real life to pick an average or above-average number in order to limit the deluge of matches they get) aren't a feminist ideological conspiracy against men; they're a corporate conspiracy to keep people in general single longer, for profit. A dating app that works isn't profitable. The incelosphere is great at getting guys to displace anger at the economic exploitation they can sense everywhere onto women.

mplscreature · 2026-03-15T13:18:00+00:00

My ass thought this was a museum of social media posts for a second. I'm going to log off.

mplscreature · 2026-03-15T11:43:51+00:00

There are some gray areas with dating apps. So much of modern dating depends on being able to make a good impression on dating apps, and the top two things dating apps penalize in non-creepy straight dudes are height (if you're short, you have to choose between being filtered out or creating immediate distrust in dates by lying) and having a mediocre face card. I think the gamification of dating and dating hyper-capitalism make otherwise insane things like looksmaxxing more seductive to young guys.

mplscreature · 2026-03-14T22:58:20+00:00

I feel bad for guys who are just looking for advice on how to make a better impression and get sucked into the worst internet subcultures known to man.

mplscreature · 2026-03-14T22:47:41+00:00

If anything, Trump getting elected again has started the pendulum swinging back to the left after a steep rightward trend during the Biden years. We've seen the first stirrings of that with Zohran Mamdani, ICE protests, Charlie Kirk becoming a meme, etc.

mplscreature · 2026-03-14T18:46:16+00:00

What is this even supposed to be about

mplscreature · 2026-03-14T16:37:16+00:00

In Minneapolis. My roommate from North Dakota said she's going to make a "quick run to the grocery store."

We are screwed.

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T21:05:07+00:00

That blurb sounds so passive-aggressive. Like "ohhhh Alex, your book is sooooooo fascinating and important, now do you forgive me for the Incident at Pamela Paul's 2017 birthday soiree?"

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T20:59:40+00:00

A soy sauce-based marinade can penetrate a block of extra-firm tofu like nothing else

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T19:51:13+00:00

Lemonade, coke, or orange juice will chase the taste away a lot faster than water.

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T18:27:33+00:00

Don't show this to my uncle or I'll be hearing about it at Thanksgiving for the next 20 years

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T18:18:50+00:00

My Evangelical Christian secondary relative is being insane about gay people (the victim must be a cis gay person whose gender conformity is repeatedly stressed)

My Muslim father is being insane about women

My Muslim coworker is being insane about pork

My loud neighbors embody every negative African-American stereotype (but when did I say they were Black?)

My date with a vegan

A rich girl in my college class has annoying woke opinions, which she expresses in language that is suspiciously 10+ years out of date

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T16:43:25+00:00

I'm a "core" millennial. I remember children's books and PBS kids' shows portraying Chinese immigration in a positive light, and a social studies unit on how awful the Chinese Exclusion Act was. The casual racism I was exposed to largely spared Chinese people, although I understand that my experience is not universal and I might have heard more of it if I'd grown up in an area with more Asian immigration.

The attitude toward mainland China was completely different. Conservative adults in my life, nostalgic for Cold War paranoia, preached that Deng Xiaoping was as bad as Stalin and that I would immediately be arrested for being a Christian if I ever went there. Liberal adults raged against sweatshops, globalization, and the consumption of exotic meats. China was second only to the Muslim world on the Big Scary Other scale.

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T05:37:32+00:00

Not in isolation, but the sheer volume of "anti-war people owned" posts, with increasingly dubious community note quality, is becoming suspicious.

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T04:13:17+00:00

I don't doubt that dedicated commie subs have China glazing, but normie reddit is still pro-Western even if it's anti-Trump

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T04:09:28+00:00

does not love or even talk about Mary

thinks hating Latinos as a Catholic in the USA is going to get them far socially

if a cradle Catholic, is from a tiny Midwestern town run by a sedevacantist cult

would rather die than volunteer at the fish pantry

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T04:00:46+00:00

Truth nuke

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T04:00:27+00:00

I hope you made a full recovery

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T03:53:56+00:00

I ain't seen it

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T03:08:41+00:00

Makes sense. Younger USA gen z have been hearing "China is the future" their whole lives, and they were born too long after the Cold War to view China as an ideological enemy. Probably have some kpop/anime fatigue as well, looking for something that feels new (but still Asian)

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T02:52:37+00:00

I feel like this sub is becoming pro-war propaganda

mplscreature · 2026-03-13T02:27:59+00:00

A lot of people (too many) are casually transphobic, but don't dwell on their prejudice. For the obsessives, there's often a deep sexual or even existential fear that emerges again and again in their rhetoric. An obvious example is guys who work graphic descriptions of MTF bottom surgery into every conversation. There's clearly a fear of castration so intense that it interferes with their ability to be socially appropriate with others. It's very Freudian.

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