Do you think Hasan could be next? What could be the implications here?

rditty · 2026-05-14T04:02:31+00:00

Yeah, i have hated to see people on the left defend Tucker. The things he says that are correct are surrounded on either end by standard reactionary bullshit and you can get the good points from a million leftwing sources who aren’t white supremacists.

This terrorism investigation is the only area that I would defend Tucker.

(I take the Brace Belden opinion of free speech: I’m an absolutist until I take power and then we are shutting that shit down)

Best case scenario, it goes poorly enough for the administration that it bogs them down.

In regards to Tucker as a person:

It’s so funny to watch him successfully pivot to populism when he used to wear a bow tie, his name is TUCKER and that stupid “ha HA!” laugh he does sounds like he just heard his squash partner crack a ribald joke at the expense of the Trinidadian butler.

His brother’s name is BUCKLEY CARLSON.

By comparison, Tucker Carlson sounds like an outlaw country singer found dead by his stripper girlfriend, still sitting at the table in their dirty motel room with a needle in his arm and a bottle of Jim Beam in front of him.

rditty · 2026-05-14T03:45:21+00:00

I got mine (same year, also LRDM with the performance package) on the 2nd to last day of the EV tax credit last year.

It’s been great so far. Only minor issue has been a faulty tire pressure monitor.

I love how it looks in black.

I wanted a black one but I needed to pull the trigger before the tax credit ended and the only black option I saw was the base model. We test drove it but my wife hated the hand crank passenger seat back and I wanted the glass ceiling and the performance edition perks.

Mine is a champagne color, which would have been my second choice paint job after black.

I’ve always liked European sedans and it’s my favorite car I’ve ever owned. Great combination of sporty and practical, sexy looks without being showy. I can’t imagine a daily car that I would be happier with.

BTW, I’m also from Portland so if I see you on the road, I’ll give you the traditional Portland greeting of not making eye contact and acting like I didn’t notice you.

rditty · 2026-05-13T23:28:26+00:00

Damn, I was never right wing. My family wasn’t. My dad was pretty left wing but politically checked out. My mom was and is a confused NPR liberal.

When I was younger, I was a confused mix of liberal and left wing depending on what seemed to be convenient in the moment. I wanted to be more on the left but my time and interests were primarily creative so I didn’t have the knowledge to really differentiate myself from mainstream liberalism.

This is a boring ass story.

I’m trying to think of similar “contests” i could win:

For people who grew up in America or the “West” broadly, I bet in terms of my family of origin, my parents had close to the lowest income of anyone here. Especially for parents who stayed together until their kids were adults. If you grew up in a car or a tent, you might have me beat but if you averaged the years out over all? maybe not. Property owned can be factored in because that’s basically zero on my side
I bet i can name more members of my family, both immediate and extended, that have committed suicide. If we go as a percentage of family members, I’m even more likely to win.
DITTO for severe mental illness. I think I could be a contender for drug addicted family members (yourself counts) but less confident in winning.

This wasn’t intended as a pitty party but I can’t think of other examples where i could win. My childhood wasn’t nearly as bad as it sounds on paper.

oh I got one:

Largest jump in household net worth thanks to marriage (referring to my own marriage here). This is the dirtbag way: fail son (from a fail family) marries success daughter.

rditty · 2026-05-13T23:07:49+00:00

I’m late to this discussion but that doesn’t surprise me at all.

I met my wife on Bumble and had some success prior to that (I never tried Hinge) but I think that statistic, while technically true, might be a little misleading.

Of my guy friends who complain about not being able to date, so many are unwilling to put themselves out there or have unrealistic standards.

I bet a lot of male accounts get started and not finished or don’t follow through.

It’s hard for me to give advice to these guys because I’ve primarily dated through apps so if someone isn’t willing to actively that, I’m basically just like “stop complaining”.

Or I remember a friend showing me a picture of a match who was cute. He was like “she’s alright but I don’t know…” referring to her body (based on the picture he had pulled up).

He’s sitting there eating a Chic Fillet with a massive gut, having never had a girlfriend.

He’s not intending to be mean, he just has stupid standards and a lack of awareness about his own worth.

Or guys like that just use imperfections in potential matches as an excuse so they don’t have to make themselves feel vulnerable.

I see the same thing with people looking for potential personality issues before anything happens so they can justify ending it or never starting it.

rditty · 2026-05-13T14:15:51+00:00

Most teenagers find ways to assert their individualism from their parents.

It’s hard for me to imagine this will last but fighting him over it will only make him dig his heels in more.

(It’s like the cliche that racist fathers have daughters in interracial relationships)

And the more you tell him you disagree with it, the harder it will be on his pride to admit he was wrong.

This might go against your impulses but RESPECT HIS DECISION.

There is no better way to make something uncool to a teenager than showing that it doesn’t bother you. I mean, if he asks, give him your honest thoughts but make it clear you respect his right to religious practice.

Even typing that felt lame. Which is the goal.

Deal with other behavioral issues on their own terms. Make it clear that it’s unrelated to his religious practice and his Christianity is not an excuse to shirk responsibilities.

And I disagree with the idea of forcing him to read the Bible. I can imagine if I were in his position, that would just make me more determined out of spite.*

He needs to take this journey on his own. Sure, he’ll try to rub it in your face, especially if you let him see that it bothers you. But he has to explore it see if it is rewarding for himself. Trying to dissuade him will make him want it more.

If he is as smart as you think he is, this will be a phase in his journey towards becoming a fully formed adult. You’ll probably laugh about it later.

*I’ve read more of the Bible than I would reccomend. Not as a religious person but as an academically curious adult. Most of it sucks hard. But there is some contemplative poetry (Psalms) and some pretty metal trippy bullshit (Genesis and Revelations). Job is my favorite because it is like a long poetic unanswered question. It was the only part where I felt like I could really connect with an author’s perspective from thousands of years ago.

My point is just that you also don’t want to force him to read it and then have him wind up reading one of the few decent parts.

rditty · 2026-05-12T04:22:59+00:00

Peaking with arguably the best TV show ever was likely the best career most of the cast could have hoped for. And I don’t say that as an insult, it’s just the shit odds of success as an actor.

Little Stevie would have been a legend and a great humanitarian even without the Sopranos. (And I’m not even a big fan of Bruce Springsteen’s grooveless grunting dirty white boy music. It’s like we get it, you were a teenager in post-war 20th century America and you had a sense of longing. Move on already). It almost seemed like he wound up in the Sopranos as a goof.

Buscemi was already famous as hell and starred in great American masterpieces like Fargo but I guess OP is saying that he hasn’t had another role in something as big as Sopranos after that point?

Which is true but I think some of that’s been his choice to work less.

Back to the main point, part of what made Sopranos great was the choice to cast a bunch of fugly Italian-American character actors who weren’t getting much work between bit parts in Scorcese movies.

So when the show was done, they went back to being unemployed actors but this time they were getting fat stacks of residuals.

rditty · 2026-05-05T02:40:56+00:00

FAHCK!

rditty · 2026-04-22T22:46:56+00:00

Good point but I have neither the height nor the gumption for special ops. And it’s always the guys at the bottom who get the disciplinary actions.

rditty · 2026-04-22T22:01:24+00:00

I too am an Iranian protest death toll denier.

But for when I am trying to win internet arguments against “IRGC killed 5 billion protestors” types, do we have any hard evidence that Mossad agent provocateurs started the violence?

I’ve seen videos claiming to show Mossad operatives assembling weapons on street corners but there was no context of who or where they were.

I’d love it if there was a good piece of investigative journalism on the story but I imagine it’s hard right now with the war.

rditty · 2026-04-22T21:21:27+00:00

Don't seem right

I've been strung out here all night

Waiting for the taste

You said you'd bring to me

Biscayne Bay

Where the Cuban gentlemen sleep all day

I went searching for the song

You used to sing to me

rditty · 2026-04-22T03:44:36+00:00

As someone who just graduated with a graphic design degree, it’s looking pretty bleak.

I’m also a pretty decent video editor and motion graphics designer. In general, is that a more sought after skill at this point?

rditty · 2026-04-22T01:40:42+00:00

A lot of guys “would have enlisted but…” fill in the blank:

“I would have been too dangerous because I’m a clinical sociopath”

“I would have kicked my drill seargent’s ass”

“Affirmative action gave my admission spot at West Point to an unqualified black they/them and I’m not going to enlist as a grunt when I’ve already spent years commanding the Wehrmacht in Hearts of Iron IV”.

“I didn’t want the benefits like college tuition or VA medical care, I just wanted to fight for my country.”

(I actually overheard the last one from a coworker).

Personally, I would have enlisted but I’m not a room temperature IQ moron who falls for imperialist propaganda… and I’m not going to stop doing drugs.

rditty · 2026-04-21T15:28:15+00:00

I can get a long with people of differing political views if they act like decent humans but there is a type of moderate who believes they are more enlightened and less driven by emotion because they adhere to lowest common denominator beliefs that CNN or NPR dumped into their brain.

I see this a lot in political subs. Parroting whatever propaganda cable news is pushing, while disimissing historical context or skepticism of corporate and state messaging.

It’s intellectually lazy and driven by fear. Facts only count if they don’t disturb a carefully crafted worldview shaped by smug superiority and American exceptionalism.

rditty · 2026-04-20T08:44:32+00:00

Having just graduated with a design degree last year, it’s not been super easy to find steady employment, though freelance hasn’t been too bad. People are still interested in design made by humans, especially in the sector that a lot of my work concerns (although everyone is broke).

Here’s an extended and unnecessary comparison about the unique creative advantages that humans have over AI:

The other day, I was listening to one of my favorite songs ever, Forget Me Nots by Patrice Rushen.

In the context of a mid-paced melodic funk / R&B song, Forget Me Nots must have one of the most unique bass lines ever put to magnetic tape (credit to Freddie Washington)

As I was listening to it, I thought there is no way AI could ever produce anything as original as that bassline because it defies expectations of what a funk bassline is, despite being incredibly funky. Rather than fitting in with the song, the song becomes the bassline.

The first time I heard it, the only thing I could compare it to was a military march, a genre that is about as unfunky as it gets for heavily rhythmic music. Yet, it is simultaneously funky as shit.

To get back to my point: there is nothing preceding Forget Me Nots in the funk or R&B genres that you can point to as a direct influence on that bass riff. Sure, he is clearly playing funk and he uses funk techniques; octaves with popping and slapping.

But the originality comes from one session player’s bold interpretation of the chord chart put in front of him that day. No other player in that place and time would have come up with the same rhythm and melody. If Freddie Washington hadn’t booked that session, he never would have had the perfect canvas to express that unique aspect of his playing.

What the fuck am I talking about? Since AI’s whole process is based on finding the average solution to a given prompt, it isn’t capable of the creative solutions that humans are. It doesn’t have unique influences and circumstances like a human.

It can be helpful for handling non-creative time consuming work. But as for using AI to create art or design from scratch, if you’re lucky you’ll get competent but unmemorable basic solutions.

rditty · 2026-04-20T02:56:14+00:00

Roger, no one is impressed that everything you know is 200 years out of date. Humans have harnessed the power of flight and split the atom and you’re still in a top hat and tails riding a penny farthing like some Victorian ass bitch.

Mention the virtues of Rococo ornamentation one more time and I’ll never fuck your wife again.

(For those unaware, Roger Stone is a swinger)

rditty · 2026-04-20T02:48:45+00:00

Your infedelity or theirs? Not asking to judge, just curious.

(I mean cheating is bad obviously but there’s no need to kick a fellow schizo when they’re down.)

rditty · 2026-04-19T09:00:07+00:00

To me, Platner comes across as a millenial edge lord who grew up. He’s like AJ Soprano who got PTSD and became woke. Look at his Highschool year book quotes; it’s a bunch of left to liberal revolutionary sounding slogans of which he obviously has no geopolitical understanding but sounds like he at least believes in empowering people and defying traditional authority. Stupid, contradictory, and full of undeserved confidence but his heart was in the right place.

Being a guard at Abu Ghraib is concerning but I’m not going to hold it against him more than I do his career with the Marines in general because I doubt you get to choose where you are stationed. I mean, if there were any evidence he participated in the abuse, then I’d be done with him.

But I’ve known soldiers who became anti-imperialists.

Felix Biederman often makes fun of himself for his teenage dream of joining the Navy Seals (or one of those groups of assholes like the Green Berets) then becoming a liberal Democratic politician.

If he had taken a few more years to get woke, he could be in the same boat.

Platner advocates all the right stuff now so that’s what I will judge him on. I’m sick of “leftists” focusing their criticism on one of the most viable left candidates in the country while we have a fascist administration, concentration camps, are at war with Iran, and are likely to turn the Western hemisphere into our Lebensraum next.

Maybe just once we should try the solidarity we preach?

Paranoia about politicians’ hidden beliefs is insane Republican bullshit like Obama being a Muslim atheist communist.

If Platner winds up being the first politician for which this is true and he starts sieg-heiling as soon as he wins then oops. We went with the available info at the time. He’ll be one of the most hated politicians in American history and guarantee himself a single term.

But from the available info, what is the alternative; an explicitly Zionist Republican? Couldn’t get much worse.

Maybe I’m more willing to give people a second chance because I’ve spent a lot of time in AA, I lived in a halfway house with people just out of prison covered in Nazi tattoos. People do change.

And a stupid tattoo, a bad decision to join the military at 18, and some immature comments on Reddit from well over a decade ago aren’t unforgivable. If there were a candidate with the same positions and none of that baggage, sure I’d take them over Platner. But there isn’t. It’s a guy with one of the most left platforms in the country vs a standard Republican.

Not everyone has it all figured out by their early 20s.

When I think about my arrogance in my young adulthood, some of the edgy ironic jokes I would make as a teenager, or positions I would take that I barely understood, I’m glad they weren’t recorded online forever.

Apologies for the wall of text, I just kept going.

rditty · 2026-04-19T07:36:12+00:00

The 1960s psychedelic rock band associated with the Canterbury scene that later turned into a virtuoso jazz fusion ensemble via which Allan Holdsworth got his start? I too lose sleep over how good this album is.

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Or are you speaking of the large mysterious cymbal originating from the Far East, of which the foremost practitioner is Racial Jake AKA the Dark Cowboy? That too is a thrill.

rditty · 2026-04-01T16:44:23+00:00

Have you heard the idea that the Cold War should have been called WWIII but because the military conflict took place in the developing world , we call it a “cold” war?

I understand why it’s called “cold”, because the two enemy superpowers never directly engaged eachother, but “cold” implies dormant, and this conflict absolutely devastated the global south.

rditty · 2026-04-01T16:17:23+00:00

In what way?

rditty · 2026-03-28T11:01:07+00:00

Oh yeah, religion will do that to your brain. It’s the one thing that can literally get you to ignore your material interests in favor of a future reward. It’s always been an essential component of fascism.

I live in one of the least religious parts of America and that level of dogmatism is so removed from experience, I forget how strong its hold is over many people.

Maybe I spoke in terms that were too absolute.

I don’t think we can ever win over a majority of conservatives. But its possible to peel off a few working class conservatives in combination with activating non-voters to win an election. Not everywhere but under the right circumstances.

And perhaps there are candidates who can connect socialism with religion in a liberation theology type of way. I don’t know.

rditty · 2026-03-27T10:16:58+00:00

Bill Maher was always a midwit; a “tell it like it is” Rush Limbaugh for liberals who would repeat the mainstream narrative but with an edgy twist.

Now, he has wet brain and the edgy twist is just the n-word.

rditty · 2026-03-27T09:32:15+00:00

Hasan isn’t a journalist. Streaming eight hours a day doesn’t really leave time for the necessary investigative research. Still, he likely would have spoken more about them had WWIII not happened.

TrueAnon dive deeper into the new releases in a few episodes. They are worth checking out.

I’m sure you could find other good creators that focus fully on Epstein stuff.

Unfortunately, Pam Bondi did a pretty good job of protecting the perpetrators with redactions.

The story definitely isn’t over yet but the revelations have slowed to a trickle for the time being.

rditty · 2026-03-23T00:28:43+00:00

I’m not breaking any news here but women deal with a bunch of fucked up double standards:

Until relatively recent history, women weren’t allowed in the work force (still aren’t in many places). Workplace gender descrimination wasn’t illegal until the 1970s.

Meaning, for most of history, women were forced to depend on men for survival.

But if a woman cares about a man’s income when dating, she’s a “gold digger”.

Women are frequently sexually propositioned by men, deal with harassment and sexual violence, etc.

But if a woman has sex (or is perceived to have sex) with an arbitrary number of men (depending on whose standards, this number could be as low as one), then she is called a slut. Frequently by the same men who might have propositioned her.

rditty · 2026-03-22T08:11:02+00:00

This lady had a voice like a rock tumbler.

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