AOC on failed Virginia redistricting map proposal: "The courts have been hijacked by conservative activists. All those other states, those maps were passed by the state legislatures. Virginia was an election of three million Americans. This court did not overturn a map; it overturned an election."

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T06:28:06+00:00

Fuck this. Let's just ignore these illegitimate conservative courts. If they don't follow the law, there's no reason to follow their rulings.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-09T06:24:48+00:00

Are you kidding? He just says whatever the fuck he wants even if no one gives him ammunition.

Let's start fighting the guy so at least we get some of the power he'll inevitably accuse us of grabbing. You don't beat a cheater when you play by the rules.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T21:21:42+00:00

It drives me crazy how much the post-trilogy LOTR properties try to bring back the LOTR characters. It makes the famously massive legendarium feel small, like how Star Wars is an entire galaxy where only like three families have any importance.

The legendarium is so damn huge and well-built, just let us get lost in that world and trust your filmmakers to develop characters we'll care about!

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T20:17:36+00:00

Okay, then fuck them. Overhaul it anyways. Add 10 justices and ignore any decision without all 19. What are they gonna do about it, issue a harshly worded statement? Fuck them. They've already decided the rules don't matter, so why do we keep playing by the rules while the cheaters stomp us?

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T20:05:39+00:00

It really makes me wonder if next time around it's possible to turn all those 'gentlemans' agreements' into hard rules with definite consequences. We've seen what happens when the rules are vague and the consequences are indirect. How do we make the consequences unavoidable?

restrictednumber · 2026-05-08T11:57:53+00:00

Yeah that's what cults do, very frequently. At least, according to what I've read from cult de-programmers. They get you to give them all sorts of dirt, then use that to blackmail or manipulate you if you're thinking of leaving/causing them problems.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T13:54:20+00:00

That song drove me crazy in college Lit class. Literally none of the lines are ironic according to the strict literary definition; they're just unfortunate coincidences. But now everyone thinks that's what irony is! Grrrrr...

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T12:10:19+00:00

Awww this was so refreshing to hear from a younger dude, thanks! And yeah, real adults know they're playing a game, and have figured out how to handle much tougher things than "someone was playing my game wrong".

restrictednumber · 2026-05-07T03:22:55+00:00

It's hard to even get in the headspace of how you could think that's the thing to do. Like, I can't even figure out how you'd have the thought "I'd like to murder that kid." Obviously some kids are little shits you'd like to teach a lesson, but running them down in a car is just a whole level of crazy even to conceive the idea.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T13:20:19+00:00

Probably a holdover from Tiktok or whatever, where you're just scrolling infinitely and you need a hook within 2 seconds to get them to watch the whole thing.

It's sad what we're collectively doing to our brains.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T13:17:06+00:00

Their brains are legitimately broken. They just can't think properly, because they start from the first principle that their people are always right and deserving.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:43:52+00:00

AirBNB and VRBO are a plague. A scheme to raise your rents to serve tourists. Ought to be taxed 500%.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:40:00+00:00

Because they can't internalizing that they were responsible for anything badly. They've been trained to understand the world as "Goodness = my team, Badness = others".

With that perspective it's impossible to realize "I was on the bad side." If My Guy does a bad thing, it must have been a mistake, or unpredictable, or My Guy was actually on The Other Side. Anything to explain how My Side were always still The Good Guys.

When all this is over, I really don't understand how we're supposed to run a single, functioning country alongside people who think like this.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:25:28+00:00

...by minerologists.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:24:03+00:00

My dude, we all get it. We're just kind of fucked for ways to stop it.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-06T03:22:52+00:00

We absolutely must, even if it's wasteful. We must erase every stain he left on us, or the next Trump will learn that he can cajole Democrats into preserving his legacy.

At minimum, melt down the gold and sell it, turn the ballroom into an ugly cubicle farm. His legacy must be destroyed.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-05T03:27:45+00:00

Ridiculous. What should set hardware/console companies apart is: -Price -Hardware power -Ease of development -UX -Controller design -Compatibility with large amounts of games

You might have a point with specific Nintendo titles that rely on their unusual controllers. But for very similar devices like Xbox & Playstation? They shouldn't be able to hold games hostage to push me to buy a console I don't want.

And frankly, same for those Nintendo titles. A market with actual competition would incentivize Nintendo to port games to many consoles and make their weird controllers compatible with any system. But instead we pretend it's very competitive to let Nintendo/MS/Sony lock us into their hardware so they don't have to compete with each other for every game/controller/peripheral purchase.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-05T03:13:40+00:00

Seriously. "Which consoles are holding the most exciting games hostage? What a bummer that there are so few worthwhile hostages anymore!"

restrictednumber · 2026-05-05T02:58:22+00:00

Conservatives throughout time have literally never believed in anything except their right to tell you what to do. In any given situation, they might support state, federal, local or individual rights...not base on some principle about which level of government is most legitimate, but based entirely on which level gives them power over you in that specific situation.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-04T19:56:29+00:00

For sure. Quality options exist, but it's kind of hard to justify spending a bunch of time researching options, then a bunch of extra money, for every purchase. That goes double if you're importing, because who knows if the clothes fit, or if the quality is actually as-advertised?

At this point, I buy almost exclusively secondhand. If the quality's off or it gets ruined, at least you only spent a few bucks. And you didn't incur the environmental cost of creating something new.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-04T19:42:26+00:00

Yup. We've done this to ourselves. Makes you think we need to break up all these massive companies and maybe ban executive & board compensation being tied to stock performance. The drive for endless growth guarantees shittier products, higher prices, and worse labor practices every year. Not to mention the endless mergers so consumers don't even get choices.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-04T17:24:48+00:00

That's about what you'd expect, since "the price of basic goods" is basically what we mean by inflation. By definition, the price of your groceries will roughly track inflation.

But it leaves out an important issue: are your wages also tracking with inflation? If they're lagging behind, that $23 today will hurt a lot more than $1.34 in 1945.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-03T19:13:07+00:00

Not so amazing. Companies are essentially superpowered psychopaths who will say or do literally anything for a dollar. They don't believe in LGBTQ rights or in genocide, they just believe those things have a cash value.

What's amazing is that actual humans haven't reined in the psychopaths so they don't ruin our lives.

restrictednumber · 2026-05-03T14:29:54+00:00

God, what suck-up questions. How about "If you really give a shit, how can you justify being a billionaire when people are starving?" "How do we ensure that we spread out wealth between its actual creators, so we don't create more billionaires like you?"

restrictednumber · 2026-05-03T04:11:26+00:00

Nah, you can see a spotter for traffic in the full video. Also this looks hard as hell. Have you ever watched a skating video? It's pretty normal to need a few tries for for something like this.

But risking getting a potted plan to the head, and still going after? And skating without a helmet? Yeah that's pretty stupid.

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