Tedesche

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

That’s a limerick conservative parents tell themselves to feel better about their rebellious kids.

And not what I’m talking about at all.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

As a serious answer, I’d guess Lemmy skews younger. Too many idealists here to think the average user base has the wisdom that comes from experience.

Sorry, younglings. You’ll know when you get older: the long view clearly demonstrates optimism is a lie. History is a corkscrew. Progress is made, but only through endless repetitions of past mistakes.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Trump voters are stupid and have poor memories.

Except for the ones who are just plain evil.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Because smart people question each other and disagree a lot. Dumb people are sheep and follow the loudest, most confident voice in the room.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

What upset me the most is that Harris used Hilary's election plan verbatim.

She absolutely did not. Hillary leaned into the gender card hardcore. She had her supporters wearing t-shirts saying “I’m with her” with an arrow sign. She said “I’m not saying you should vote for me because I’m a woman, you should vote for me because of my qualifications. But one of my qualifications is…I’M A WOMAN!!!”

Kamala didn’t lean into any of this demographics, gender war trash. She (wisely) followed Barack Obama’s playbook of leaving the identify politics crap at the door. She lost for other reasons. Hillary alienated voters by leaning too hard into identity politics. Kamala ran a much better campaign than Hillary. They are not the same. Why Kamala lost will be debated for some time at least, but it will not be concluded reasonably that she lost for the same reasons Hillary lost in 2016. I know people want to conclude that women just can’t get elected, but we haven’t yet had a female candidate that ran a great campaign. As someone who wants our first female president, I have to reluctantly admit that we’ve been underserved by our female politicians thus far. I have high hopes for AOC in the future, but we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out. I don’t actually think Kamala did anything wrong in her campaign; I just think she was working against the legacy set by her predecessor, and it was too much. That, and too many American voters are stupid, ignorant, misguided voters. And, probably, some Pro-Palestinian voters had their heads up their asses.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They'll blame it on the Democrats’ weather control technology. You know we have weather control technology, right? We hooked up ghost shamans to quantum computers being run by AI-controlled gay frogs on the 5G network, thereby unlocking the 9th chakra of Satan.

Didn’t you know, bro?

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

This asshat is a professional troll, people, please don’t pay any attention to them.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone who voted for Harris? Nothing. Nothing related to the question in this thread at least.

As someone who paints an entire national population with the same broad brush though, what the bigoted fuck is wrong with you?

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But…by your own admission, life did give us lemons. We just made more lemony.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's right, bringing race, gender, and other demographic variables into it totally makes your argument stronger. It definitely doesn't expose your own prejudices at all, no siree.

 

There's a version without the menu tiles too! https://nickbers.artstation.com/projects/xYXQ6Y

 

I'm a big fan of this guy's work. His previous films include The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman.

 

If you skip the introduction and don't watch the Q&A afterwards, the presentation is just under an hour. A very good watch, IMO. Interested in what people think.

 

Four Republican backbencher candidates who failed to qualify for the first 2024 GOP presidential debate this week slammed the Republican National Committee over its rules, with multiple contenders calling them “rigged.”

 

Easily my favorite quote from Mallory Archer.

 

I just stumbled upon this video and it brought back a lot of childhood memories. The creator's channel features a bunch of other HD remakes of old games too.

 

Posting this because I think it's an interesting examination of the overlap (or lack thereof) between atheists and general skeptics. It's worth remembering that the term 'atheism' only means a rejection of theistic beliefs; non-theistic beliefs that are nonetheless irrational and unsupported by evidence are not relevant to the term. And yet one can easily see why there is an overlap between these two communities and why many atheists scoff at other atheists who profess belief in things like astrology, ghosts, reincarnation, etc.

I'm definitely one of those who doesn't believe in anything supernatural, but I've certainly met atheists who do. It's worth remembering the two groups aren't synonymous.

 

This is a series of videos I watched years ago in which an ex-Christian explains in detail his journey away from his faith. What I like about this series is that it illustrates how the deconversion process is gradual rather than revelatory and involves a ton of back-and-forth self-questioning, tribulation, anxiety, and even depression. It is not an easy process--something we would all do well to remember while we're posting about how irrational theistic beliefs are.

 
 
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