mohKohn

in the bay? you’re hilarious.

weird grammar to say someone made it up?

I’m sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?

There’s a distinction to be made between things that “look” dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

came here to say spirit farer. that game is responsible for normalizing me hugging my spouse for no reason besides it feels good. Also definitely made me cry more than pretty much any other work of fiction in any medium.

the word you’re looking for is deranged. that dragon looks fucking deranged.

And we’ll do it again too!

and yet there are still plenty of maniac drivers on the road

if we’re talking politics in English, it’s arguably the largest, though that depends on how exactly you weigh 2nd language speakers in India

Now this right here is worthy of McMansion hell

I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.

I thought painting FDR as a terrible President was outside the American Overton Window. I have no idea what their values are, or where they fit.

It’s just… so surreal. I have a very hard time getting inside the head of someone who endorses MTG’s speech (as she meant it).

this is a very rimworld meme

Seconding u/openStars, the amount of blue text in this thread is too damn low

You… know it’s possible to be a conservative without being a Republican, right?

If you want to say there are no politically relevant conservative intellectuals, that I would agree with. the Republican party is currently dominated by grifters, so anyone involved is going to be doing a lot of shoddy post-hoc justifications. But to say that being conservative of any stripe bars one from actually thinking deeply and critically is narrow minded.

Poe’s law my dude.

There absolutely are conservative intellectuals, they just don’t tend to endorse MAGA.

Here’s a great example: https://scholars-stage.org/ Knocks it out of the park all the time. Then again, he rarely spends his time talking directly about culture war topics.