Oh look it’s the study that shows conservatives are sociopaths that all of them are too stupid to understand https://t.co/XaaQLxxCLi

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) February 14, 2025

The “Socialists should go to the gym” discourse has me thinking about being a teenager and saving my friend’s life after he got stabbed in the chest 1/4” from his heart. These people have never been in any actual violent situation ever in their entire lives

— thomas 🛠 gazafunds.com/all (@t_NYC) February 13, 2025

Is this what cancel culture achieved : The Atlantic

Over the weekend, the artist and entrepreneur Kanye West, now known as Ye, let loose a blitzkrieg of appalling screeds to his 33 million followers on X. "IM A NAZI," he proclaimed. He reiterated his position that "SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE," contended that "JEWS WERE BETTER AS SLAVES YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR JEWS IN THEIR PLACE AND MAKE THEM INTO YOUR SLAVES," implied that domestic violence is a self-sacrificing form of love, and shared a screengrab tallying the sales receipts for a White Lives Matter T-shirt sold on his Yeezy website. By Monday, the only product for sale on the site was a white T-shirt adorned with a black swastika, and his X account had been deleted.

Remarkably, this was not the highest-stakes or most widely discussed racist controversy on that social-media platform during the same time frame. On Friday, Vice President J. D. Vance defended Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency office, who was revealed to have posted (pseudonymously), "I was racist before it was cool," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," and "Normalize Indian hate."

When Ro Khanna, the Indian American representative from California, inquired of Vance—whose wife and children are of Indian descent—whether, "for the sake of both of our kids," he would ask Elez for an apology, Vance became apoplectic. Toward Khanna. "For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up," he fumed on X. "Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children."

Elez resigned from his post, and Musk asked his 217 million followers on X what they thought: Should he be reinstated? Almost 80 percent of those who replied said yes. Later that day, Musk confirmed that Elez would be "brought back" to DOGE. Not only was a self-professed racist like Elez not canceled—on the contrary, he was transformed overnight by some of the most powerful (and pugnacious) men in America into a national cause célèbre.

Incidentally, this was the same week that Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, announced that it had hired Daniel Penny as "a Deal Partner" working on its "American Dynamism team." Penny, a former Marine, was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide after he held a mentally ill man in a choke hold on the subway, and the man died. In an internal memo reported by The New York Times, an Andreessen Horowitz partner praised him for showing "courage in a tough situation."

If a vogue for virtue signaling defined the 2010s and early 2020s, peaking in 2020 during the feverish summer of protest and pandemic—a period in which pronouns in bio, land acknowledgments, black squares, diversity statements, and countless other ethical performances became a form of social capital—something like the exact photonegative of that etiquette has set in now. The reassertion of brute reactionary power in the dual ascendancy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk has brought us to a cultural tipping point. Virtue be darned: Now we are living in an era of relentless, unapologetic vice signaling. Of all of Ye's deranged posts, one was particularly confusing. "DO YALL THINK I CAN TURN THE TIDE ON ALL THIS WOKE POLITICALLY CORRECT SHIT," he asked. Here it seemed the infamous trendsetter was decidedly behind the times.

After a decade and a half of progressive dominance over America's agenda-setting institutions—corporations, universities, media, museums—during which everyone was on the lookout for the scantest evidence of racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, and every other interpersonal and systemic ill, it is not at all frivolous to ask what has been achieved. What, to put it bluntly, was all that cancel culture for?

If the genuine but ill-conceived goal was to create a kinder, friendlier, more inclusive and equitable world for all (often paradoxically by means of shaming, coercion, and intimidation), the real-world effect has been an abysmal rightward overcorrection in which norms of decency have been gleefully obliterated. We have not merely been delivered back to the pre-woke era of the early 2000s. Nor is what we're seeing some insubstantial vibe shift in manners and aesthetics, confined to the internet.

Consider: We had a #MeToo movement characterized by sometimes disproportionate reputational sacrifices; now we have a presidential Cabinet populated by men with credible sexual-assault accusations on their records. The stifling racist/anti-racist binary of the anti-racism movement has led to the wholesale dismantling of DEI initiatives in both the government and the private sector. The insistence that "no human is illegal" has ended with an unconstitutional attempt to retract birthright citizenship. And the push not just for tolerance but for the equivalence of trans athletes with cisgender athletes has culminated with the president banishing "gender ideology" and surrounding himself with a multiethnic crowd of beaming girls to sign the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order. On every single issue that mattered to them, progressives now find themselves in a weaker position than before.

In The Opium of the Intellectuals, the French sociologist Raymond Aron observed that utopian programs are "refuted not so much by their failure as by the successes they have achieved." In the blistering weeks since Trump's inauguration, we can say that this has been axiomatically true of the movement we look back on now as "wokeness."

What a lovely night, tucked into bed with the boys and mister man

!animalposters !cats

YALL GONE STOP TELLING ME TAYLOR SWITCH IS JEWISH THIS JEWISH LADY IS CLEARLY NOT JEWISH pic.twitter.com/lHAAredbAc

— ye (@kanyewest) February 9, 2025

!tmz

!nooticers

@jesus

So Trashley St. Clair of the sexlaptop who sold nudes and fucked ANYTHING for clout and career leg ups including Elon whose child she claims she just had

We need to discuss

— MILO (@Nero) September 6, 2024

And naturally Elon stays winning

Here we spot wild Bardfinn Bluesky activities.

Be valid and ping ! bardfinn for something worthwhile or create a new thread.

Didnt watch anything new this week either. Last season was kinda whack, not much I wanna see, and the stuff I wanted to see turned out mid. Hope this season will be better.

!anime

@Kongvann pin pls

A Reddit post of a 23 tweet long Xitter thread about how President Elon Muskrat (PBUH) is stealing elections all over the world (don't worry, I didn't read it either) has turned people who believe reality has a liberal bias into tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists Seriously, though, this subreddit has been getting more and more unhinged with each passing day. Even a few weeks ago, a post like this would have mostly been laughed off. Here are some of the funnier schizoposts in the thread:

I signed off of X when Canadian annexation was the big topic and people were outright calling for our conquest and to have our rights stripped away.

I feel like it's time for us and the EU to ban that shitass website. It's bullshit that the Trump Administration is threatening us with pulling out of NATO if we make the decision that his cronies propaganda site needs to go.

How dare America demand its allies support American interests like free speech! Things were much better when America enforced values like censorship and homosexuality in Botswana!

This freedom of speech thing is a very manufactured issue. I'm not too concerned about it because we Europeans legitimately don't want the type of 'free speech' you have in the US. There are reasons (genocide and war crimes) why we have restriction on some types of speech. I don't think that Musk and Trump understand the average European who is generationally affected by wars, unlike the US. There are collective memories that we have that Americans just don't have

Europeans have collective memories just like in my heckin Avatar movie!! Americans just don't get it!

Also, freedom of speech is a manufactured issue The European mind simply cannot comprehend anything other than censorship.

This is, in part, why I quit twitter

I genuinely have no idea how you can fight a mfr that owns the platform you're fighting on, besides burning it to the ground and making it irrelevant

Have these people ever tried simply being more interesting and influential? Maybe if they keep complaining on Reddit they will change hearts and minds!

Bros I think I'm tapping out, every single day my country self harms to the cheers and praise of cultist freaks. I just can't handle it anymore, I'm going to go touch grass and live in ignorance.

Another one bites the dust! Would be a good decision if he wasn't going to log off for a few hours then immediately come back.

I want to tune out but Im terminally addicted to my phone and the news, I need to go cold turkey

There will be massive election interference on Twitter as the German elections on Sunday approach.

There is absolutely 0 reason why the current ruling party would be ousted other than election interference… absolutely none…

can we get some eu social media replacements for once

Europe is a creatively dead and stagnant continent. This will never happen.

Librals are so fricking bad at social media and conspiracies. 23 screenshots and each has 1 paragraph.

Epic redditor moment when reality is too complicated to fit into a snappy meme with some wojaks for those with severe attention deficit.

Rdramabros… I don't like the way he just called me out like that…

Stay tuned for more because these people are only going to get more delusional by the day.

The whole yard is your patio + more time to grill

indigenous woman who is also a vidya designer, on the "indigenous" section on CBC:

Neighbor why are "indigenous" and "aboriginal" activist foids always like the Whitest motherlovers on the planet?

When the video game Custer's Revenge first came out more than 30 years ago, a successful boycott eventually caused it to be pulled from store shelves The controversial video game, made for the Atari 2600 by Mystique (now defunct), depicts indigenous women tied to trees and cacti and r*ped.

When indigenous game designer Elizabeth LaPensée found out this game was again available for play online she took to Twitter to voice her outrage.

"The game reinforces systemic violence against native women," said LaPensée.

Daniel Starkey, a Chickashsha Nation game journ*list, was researching a story about Native American representation in games when he came across YouTube videos of Custer's Revenge. Starkey spoke with LaPensée about his find. The two of them were able to find several game-play footage videos on YouTube, but it wasn't until Starkey dug deeper that he actually found a playable link to a remade version of the game.

"I'm not in a position to go to that link, download it and play it. I don't know how far back that would put me in my personal healing," said LaPenśee from her home in Oregon. But Starkey did download the game to prove that it can be played.

"[It] made me sick to my stomach and brought me to tears," said Starkey. "I respect its right to exist, but it's almost impossible for me to figure out how anyone could consider the game of cultural value to anyone."

B-WORD THIS IS A FRICKING ATARI GAME FROM 1982

1 9 8 2

IT WAS ALREADY BOYCOTTED WHEN IT CAME OUT

THE COMPANY THAT MADE IT DOESN'T EXISTS ANYMORE

THE DEVS WHO CREATED IT ARE IN THEIR 70S OR 80S IF THEY ARE STILL ALIVE

ARE YOU GONNA CALL FOR THE BOYCOTT OF SALÒ AND ERASERHEAD NEXT?

LaPensée is a former game journ*list turned game designer. Until now, LaPensée had not spoken out against violence against women in video games. The gaming industry has come under fire for its sexual harassment against women and female game designers and journ*lists have had their safety and lives threatened.

LaPensée said she has stayed quiet for this very reason.

"If anyone were to attack me in that way, I just don't have the allies in the game industry who would help protect me and look out for me, I have the native community too," said LaPensée.

For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic.

• Elizabeth LaPensée, video game designer

LaPensée, who designs games that promote indigenous heritage and healing, said her decision to speak out now is based on her career's work.

"This has been my whole life's work, starting off as a g*mer and then looking at native representation in video games. And finding the places that we can step up, and step in and define our representations ourselves," said LaPensée.

"For me stepping out isn't just about the game industry, it's about personal experiences and having to be the voice of someone who is part of a statistic, that a game like this is reinforcing what creates that statistic."

In the last 24 hours, since LaPensée`s initial tweet and the follow-up Twitter conversation, several videos of game-play footage have been taken down. Starkey added the footage violates YouTube's terms of service by containing explicit content and uncensored nudity.

LaPensée said that even though a game like this exists, the indigenous community can change the narrative by replacing the content with positive messages.

"We can make games too. We're completely capable of it. The cowtools are much more accessible, the technology is much more accessible than it used to be," said LaPensée, adding a lot of her work is responding to a game like this.

Holy fricking shit, imagine sperging out about a game that was 31 years old (now 41) by the time this article was written, this is even more pathetic than the Brapzilian Pentecostal TV channel in 2011 sperging out against Duke Nukem 3D , this is like if Jack Thompson came back from the shadows and started to shit on Doom and Doom 2 30 years later

!foidmoment !g*mers

I wouldn't call it great by any means but I was pleasantly surprised by it. For a children's movie it was funny/amusing, and most noticeable of all, it was not woke. I feel like 2 or 3 years ago, this movie would either not have been made since the main character is a cop, or it would've been jammed with woke messaging.

It was very innocuous with no social messaging aside from basic stuff. The villain learns to be good because his cloned baby cat encourages him to be nice to people.

The animation style was alright. I thought it would drive me crazy at first but it was ok.

If anything I am amazed at the fact that we've come so far from COVID/George Floydian style messaging within kids entertainment.

They need to be hexed with 9001 Friedmans.

When Trump pulls this off, and the US is wildly, rich and wealthy again; unlike anything anyone alive has seen in over 100 years, it will be undeniable to even the most radical leftist that Trump's policies have been an overwhelming success for the United States, and he will earn his place on Mount Rushmore and as one of the greatest presidents in American history.

It sounds very reasonable but then some butthole who doesn't believe in Jesus/is a communist shows up.

don't get how it makes us rich. We import something like $3T of goods every year. Even if we somehow collected 100% of that, it wouldn't cover half of our spending

Mandatory spending was $3t in FY24, $2.1t was gibs for the elderly.

A king comes to the rescue explaining that daddy will be reducing waste

How do you not understand that Trump is going to cut all our wasteful spending and shrink the size of the government to historic lows?

If we cut the arms and legs off the old people we have a smaller volume of old people so can pay them less.

For those counting it would also take 12 years with zero spending to pay off the debt.

Or just abolish the IRS/completely strip funding, fire everyone.

This is called impoundment and was the subject of his first impeachment. Congress has the enumerated power to spend not POTUS, POTUS can't just decide he doesn't like what they want to spend on and reverse it.

Literally. Communism is 100% tax, I.e. 100% slave. We're about 50-60% of the way there.

Average effective rate is 16.4% but carry-on.

Don't forget property taxes. I'd like to see property taxes held at a certain rate that will not increase. People need to be able to budget their money without the government randomly raising taxes that could eventually force you out of your home.

Others paying for services for you sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.

We'll replace China as the number 1 exporter in both products AND oil/energy production and exports.

Also, it is as though the jeering lefties are unaware of the first hundred plus years of US history. NO income tax, tariffs galore, and they were a successful country.

I wonder what else lasted approximately a century?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/1ik9krr/i_just_learned_that_i_have_aphentasia/

I'd ask why would brainlets publicly admit they are brainlets... but I then remember they are, in fact, brainlets . !nooticers !pings

@Kongvann can you make a chatgpt pull that autopopulates relevant reddit comments, as a phone poster that is difficult and I'm lazy enough . !codecels

USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/z7iLk0uylt

— Ashton Forbes (@JustXAshton) February 3, 2025

https://armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/us-navy-transforms-naval-protection-with-helios-lasers-power-on-uss-preble-at-sea

The US Navy released a new photo of USS Preble (DDG-88) firing her HELIOS laser weapon. pic.twitter.com/oL4rMsA4Xu

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025

Source (page 399)- https://t.co/wHOW2JHGcr pic.twitter.com/gVHzdkgEQa

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) February 3, 2025

!animalposters !cats

Socks is such a good big sister as a former feral herself, this cannot be easy

!animalposters !cats

Frankie Muniz, Hollywood actor who starred in ‘Malcolm In The Middle’, is now a professional Stock Car Racing driver

He finished in 10th place at Daytona. Incredible pic.twitter.com/NNtEZBIAsE

— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) February 16, 2025

"having problems with lust can be an issue if yoy make it one. The spirits inside you, the angels, the demons, are fighting inside you when you are at strife. So when the fight is inside you and you freak out, nobody else can see YOUR angels fighting YOUR demons. So switching from BBBW/BBC to Bi Asians will imply that you insist the idea behind an incubus/succubus. Each controls your spirit and there sre many. You can allow and be with the incubus/succubus of Bi Asians rather than the BBBW/BBC. Same goes with any spirit inside you that inhabits you and you allowed to grow from mind and spirit connection, the seeds of thought that is the garden of your mind that you visit oft, tending and not even know the grabbing feeling of inside your body is the connection of spirit and you are not reality but projecting inside reality. People speak of a simulation but they are not schizophrenic enough to explain it in theory rather than just trying to throw buzz words like SIGMA or BRICKED to click bait your attention for part two of their saturated shit series like wtf am i clicking your clickbait click baiting broke fuqq. Get a job!" - or so they said to me..

YEEZY DOES NOT HIRE FAT OR UGLY PEOPLE pic.twitter.com/HnmwiC0b66

— ye (@kanyewest) February 8, 2025

first of all I will stop drinking right now as all it's done is gotten me into giant escalating fights with random people, inspired me to engage in poorly thought out troll attempts, and call women out to fist fights.

but the thing I'm most upset about is I let @TheGrillcast down - I will be better from now on.