Kulturkampf

[Rendle]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

I can think of a group of people who went through something ONE HUNDRED times worse.

[HardcoreRetro]

Is 60,000 deaths not enough or something? What's the issue here? Besides Contrapoints bad, I mean.

I can think of a group of people who went through something ONE HUNDRED times worse.

Gamers.

[DavidCroquet]

Damn I was about to make an imgflip meme about Wonderfilled games but it seems they privated/deleted their whole X account lol

[HaughtyFrank]

Damn I was about to make an imgflip meme about Wonderfilled games but it seems they privated/deleted their whole X account lol

There's a substack article that took screenshots

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/wonderfilled-games-brags-about-their

Dude just spiraled out lol

[Uncle]

Damn I was about to make an imgflip meme about Wonderfilled games but it seems they privated/deleted their whole X account lol

There's a substack article that took screenshots

https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/wonderfilled-games-brags-about-their

Dude just spiraled out lol

I had seen just the first tweet and was thinking this seemed like the kind of thing that would get an article somewhere, but then realized I had no idea where I would even find such an article and was goin on a lil contemplate about how there isn't really a "home base" online anymore where I could expect to find that sort of thing

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Damn I was about to make an imgflip meme about Wonderfilled games but it seems they privated/deleted their whole X account lol

He deleted a lot of posts and changed the account name to "youabitch" before disappearing completely.

[benji]

Person makes bold radical statement and says they aren't afraid of anything, maybe tells people to fight them in real life, gets foreseeable criticism, locks/deletes account. Many such cases.

[Polident]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/ranked-choice-at-the-movies/

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite shook the Academy Awards to its core. How did it happen? Why is it the Zohran Mamdani of the movies? Before ranked-choice voting became the fashion for blue-state liberals seeking to control election outcomes, liberal Hollywood had already popularized the scheme.

As the Oscars in the new millennium continued to lose popularity and TV viewership, the Academy became distressed. Undoubtedly pressured by the need to appease ABC-Disney’s broadcast agreement, it desired high ratings. But the program that the Academy supplied could not account for the industry’s radical shift away from quality and prestige films. Voters who were manipulated by more than a decade of Harvey Weinstein’s high-pressure “taste” campaigns had reflexively ignored such adolescent trash as Christopher Nolan’s Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.

The Academy’s website features a cartoon to explain “a voting system that employs the fairest possible outcome for nominations and for who wins the Oscar for Best Picture.” It’s a distortion of the already misunderstood sentiment: “democracy.” It essentially violates the majority-rules concept in favor of pretending to satisfy the whole. In fact, it ignores the majority. It degrades what is supposedly an aesthetics-based competition. From my decades of experience in critics’ awards groups, I know how winners result from strategic voting and weighted, preferential ballots that never actually reflect critical discernment, just improvised jockeying toward a public statement. But ranked-choice voting is far from fair; it’s a deceptive power grab and pretense that reflect Hollywood’s lingering communist legacy.

The site’s cartoon features a sample film titled An Unverifiable Veracity, apparently some joke by an Al Gore supporter riffing on the sham climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Even when the Academy explains its own newly “democratized” voting plan, the fix is already in.

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone made a joke about ICE agents refusing to identify themselves and people keep missing it

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/ranked-choice-at-the-movies/

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite shook the Academy Awards to its core. How did it happen? Why is it the Zohran Mamdani of the movies? Before ranked-choice voting became the fashion for blue-state liberals seeking to control election outcomes, liberal Hollywood had already popularized the scheme.

As the Oscars in the new millennium continued to lose popularity and TV viewership, the Academy became distressed. Undoubtedly pressured by the need to appease ABC-Disney’s broadcast agreement, it desired high ratings. But the program that the Academy supplied could not account for the industry’s radical shift away from quality and prestige films. Voters who were manipulated by more than a decade of Harvey Weinstein’s high-pressure “taste” campaigns had reflexively ignored such adolescent trash as Christopher Nolan’s Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.

The Academy’s website features a cartoon to explain “a voting system that employs the fairest possible outcome for nominations and for who wins the Oscar for Best Picture.” It’s a distortion of the already misunderstood sentiment: “democracy.” It essentially violates the majority-rules concept in favor of pretending to satisfy the whole. In fact, it ignores the majority. It degrades what is supposedly an aesthetics-based competition. From my decades of experience in critics’ awards groups, I know how winners result from strategic voting and weighted, preferential ballots that never actually reflect critical discernment, just improvised jockeying toward a public statement. But ranked-choice voting is far from fair; it’s a deceptive power grab and pretense that reflect Hollywood’s lingering communist legacy.

The site’s cartoon features a sample film titled An Unverifiable Veracity, apparently some joke by an Al Gore supporter riffing on the sham climate-change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Even when the Academy explains its own newly “democratized” voting plan, the fix is already in.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Someone made a joke about ICE agents refusing to identify themselves and people keep missing it

Cowards.

[benji]

[Potato]

Just proving the point there...

[HaughtyFrank]

Someone made a joke about ICE agents refusing to identify themselves and people keep missing it

Cowards.

The Yankee joke for posterity 

[HaughtyFrank]

"Everything is violence except for actual violence, which is fine" meme stays winning

[benji]

[benji]

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fat

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[HaughtyFrank]

(Would have liked to hear his response)

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

All or nothing. Anyone that doesn't agree with me is a Nazi. 

A winning strategy.

[benji]

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[Eric Cartman]

[Uncle]

bullshit jobs tweets

what are your thoughts on all this

there are a lot of bullshit jobs, but they exist due to layers of management obfuscation and the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, large corporations are often pretty inefficient, and if those in charge had their way, they probably would identify all the people who do 4 hours of actual work each week and fire them

[Eric Cartman]

Jobs are kinda like gases and exhibit boyles law where the work needed doing will expand to fill the available workers time.

Most places absolutely could increase the pressure and store the work in a more compressed time, but then you run the risk of explosion

[benji]

bullshit jobs tweets

what are your thoughts on all this

there are a lot of bullshit jobs, but they exist due to layers of management obfuscation and the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, large corporations are often pretty inefficient, and if those in charge had their way, they probably would identify all the people who do 4 hours of actual work each week and fire them

At the level of the "economy" it's something no observer can know because it's based on a presumption of knowledge about what labor is or is not "socially necessary" despite no knowledge about the whole or the goal. Corporate management may know that specifically about their own operation but it's nonsensical to judge from the outside before asking why especially when you have no stakes in what will result from the decision.

These guys appear to be alt-right or whatever you want to call it but they're literally repeating the main fallacy of Marx.

[Potato]

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Spor sounds like someone who works a technical job and thinks that everyone else is useless and not worth their wage...then he has to order more widgets and doesn't know how to other them, where to order them or what to pay for them with. So, he sits in a corner complaining that no one is available to help him. Finally he has a hissy fit at some poor admin and his manager has to apologise for his behaviour and assure everyone else that they're working on replacing his job with AI ASAP.

[HaughtyFrank]

How does this keep happening 

[Uncle]

How does this keep happening 

devastating

[DavidCroquet]

as someone who worked a fake job in the fake UBI corporate smoke and mirrors world for a long time, I find it hard to disagree.

I’m not sure that the corps are intentionally establishing useless roles and departments, but there’s a lot of mechanisms that support this. As one example, departments have to spend to justify budgets, so they find employees to fill the bucket. Many places have employee reviews that are 100% vibes based, and if you’re not setting the place on fire you can always be useful as a warm body for an on-call rotation during the company wide holiday break.

It’s also why massive layoffs can happen and Microsoft doesn’t delete Windows or whatever. We fired 16% of everyone and…you wouldn’t even have known if we hadn’t told you.

[Uncle]

as someone who worked a fake job in the fake UBI corporate smoke and mirrors world for a long time, I find it hard to disagree.

I’m not sure that the corps are intentionally establishing useless roles and departments

but that's the main thing I disagree with, there would be no motivation or reason to do this

the twitter conversation is a conspiracy theory that some group is imposing a societal burden upon corporations and making them pay people for no reason just to keep money flowing and the economy going

never attribute to malice conspiracy what can be adequately explained by stupidity