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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 5h

I almost had my joke be about people arguing over what kind of cookies to leave out for him and other tips on "santamaxxing" lmao

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 5h

How so? Now I'm curious.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 6h

I installed the German version of Wolfenstein: The New Order on accident not too long ago and it was like putting on the radio edit of a song but even worse since it ends up trivializing the Nazis.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 6h

Btw if an actual German tries roasting you for America's puritan brainworms, just come back with Germany being 10x more puritan about video game violence. Characters used to be replaced by robots and cyborgs in almost every game. Half Life, C&C Zero Hour, UT, you name it. They still do it.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 6h

apply for a german university and leave. its almost free, and afaik they wanna keep foreign students here if they get a degree. it still sucks here, mind you, but at least its not the Treatlergrammaton

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 6h

Never say never, because local rightoids are imitating your rightoids with a few years delay. There's even been an absolutely bizarre spike in Christian influencers on social media in the last couple years which baffles me. My entire time here I've met like 1 actually religious Christian family irl.

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot emphasize enough how bad shit is in this country. It's also worth mentioning that White Christian Nationalist Puritanism is not just the backbone of which this country is built upon, but it never left.

It just pops back up in different disguises. And it always works.

Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 7h

It's wild to be looking in from the outside of the US sometimes. Grown ass people going on about porn addiction like it's fentanyl is like a society where adults believe in santa clause and argue over the long term mental health effects of seeing him come down ur chimney too rarely vs too often.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 7h

It's wild to be looking in from the outside of the US sometimes. Grown ass people going on about porn addiction like it's fentanyl is like a society where adults believe in santa clause and argue over the long term mental health effects of seeing him come down ur chimney too rarely vs too often.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 7h

you unironically said "truth > marxism" like its a coherent statement. the only excuse for being this comically stupid is severe brain damage. do you by any chance smell burning toast right now?

Disco Brian Davis @discobriandavis.bsky.social · 17h

c. Performing for her cultishly devoted trolls/followers: notice how she quotes you publicly, not privately, likely to frame the exchange as “let’s see if this guy can explain Marxism.”?
😂🥱🥴
5/5

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Alexis ☭ @gothgf.rip · 1d

"If you look at Hamas' record while it was in power, it tried diplomacy; it failed. It tried international law; it failed. It tried non-violent civil resistance... it tried everything. So, under those circumstances, what was it supposed to do?"

—Prof. Norman Finkelstein

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

if ur gonna portray the typical 2017 hashtag resistance lib, imma be kurt eichenwald. now we only need someone to reply to me with a flashing gif and we're golden

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

what got them this mad?

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't scroll up enough at first so it took me a second to see the bonkers honkers lol
Before I knew better I used to assume gamer consensus was that a game blatantly taking the "sex sells" lane was usually doing so to distract from it's own badness in all other aspects and a cheap trick, but no.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

Consistently going against the US+EU/NATO consensus on foreign policy is no guarantee of being a real one, but going along with it in any case is an absolute guarantee of being a dupe or a shill.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

keep em coming

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

Dems were literally doing Trump''s dirty work for him right before the election! Harris was running on being tough on immigrants! This is what you voted for!

Pushed by public opinion shift, Democrats adopt immigration restrictions

President Biden has issued a number of immigration-related executive actions that mimic those of the Trump administration, and VP Harris has promised she'll continue restrictive policies.

www.npr.org

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

ICE was doing everything it's doing now, just less visibly, under Biden. Where were the liberals then? The data doesn't lie.

ICE Has Increased Enforcement Since Trump Left Office

While most measures of ICE enforcement remained below pre-pandemic levels, they also have almost uniformly increased since President Biden took office in January 2021, recovering from significant decl...

www.cato.org

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

Goddamn, so far I've only heard about 5 movies out of 55. Thank god that movies aren't my main thing or I'd be punching the air right now. Really interesting recs and list composition in terms of genre, vibes and places that couldn't be easily replicated by a content mill and that's worth something.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

"the zip density of that leather jacket is too low, nobody will believe a man bought this"

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

"raising awareness" or helping a cause, you're doing celeb worship with a woke-looking veneer.

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

If someone is at the point where you can contact an agency to book a paid speech from them, just keep scrolling and don't give them your engagement for free as well. They're doing well enough and no real radical will ever be let into the upper echelons of the culture industry anyway. You're not

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta start at least mousing over the profiles of people who pop up on ur feed and develop a sense of who to not reskeet. I'm Sick of seeing supposed leftists and radicals boost the most libbed-up and tepid lackeys of the ruling class, just cuz they sometimes stumble into saying a correct thing.

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A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 3d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Joey_Steel @realkoolsavas.bsky.social · 1d

I semi agree cuz the more reach the bigger the responsibility. After a certain point, online personalities become brands while still selling themselves by encouraging parasocial behavior. We should be as skeptical and distanced towards content creators as we are towards companies.