Notices by Festive Bridgelurker Kip (jedkron1248@poa.st)

@WashedOutGundamPilot Images you can feel a deep, primal longing for, Part 73

@ArdainianRight @TrevorGoodchild @PraxisOfEvil 10/10, would choose as king. Make leaders aesthetic again.

@PraxisOfEvil If the only thing that happens is the food and water getting unfucked, I count it a win.

@ArdainianRight @vegard No swimming pools or orchestras this time.

@ArdainianRight City people's votes should only count as a fraction of a normal person's vote, I agree. I think we can come to a compromise based on demographic makeup, perhaps 3/5ths would suffice?

The fact that "universal franchise" is hyper gay aside, of course.

@King_Noticer @rainignterror1080p @SuperSnekFriend @poopernova Oh frick, Jocat joined Poast? Incredible!

@Terry Seem like a buncha nonces covering each other, innit?

I hope the British people remain peaceful and obey the law forever.

@PraxisOfEvil I haven't workshopped this, so take it with a grain of salt.

Did we ever, truly, think being a dork was cool? Or was it a stereotype astroturfed into likability by the usual suspects? In older movies (50s, 60s), the heroes were unabashedly, unashamedly masculine and aryan: Cowboys, war heroes, strong and smart men able to think and take a punch.

However, as time crawled on, that aesthetic shifted from the protagonist to the antagonist. Sure you had the meathead bully archetypes in older films, but the protagonists were only slightly less athletic, if any. In 90s cinema on, a noticeable undercurrent for the underdog began to develop, and that underdog increasingly was weasely, squirrely, and dorky. The merits of a hero stopped being in their physical and moral prowess, it shifted to their intellectual acumen as the determining factor for ultimate victory.

Not discounting your point, I agree that the state of our intelligent young men is pitiable and wrong. Men who should be revolutionizing industries are instead forced to create working computers in Minecraft. But that attraction to the "intellectual" seems to me to be an intentional substitution for the classic White hero, successful due to the combination of strength of mind, body, and morals. Jews in media replaced the unobtainable-for-them righteous White with a character that they could embody more easily: a morally devious intellectual successful only through scheme and happenstance against a physically superior, but mentally inferior (White) foe.

Like I said, this is a half-baked thought. I doubt ((Zuckerberg)) would ever be frozen out of an elite college, but the White guy smarter, but less connected than him? Straight to modded Mario, with the specter of HRT looming behind him, waiting to claim another tormented victim.

@Gundog @SuperSnekFriend @synapsid I once read a (possibly apocryphal) story about some reporter doing a story on some European village with an incredibly low amount of total divorces over the years.

The village's solution was: when a couple wanted a divorce, they had to live together in a special room that only had one chair, one table, one fork, one plate, and a small single bed. They would have to share everything, cooperate, and sleep cuddled very close together. If they passed a month living in those tight quarters and still wanted to divorce, the church would grant it. At the end of the month, nearly every single time, the couple left the room more in love than ever.

Modern society intentionally gives troubled couples huge numbers of "outs" to a marriage, mentally, emotionally, or physically. There's no societal or social pressure to "make things work;" you can just lose yourself in your hobbies, your job, easy cheating on a silver platter, and never have to face your spouse and communicate to work things out. If something gets hard, you can just quit, and society will applaud you rather than shame you.

@SuperLutheran Otto getting a head start on his army.

@ChristiJunior Are they still blocking cloud saves for the one game series you might actually care about backing up?

@Bad_Banner I'm glad we're nearing the part of the empire's collapse where they can bring their social weapons to bear on a man, expect the volley to sink them, and the man laughs and sails on. Hopefully that sort of support will soon be available for the common man in these circumstances.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain I clarify for our edification here, our enemies do not receive the benefit of thoughtful debate.

@MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot The only argument for "enemies" would be Judas, but he was a "friend" at the time, and had not yet finally resolved to betray Christ. He only ever washed the feet of the people who followed Him, never His obvious enemies (the pharisees and scribes) and never unrepentant sinners.

@spectatorindex "In response to this direct threat to our demokwacy, meesa propose that the Senate give immediately emergency powers to Joe Biden!"

@WashedOutGundamPilot Someone posted that instead of going to college on free rides and revolutionizing industries, our geniuses are playing Factorio after a night shift at Wal-Mart. I ponder that occasionally, and what a tremendous waste it is.

@justnormalkorean @bronze Sure, a gas car can brick itself... if you physically run over a brick, maybe.

@Terry @anime_outdoor @wgiwf B-but hispanics are natural conservatives! Surely they'll vote for our vaguely religion-pretending party of red faggots over the ardently anti-religious party of blue faggots (that run candidates that speak spanish and promise to continue to keep giving them free stuff)!

@reloadedAK @alex Free Speech: open satanism, homosex parades, drag queen fag hours, all sorts of pornography, violent and arsonous protests

Not free speech: praying and quoting Scripture outside abortion clinics, quoting the Bible in the presence of jews, taking a guided tour through the capital building, being vaguely critical of the government

Ya know, you might be onto something

@graf I've got some BTC in Nicehash that I want to donate, but the network fees are gonna eat more than I'm happy with due to congestion. I'll keep up with it, but I'm not super savvy with crypto.