TeenieBopper

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Less shitty != not shitty

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Counterpoint: John Brown did nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A better look would have been Al Greene beating someone with that cane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Unless the democratic party's platform becomes deny the oligarchy access to the levers of power, defend the working and middle class against the billionaires, and depose those who would enact political violence via law or pen, I'm not interested.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Millennials are five years away from Get Off My Lawn years old tho.

I'm an elder millennial, a lot fi my friends are sharing very boomer-esque "back when I was a kid, things were better because of XYZ." Millennials are not the panacea you want them to be. A lot of them are just as dumb as boomers and these problems are systemic, not generational.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One of the biggest things about being a leftist is being right about stuff before it's considered polite.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

If the democrats hadn't been pussies for two decades before Trump and effectively welded power, we wouldn't have had Trump.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you're on Linux, dockstarter automates a lot of the docker set up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It's just a very ungenerous interpretation of a lot of factually correct things. Brandon Sanderson is, indeed, Mormon and while I've never heard him say as much explicitly, the way he talks a out his faith makes me believe that yes, he does tithe to the church.

As for the audio book stuff, when Sanderson was doing his massive kickstarter for his four secret projects, he said that the audio books would not initially be available on Audible/Amazon. He said this was because he believed Amazon had too much market power and that he was successful enough that he didn't need them and would thus withhold releasing his books on that platform. I don't recall him ever saying that they would never be released there. Partway through fulfillment of the kickstarter, he announced that Amazon had changed its compensation structure (for all authors, not just him) in the direction he wanted and tbuse he felt it was okay to release his books on Amazon's platform.

If you like heroic fantasy with unique magic systems, I recommend giving him a shot. I like to compare him to Marvel movies: not groundbreaking or innovative or the pinnacle of the art form, but competently made that hits all the emotional beats you want out of the story in a familiar and comforting way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This might be the largest gap between technically correct and ungenerous reading of events that I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

If I had one political wish, it would be that conservatives are forced to live in the world they want to create.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Millennials aren't going to be the savior you think they are. Like, I want to be hopeful, but I see a lot of Millennials my age just acting scared. They've finally gotten some stability, they've finally gotten some comfort, and they're incredibly loss averse. I see a bunch of people my age bought a house in the suburbs posting in the neighborhood Facebook group every time there's a loud bang "did anyone hear that noise? What was it?" with people lamenting about how the neighborhood is going downhill.

Ten years ago, millennials were pissed the fuck off and were ready to burn shit to the ground. The ruling class gave them just enough to be scared of losing it.

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