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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I accused a redditor who made a post about how "Joe Biden isn't too old/they would vote for a ham sandwich over Trump/people calling Biden old are Russia bots" of just being too racist to vote for a black woman. They proceeded to write like a ~1000 word response detailing how they run a "voter education" non-profit that is affiliated with/funded by the Democratic party and all the work they have specifically done helping to get women of color elected. They promptly deleted that response after I told them to just say they were astroturfing next time.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

Wow. I never got a reply that fantastic. The best I ever got was a redditor who said something like "I work on The Hill and I don't know any congresspeople who act like you are implying." I tried to get them to keep talking but they effectively stopped with that comment.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

They way to get those people talking is to accuse them of lying.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago
[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wanted to post it here so badly, but it wasn't on one of my burner reddit accounts lol

[-] Spike@hexbear.net 52 points 1 month ago

Does this guy not know there can be more than one author in the world at one time?

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

[Failing] New York Times Bestseller List Brain and its consequences

[-] lil_tank@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

There can only be one true king of mediocre creepy fantastic novels

[-] robinnn@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

Stephen King should’ve never been allowed to write in the first place.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

More like "I stand with cocaine", amirite folks?

Ayyyyy

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

Its definitely how I read it

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 month ago

The psyop around getting a bunch of popular liberal celebrities to "stand with Ukraine" was one of the state department's best bits of work in the last decade. People would've soured on the war a lot sooner if they didn't have Mark Hamill and the guy who wrote a story about angry meatballs supporting it.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

peter-running "Hey Lois, remember that time the Simpsons openly supported a fascist country? Maybe we aren't the worst show on Sunday nights on Fox"

"We aren't on Sundays anymore?" family-guy-death-pose

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Why do they all look like they're being held at gunpoint

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

That is lowkey kind of amazing. It is so lazy, I'd be surprised if it took him longer than half an hour, which is a tiny amount for 5 characters. They also look like they're there under duress. I think this sums up the liberal celebrity "support" really well. They take half an hour out of their day to do some half-assed "support" because they want to jerk themselves off over feeling like they're the good guys.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

The mistake can be rectified any time. Take away his typewriter, or whatever the fuck old assholes like him prefer to write on

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I’ve tried to write on those things and they’re such a hassle. The loud ass “ding” throws me off every time I’m deeply concentrating. The electric ones are much better.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've never actually written on one. I have played with one in a museum as a kid, but just enough to see how they work mechanically. No paper or ink involved

They do seem like they'd be satisfying to use, maybe enough to get used to the noises and accept them as part of the process. The part that I'd find annoying is correcting mistakes. Nobody's a perfect typist no matter how much practice they get and maybe if my alternative were hand writing I wouldn't find it so bad but when I have computers at my disposal idk if I could put up with like a 3 step process to correct a typo

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

They do seem like they’d be satisfying to use

No, not really, you need to use some strenght, so your fingers start to hurt like hell after short while and you need literally develop calluses for it to stop. And idk what even happens after years of work, but i bet it's not pleasant considering all professional typewriters i met had hands looking like harpy talons.

Overall the main pros of this contraption is that it is faster and more legible than handwriting, but it's completely inferior to computer writing in all aspects except not requiring electricity to work, and that's also why no one except total nerds and 100 year old fossils use them anymore.

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Being a writer and being the President is the same thing very-smart

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Listen, Jack -- the man in black raced across the desert, and the gunslinger followed biden-rember

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

As a Stephen King book hater I agree with the second tweet unironically

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Has King written anything good lately? Even by Steven King standards which is pretty mid usually anyway? He should cut it out. Free some shelf space for someone else who hasn't written so many books that having a full collection is worse than getting all.the korok seeds in Zelda.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure he wrote something about a haunted Zune that tries to kill you by playing uptempo music to increase your heart rate to dangerous levels. In 2022.

Edit: He also showed up in the YouTube comments section on a video of George Lynch doing "Mr. Scary" with his solo band a few years ago, which was probably the least insufferable thing that King has written in a while.

Edit 2: ~~I can't find the comment; I swear I saw it back in 2022. He might have deleted it one of the times that he was temporarily bullied off of YouTube.~~ It's the pinned comment from "@chaosmusician" and it's a different Stephen King. lmao

Edit 3: There was also this:

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

The Zune that Makes You Listen to Grindcore Until It Kills You sounds kinda dope

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Dnow, stopped caring after the dark tower series

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I stopped caring halfway through the series. God did that shit go downhill fast

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

the last good shit he wrote was like... I dunno Dark Half or Tommyknockers

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Biden could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shit himself and he wouldn't lose any of these voters.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Biden could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot himself and he wouldn't lose any of these voters.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Been seeing this guy a lot the past few days.

Hunter and/or Jill Biden alt?

[-] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

I would really love to see either Hunter or Jill being outed for digital blackface, this was hilarious

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

A modern classic

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Clicking on this thread to watch people shit on Steven King comfy

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Damn, at least space these posts by a couple days.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it's intentional, what's being attempted is to make it look unreasonable to ask Biden to step down because King is also old and still writing. this asks the reader to endorse that writing books is as demanding and important as being president.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Damn, my media literacy sucks. This is why I stick to Lovecraft.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

honestly there's a good chance I'm wrong and he just fucked up, I'm probably giving him too much credit.

EDIT: live picture of me in my information bunker cardboard-monsters

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Never read a Stephen King book but I watched both It movies and they sucked. Stupid ass title that makes it impossible to talk about, the first movie sucked ass, just threw a bunch of characters at you and systematically dumped their backstory at you one by one. The characters didn't have personality beyond "main character", "fat" and "girl". The second movie opened well by immediately killing of the ginger and then there's just two hours of these guys fucking around, then they call the clown a clown and he dies.

What the fuck is the point of It? That fear can be conquered by laughter? Wow, well fucking done, Stephen King, unfortunately every children's media has already covered this. Is it that gay people only exist to die tragically? That 12 year olds having an orgy is fine actually? I watched these movies when I was a teenager and I thought they were stupid and I'm not going to watch them again

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

There is no fundamental difference between someone sitting at a wordprocessor and someone holding the codes to the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world and having command of the world's largest military.

Also, yet another example of a lib trying to do political analysis but only being able to muster an analogy.

[-] immutable@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It will shock Alex Cole to find out “BUT HER EMAILS” led to electoral defeat. Fucking Dems love losing it seems

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