PolyethylenePt2

my electable lesser-of-two-evils king

He's a lib political blogger. Maybe best known for writing an article titled "When Must We Kill Them?" about conservatives but that's probably one of his only good takes, because his other takes go a bit something like this and I imagine you can find more stuff like this if you want to scroll through his account.

Side note: How I first heard about him was actually meeting him at a (non-political) event where he was wearing a shirt that said "READ MY BLOG" all over the front of it and the url to his substack on the back. I had no idea he was a figure of any note until I heard a bunch of other people at this event talking about him.

I'm all ears

Looking through the replies just to see this ghoul get dunked on, but the "dunking" consists of Americans whining about how he's "destroying the country" and "letting foreigners in"

Consulting the made up Chuck Schumer in my head and asking what he would do

The marketplace of ideas, everyone

My hypothesis is that this is because they co-opted a lot of the civil rights movement to elevate some vague sense of "nonviolent protest" to the pinnacle of political action. Obviously this applies to more things, but calling your representative is just the peak of lib action.

Everything I say is going to be entirely vibes-based, but I feel like what the education system here taught about civil rights was a lot of "Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and MLK led nonviolent protests and did that one speech and the nonviolent protests were so effective in the marketplace of ideas that we ended racism (oh and btw MLK was a moderate who would agree with Republicans today )." Now libs basically think any action where you make a lot of noise without any material consequences is the best way to create change because everyone's a rational actor who will always choose the good ideas as long as you put the idea out there and "look!! it worked in the 60s!!" Couple this with the belief that we actually live in a democracy where the government will "listen to the people" and you'll get people calling their representatives and sending strongly worded letters

Thanks! I've only dressed up a few times before for conventions and other cosplay events but people have gone up to me and complimented me on my cosplay and it's a very nice feeling

Dressing up as Ralsei (specifically the mafia Ralsei that's in my profile pic)

If you had shown me a few years ago a story about a corporation that makes its money by making the Evil Machine That Destroys The World That Also Sucks At Its Job and capitalizing on the loneliness and suffering of people who feel they have nowhere else to go, I would have thought its message was a little too in-your-face. Everything about this sucks.

the anti-Tenna

(incoming rambling)

I’ve been talking with my friends recently about how oppressively negative a lot of things feel and this is definitely one of the major factors. It really does feel like the default attitude on the Internet is “cynical asshole who’s negative about everything = smart” and “caring about anything is stupid lol.” I used to take this sort of attitude towards things until I realized that I was bad at describing what I genuinely like because I was so caught up in this act of looking like the smart rational cynic and worrying about people looking at me weird because I liked a certain thing. I let all the cringe culture and the “if you like (insert thing) you’re a cringe virgin” memes get to me (I was a teenager ok). I think some people would benefit from asking themselves “What do I love?” and answering earnestly because maybe it’ll make people reflect on how much time they spend tearing down other things and people vs. how much time they spend being genuine and not hateful