There’s a new history memes community, !historymemes@piefed.social, and the breathing-challenged Jesus is active there.

I upvoted you because you’re making an interesting argument, but I’m definitely more in the Charlie Chaplin camp on political satire, and that ridiculing fascism is a productive thing to do - The Great Dictator was released before the US entered WW 2. Although Chaplin put a lot of work at the end of that movie to make sure everyone knew it was satire and Colbert was a bit less diligent.

Hm. A bunch of media illiterate conservative dingdongs watched the Colbert report and politics now visually looks like that… but nationalism to it’s extreme tends to look like that and Colbert’s team knew that. Fascism and nationalism look like that and I’m not sure satirizing it normalizes it (in general) but neoliberalism and that ‘working across the aisle’ politics (and journalism) that was also trendy at the time did actively normalize it.

Don’t fuck ICE agents.

I’ve seen a screenshot of a Minneapolis cop on Grindr who was bitching about nobody wanting to sleep with him. Praxis!

And a poor person’s idea of a rich person.

There’s a Tacoma in my neighborhood that removed the last two black letter stickers so it just reads TACO from a distance, it’s pretty great.

Oh great, RFKjr is discouraging washing your hands now?

Take the entire Orlando area, they’d be thrilled to get their crosswalk back and some sane leadership.

Also I love how a bunch of internet randos know about my favorite field trip spot when I was a kid.

Newsom has been leaning into transphobia recently, he’s a slimeball and I don’t trust him to not throw the trans community under the bus for some bullshit.

Honestly in this case I think AI was a deliberately chosen medium - it’s a parody of alt-right memes (if the original creator didn’t just outright steal one) and those are AI.

Although it’d be hilarious if an actual artist deliberately imitated AI art.

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He’s getting lots of ideas that his government should do something about homeless people. Unfortunately those ideas are all horribly evil.

I’m trans and originally from Florida. Rick Scott getting elected in spite of the Medicare fraud was enough for me to realize Florida would continue to get worse, so I left.

Florida is a sunny place for shady people.

Quite a few libraries have officially dropped late fees altogether. They just want the book back.

I’ve had pet mice, they’re pretty neat too - the less timid ones can actually be trained to do tricks and some of them were trained to go back to their cage if they had to pee while out. They’re smarter than people give them credit for, they’re as smart as the dumbest rats they’re just a lot smaller so they’re more afraid of things.

Whereas the hamsters my friends had when I was a kid were basically all bitey assholes, but they were definitely poorly socialized.

That’s not going to help. Atrazine is the pollutant that’s allegedly “turning the freaking frogs gay” and instead of pushing for, you know, not polluting our drinking water, it was spun as a thing liberals were doing for the gay agenda rather than big ag not giving a shit about anything other than profits.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-moderate-case-against-trans-youth

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-moderate-case-against-transgender

I should not have had to suffer through the first, wrong, puberty. I’m left with permanent scars, both physical and psychological, as a result. I’m not coming back to debate people who think thousands of trans kids should suffer the same way I did because one or two cis kids could be hurt. I damn near didn’t survive and a lot of trans kids don’t. Just dropping these links, I will not debate.

People act like natal puberty is the neutral choice here - it’s not. The first wrong puberty made me actively suicidal and that’s not unusual. If a kid has gotten so far as to get to a doctor about this, it’s pretty clear that something is up (cis people generally don’t question their gender in the first place) and by waiting on puberty blockers you’re allowing further suffering and irreversible harm to a trans kid. Puberty blockers are a very low risk way of hitting pause and if the kid decides to go through with natal puberty they can just stop taking puberty blockers with no harm other than a delayed puberty.

So I’d been considering getting a used smart watch with fitness tracking stuff and audio controls (I listen to audio books at work but have to pause fairly frequently), what should I be looking for to keep my data away from the ghouls? I know about the PineTime, how ready for less techy consumers is that right now?

The Onion has a political cartoonist and there’s several recurring characters and the Sickos guy is one of them.

https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/