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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Frankenstein’s monster is an early incel. It’s so ugly that society violently rejects it despite herculean efforts of the monster to find belonging. It’s solution is to terrorize the Doctor into creating a “female” monster for companionship.

    So the monster is miserable, hates society, and has a plan to punish and destroy leading up to a climactic suicide. And it’s only hope is for a waifu created by science.

    I think about this sometimes.



  • yesman@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzChance
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    12 days ago

    It turns out that it’s hard to tell the future. Polls have to make assumptions and the safest assumption is that this election is going to look like elections in the past. From the early voting data, we know that this election isn’t like 2016, or 2020, and what that tells us pretty reliably is that the polls are wrong.

    This is how Trump got an upset in 2016, he turned out loads of people who normally don’t vote, and were therefore underrepresented in the polling. It is likely that many of these same voters are going to sit it out this year while all the polls are counting them double.


  • Why does “freedom of expression” always mean “let’s hear the Nazi out” in practice?

    Is it equivalent to burning the cross? The Swedish flag?

    Not all flammable things are the same. The flag and cross are literal symbols of State power in Sweden, the Quran is a book that’s only precious to an oppressed minority.

    I don’t feel like someone burning my symbol or flag should be punished with prison

    I wanna stress that the people sentencing this man to jail are not the same as the people offended by the burning. This power dynamic is important.











  • In the US, everyone has the right to a trial, in theory. However, if every defendant, or even a significant minority of them demanded their trial, the system would collapse.

    To solve this problem. Prosecutors (lawyers working for the government) are given extraordinary power. They use their ability to charge any defendant with inflated charges that carry long jail sentences, then offer to reduce the charges if the defendant gives up their right to fight. Despite being obviously coercive and prone to force innocent people to confess, it’s perfectly normal, legal, and necessary to the US criminal system.


  • The idea of “political neutrality” is naive or bad faith.

    What you want is a right-wing sub. They pride themselves on being centrist, reasonable, and uncontroversial. You’re going to get lots of radical ideology, but don’t take it seriously bro, it’s just a joke.

    Left subs may seem obnoxious with their politics, but that’s just because we’re trying to persuade you with argument instead of tricking you with flattery.