I stopped watching her generally when she put up her poorly thought out, TERF-filled anti-trans video, but the “Capitalism is good, actually” video came up in my feed and I watched it out of curiosity.

It’s so wrong it’s impossible to know where to begin. She invents a history of money that didn’t happen, defines capitalism in a nonsensical way and in the comments admitted she did no research for the video whatsoever and yet still defended her points as if her absolute ignorance on the subject was somehow laudable.

Absolute buffoon. Nobody should watch her videos. She is intellectually dishonest and generates ignorant content to garner clicks.

It was literally outlined as this in Project2025, ban porn then define speech you want to suppress (primarily LGBT but also women’s health) as porn.

Humans are complicated and often defy attempts at easy categorization, the only person who can tell us the actual motive has lawyered up.

Weird, I see the byline as David Corn, their Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief.

Look, your heart is in the right place, but your entire premise is built on a single word choice in my post about a man worthy of every ounce of scorn I can muster. Take a step back and realze that me being angry about mainstream media outlets like NYT and MSNBC falling over themselves to honor this vile man isn’t evidence of anything more than that. You have misread this situation.

You should gander through my post history before levying accusations.

That is perfectly the point. I am against violence and Kirk was a piece of shit who we should feel free to condemn for the harm he was causing right up to his last moments.

Klein’s fawning whitewashing of Kirk’s dishonest tactics is, if we are being exceptionally charitable, naïve.

I appreciate the discussion, I get out of my depth pretty quickly on the topic being a linguistic hobbyist rather than someone with actual education and background.

It’s an approximation, but the t is partially vocalized giving it a ‘d’ sound even if it’s not made exactly the same way.

This phenomenon is called “T flapping” and it is common in North American English. I got into an argument with my dad who insisted he pronounces the T’s in ‘butter’ when his dialect, like nearly all North Americans pronounces the word as ‘budder’.

Ezra Klein continuing to have the worst takes imaginable.

This fucker was lying about trans people, saying they are more likely than white men to commit mass shootings, right before he was shot.

He was perpetrating politcal violence against a marginalized minority when political violence silenced him. I don’t think this is a good situation (overall as a nation and a society) but this is very much a live by the sword die by the sword moment.

Because wealth over that value does little to improve your quality of life (actually far less than that, but this is a generous cap).

I had a homemade vegan shepard’s pie at a coworker’s house (she lived in the US, but from the UK) and it was one of the best dinners I’ve had in a long time.

That drawing is much worse than was described. That isn’t the outline of a grown woman.

Haha, it’s funny because young girls are property.

Fucking scumbags.

I can only get it through them with an office visit but if I select ‘covid vaccine’ as the reason for the visit, I get a banner message stating ‘2025/2026 COVID Vaccine Formulation is being paused and not yet available.’ and I am unable to continue.

Disease isn’t judgement. I know you’re just being flippant, but it’s a line of thinking that grinds on me after having lived through the tail end of the AIDS epidemic.

If the criticism is limited to “It’s too hard.” then I would agree. But that’s not a valid response to criticisms about specific design elements like “these power ups feel like they do nothing”, even if it’s a perception issue at hand you need to address the actual observation and not jump on with ‘git gud’.

I was learning a game a few months ago and struggling with understanding a specific character, so I went to the official discord and asked for advice, not complaining it was too hard, just asking for what kinds of strategies work and I was met with endless ‘try harder, scrub’ responses and literally no actual advice. I quit playing the game because the community was so up it’s own asshole.

And for sake of clarity. I don’t play HK, it’s not my preferred genre and my favorite game (that I can replay) is Noita so I am familiar with reviews that complain about difficulty. It’s fine for games to be hard and it’s also fine for people who find the games too hard to leave a review saying they found it too hard. That is part of informing buyers so people can only pick it up if they desire that kind of challenge.

It’s just a trend that is all too common in gaming. People like a game or a developer and become incapable of seeing an opinion that they disagree without taking it as a personal slight. It’s weird.

Kaiser. They are generally decent, but don’t cover out of network vaccines and they aren’t stocking the covid vaccine currently (statement that it has been paused on their website).