@ladidaix@notcapnamerica From what I remember, in love is blind, they get engaged without ever seeing each other face to face, and live together for a short period of time before they make the decision to get married or not at the altar. I only watched the first season so it could be different now.
I miss the days when Kanye’s tweets were the most outrageous and extremist content you would see on this app. Now they’re light work compared to this hellhole of a extremist right-wing echo chamber
I’ve been reflecting on this over the past day or so, and I’ve come to a realization.
Many of my friends on the center-right who are upset with me for making what I believe to be very obvious observations aren’t necessarily angry at me—they’re angry at the implications of what I’m saying.
The idea that neo-Nazism has entered the mainstream, potentially influencing the White House, is so alarming and existentially terrifying that it's easier to lash out at the messenger than confront the reality.
If they accept this, it means that the political home they've invested so much of their identity in, the movement they've championed for years, has become something so morally repugnant that accepting it feels like breaking their own brain.
The cognitive dissonance is overwhelming.
What's striking to me is the selective outrage. Many of these same people are quick to call everyone communists, often with little more than circumstantial evidence.
Yet, when it comes to countless instances of glaringly obvious signs of fascism in their own movement, they either look away or attack those pointing it out.
@TheArtistAGMonk@MelroseDowdy@extrafabulous Horrible take. Appalachian leftists exist, and do you blame people who have been kept poor for centuries because of politicians from northern blue states? I’m an Appalachian leftist who is fed up with takes like this from people who refuse to understand.
The uncanny valley of pretty autistic girls is funny because your own parents won’t notice for ages but every mean girl you encounter will notice immediately before you even start talking about bionicles