When I was little, I mixed up the words “president” and “Reagan”, thinking the latter was the title. I felt sorta vindicated with he hero worship the man got in the neocon and tea party years.

But now, even though it should be an epithet akin to “Benedict Arnold” or “Quisling”, I would not be surprised if “Trump” became a sort of title similar to “Caesar” and its variants.

Those covers had to be redesigned because the originals (which may be the ones in the pic) would gouge the rubber of the tires

Mehhh, I’ve seen better circles. Hell, I once saw a perfect circle, at Gund Arena in Cleveland

Venus isn’t a planet either. It’s a hell-sphere. But that makes it even more rad 🤘

Don’t feel bad Elmer, when those grandchildren grow up and have their own opinions, they’ll hate you on their own.

So put Hitler’s paintings on permanent exhibition in a Berlin art museum?

If they’re genuinely good, and contribute to world of Art as whole, why not? It’s not like people don’t listen to Wagner. My guess is that his works are lackluster and have made very little impact in the art world.

Dalí’s work is revered, and, while he didn’t partake in genocide, he was a Francoist ghoul who shouted “¡olé!” at the assassination of his friend Federico García Lorca by Nationalists.

The good ol’ American tradition of forcing squaredance onto kids in schools—I was a victim myself from the ‘80s to the mid ‘90s—was borne of the fear and disgust of the black and Jewish roots of jazz, with Hitler idol Henry Ford being a big advocate for it.

It’s definitely a much bigger issue in metal than you would find in, say, jazz or electronica.

For a while, and I assume it continues today, there was/is a synth subgenre called fashwave, a Nazi-adjacent take on vaporwave. I imagine they have a niche elsewhere in the electro scene, and prob. industrial too?

Years ago, Brendan Small did a couple of characters on Comedy Bang Bang who, while being absolutely fucking hilarious and source of some of the top moments on the podcast, were kinda problematic, coming off as ethnic caricature. He quit doing those characters in 2017, for I think pretty obvious reasons, though I’m not sure whether anyone ever called him out on it. I assume it was similar to PFT’s rationale for dropping Ice-T from his own repertoire. In any event, you can take this however you will.

Okay, gotcha, I was looking at it from their point of view, which is that everything to them is bigotry, not realizing that that’s what you were saying in the first place. The bad, it is mine.

.ml tends to slap “rule 1” on everything, which says don’t be a bigot, even if that’s obviously not what the comment was about.

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Sure about that? From what I’ve seen, anything said in disagreement with the predominant opinion over there (and on hexbear, especially on hexbear) is deemed “bigotry”. They don’t appear to be interested in ingratiating anyone to the cause.

I attribute it to him being so backed up with scalding shit that it’s filled the spaces between in meninges and replaced his CSF

Some cats love it. A couple of ours start licking/chewing air or give us li’l nibbles if they get whacked around the base of the tail. My parents’ cat demands to be bonked around with an empty soda bottle on a daily basis. They’re weird little gremblings, cats.

From Scientific American, “Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?”

When I was, idk, 7 or 8, we were in our tin can of a ‘78 Fiesta and I was in throbbing pain from my quarterly ear infection, but as the Tylenol+codeine kicked in—it was the late ‘80s, whatev—Kashmir came on the radio while I was sorta slumped to the side, my head resting rather uncomfortably next to the rear speaker. I just spent the following eight minutes just vibing, staring through the raindrop-dotted window at the traffic lights against the night sky, it was goddamn magical. That is my core Zeppelin memory. Years later, Physical Graffiti was the second CD I ever bought, specifically for that song.

The best song, hands down, on their Unplugged set is a cover and it makes me wish Kurt had cleaned up, gotten better, and made a whole album of his interpretation of old blues songs. It could have been fuckin’ incredible.

Yeah, I get that part, it’s entirely too easy for shit to go wrong. But victim-blaming is tepid, wet garbage, and always points in the wrong direction. We need to get better, as a collective, at locking our data the fuck down, and slapping the shit out of the people who act maliciously with it.

No, I think I see what you’re saying and I agree, we all need to do better. Even when we hold views opposing that dumb sexist crap, it’s not enough merely to have those views, we should act on them and teach others to do so. I fully agree with the notion that young men today have terrible role models right now and we need to do better.

This has been my take forever. Maybe women want to take nudes and send them to a sweetheart or maybe she’s just feeling hot and proud of herself. Good for her. Doesn’t mean they should be available for the world to see, nor should she be victim-blamed.

Same for the sub-hominids who say a woman was asking for it after being raped because she dressed provocatively. Yeah, she might have been dressing in a way to attract someone, that’s the goddamn point. It’s her prerogative, and guess what: she has the final say as to who can interact with her. Fuck outta here with this “she was asking to get raped” bullshit. Grow up and learn some goddamn self control, it’s insulting to insinuate that we, as men, are a monolith and do not have any.

In an unexpected twist, op was the guy, witnessing his own chicanery in an out-of-body experience/fugue state