It’s almost like trans people were a literal non-issue until conservatives made it their issue. It’s the Streisand Effect to the max. Just let trans people live their damn lives
That poor Leopard is going to die of over consumption.
Faceabeetus
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Is lemmy still jerking itself off over not being reddit yet perpetuating many of its tendencies? I guess I should not be surprised. Same regret, different place
Those were the easy times. One boogyman. Here, in addition to us being decentralised, so is spez.
When much of one’s political ideology is based off of manufactured outrage over the mere existence of a people group making up .01% of the population, they deserve all this stupid kind of bullshit that follows.
It irritates me especially when I don’t want to explain what they’re talking about to my children.
Crazy, maybe if we taught about this stuff in school then it wouldn’t be so fucking confusing.
Oh, right… Texas.
Correct-- If republicans stopped stripping them of their rights and loudly demanding to see the genitals of every highschooler, there would be basically no problems. It’s called manufactured outrage, and it’s how They™ control the masses.
So tantalizingly close lmaooool
Litterally why I started to pay for Youtube Premium last election cycle. “Daddy why does <Local Politician> want to kill babies?”
Started playing music over bluetoon in the car to avoid the same ads on the radio.
It took lots of effort to get rid of them, but I see almost no ads anymore. Not on the internet, not YouTube on my phone or in my TV shows or when I’m listening to music. I’m practically allergic to them. Now when I catch an ad that made it past me, it gets a physical reaction from me from just how FUCKING LOUD everything is all the time. And not just volume, but audio compression, colors, camera angles, costumes, set pieces, all of it. It’s a goddamn assault. They all just want their little piece of your time.
Obligatory Bansky quote
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
More like Based-sy. Holy shit that’s a good quote.
100000% this. Advertising. Can. Get. FUCKED.
“Allergic to ads”
Yup. Sometimes I’ll turn off my filters if something breaks and then get startled by an ad popping up…
Litterally why I started to pay for Youtube Premium last election cycle.
Dude, you can get ad-free youtube just by using a browser with a decent adblocker. For free. Stop forking money over to Google.
It’s why I allow very little screen time for my kids. I can’t control the fucking ads. They are a part of the brain rot.
I think limiting screen time is great, tablet babies weird me out. But if/when the time comes where they need to be online more, consider helping them set up an adblocker on everything they use. Everyone hates ads including kids. They’d probably think you’re awesome for it.
I switched to NewPipe as my YouTube client, to the same effect
Why not just use an ad blocker or third party program?
That was my solution to constant ads attacking my rights right about then. I was willing to watch the occasional ad to fund the service. They ramped up the ads and advertised hate against me so all bets were off
What you feared under communism has come true under capitalism.
I live in TX. The Telerico ads are a mix of how shitty ken paxton is as a person and his policies. All the Paxton ads are Trans gender is a huge problem (bc i can’t stop masterbating to the porn).
Just saw another add where he has his daughter stumping for him against Trans people. Something I learned from it… the weird eye is hereditary
That’s how wedge issues work. Take an issue that most people didn’t have opinions on one way or another and beat opinions into their heads until they forget how it used to be something people just let live. When a party can’t sway people on bigger issues, they create some new ones. Then you end up with people whose whole ticket is filled depending on how a candidate feels about this ONE issue.
It’s almost like we should keep government out of our lives unless there is a good reason.
What I thought was a conservative value when I was growing up.
Which is why our current “conservative” party is really more closely described as the neoliberal Christo-fascist authoritarian party who all eagerly voted for “I’m going to be a dictator on day one!”
Wow what a fucking asshole
Can’t have your kids learning about counterculture on the off chance they self-actualize instead of becoming your legacy.
He’s so close to getting it. Yet so far away.
I was gonna say, this is a leopardsatemyface and selfawarewolves crossover episode!
It’s always so painful when you see them in reach of the finish line but then they purposely won’t cross it.
“This can’t be the real finish line! There must be a different, better, more genuine line somewhere nearby. I just need to look hard enough!”
I read that and was thinking he almost " got it" but he didn’t.
