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Ok that's enough internet for now. Please alert me when it is safe to return.
Internet? That's enough humanity. We had a... run. Time to burn it all down.
fwiw, I think this is their actual endgame: use digital to convince people this isn't a small cabal of the ultrawealthy causing so much of this harm.
They say dictators don't need majority support, only a majority of people doubting themselves.
It's really not a small cabal of the ultrawealthy though.
Out of 73 million.
The point I was making was that it isn't just a small cabal of the ultrawealthy that commit these crimes. A point that went right over your head in your attempt to downplay the severity of child rape.
That are trying to normalize AI nudifying apps usable on kids?
That are trying to normalize pedophilia.
When what passes for the leader of the "free world" is a spearhead for pedophilia it's kind of a bit late to be safe talking about "normalizing" stuff.
Well yeah, that's why it's so silly to see comments about how these people at the top are trying to normalize it. It already is, they're already in power, they're not going anywhere.
Trump lost, but when he racked up a bunch of felonies, found guilty of rape, and deep connections with Jeffery Epstein’s sex-trafficking operations… well America decided to give him another shot. I’m super curious what the textbooks aren’t going to say.
I need all the optimism left in me just to believe we'll have textbooks worth thinking about in the future
I doubt that group would be very significant if it weren't for the outsized influence of a handful of very wealthy, decadent men. At the very least there would be fewer roadblocks to doing something about the rest of the pervs.
There are very few roadblocks for rapists as it is.
That's what I said
Humanity's fine if we ripped down these over-paid pedos instead of allowed them to run billion dollar scams...
If you're the last one out, please shut off the lights.
Don't wait standing
(I dont know if this translates, in argentina we day "get yourself a chair" or "don't wait standing" meaning that something wont happen)
The English equivalent would be "Don't hold your breath"
The meaning of the idiom is remarkably clear in English. I propose we adopt this one.
Pull up a seat at the table.
I think we say, "don't hold your breath," in English.
Or “don’t count on it” (because if you did you’d be counting for eternity)
I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now…
“Why don’t you wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first”
… yeah, I like the chair one
When I was a kid I thought the saying was “why don’t you piss in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first?” And I was like wow adults are gross
My mother used to say "If wishes were horses," and I had no idea where that came from. I didn't get internet until after her death in 2001. I looked up that saying and the complete version is, " If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. " Apparently, it's a very old saying so I guess adults weren't always gross.
No, that's wrong. Here's the correct saying: If wishes were horses than I horse you a wish cock up the ass.
"Don't kink shame"
idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method, lmao
It’s basically just a crass way to say “wishing is for suckers”
Definitely the piss hand, unless your bowels are unwell.
..is not a sentence I thought I'd be typing today 😄
Liquid is harder to hold tho, so I think it depends on how you (subjectively) define when your hand is “full”
That sounds kinda close to an old saying I've heard once in over 40 years
Put a finger in your mouth and a finger in your anus, and hope; if that doesn't work, switch around.
Lmao, where’d you hear that one?
High school from some staff member I think. Maybe 25 years ago.
Well I know what phrase I'm using at the next opportunity
Ah, in English we say "don't hold your breath" for that, although sometimes it's also used for things that might happen eventually but it will take a long time.
It works. I'm going to start using it in fact.
This place is currently safer than other places right now.
Doubt.
I don't know how to understand the anger I feel.
Better pull the plug on that bell, because "it's here to stay", some people says proudly.
By the time it is safe to return, no one will remember your comment, unfortunately