I think I woke up hungover from one beer this morning

They aren’t a grift. They effect everyone. Ads work on your subconscious, not conscious mind. People don’t see an add and then think about the information given to them, they see an add and then the next time they see something there is more familiarity, and it seems more normal. In politics it works really well, if someone has seen ads for one thing and none for the other, the one they have seen will seem more normal. Political adds also work best when they’re negative. Planting an insidious seed in the voters psyche works wonders.

I use grayjay, can you try that?

I think everyone was gaslit into thinking fairness was important when they were little, and that the trauma of realizing that nobody cares about fairness in the REAL WORLD is the first major trauma that all people experience in life.

I mean telling someone to fuck off is an important institution. I think that insulting people with swear words that have been largely stripped of meaning like asshole is fine.

Prediction markets don’t exist to accurately predict outcomes. They exist to provide reliable consistent profit to the bourgeoisie. Since they take a cut of every bet made, they will still make a profit if things are 50/50. So prediction markets warp their odds to the trends of the gamblers to minimize risk. If a bunch of wealthy right wingers place bets on Bolsonaro, they will move the odds in that direction to push more towards betting on Lula to minimize risk.

Its the same thing with Asmongold. He’s literally a fucking troglodyte and the worst person ever, a statement which most of his fans would probably agree with, and yet he’s popular. I think white people want to see the worst white people ever be successful out of their own warped sense of racial solidarity

This should be the death penalty. Make everyone in the C-Suite roll a dice, lowest score gets the firing squad

What interactions does it have with SSRIs? I’ve always wanted to take shrooms but I’m on Trintillex which does help a bit

She’s crying like they did this specifically to her specifically to make her feel bad

Who the fuck are they?

Sounds like America in the 90s and 00s

What’d she do in high school?

We know that, because there aren’t nearly as many museums dedicated to colonial atrocities

My housemate got the Berlin results confused with the Mecklenburg results and it nearly gave me a heart attack.

OVERALL: The biggest factor, by a large factor, is age. But, economic situation and type of employment, (whatever those categories mean) are also a big deal. Gender is still important, but the least important out of everything here. Lastly, not having LGBT or ethnic data here is frustrating

The big scary here is that while Left/SPD/Green can form a coalition, so can CDU/SPD/Green. I don’t know enough about German politics to know if that’s likely but it is concerning that the libs could essentially take power back if the left does too much cool stuff

The new party, BSW, aka left but no pronouns got 4.7 percent of the votes, missing out on council seats by 0.3 percent the fucking dweebs. Splitters get the shitter

CDU lost 1/3 of its votes SPD lost 1/3 of its votes Green Lost 1/4 of its votes Left Doubled its total AFD almost doubled its total

EDIT: Wikipedia already compiled all this shit

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/d0c2ef79-a283-4b56-aca9-7a70b1ca46a1.png

Men

23% left 25% Freikorps (SPD+Greens) and 39% conservative (CDU+AFD)

Women:

28% left 28% Freikorps 31% conservative

25-34 Age Group

49% left 18% Freikorps 15% Conservative

60-69 Age Group

16% left 27% Freikorps 47% conservative

AFD decisively won the no college degree crowd with 27%, dropping to 10% amongst people with degrees. The left got 17.5% and 30% in the same categories.

AFD does best in the 45 - 69 age group, with the 70+ preferring the more moderate options,

https://www.rbb24.de/politik/berlin-wahl-2026/beitraege/wahlgrafiken-wahlkarte-hochrechnungen-ergebnisse-koalitionen.html

post your main account and see for yourself

death is an action, or at least a transitive state. death is something that happens to life, meaning that its opposite is not life, but birth. Therefore death metal implies the existence of birth metal, conception metal, geniture metal, or, perhaps, metallic origination

I haven’t voted in a while but seeing people get disenfranchised makes me want to

From a young age I thought about going to war and what that would be like. My father was quite nationalistic and even asked me once (when I was like 10 or 12 or 13) if I would enlist in a defensive war against the USA, if I was 18. When I said yes he was as proud as I’d ever seen him. I watched band of brothers with him and my brother quite often, also from a young age, I spent a lot of time trying to get inside the minds of the soldiers there, so as to understand if I could perform in that kind of environment, and what it would take to do so.

When I hear, Green Fields of France, John McDermott, it reminds me of the fear I had as a kid watching those movies/shows, wondering if one of those soldiers might be me. Through the tragedy I saw on screen I learned to steel my heart, and this song returns me to what I encased within, the innocence I buried because that’s what I thought being a man was. I’ve been a woman my whole life, but I didn’t know then. What I did know was that manhood was something I had to perform. On some level I knew being a man wasn’t inherent to me, so I constructed one inside of me.

The first time I heard this song I was riding in my Dad’s car, younger than the above, and so hearing the song connects me to that time, and how scary it was when I first started to reckon with the idea of whether I’d go to war in the future.