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There’s a fan theory that Super Mario Bros 3 is actually an in universe play.
Apparently Miyamoto confirmed it for at least Super Mario Bros 3, but the full theory usually includes the Mario Kart, Mario Party, and Mario sport games as well as a bunch of the other games. Basically, the idea is that the first game is in-universe real and the rest of the games are just a recreation of the first game with all the weird social and personal implications that would imply.
Yeah, so I sure as fuck don’t want people telling anyone nice enough to come to my funeral that they wore the wrong color suit. Make fun of Trump and the fascists whose voters hopefully will be as annoyed at this. But don’t trouble the rest of us about it.
Liberals as in Neoliberals do. Neocons and fascists definitely don’t, but will claim they do. Progressives have thankfully figured out they can be mean. The fact most Democrat politicians are useless neoliberals doesn’t mean we have to be.
No one cares about hypocrisy enough to change their vote. Besides Obama’s tan suit didn’t matter then, Fox News needed their daily sound bite, and Trump’s blue suit doesn’t matter now, we need a sound bite today. But if anyone is being hypocritical it’s Fox for not being outraged over Trump. And of course the Republicans and MAGA do not care. It was always about having another controversy to use as a wedge against Obama to gain political power.
Trump knows criticism of any kind is bad for him. That’s why he references the Tds, Trump derangement syndrome, in his rallies. When he runs out of things to blame Obama and Biden for he can just blame the people who don’t vote for him. He knows it keeps his base happy, makes him look good to Republican voters, and that he was never getting Democrats or leftists to vote for him. The Democrats really need to learn that last one, but about Republicans.
More like reality show tv police. They had Dr Phil on an ICE raid. Their goal is to scare people. But they are very close to getting to anyone, not just immigrants. And it’s been all kinds of immigrants not just Latinx. They been detaining pro-Palestinian students on student visas and tourists from European countries.
Also, so far they are outsourcing the death camps, to El Salvador, but I think they are probably going to start using American prisons and maybe even military bases. Trump signed an executive order for getting lethal injection drugs to the states. I think firing squad might be the method of choice still but we’ll see I guess.
I use my real name and face on BlueSky where I’m openly trans. The only reason I used my account name here is because it seemed like Reddit and the I only did that on Reddit is because the site recommend it.
I would link to my BlueSky but I doubt you people would benefit from that site and vice versa. You all mean well, but I think BlueSky would lose its mind over Lemmy and I know people here don’t like BlueSky so I’m keeping you separate for your own good.
But push me on it and I’ll do it. I’ll link to my BlueSky. I’ve been openly Jewish and atheist since elementary school and openly socialist since high school. I suppressed I was trans for the majority of my life and I would rather die than keep doing that.
Also social media radicalist? I think that’s the furthest left of liberal on the political spectrum I’ve been labeled on this site by another user so thanks for that.
Lol =)
In the last fifteen years, Republicans have been on the attack for everything Democrats do. They don’t pick and choose their battles. They are perpetually aggressive and now they have all three branches of government. No one has to care what suit Trump wears, but any excuse to make fun of him means your side is on the attack.
I think it’s some cultural thing where you wear black to funerals and no one but the bride wears white to weddings. Rules people made up to get mad at other people are bizarre and awful but I’ll use them to attack fascists any day of the week. edit: typo
One day I hope no one cares what people wear to a funeral, only that they show up. In the meantime if making fun of Trump this way contributes to Republicans losing elections I’m all for it.
It takes two seconds to make fun of him for it today. It’s just to exhaust his base of non-MAGA Republicans. Republicans have shown you can be on the attack for everything a person does, for the last fifteen years. Either be vocal or die in silence.
It’s not about shaming Trump. Like you say, he has no shame. It’s about exhausting his base. It takes a second to make fun of him for it.
It’s purely to be on the attack. Republicans showed for the last fifteen years if you’re performatively aggressive against the opposition eventually you get what you want.
You don’t have to hate Trump or his suit color. Just love democracy and socialism and the working class. If this gets some apolitical conservative people to not vote for the Republicans then awesome.
We’re living in a fascist dictatorship. If making fun of Trump for his blue suit makes Republicans lose in the midterms that’s all that matters. Anyone who seriously believes suit color matters at a funeral is living in a state of self-inflicted misery.
It is the US version. 🤷♀️
The difference is that ignorance is a real measurable quantity. Stupidity can’t be measured. If you can’t measure it isn’t real. There’s no way to measure general intelligence because we don’t understand what it is.
Knowledge is also a critical component of defeating fascism. The broken education system and lack of knowledge is intentional.
How does this theory apply to say, gay marriage or healthcare in America?
These are the counterexamples to the ratchet effect that demonstrate the theory is false.
What the ratchet effect fails to encapsulate about neoliberalism is that neoliberals are not blocking progress to the left. Neoliberals are intentionally moving too slowly to the left to make meaningful, systemic change.
Democrats move one step forward, Republicans move three steps back. So even though Democrats are moving us forward they do it so slowly that over multiple administrations we move backwards.
Democrats never bothered to codify Roe v Wade. Republicans aggressively pursued Supreme Court appointments. Democrats refused to remove the filibuster when RBG died. Republicans removed the filibuster to get their Supreme Court picks through the Senate.
Side note, it was Democrats for who removed the filibuster for most Presidential appointments, but not Supreme Court appointments. People tend to learn the wrong lesson for this as well. Republicans are bad faith actors. They are going to try to seize power no matter what Democrats do. The Democrats did not bring this upon themselves. Republicans did it.
This distinction, that the Democrats are moving too slowly not blocking progress, matters because it is a core appeal of neoliberalism. If neoliberals completely blocked progress as the ratchet effect claims, people would more readily reject neoliberalism. Instead neoliberalism allows for incremental progress which at a glance can seem appealing. What people who partially internalize neoliberalism fail to realize is that our problems our systemic. Incremental change is too slow to correct criminal justice, wealth inequality, or stop climate change.
In short we need a new meme. I’ve been thinking about two dancers moving slowly to a furnace on the right. Something like:
🚪 💃 🕺🔥
Where the dancer on the left keeps moving one step towards the exit while the dancer on the right takes three steps toward the furnace. This meme could probably use some work though or maybe a different approach altogether. I would definitely would like to hear people’s thoughts.
Leave your house, and interact with other humans face to face.
I do thanks.
You have “theoretical” knowledge, but no real world, interacting with real people knowledge.
My argument is informed by real interactions with real people including yourself.
OK, you’re sucking your own d#$k, and I’m done with it. The “Well, akshully…” thing is a meme for a reason. And not a good one.
Read my argument. It will take a few minutes of your time. Then you will have an informed opinion to critique it.
Critical thinking is a skill. Anyone can learn it. We can measure a person’s ability by giving them tests and throwing a wide array of problems at them.
Smartest implies general intelligence which we do not know how to measure. There is no test. IQ tests are a cultural knowledge test designed to marginalize and ostracize Black people masquerading as general intelligence tests.
Regardless it is not even a case of not having critical thinking skills in all cases. But refusing to apply those skills in certain contexts.
The smartest people can effectively have blind spots where they suspend these critical thinking skills for personal, moral, or ethical reasons that allow them to support amoral, unethical, and rapacious practices or outcomes without consciously choosing to embody these qualities themselves.
edit: Also, even with what you read it should be evident that your critique of my argument is a straw man.
The smartest people DON’T lack critical thinking skills.
My argument is not that they lack those skills, although they could in theory.
My argument you claimed to have read is this:
They demand that you suspend critical thinking.
So I live in a world where the rich and the powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders.
Conspiracy theorists live in a world where the rich and powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders and then vengefully kill their accusers, but make it look like a suicide for some reason.
Seems like the same thing with extra steps. Why do people think they would want or need to do the extra steps?