• @[email protected]
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        Where are the bed sheets?

        Also, where are the family photos? Framed art? Kid drawings?

        Edit: Cobra Commander and the Baroness at home in a GI-Joe movie directed by Michael Bay circa 2008.

        Edit2: Evil Sean Astin

        Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

        I’m sorry, I’m being awfully mean and petty on the internet today.

        • @[email protected]
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          171 year ago

          the kids have to thunderdome it out for recognition, and then they have to pay for the photos with their own money that they earned in their weekend jobs (you know, the ones they get to do after their homejobs all week). just like in a perfectly normal family!

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          31 year ago

          Edit3: I’ve never seen a three-piece suit with dungarees. It’s the mullet of suits: business on the top, party on the bottom.

          I came here the other day to post this. Just bizarre.

    • @[email protected]M
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      181 year ago

      ok so this is driving me crazy

      am I weird for thinking the circle of candles in the fireplace (in a house that’s allegedly unbearably cold) is weird?

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        131 year ago

        It’s weird, but it’s normal weird. It’s the kind of thing you see in design magazines and pinterest and the spruce. I don’t know if actual rich people do it but it’s definitely fairly normal middlebrow home decor.

        (A lot of fireplaces in older US buildings are vestigial, often blocked up, and are inefficient at heating.)

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          121 year ago

          The prose on that The Spruce link makes me hate the concepts of design, aesthetics, and houses.

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            71 year ago

            “24 Ideas for Putting Candles in a Fireplace” sounds like a McSweeney’s headline.

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          it’s also definitely the sort of shit you see in some midmarket airbnb’s (because it’s in design/pinterest/etc magazines)

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      171 year ago

      Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself

      Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??

  • @[email protected]
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    571 year ago

    It’s true though. They’re not nazis. They’re incapable of being fired by any fundamentally political or spiritual ideals, no matter how ultimately black and nihilistic, at all. Even if these people were full-throated card-carrying members of the American Nazi party marching through Times Square with a swastika flag throwing out copies of Der Sturmer from a Panzer tank they wouldn’t be nazis. The fact is that they’re just the purest distillation of 20th-21st century media culture yet: they’re so utterly saturated in media that the only choice they’ve made, the only choice available to them, was whether to lean into the goodie or the baddie vibe, and they plumped for “baddie” because it suited their contrarian aesthetic and then, without even leaving a ripple on the surface, they slipped into the role and inhabited it so thoroughly that it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are.

    These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      These people are nothing less, and 100% nothing more, than your childish glee at getting to play the villain in an RPG.

      I’m pretty certain I get more glee from my RP than they ever experienced in their lives.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is “Nazi.”

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        I’m saying this goes further!

        Actually I feel kind of irked that this reply seems to just miss the part at the end of the paragraph that says “it is, literally, indistinguishable from who they are”

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          251 year ago

          I didn’t miss it. I just don’t see any need to be elaborate about the word nazi, although I do appreciate what a crushingly insulting description of them you gave

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            41 year ago

            Paraphrasing Santayana, we must understand why people become fascist, or else we will not understand how to prevent ourselves from making the same mistakes of dehumanization and black-and-white reasoning which characterize their piss-poor attempts at logic.

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            Scholars of fascism and nazism do it all the time! The target of quotes like that is supposed to be those who deliberately muddy the waters. The “call a nazi a nazi” principle is a blunt instrument, and there are other tools in the anti-nazi kit.

            [some hours later…] ah, the quote is from AR Moxon, whom I happen to know is both (a) not remotely averse to going deeper on what makes the nazis, (b) distinctly averse to not going deeper

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    71 year ago

    I spent a good chunk of yesterday imagining tearing these two apart with my bare hands if I ever caught them hitting a child in front of me

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    from bsky

    unfortunately had to slap my youngest child, hyperion dipshit, in the target parking lot today after he failed to show proper respect to a cybertruck. before you call that abuse, just ask my other children, aryan chlamydia and maximus trifecta what they think

    confiscating Adeptus Mechanus’s iPad to teach him a lesson about makers and takers

    cursed subskeet is what we plan to name our fourth child

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      as well as boot nazis and tie nazis, I propose a third classification: horrible locker-friendly dweebs like this