Quick reminder that Ivanka made her dad swear not to date anyone younger than her when she was 17.

Totally normal conversation for a teen girl to have with her father, and not horribly creepy at all.

Like, what the fuck prompted her to ask him to promise this?

Surely not whatever is implied by these photos:

But vinyl LPs… Is just different. It was never meant for on the road scenario

Says who? (Lol, wonder why this didn’t catch on…)

I came across a page that tried to document them by region and regularity. It was quite long.

Yeah, the reason I referenced the ‘nothing to hide’ thing was because he’s a lawman, and that’s a lawman saying.

I agree with you.

Great, thanks.

So how about we get enraged and vow to fight the blatant fascism going on in [gesturing about broadly].

Too much to ask?

Yeah, but you had to sit there for like a minute to do that, and you had to be on alert for that, not enjoying it but waiting for the ad break. Nowadays, the whole thing just plays uninterrupted.

Why would he? Nothing to hide, etc.

As the prosecutor during a nonfascist stint of the government, he was doing his actual job. That sounds ludicrous to these fascist weasels, but weirdly, he wasn’t doing politics. He was a prosecutor for The Hague, IIRC. A by-the-book career man. He literally has nothing to hide here.

It’s so annoying that so many people think everything is intrigue and spycraft when most government jobs are very boring just do-your-job monotony. Stop thinking everything is like movies and learn some real life shit, please. The world is far more boring than you think.

That’s not an issue with the medium, though.

And I really appreciate being able to watch hours of content with no adverts now. Back in the day, nearly everything had unskippable ads. There was no adblock; you had to watch everything on someone else’s schedule, and the only way to not watch ads was to pee or make a sandwich.

I haven’t seen an ad in years and, my god, it’s awesome.

Another fun fact I learnt during research for my previous novel: the Polish have more ways to say ‘fuck’ than any other language.

Apparently variations of ‘fuck’ exploded there during and shortly after WWII.

Also, in Denmark, ‘fuck’ was adopted as a mild expletive after roughly 1960, when western movies containing the word were imported. It was especially interesting because there never were any strong expletives there (most ‘curses’ were actual curses, like ‘let the devil take you!’), so the word didn’t have the same impact as in other cultures. This resulted in young children just casually saying ‘fuck’ in public, to the bemusement and sometimes consternation of English-speaking tourists.

Language is funny.

Counterpoint: I’m old and don’t miss any of that. Fewer devices is very, very nice. And fewer physical pieces of media is even nicer for the environment.

I actually don’t miss having to be kind and rewind, or spending 15 minutes with a pencil spooling my music back into a listenable format after being a bit careless with my tapes, only to have Glenn Frey sound like he’s eating marbles next time.

Less waste and less hassle. Nostalgia is overrated.

Unfortunately, they can do quite a lot of damage before they fail.

We really need to understand that Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show.

We’ve mythologised fascists to the point we’ve made recognising them difficult.

Oh wow, she’s beautiful!

Is there a /c/supermodelcats?

e: sadly, not yet

Clippy never lied to me, unlike his shitty cousin, who can’t stop blowing smoke up my anus.

Pretty sure the torts in those photos are plotting assassinations. You can see it in their eyes.

Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.

Worse, Project 2025 wasn’t written by one guy, but by a large team of people (mainly the Heritage Foundation and a handful of related groups). This plan was generated by groups of idiots, by a coordinated conservative ‘think tank’.

Many of the problems you pointed out aren’t bugs to them, they’re features. Their goals are very misaligned from ours. If you see it through their lens – of accelerationist dominionism – many of those points aren’t problems, but methods to reshape society to serve their particular goals.

For example, they want all of public education to collapse so that all education can become evangelical church-based. Teachers shouldn’t need to be certified beyond a religious education. They’re already very fond of spinning up universities and giving people the flimsiest of PhDs. Look at the number of Christian authors with ‘Dr’ before their name, then see where they got their doctorate and what it’s in. They do not care about education, except that kids should be able to read the bible and learn extra things for common professions, like working with numbers. If all teachers are housewives with training in the bible and the 4Rs, they think that’s a good thing.

They want to put the lower classes in their place, and that includes religiously. This is pretty clearly a blueprint for a christofascist utopia.

e: links. Also, many in the groups associated with this project are self-avowed dominionists.

Time to buy a ham radio?

I was in that scene in the 80s. Been thinking about it a lot lately, it’s hard.

Bon Jovi’s crew had a designated chaperone, and I thought that was weird at the time. It was cool, though. I do appreciate it now. They wouldn’t allow the drugs or the sex – some roadie crews had that, and others didn’t, there was none of that (eta: the really bad stuff) in my circles, but I heard about the bad ones. I was like 15 at that time.

Because in the grand scheme of everything ads have so little effect on life

That’s objectively untrue, though. It’s just so effective, you don’t notice it anymore, and that’s kind of scary.

Anyone else see a red circle at their feet, or is that just me?