“We have fallen upon evil times. The world has waxed old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their elders. Each man wants to make himself conspicuous and write a book.”

– Naram Sim of the Akkadian Empire, 5,000 years ago.

This just goes to show that stupid doomsayers have been warning about the end of the world for 5,000 years.

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan really helped mainstream the idea of interracial dating and marriage. The book was a smash hit and so was the movie. It played constantly on Lifetime for years.

Do they really take hours to photoshop their TikToks though? Sure there are filters, but those don’t really make women slimmer or put muscles on men.

It is literally alt-right blood and soil nationalism.

I thought most of Twitter’s staff quit in protest?

That was journalists, talking down to West Virginia coal miners. Trump had taken their side, so it was open season on them.

Then when they started getting laid off, and you tweeted it back at them, suddenly you were banned for hate speech.

Makes my blood boil. :guts-rage:

https://www.lennyletter.com/story/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president

When people told me they hated Hillary Clinton or (far worse) that they were “not fans,” I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: “I love Hillary Clinton. I am in awe of her. I am set free by her. She will be the finest world leader our galaxy has ever seen.”

I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater’s ridiculous allergy to her, or Clinton’s fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, “I love her.” As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter.

I want to reverse the usual schedule of things, then. We don’t have to wait until she dies to act. Hillary Clinton’s name belongs on ships, and airports, and tattoos. She deserves straight-up hagiographies and a sold-out Broadway show called RODHAM. Yes, this cultural canonization is going to come after the chronic, constant, nonstop “On the other hand” sexist hedging around her legacy. But such is the courage of Hillary Clinton and her supporters; we reverse patriarchal orders. Maybe she is more than a president. Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself. The presidency is too small for her. She belongs to a much more elite class of Americans, the more-than-presidents. Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Fucking Hamilton.

You have to train it with your likes and comments. Start liking things you like, and comment too. Subscribe to channels you enjoy. Soon enough it’ll get really good at recommending content you will appreciate.

Engaging with content counts as wanting to see more of that content. If you post on chud threads you’re going to get more chud videos.