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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems [S] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.

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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 years ago

When I was a kid Power Rangers was totally and completely awesome, but the whole millennial generation grew up to despise dressing in colorful spandex. A strange Rita Repulsan impulse.

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[+] CubbyTustard@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

no, it is 💦 on a hot summer day

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Coming in this week’s nyt specials: 🏖️🩳 🪈so 💦 it’s 🔥

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

NYT Opinion: It's time to Drink from the Hose of Hard Questions about America's Kids

A memory of sipping from a garden hose prompts our columnist to ask: have we been going too soft on millennials?

By Some Rich White Loser

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Someday I should go through the 6.5K comments on the threads where the Twitter acquisition was discussed and sum up the sentiment then vs now

HN has a split view of Xhitter, every thread about it moans about how you have to have an account to view replies, but it's also the great White anti-woke hope

also the domain at HN is still twitter.com not x.com, which I feel is dang or PG giving Husk the finger. Fuck they even say "tweets" instead of "posts"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

White anti-woke hope

Before twitter went down Musk was agreeing with people saying that the left is letting in illegals so they get more left wing votes (illegals can vote or something). So yeah going well.

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[+] gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Recently, a sign showed up in El Paso advertising San Francisco as a sanctuary city, as a great "own the libs," I suppose because SF would receive of applicants overwhelming their social service programs?

It didn't work.

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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there's a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren't referring to that as an observed tendency. they're referring to a universal law they've made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying

apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats)