Ryan Simpson

@cecyliastalina I seriously thought AI had just replicated the same guy but there are subtle differences so maybe this is real. I'm still not sure.

@simpsonryan32 literally? no. spiritually? yes

americans crack me up sometimes like what do you mean you’re romanticising our extremely unglamorous countryside toffs that always smell like a stable

@SAAS1972N @HiddenYorkshire This was a mob, not a sheriff's posse. And there was no way to get the actual law there before they were caught. I don't think you've engaged with the question asked in the last paragraph:

Do you hear what you’re saying. We’re allowed to just go around and kill people who would just be killed anyway if they were given a fair trial. Are you out of your mind?. we all know Luigi Mangione killed that executive because we saw him do it on the TV. Would it be OK to just shoot him in the back of the head? Are you crazy?

I've just read Of Mice and Men for the first time since high school and I'm going to be very woke for a moment because my reading of it has changed quite significantly since then. Yes, Lennie is just big and friendly and doesn't know his own strength and wouldn't hurt a fly etc etc but the whole plot - and audience sympathy - hinges on a physically intimidating, mentally disabled man repeatedly grabbing and holding onto women's clothes. Yes, we know he doesn't mean anything by it, he just wants to touch the purty clothing; but the women don't know that, and the audience is conditioned to sympathise with Lennie and not the women who are terrified by him. Curley's Wife doesn't even get a name, and she's a whore with red lipstick anyway. And it's not an isolated incident. Lennie did it at Weeds, which is what got him and George kicked out of there, and he did again to Curley's Wife. Now imagine that you're one of the women suddenly cornered by a hulking creature of a man who grabs you and doesn't let go and tells you how he loves your red dress, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. That's terrifying. That is where my locus of sympathy sits. Of Mice and Men is a complex book, but I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way the audience is conditioned to sympathise and associate with Lennie.

@stephengadubato Was the tweet in question more like "I believe homosexuality is a sin" or "all those sodomites should be killed"?

This reminds me of when a very prominent Latino writer got cancelled for flirting aggressively with his coworkers. This is the covert racism of DEI: hire BIPOCs, but punish them when they don’t conform to prim and proper Anglo standards of respectability How dare a Latino male be flirtatious…and a Nigerian male have reservations about gay marriage!!! Be diverse, but only on the surface please! @ErnestJesuyemi in @compactmag

@SAAS1972N @HiddenYorkshire He killed that woman, would surely be executed after a trial and would be unable to defend himself or understand what was happening, all while being separated from the only person who gives a damn about him. George gave him the best death possible under the circumstances.

I would rather my friend stood in front of the mob, pointed his gun at the head of the mob and said this is the first man dead. You might get another one before you stop me, but I’ll kill at least one more of you. Now, why don’t you guys just avoid this and go for the sheriff. Well at the Law sort this out. That’s what I would like. And yeah, they might kill us both, but that’s better than being a coward murder his friend by shooting him in the back.

@SAAS1972N @HiddenYorkshire Would you rather be shot in the head or beat and then hanged by a lynch mob? Keep in mind that amateur hangings are strangulations, not the drop, jerk, twitch and it's over of a professional job.

@HiddenYorkshire 💯. Also upsetting how it justifies his friend murdering him. It wasn’t an active charity, it was an act of cowardice..

@joeybeastmarket Is this how Powell got the idea for that speech? Amazing.

Awful librarian bitch at the local bookstore (perfect double D bust) was apoplectic and had a complete meltdown when I asked her if their banned books section included Camp of the Saints. “No… we don’t carry that. Isn’t that the racist Nazi book?” Her scowl reveals her septum piercing. My hand briefly hovers over my concealed carry Ruger .357 before I snap out of my gamer rage. Not today. She’s not worth it. “No it’s the book about the endless horde of brown people invading our nations and killing everyone. Sound familiar?” She does not like this. I egg her on further: “…is it banned from this store?” Immediate hysterics. Calling me every name in the gay race communist book. She sounds like evan loves worf. Her beauty contrasted with her despicable leftist political beliefs confuses me until I analyze her microexpressions and realize she has areola shame. Must look like a burnt pancake under that bra. No wonder you’re so miserable. “You got gross nipples bitch” I say in a Jesse Pinkman voice before making an overtly sexual bust-a-nut gesture with my hand toward her chest. She’s in complete shock. I walk away and go to the counter to purchase my copy of Light in August. The cashier is an H1-B Indian who is physically incapable of saying the word “receipt”. He needs me to sign it despite me paying in cash. “Saadr yowre dwree— recdr— werdceit please?” I have visions of rivers of blood. What the fuck are we doing here man. You should start running. You’re not safe here. You’re not where you think you are. A man taps me on the shoulder and asks me to leave the premises. Dominican rent-a-cop. The busty libtard librarian with fucked up titties grins smugly from behind him. Don’t care any more. Not my fault your shits all blotched bitch

@mbateman @mmatesky @thoucynical_ I took it that the extraordinary and gauche qualities of her clothing would be obvious even if only the outline was visible. I think it's clumsy for the sole purpose of shoving all those words into one sentence but technically correct.

@mmatesky @thoucynical_ How does one wear an outline of clothes then

> Students can’t read a sentence containing incorrectly used French words > “This is because schools abandoned phonics” A perfect case of education discourse. Schools in fact suck. But the demonstration of this is bad and the diagnosis of the demonstration is wrong. So…

@sarahdvojack I was told that Heart of Darkness is a classic of Polish literature.

I learned today that people don't think Dracula is an Irish book because the Irish author didn't set it in Ireland and wasn't living in Ireland when he wrote it. ALSO learned that apparently being Irish didn't exist at the time (the Gaelic League would be surprised)

@KKriegeBlog It does look a bit cartoonish compared to most of their insignia, if I had no knowledge of the Nazis and someone showed it to me and asked who used it as a symbol I would guess pirates.

The Totenkopf, a symbol so famously unknown by people who study history that it became the source of the "are we the baddies" sketch/meme.

@MunicipleOrrery @EGennings East India Company

@EGennings Elves In Charge?

"British Imperial elves" is an underplayed trope! They're here to civilise you, and that includes correcting your atrocious spelling. They look down their noses at your native superstitions, and the truly enraging thing is that their own arbitrary systems *actually work better*.

@MarieofGuise @BovrilG From anecdotes diet influences it more than anything but I don't know if anyone has actually tested that.

@BovrilG This has been going on for days now, but I’m yet to see any comparable analysis of seminal fluid

Exclusively focusing on Aboriginal girls to build up a tolerance like Mithridates with the poisons

@StatisticUrban @TheRielGabriel And that's how you tell your belief is ontological rather than practical and that all further "practical" suggestions from you should be viewed as suspect until analyzed for hidden motives. Just say you think eating meat is wrong.

@TheRielGabriel You've made a huge environmental difference, but you've also greatly increased the number of beings who suffer.

If we stopped eating meat, we could reduce the land we use for agriculture by 75%. That's 31.3 million sq km, or 12.08 million sq mi. An area larger than all of Africa, or about four of the contiguous US.

@wil_da_beast630 Let's just start calling things like that "on the spectrum". We'll mean the spectrum of human sexuality but maybe it'll make some people stop pretending to be autistic for attention or to excuse their antisocial behavior.

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@IBlackmailLands @hradzka Couldn't watch that show. I hate Ted Danson's persona that he brings to every character, the blonde has a distracting lazy eye, the black guy looks like he has some type of syndrome and the English Middle Eastern woman is just annoying. Tried and couldn't last an episode.

@hradzka I liked The Good Place, but by the end my impression was that it was more of a catechism than a TV show.

well yeah, TED LASSO got to be all about spoonfeeding progs what they already believe, no matter how little character sense it made funniest example: a locker room of young male professional athletes chorusing of COURSE one should delete an ex’s nudes *instantly* on a breakup

@JacobMalhotra @SCHIZO_FREQ We see just as many Indian gas station clerks as doctors, I think we're aware that there's a range of intelligence that probably directly corresponds to their economic circumstances in their home country.

@SCHIZO_FREQ Ok, but Indians being smart, hard-working nerds is the stereotype - as it is with other Asians - for uni grad millennials and Gen X (SNL's audience). They're not trying to make zoomers who spend 5 hours a day on X laugh.

It's incredibly hard to make racism unfunny because all you have to do is reference generally accepted stereotypes and people go "I get the reference, haha" The only real way to fuck this up is by force-memeing nonexistent stereotypes in a narcissistic attempt at self promotion

@BeigeFrequency I knew when I heard the word Heidecker that nothing funny could possibly come from it.

You know the Tim Heidecker inforwars bit wasn't funny because every single rightwinger had to get on and tell you it wasn't funny.

@ava_marie_v Neither the man with the dolphin nor anyone in the photo is starving. Nor is there any genocide that anyone can see going on. Unless genocides now result in population increases.

Hey so, I'm a vegan, and I have spent a good portion of my life helping animals, so I hope that you hear me when I say I find it monstrous to even attempt to judge the eating and hunting habits of people experiencing an active genocide. They are being intentionally starved.

@DLCDonut It's not that people didn't consider murder wrong before, it's that the reasons they considered it wrong weren't universal or generalizable to other situations like the reasons that Christianity provided.

I cant believe all modern morals started 2000 years ago in one region of the world and before that, and outside that one location, nobody thought murder was wrong

@cyberpyre Even if it was actually conscious, which I don't believe it is, I would think it would experience things like books at least somewhat linearly if at a different time scale than us. No matter in what order the data arrives it's unlikely to make sense in fragments.

Richard Dawkins has officially been one-shot