• Sal@lemmy.world
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    Why do conservatives always make their opponents look significantly more badass than they actually are?

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      Because they hate everything cool and good and their whole deal is a hatred of complexity, a fear of understanding¹ so everything thry dislike converges, in their minds, into a single point of white hot hate.

      I mean, um… You’re more badass than you actually are! Poopyhead!

      ¹no coincidence that lovecraft named his cat that and wrote about the kind of horror he did

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    I’ve seen this post a couple times and just scrolled on last. Didn’t realise it was an anti-pride post because it looks cool as hell.

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    they went from bullying kids for being too weak, too sensitive etc to fucking satanic panic. what a bunch of pussy ass bitches.

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    “Look if you just take a couple letters from this word and some from this word, carry the one…”

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      3+2+2 = 7

      Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

      That’s exactly what I’d expect a climate change denier to say!

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    Non-UK people should read up about Laurence Fox if they want a good laugh.

    Some career highlights:

    • Destroyed his acting career and his marriage by being an upper class right wing shit.
    • Destroyed his subsequent gig as a right wing pundit on GB News by being too misogynist on air.
    • Called some drag queens paedophiles after they called him racist. He was sued for defamation and he countersued. He lost on both counts.
    • Stood for election as an MP and lost his deposit.
    • Stood for election as London Mayor and lost his deposit.
    • Tried to stand for election as London Mayor a second time and didn’t get on the ballot because he didn’t fill in the paperwork correctly
    • Stood for election to the London Assembly and lost his deposit.
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      To be fair to him, on his first run at London Mayer, he did get nearly twice as many votes as Count Binface, a candidate who claims to be from space and wears a dustbin on his head.

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        Not sure about Count Binface since I don’t really follow UK politics, but if he’s anything like Vermin Supreme his platform is likely both preferable to and more realistic than the mainstream conservative party candidates’ plans.

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          Novelty candidates are a highlight of UK politics - practically every high profile election has some.

          The brilliant thing is that they’re treated as seriously as the main party candidates by the election machinery - they appear on politics programmes and appear onstage stood next to the career politicians on count day.

          H’Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool FC football mascot, even got elected as mayor of Hartlepool a few years back.

          There’s an entire novelty party, The Monster Raving Looney Party, which has been going strong since the 80s, and fields candidates across the country.

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            Don’t forget Tarquin Fin-Tim-Lin-Bin-Whin-Bim-Lim-Bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel from the Silly Party, that was even earlier!

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            I could search this, and probably should. Is the The Monster Raving Looney Party a real thing?

            That’s like so fucking English.

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      What does “lost his deposit” mean in the context of UK elections? Do you only get your money back if you win? Is there some decorum standard he violated or something?

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        You lose your £500 deposit if you win 5% or less of the valid votes cast in the constituency. It’s to discourage no-hopers from taking part.

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      Not his money though. He’s bankrolled by noted Steam train owner Jeremy Hosking, who provides Fox with a central London office, secretary, company car and very large expense budget, expecting no return on investment at all, just to spread hate. Reportedly Fox spends most days snoozing at his desk.

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    This reminds me of when rightwing youtube was trying to drum up fake satanic panic over Sam Smith’s devil performance or whatever the fuck it was.

    It was so goofy seeing them trying to pretend to be afraid of this bs, like it was some evil demonic shit.

    As someone who was deep into metal in the 2000s and was exposed to Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth and Dir En Grey, it really was the most pathetic display of outrage ever because Sam Smith is vanilla af. If these puritan right wingers want something to clutch their pearls at, then go watch the 20 something year old music video of Dir En Grey’s Obscure. Uncensored.

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      Maybe the demon head is, but I think it would be hard to get the lettering eith AI.

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        Current genAI models stand on multiple legs. According to some leaked system prompts, some likely have access to an actual calculator.

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          Get the fuck outta town! Seriously? They finally figured out that fuzzy guesswork is less accurate than a calculator?

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            Some yes, but most still using the fuzzy guesswork, because “it’s a teething pain we need to go through until an LLM turn into Jarvis”. Those that had the calculator had something like “use the CALC shell command and the formula to get the accurate results”.

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      Are you saying it looks bad and is therefore slop and the reason it looks bad is AI, or do you mean it looks good but is still slop because it is AI?

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        Creativity is about implementation of an idea. Yes, a rainbow colored demon below the text “PRIDE MONTH” slowly fading out to “DEMON” goes hard, except that demon looks like ass, and was done better before by queer artists, and even the bigots who made these kind of memes in the first place.

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    Demons lol. The longstanding mass delusion that soaring cathedrals and solid gold ornaments mean you’re smarter than a naked guy shaking a magic rattle made out of a gourd.

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    Tangentially related but I miss the days when the 2016 DOOM Slayer was yet to be confirmed as the original DOOM Guy from 1993. I thought it was way cooler to think that the Slayer was a genderless force of anger against evil and the fully-covering Praetor suit made it easy to think of them that way

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      There was absolutely no reason for them to give him a face. Irked me as well.

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        Maybe they wanted to avoid making them that much more like Master Chief. Then again Master Chief is personified by his voice