Here, in case you want to see the full "Tommy Need Drinky" prose for comparison purposes. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tommy-needy-drinky/photos

Now let the :LIB: flow through you! :unlimited-power:

  • luceneon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Censoring Trump’s name was pretty funny, calling him 45 or Rump

    Not every evil person is Voldemort

    • ItsPequod [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Drumpf

      Oh fuck how has John Oliver managed to avoid being mentioned in this thread, basically his whole show is this shtick

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I still think there's valid reasons to splotch part of a chud magnet's name in case someone very online might get excited and start shit, or if it's going to cause an exhausting struggle session, such as V*ush.

      That's what :funny-clown-hammer: is for.

    • WhatAnOddUsername [any]
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      3 years ago

      I avoided using Trump's name in 2015-2016, but I'm not going to beat myself up too much over it. My reasoning at the time was that Trump's strategy involved getting people to talk about him, positively or negatively, and by saying "Trump" you were making him a trending term on social media. My calling him "Toupee Hitler" was a way to avoid doing that for Trump. But I stopped doing that after he was elected, because the damage had been done and there wasn't much point anymore.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        3 years ago

        We were all libs once, we get better. I did the exact same thing till like half way through 2016, then I really fell down the leftist rabbit hole.

    • soy_disantra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      inventing a time machine so I can go back and destroy the YA collection at every American library

      • effervescent [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I dug up my teacher alt just for this. YA gets a bad rap for a lot of reasons, but it’s also the primary means by which a lot of marginalized kids are able to see relatable representation in their schoolwork and in their journeys as readers. Yes, JK Rowling is a TERF and, yes, there was a trend last decade where all the most popular YA dystopian fiction books got made into a bunch of samey-feeling movie franchises. A lot of the hate for those came from a cultural contempt for the preferences of teenage girls, but that’s another thing. The movies were overdone by the end. Having a diverse selection of high-quality literature on display in school libraries has measurable benefits in kids’ self-esteem and desire to read. I have students who had never seen themselves in a book before coming across some relevant YA and coming to me asking for other stuff like it.

        • soy_disantra [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I know! Didn't mean to seriously disparage YA, I ate that stuff up as a kid just like everyone else. Just venting my frustration with adults who seem to have built their entire worldview off of it. :sicko-no: