MGayUltra [he/him]

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Found a cat wandering along a neighborhood street with a collar on. Collar doesn't say anything about whether it's indoor or outdoor but has two phone numbers. Called both twice, started to get really upset that I had to make a choice on what to do with this cat. Thankfully, I got a call back and the guy was like "uhh... she's an indoor outdoor cat, it's fine" with a confused annoyed tone as if it was absurd for me to call him.

This is the second time in a row this has happened. Fuck these lazy stupid assholes for having indoor-outdoor cats, and not putting anything on their tags about it. It just means that people in that neighborhood make assumptions about wandering cats and are less likely to call if someone's indoor cat got out.

Yeah, if you didn't really know much about Cuba's history (aka almost every American), then you basically watch an entirely different episode of this show vs someone who does.

“Communists are evil! They took my servants from me!” :kiddo

Saw this on an episode of Padma Lakshmi's libbrained food show about immigrant cuisines in the US. There was a cursed episode on Cuba released not too long ago, and it's the most deranged thing I've seen. Just because of how utterly ignorant it pretends to be. At one point in the show she's talking to people in "the first wave of Cuban immigration" who tell sob stories about how tough it was to adapt to living in the US. She asks them how they learned to cook, and they said "we were forced to learn how to cook when we got to the US" and there is not a single eyebrow raised or follow up question as to how a bunch of adults would have to learn cooking basics as a result of fleeing Cuba. There's also some interviews of MAGAhead gusanos who came over in the Mariel boatlift and no real discussions of the implications there, except for one of them who said he came over during the boatlift because he was in jail for being gay.

Sarkeesian got the publicity and the hate because she was the first one to make gamers aware that what used to be their insular little boys club was now something enjoyed by many people, and that it would need to change to accommodate them accordingly. I think a lot of gamergate and the hate she got preceding gamergate, was false consciousness in which the gamer masses responded to things that were natural to be upset about (a cottage industry hobby being shredded apart, commodified, reduced into lowest common denominator bait products, and stripped of the things that used to bring them joy) by transference onto a much easier target for a group of atomized dipshits raised without any critique of capitalism: evil women complaining too much. There was a legitimate amount of hatred towards gaming journalism before gamergate because it was a joke industry that existed purely to do advertising for big gaming companies, but since these gamers were legitimately unable to critique the causes of that, they latched onto an invented effect.

One funny thing about Sarkeesian that I like for the same reason I love Armond White, is that she's not particularly insightful and often misses the point of the object of her critique, which is hilarious because it absolutely infuriates the gamer horde. You can see this happening now with her Letterboxd account, which is legitimately fucking hilarious. There's this banger for example. Her review of Elf is just "I’d never seen this movie. My reaction to it is likely what you would expect." Her discussion of Robocop as being copraganda is also an all timer lmao (although props to her because if I recall correctly, she pushes back when one of the libs in the discussion complains that the film is "redirecting" critiques of the police onto "corporations" hahaha)