I did online dating for, like, two or three years. Everyone's expierence is different but after all that time, I came to the realization that if you're willing to go through all of *that* - the no replies, the ghosting, the first dates, the approaching multiple women and at least trying to write a personalized message for each, the failures, the hassle, etc for just the occasional "success" (which is rarely ever permannt), you're either a serial killer or literally can't live without having a partner. Online dating by its very nature is dumb and after a while, it just gave me a headache. I'll either meet a woman the old fashion way or not at all, idc.

Freeddin of speech and expression are dying in front of our very eyes, killed by a small group of zealots and by the indifference of the spineless jellyfish who kiss their asses. As an artist myself, I'm pretty disgusted by all of this.

We have taken a huge step back in terms of race relations in the US, and much of the blame lies with social activists, media figures, politicians, and hard left / right internet dwellers like the ones on Twitter and Reddit. There are certainly real racial issues, but those groups I've just named have been feverishly fanning the flames for a good ten years now. They take every real event (such as someone using the N word) and blow it so far out or proportion that you can't help coming away feeling hopeless and angry.

And the activists on either side work overtime to make everyone hate each other, because those activists themselves are full of hate. Notice how their approach to most issues involves being mad at one another, othering the opposition (and ourselves), and generally being an all around fucking prick. Something like "You People" is just a manifestation of that.

The people who really do care about racial issues have, by and large, been misled by bad faith actors whose "solutions" are akin to amputating a leg to cure a sprained ankle.

I just don't like bigoted language, that's all.

Whoa there, Reuters, slow down. "Mummy"? What is this, 2022? We call them "Mummified Persons" now.

Perhaps you've forgotten - or never knew, since you clearly have something against America - that our production capabilities kept the Soviet army in the fight. Khrushchev himself stated that without shipments of Spam from America, the USSR wouldn't have been able to feed its army. If they couldn't feed their army, the Germans would have knocked them out of the fight. If the Germans had knocked the Russians out of the fight, the UK, Canada, and Australia - hell, even the US itself - probably wouldn't have been able to stop the Germans. The Russians suffered millions upon millions of war deaths. Translate that to the Western front (because Russia's out of the war) and what you have is a German victory. So yes, the French would be speaking German right now.

Maybe it's time Europeans showed a little gratitude and stopped with this snobby holier-than-thou bullshit. The French helped us and we helped them. We wouldn't exist without them and without us there'd be swastika flags all over Paris.

Idk where Europeans get off thinking they're so much better than us when a full half of it spent the 20th Century under fascism, Nazism, or Communism. If they were so much better than us, they wouldn't keep sending people to death camps.

Or, you know, relying on a Russian dictator for most of their natural gas lol.

Without us, the French would be speaking German right now, so I think we're even.

Fox News is a lying propaganda machine too. None of these media outlets is objective. They're all biased one way or another and staffed by lying scumbags. And that's just the news team. The pundits are actively evil and work night and day to continue dividing us. If there's a wound on the body politick, you can count on these assholes to rub dirt and broken glass in it.

People aren't paying attention to him because CNN, MSNBC, and other news outlets aren't hyping up every little thing he does wrong. Fox News does but outside of that, Biden operates with impunity. Imagine if the Ashleigh Biden diary was being given the same amount of coverage as anything Trump did. Imagine if the Hunter Biden laptop story wasn't covered up and banned from social media the way it was. Imagine if you had a thousand doomsayers picking apart Biden's mental and physical health all day, every day. I guarantee you that more people would be like "hmmm, what's this all about? I better look it up."

Though I'll give you this: At this point, a lot of people are tired of hearing about Trump *and* Biden. That's a big factor as well.

A good part of the reason is that the media treats Joe Biden with a level of care and delicacy that they didn’t use with Trump. I’m not defending Donald Trump, he made a lot of his own controversies, but don’t sit here and pretend that the media isn’t every bit the left-wing attack dog it’s been made out to be. Donald Trump gained, like, five pounds, and the media went on for days about how unhealthy and unfit he was. Joe Biden literally stumbles around like he’s lost and talks out of his head about record players and leg hair, and no one bats an eye. He sat there, an ancient man with glowing pale skin, and told black people that they weren’t black if they didn’t vote for him. He got a teensy little slap on the wrist for it, nothing more.

If the media spent as much time on Biden’s failings as they did Trump’s, I’m sure that little blue line would be a bit higher. The problem is that they don’t. Look no further than when Katie Couric covered up comments by RBG “to protect her reputation.”

That’s the media in a nutshell. Covering up for Democrats to protect their reputations.

More like the media is downplaying his constant stumbles, bumbles, and controversies whereas with Trump, they shoved them down everyone's throat on an endless loop. Let's not forget that if Trump gained five pounds, the media would pounce on it, but Biden can stumble around talking out of his head about record players and his hairy legs, and the media give him a slow clap.

Taste is subjective and not to be an asshole, I don't really care what you or anyone else thinks about what I find funny. You shouldn't either tbh.

My friends and I are savage with one another. I made one too many jokes about sucking some dick and my gay friend said I was a bigger f*g than he was. My black friend called me a peckerwood and I called him the N-word. All you have to do is exist and we have a roast just waiting.

Then I come here and have to rein it in so as not to scandalize the classy likes of Reddit. Wouldn't want any swooning or monocle dropping now would we?

It's one of the most Reddit things imaginable. When people are thrust into an awful situation like the Titanic disaster, they're not thinking clearly. All these commenters swear up and down that they would be sober and clear-headed throughout. Maybe some would be, but most would freeze up like a deer in the headlights.

Then you have Captain Lord of the Californian who to this day is treated like a villain for his inaction that night. His ship was surrounded by ice and had stopped for the night. Even if he conclusively knew of the Titanic's predicament, he wouldn't have been entirely in the wrong to stay put. Like the other guy said, he was responsible for the ship and he was damned if he did, damned if he didn't. He was dragged for his inaction, but if he tried to get to Titanic, hit an iceberg, and sank, suddenly the question would be "Why did you try to get to Titanic when you knew you were surrounded by icebergs?"

Sometimes, you just can't win.

Right. Plus this happened in 1912. People tend to forget how different things were back then. The captain going down with his ship wasn't a quaint, old-timey tradition, it's something that was pretty much expected. If your ship went down and took a thousand people with it, you'd better just go with them and not show your face back on land, even if it wasn't your fault. J. Bruce Ismay was dragged in the press for surviving. There was a Japanese guy who survived (I forget his name). When he got back to Japan, he was treated as a national disgrace for living while so many others died.

All that to say: If you made even the slightest mistake, you'd be villainized to the point that a hundred years later people would still see you as a mustache twirling asshole who threw a baby out of a lifeboat to steal its spot. It was the early 20th Century version of being canceled, only much, much, much worse.

People lack perspective and they lack empathy. They gleefully judge others without stopping to put themselves in their shoes. E

very survival situation spawns a few heroes who rise to the occasion. Until you've been in that kind of situation and have proven yourself to be among the 1 percent of badasses, how about you cool it with the finger-wagging, huh?

It's funny, the same shit happened right after the ship sank. It just goes to show that 111 years later, some people are still the same judgemental assholes that they were in 1912.

It's pretty easy to talk about what should or shouldn't have been done 111 years later from the comfort of our own homes, but the people in the lifeboats that night were cold, scared, and not thinking clearly. You can say "Those evil rich bastards were the ones who kept the boats from going back," but the reality is that these people had been jolted out of bed, thrust into pandimonium, and had been forced to watch a ship sink with thousands of people onboard. And once that ship sank, they were alone in the middle of the ocean, in complete darkness, with nothing between them and certain death but a tiny wooden boat.

Should the boats have gone back? Sure, but I can understand why so many people were reluctant to: They were terrified and traumatized. I think it was Aesop who said "It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."

There's a lot of that in this thread.

It's cool that a struggling business is getting more customers, but the way people let social media influencers lead them around by the nose is pretty sad.