wack CCTV footage in there.

growing up in FL, where the sinkholes are not due to mines, but natural processes, I had assumed all sinkhole formed from natural processes and this made them scary. void collapses rapidly underneath your house: adios!

but I guess dumbasses will build shit on top of extractive mines and be like “omg wha-happen” when that ends up doing the most obvious thing I the world.

yeah, that shit was wack. what a blackpilled, gleefully nihilistic answer to a softball question that i did not expect when i saw it.

how hard is to say, “we talked afterward and had a reconciliation over our differences. we decided our experiences could make us a good team [blah blah blah]”. instead of blurting out “i have no values, you simple-minded child! HAHAHAHA”.

i kinda get the impression that when this issue (“just said biden was a segregationist on live TV to massive applause and i’m a POC woman… how do i now join his team as his subordinate?”) was pitched around her room of handlers and fixers, they dismissed it as, “just a debate”. and rather than figure out the public messaging script, the dismissal was all that was rattling around in her xanax brain.

all behaviors from white texans are affectations. the boots, the hats, the drawls. they are a deceptive and false-hearted subspecies of biped attempting to pass as human through exaggerated mimicry.

they are not to be trusted.

i think she is rude to wall street guys when the cameras are on at those committee things, and occasionally points out discrepancies in policy/talking points or makes accusations of fraud. instead of being knowingly respectful and deferential to our great financiers of empire.

it’s minor, but it’s probably enough to be excluded for highest office.

this is democrats taking advantage of the reactionary court ruling. “voting blue no matter who” puts/keeps democrats in power that do shit like this. they do not resist conservatives. they are the conservatives taking advantage of how uncritical the DNC is of conservative politics. when the DNC decided to cram the most ancient and reactionary piece of shit in the party into the oval office, the one who

• was the major booster for the iraq war
• fucked over student borrowers, all the way hard
• spent entire career expanding the police and carceral state
• made sure clarence thomas, the most corrupt judge in history, could elide the anita hill allegations and make it to the unimpeachable high court for life

…that should have been your clue that the democrats are not interested in what voters want and are content to chose a barbaric future of repression and cruelty for the masses. and here we are 4 years later, all social-program promises broken, the economy in meltdown, with two right-wing colonial proxy wars (one internationally recognized as a genocide) in two different regions, multiple coup attempts, and war mongering against china. one is not worse than the other. one is merely different than the other. it is a symbolic distinction without a material difference.

if the democrats had any interest in doing something better, they would not be backing biden and trying to bully everyone into supporting him. the longer the party keeps him in the slot, the more obvious their lack of true concern for a trump victory becomes.

nice! after i got mine (2018), i tried to get people to refer to me with the honorific “Maestro”. it failed to catch on. maybe you will have better luck!

yeah right. i’ll stick with my 8 Week Insatiable Jackhammer™ Workout and Nutritional-HGH Program, developed by Rex Van Jungle a 4th generation Special Forces trainer who is on death row at Corcoran for executing his entire family with wrestling moves.

what kind of loser so readily dismisses the guy who tried to blow up the workplace. so long as the bomb guy was taking steps to avoid harming any of the workers, i say hear him out.

also, if a dude who can’t move or communicate with any coherency can “crush it”, it might be time to re-evaluate the organization.

sorry for torturing this metaphor, but they started it.

a lot of dems like to pretend the DNC primaries are some sort of democratic filtering process, instead of this opaque ratfuck where a handful of party bosses atop political machines in gerrymandered-safe districts horse trade and purposely make mass participation difficult with various mechanisms to disenfranchise poors, dilute or diffuse popular candidates.

i dunno if you’ve seen that rhetorical move dems make now where if someone refers to one of the party as “democrat” they say it’s a republican slur, that their party is “democratic” and should be referred to as such. lmao. meanwhile, the republican party is more democratic in its presidential primary process than the DNC. notice how the GOP couldn’t block their populist insurgent candidate, but in 2016 bernie had an insurmountable “superdelegate problem” where a bunch of party insiders would get to completely overrule the actually elected delegates. or when the Nevada primary in 2016 was abruptly ended by a controversial “voice vote” with the party chair claiming hilary won to a roomful of boos, gaveling the session closed over objections, and having the police clear out the room. or the whole “shadow app” thing in 2020 for iowa where Mayo Pete claimed victory with <2% of the votes in and winning some statistically impossible number of coin tosses… because somehow dozens of coin tosses are part of the democratic process for democrats in iowa? meanwhile, bernie still actually won iowa, then new hampshire, then nevada. so the party called in jim clyburn to crank his red state machine for biden, summoned obama to do a full court press, started ratfucking the mail-in primary voting options for an emerging covid, and had Snake Warren (who lost her own home state) stay in while everyone else dropped to bleed votes off bernie and elevate biden.

when these clowns insist that we need to vote for their shitheel to save democracy, they can be disregarded because the US presidential election has never been subjected to the forces of democracy, quite often due to the intervention of the DNC. what they want you to protect are their illusions and rituals.

liberals absolve their candidates of all their crimes, because the alternative, the Bizarro World conservative candidate that won in the parallel universe, would have done something worse.

all throughout Obama’s 8 years, anytime someone brought up a failed promise, the eternal wars, or the deportations or anything, what we were told was, “Bush would have made it worse.” even when people brought up statistics about drone strikes or deportations and how Obama was harsher than Bush, the libs would short-circuit and say that Bush, if allowed to preside over the precise historical moment that Obama did, would have been worse. and this is implied to absolve Obama.

it turns out you can take a simple message, a complete false statement even, and broadcast it over and over again from every speaker and screen… and other people will believe it and repeat it to be a part of what they perceive as the popular in-group and assume a feeling of safety from the illusion of numbers.

my latest favorite example of that was when, when biden killed the railroad strike before it could start by using congress to force a deal favoring the owners and conceding nothing for workers (0 safety considerations, 0 sick days, etc), the phrase, “most pro union president since FDR” entered the public consciousness. and then that ultra-long, no brakes train derailed in ohio and poisoned a town. and these fucking lib bozos kept repeating the lie and claiming Build Back Better was the retroactive solution which fixed the problems happening after it.

a lib president could admit to dropping a biological weapon on china that specifically targets children and every paper would declare him the greatest and most loving humanitarian since Jesus.

democracy is when you have to convince people to support the cranky, blathering asshole nobody wanted.

i couldn’t handle more than 6-7 minutes of it. i was like, “lol this is gonna be funny” and then i watched them both sort of respond to a question and had this kind of sensation of derealization when trying to reconcile that biden’s handlers put him on a stage in that condition.

the infinite aeons of trauma will continue until morale improves.

even pretending like this wouldn’t be horrifically exploited to do unimaginable cruelty to people, the value proposition here is “what they experience as decades of punishment, in real life it’s just a few minutes, they can be right back to work.” fucking great.

makes me think of that black mirror christmas episode part with jon hamm training the “egg” device and how they “break” the cloned consciousness of a virtual personal assistant by making it experience months of “infinite nothingness” in seconds to get it to cooperate with instructions.

whoever dreamed up this b.s. should have a radio collar fitted to them and be monitored.

now that so many states run by shit eaters are in open competition with each other in turning their states into the most supreme christofascist dystopia, I am curious to see which state takes it too far first. too far meaning, the residents decide to take mass direct action instead of waiting for some court case to worm its way through the district and be determined by some rich assbite.

like Idaho requires every school to close it’s music and arts programs and use the proceeds to build a golden state of Jesus in a courtyard, which all children, teachers, and staff must pray to on their knees 3 times a day.

or South Dakota segregates students by sex and bans literacy for girls.

or Texas changes the definition of sodomy to include communicating in any language except English and makes it a capital offense.

seeing as how Batman is a billionaire douche, I would totally replace Alfred with the joker. and I would replace Robin with Bane. and Commissioner Gordon with Poison Ivy and Lucious Fox with Harley Quinn.

i think music could do it, or that sensation of being really dialed into a theme or motif as it unfolds. definitely wind in trees makes me think of it, because for me there’s a subtly to its induction. sometimes it reminds me of what productivity-heads call “flow”, when they describe this sensation of being fully focused and fully aware, but having an introspective, meditative quality to it instead of like “i’m really making great widgets for the bossman rn” or whatever the latest characterization for “functional” is.

lol, i am in my 40s and i get ASMR. big time. i remember stumbling across a community a long time ago and immediately recognizing the fumbling attempts to describe the sensation, because it’s not universal and i had once tried to explain it before as a teenager and failed, embarrassingly. also, some people have certain “triggers” that others don’t, or are less reliable. and sometimes the triggers are less about the action and more about the memory connecting to an earlier experience.

in those early days it was about finding/sharing videos online that gave the sensitive viewer the sensation… which is sort of like transfixing or mesmerizing. my first experience that i recall was IRL as a 1st grader when my desk neighbor was explaining a math problem to me that i already understood. just sort of quietly talking while tapping / scratching their pencil lightly. it was like being caught in something, but pleasant. another time IRL i was in a meeting with this guy who was like late 50s and he had this meandering style of speech with a low voice. same deal, i was just kind of there, locked in, and could have listened to him prattle on about literally nothing of consequence for hours. i could snap out of it, but i could feel myself not wanting to, even though the meeting was a huge waste of my time lol. i also remember getting it from watching some public access channel as a kid for a show where they did algebra on a whiteboard for some local community college. and one where they taught conversational french that was recorded in the early 80s, when they would go over conjugation. super-chouette!

the way the phenomenon has exploded i attribute to monetization, because in those early days of people looking for videos they were all these like random clips of unintentional stuff. like a guy demonstrating a suit fitting, or a transferred VHS recorded lecture on body posture. so like some youtube channel for a very niche audience would have like 15-50 views on their dozen or so videos and then one that would have like 3.2 million views lmao. and frankly, if i just search ASMR on youtube, like >95% of the content is way off the mark. like annoying, weird etc. some up close face making mouth sounds.

it’s really only probably something like 1% that hits it, and usually it’s not content that is made to produce ASMR. this has been recognized broadly by us ASMR enjoyers and there are entire communities that chase and curate collections of “unintentional ASMR”, which honestly has a better track record in my experience.

though, there are exceptions: content makers who seem to know they are giving off the whammy and how they are doing it, but they tend to be associated with the “fascination” and “mesmerism” community which is more adjacent to weird hypnotist stuff and those grifts.

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