It’s hand-drawn, just mocking GenAI pics.

Though AI pics sometimes still have trouble with text.

Me, staring down an oncoming semi as I cross the street to establish dominance

As soon as I’m back on my meds, I’m moving to Piefed, myself.

Tankies don’t grow up. They just rust, becoming even more repugnant and useless.

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a ‘leftist’ on here mocking ordinary folk for getting involved in national protests, I’d have a few dollars. Which isn’t a lot, but is more than I have any business getting from people who claim to be fucking left-wing.

After having my body break, I learned both that I was more attached to my former body than I thought, and became acutely aware of how tied up my identity was with my new, broken body.

… it’s a strange way to acquire an emotional understanding of identity and one’s own body. Would not recommend. Take a philosophy class like a normal person, you’ll be happier for it, I promise.

EGGS

Rare Iran W.

Latin words have so many declensions, it’s nightmarish.

It’s called DANCE FIGHTING, and West Side Story taught me that it’s dangerous enough to get the cops involved

“Supporting Ukraine is supporting NAZIS! Only supporting civilians having their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head by Russian invaders for the crime of being Ukrainian is the True Anti-Bigot Position.”

That sounds like Gr*ek talk!

Critical support for imperialism is the only TRUE anti-imperialist position!

Explanation: A rare bit of OC from me modifying the “Just as the Founding Fathers intended” copypasta.

“Mehercules” is “By Hercules!”, a common Roman exclamation. A gladius is a Roman shortsword, made for stabbing, but as incidents against Greek troops demonstrate, also very capable of lopping off limbs with hacks and slashes. A pilum is a javelin. “Ubi mel, ibi apes” means “Where there’s honey, there’s bees!” A scorpio is a small artillery piece generally used for firing bolts, but sometimes used for specialist ammunition like pots filled with flammable material. Vigiles were Roman town watch/firefighters, and in the city of Rome itself, they actually did maintain some catapults for the purpose of quickly demolishing burning buildings in especially fire-prone areas. Better to lose one building than the whole block! A pugio is a Roman military dagger.

“Conscript Fathers” is another name for the Roman Senate, as the idea was that the Senate was comprised of men who were elderly (and thus the fathers in their household) and regardless of whether or not they willed it. In theory. In practice, becoming a Senator was pretty highly desired, but the Romans did love their false modesty regarding power. “No, no, I couldn’t POSSIBLY accept a position of authority… unless… you were to insist… 👉👈🥺”

“Oh so you think asking about Tiananmen Square is a gotcha???”

No, I think it’s just an incident that tankies literally can’t help outing themselves as fascist bootlicks over. That’s why it’s so useful - it’s an obvious situation where the bare minimum response is “A massive overreaction by the Chinese government that resulted in the butchering of protesters” and 95% of tankies respond with “CIA COLOR REVOLUTION DANGEROUS STUDENTS THE PEOPLE’S BOOT WESTERN LIES”

Toro, toro!

And Iran isn’t even the worst conditions. Of the countries with the most trans surgeries, the USA is number one, Thailand is two, and Iran is three.

Do they… do they realize this is because the death penalty for gay folks means that many opt for transitioning into a gender they don’t identify with over death?

but they’ve also mentioned they’ve not met a single homeless trans person.

Oh good, shipping homeless people out of sight and out of mind has worked then, glory to the People’s Republic of China!

Or denies the existence of dragons.

If you lean towards descriptivism, it would be extremely strange to tell another group that their word with citable usage isn’t real.

If you lean towards prescriptivism, then Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary.

Brian doesn’t have a leg to stand on for either side.

Merriam-Webster is literally the dictionary, and Brian is trying to correct them on what is and is not a word.

MeanwhileOnGrad alone has ~2000 users per month, and much of the material here is (thanks to CM0002) about the Lemmy devs’ insanity.

What percentage of the MAU of Lemmy, do you think, is 2000 users?