He also wants tapioca pudding and to fondle a teenaged girl. That doesn’t mean the adults in the room are going to get him pudding.

It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture.

I threw up in my mouth a bit.

2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species

Modernizing the electric grid and fast tracking the development and adoption of sources of clean energy?

Nah! That’s crazy talk. It’s not like other countries like – I dunno – China, have done that recently.

A truly ignorant, judgmental, and narrowminded take.

My firm helps keep a good percentage of this country’s shitty infrastructure from collapsing and the budgets these projects are working under are laughable. But that’s ok. I sleep better at night knowing we’re spending all our money on Palantir instead.

Like all things Lemmy, I’m pretty sure there were some pretty obscure NSFW stuff posted in niche communities.

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued.

Remember 9/11. Never forget, right?

This is where the creation of a department to “secure” our “homeland”, and laws like the “patriot” act where always going to lead. This is where selling off your rights and freedoms for a false sense of security was always going to lead.

Don’t worry, it’ll get much worse.

Good news everyone. Trump has the answer!

The answer:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOKb1lHNQE

Probably the only guy who became president in a very long time to actually have a well thought out immigration policy was George W. Bush (yes, the war criminal) back when he was governor of Texas. He even wanted to implement some of it as president. Unfortunately, he was a dummy, Cheney was a cartoon villain, and 9/11 absolutely derailed any conversations about doing anything that did not involve killing muslims and erroding Americans’ civil liberties.

To this day, some of his immigration ideas are what MAGA would call super woke.

https://www.bushcenter.org/topics/immigration

Jesus…fuck. Those paragraphs were really difficult to read.

It’s OK. Nothing would make me happier than to be wrong in this case. Hopefully they stick to their guns, shut down the gestapo, and finally do something to restore democracy and protect the safety of their constituents. I’m not holding my breath.

Performative bullshit. They’ll fund the fascist department they helped create (DHS) soon enough. Primary the old dems out!

It’s a weird hill you’ve chosen to die on, but ok. You do you.

Lolita is meant to be disturbing. A horror story told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator. Intellectually, I appreciate it, but I too could not get through it.

I haven’t seen the movie, only read synopsis and reviews…

The main actresses were of age (17 & 18 at time of filming) but the movie was about a girls camp. Most of the other girls were much younger. Cynthia Nixon was 13 and looking younger. My issue is more with the portrayal than the plot. For a few years in the 70’s and early 80’s there was a trend to make jaiobait movies for the pleasure of adults. Little Darlings wasn’t the worst, but it is still problematic. The plot of Tatum O’Neil’s character flirting and trying to bed a man in his late twenties or thirties was included for no other reason other than to feed the fantasies of the adult males in the Audience.

Manhattan is another disturbing is example. She was 16 and the plot was of a man in his forties in a sexual relationship with a high school girl.

The Fog. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a teen hitchhiker than promptly fucks the rando trucker that gives her a lift.

Examples seem endless and they all point to the same obsession that generation of men have with young teen girls. Woody Allen, Trump, Epstein, Ted Nugent, etc. They all demonstrated the same issue.

It, and other movies of the seventies and early eighties opted to sexualize young actresses, primarily for the enjoyment of adults and not to help young people feel seen and represented.

You bring up American Pie, a movie about teens trying to get laid. Not a single one of those actors being sexualized was a minor or presented as a minor. That’s what I have a problem with.

I do not have a problem acknowledging young teen sexuality. I have a problem with the sexualization and exploitation of young teens by movie makers at the time.

Read my comment again. In the edits I clarified that my memory jammed Personal Best and Little Darlings together.

Yes, I am younger than a boomer, but I am still in my fifties.

I’m bisexual and have been dealing with homophobic bullshit for over forty years, so please kindly fuck off with your insinuations of homophobia.