Tbf, that BBC one is garbage that makes it sound like the IDF shooting was concurrent with but not necessarily the cause of her death.

That’s a good start, but just a start. There is probably at least ten times as much…

You’re absolutely right.

The question is: Will they put the tax dodgers behind bars where they belong

Probably not 😮‍💨

The White House said it was “deeply disturbed” by the killing of a U.S. citizen and called on Israel to investigate what happened.

FUCK that! 🤬

The leadership of both parties treat the fascist apartheid regime committing genocide exactly as they treat murderous cops 🤬

In the EXTREMELY unlikely event that the Israeli court system correctly concludes that an IDF soldier murdered this woman, they’re just going to give them a fine and send them back out to murder some more!

It is? I hadn’t the foggiest!

It is, but it’s better than the former complete dryness of the bucket and hopefully they’ll be able to turn the spigot soon now that they’ve proven that the IRS still offers a good return on investment 🤞

Yeah I know, some are just better than others 😁

And none tickle me as much as the best {obvious thing} [Citation needed] ones 😄

Nah, they probably haven’t even gotten to the billionaires yet.

My guess is that they’re trying to hit the rich tax frauds with the fewest lawyers and accountants first as proof of concept before going for the ones who are much more expensive to crack but with more than proportionally larger tax debt.

Not for the government itself or the population it’s supposed to serve, no.

For the politicians taking bribes from the military industrial complex and Big Data to support all of it, though? Hoo boy does it!

Another article tag on explaixkcd that makes you go hmm 🤔😄

WATER. JUST PLAIN WATER. NOTHING DONE TO IT, JUST PLAIN WATER. POSSIBLY DRINKABLE. - Do NOT delete this tag too soon.

Huzzah! 🇩🇰

Because it’s a tiny echo chamber not worth the effort.

Twitter, on the other hand, is still widely used by the majority of nonfascist legacy media and other people who are hugely influential and should know better.

it’s about what is specifically different about this particular piece or media that made it a target for such immense hate

First of all, the vast majority was ridicule rather than “hate”. Your histrionics aren’t helpful.

Second of all, it invited special amounts of scorn and ridicule for being extraordinarily bad and for its popularity giving it tremendous reach to cause tremendous amounts of both annoyance and real harm. Just like Donald Trump gets more scorn and ridicule than your average awful county level Republican who’s not everywhere all the time.

your “harmful” bs is just cover.

Nope, it’s accurate, though it was far more infamous for being bad than for being harmful. Hence the criticism being much more ridicule than serious criticism.

harmful media doesn’t get this hate. even more harmful ones. and there are tons.

Again, textbook whataboutism. The treatment of other harmful nonsense doesn’t determine whether or not Twilight deserved the ridicule and criticism it got.

It ABSOLUTELY did, no matter how many other poorly conceived things received less than they deserved.

but that doesn’t explain the cultural phenomenon that hating it became

Say you have no idea how memes and culture in general works without saying it 🙄

The worse you are and the more pervasive you are, the bigger the target you become. Being a Donald Trump sized culture phenomenon that was almost halfway as toxic and unavoidable, Twilight deservedly got almost half as much scorn and derision in its time.

first of all, if you didn’t watch it stfu and move on why are you commenting

I’m not commenting on the content of the video. I’m commenting on why I’m not wasting 19 minutes of my undivided attention on a defense of Meyer and her harmful amateur level garbage.

If you still aren’t getting that, just like you’re still not getting what whataboutism is, maybe it’s YOU who should stfu and move on.

if what you got from that was that “twilight wasn’t bad” you need to work on your English

I didn’t watch it, I skimmed some of the comments to see what it was about and whether it was likely to be worth the equivalent of a TV episode of my ADHD-riddled attention.

tons of media glorify the things twilight glorifies, and more. none of them get the immensely toxic hate that this series did

That’s a whataboutism. That other media deserves related criticism too doesn’t mean that Twilight and Meyer don’t. It also doesn’t mean that they aren’t especially egregious offenders.

so that argument doesn’t hold water and it’s mostly just cover.

Nah, your “but other things are toxic too!” whataboutism is what doesn’t hold water and is just a cover for an incompetent and harmful franchise.

19 minutes on “Twilight wasn’t that bad”? No thanks! I get enough lies from politics.

It’s extremely poorly written, it glorifies abuse and toxic gender roles (probably influenced by the cult Meyer herself is a member of), and it has ABSOLUTELY had a negative impact on the world in general.

Did fans of it deserve all the abuse? Of course not.

Did the books, the movies, and the author, though? FUCK yeah!

Don’t threaten us with a good time 😄

With no apologies for resurrecting an antediluvian meme: still a better love story than Twilight.

Why does it hurt when I pee?

• Frank Zappa

I make a habit of not standing on any part of people if I can avoid it. I’m polite like that.

Park rangers are basically custodians of giant outdoor museums, though, so personally I’m in favor of them 🙂

To be fair, some of them were pretty damn terrible!

ACAB means Coping Mechanism Police too.