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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With regards to the Oscars I think its chances are bad for the same reason Nope was never gonna get a ton of Oscars, regardless of quality

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course then in fly the conspiracy theorists to explain "um actually the guy who signed off on the Bay of Pigs invasion was totally gonna stop supporting anti-communist dictators any second now, before the CIA killed him for it. So really he's a martyr for values he never acted on, cos of the CIA"

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wonder how many post 1963 Kennedys secretly appreciate Lee Harvey Oswald for killing JFK so he remained Forever Young and didn't have to own the Vietnam war that his foreign policy 100% set the stage for

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I said to him this is almost enough to stop sending arms" "Right you stopped sending arms?" "Almost did mate, almost bloody did"

A picture of Super Hans from "Peep Show" in a scene where he tells a friend he almost resigned from a band over the friend being kicked out

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah multi-faceted blunders give bad ppl oppurtunities to seem decent by opposing them for the worst reasons. See all the ppl going "omg Tucker Carlson based! We underestimated him!" anytime he criticises Israel for using their Jew powers to distract Trump from focusing on ethnic cleansing at home

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess "trans ppl going to the bathroom should be assumed to be pedophiles and murdered on sight" has finally blossomed into dropping the "going to the bathroom" fig leaf

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

very funny that a community and culture that litmus tests itself by answering hypotheticals like "would you sacrifice a million lives to avoid a 0.1% chance of AI eliminating humanity" now has a lot of people adamantly refusing to trade-off sex parties for AI safety

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At least the MCU escaped this fate with definitive send offs for so many characters in Endgame and a ton of new ones in the aftermath. Anyway I've been in a coma since 2019, let me google what they've done with these new characters for the next Avengers film while I take a big sip of this coffee...

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with Let It Go is that it is (or was, idk) too popular with an audience too young to not belt it out full volume everytime they feel like it. I think the exact same earworm in a musical aimed more at teens and/or adults doesn't get the same reputation

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They'll make comments about "these rich pedophiles need to be stopped" but the one who is the president gets either radio silence or a blowjob about how politically incorrect he is

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The fact that the median "Guy obsessed with conspiracies around Epstein" voted for Jeffrey Epstein's best friend should be a nail in the coffin for the idea of "Hey, as dumb as they are at least conspiracy theorists question powerful ppl! They're heading in the right direction!"

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Specifically the pedo stuff seems like the easiest lay-up: get an actor dressed up to look like a gross gym teacher then "Jeffrey Epstein's best friend says I have to inspect your daughter's vagina if she wants to have fun with her friends and feel included. *licks his lips* For her safety"

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's why we need more divisions of the Nathan For You winter jackets that promote Holocaust awareness

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I mean Pokemon feels like something where adding an endgame mode for the adult audience is fine and probably a good idea, but a kid should be able to have fun with it making a team that they thinks looks cool with maybe one or two tactical adjustments

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's a good thing Trump respects mutually beneficial partnerships and doesn't see attempts at compromise and understanding as signs of weakness to be exploited. Hang on, I'm getting a call about literally everything he's ever done in business or his personal life...

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It combines the the worst utilitarian's attitude towards individual lives and the worst deontologist's attitude towards assessing the consequences of your actions. All to avoid saying "I hated the guy so I was glad he got hurt and/or killed, simple as"

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Honestly this is a fascinating take (the pro Luigi one) in how it mirrors the pro torture ppl in the GWOT: it's pure sadism under a mask of utilitarianism that freaks out if you ask what their moral compromise has actually achieved.

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I mean I feel like Erika Kirk setting up that booth turbocharged it. I did have some apprehension about the memes but now my line is "I can't tell ppl who didn't know him to be more respectful of this hateful creep's death than his wife" (not that ppl waited until then)

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just keep him away from the schools and playgrounds as well

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's great in general for having ppl disagree with the main character. Like Takemura in most endings hates you. In a lesser game there would be a way to attack Arasaka but keep him on board through a side quest or plot armour or skill check. But no, he's a loyal goon no matter what Player One does

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Would ppl enjoy the vaccine that ended the covid lockdowns? Or the panels that can give unlimited cheap energy? Nah neither of those are apps, clearly they crave the child porn AI

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Wrong Home Alone 2 actor died today

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's weird how many otherwise firm capitalists become economically suicidal communists on housing. "We'd rather see our children flee the country than have a business turn a profit by providing goods and services". Like they hate leftist social programs but love Soviet deprivation and stagnation

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's a certain type of person who thinks MeToo went too far and Michael Jackson was innocent of everything and ppl were too mean towards the Catholic Church over merely helping their underlings rape children for decades, but considers themselves above the Epstein class cos they don't own a boat

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Which I wasn't sure was a meaningful point, until Platner invoked "the Epstein class" to get ppl to shut up about him abusing his ex girlfriends. This idea that if you're below a certain income bracket it's not sexual assault, it's a sparkling incident

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A minor criticism I've had over the shape of the Epstein controversy in recent years is focusing too much on the class element ignores how much men across class lines agree that young women are a commodity to be used and harassing/abusing them is harmless bit of fun and banter

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As annoying as the more puritan elements of it can be, the reason ppl became wary of "depiction does not equal endorsement" mantra was cos it was employed by shows like this that clearly revelled in the moral depravity by insisting "you fool the MC said killing is bad right before an epic murder"

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This way the creep who insists on telling a woman she'd be prettier if she smiled or a Jew that he's honest for one of you ppl can't be all "oh so advice and compliments are not woke?" Buddy every six months you did a 15 min course on why this is wrong you can't dodge this with feigned ignorance

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It also serves as Police Tape. The tape saying "Police Line Do Not Cross" doesn't physically block anyone, it's bright and obvious enough that anyone who crosses it loses the presumption of innocence

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Eh they share a lot of the same symptoms but medical experts disagree on whether there should be seperate classifications, there's a Nobel in settling that debate

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

To me it's less Doom coming out of nowhere and more the intense nostalgia bait giving "we've decided our best stuff are in the past, we've stopped trying to make new stuff and are happy to cash in". Also known as Star Wars disease

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The worst of both worlds when it comes to social commentary comedy: the social commentary is crushed to be gratifying and funny, and the jokes don't feel a need to be funny cos they're Important

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The second is just "bitches be shopping" with the classic white silencer. Yeah I get the end commented on their performative allyship but this entire special is peformative allyship, an instagram post of a black square does as much to fight racism as a comedy netflix special

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In particular "The Way The World Works" and "White Woman's Instagram" grate on me everytime I think about them. The first repeats the dumb MLK assassination conspiracy and "the world is built on blood" isn't more realistic than "the world is built on dreams" it's just naive in the opposite direction

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's such a self report with the Bitter Springs massacre right there that ppl will say "but taxes" when asked why the NCR isn't better than the industrial scale pedos or an unaccountable dictatorship. At least pretend to not think taxes are more evil than rape and murder, little Musk wannabes

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

But really it's not that complicated. Ppl can be racist at a baseline, not everyone becomes a better person when they watch their children get murdered by Germans. Sure a lot of them decided racism of any kind was vile but a lot instead decided life was oppress or be oppressed

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think this is the root cause of so much crappy anti-Zionism focusing on Israeli immigrants coming from the USA, the fact that Israel is a hateful paranoid country founded by genocide survivors that has provided genuine refuge to Jews fleeing persecution just does not compute

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

They were raiding an innocent family's home based on rumours, then shot the loudest critic of British brutality in the Dail. So yeah, violence against soldiers is morally justifiable but the conduct of the PIRA is not some trivial detail to ignore cos they were Fighting Oppressors

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The only member of the Irish government murdered during the Troubles was an MP who had to be dragged from parliament after bringing in rubber bullets used by the British army and denouncing their brutality. For this act of bravery, he was killed by the IRA being morons

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My most carceral opinion is that there are ppl who will hurt others without punitive measures imposed on them. But a lot of ppl are fine using this cold logic on drug addicts and homeless ppl but think the President of Russia just needs to be listened to and given a chance to turn his life around

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reminded of Lindsay Ellis' point about Dany Vs Jon Snow in the original series: the framing makes Dany executing enemy lords after they reject her terms of mercy as a troubling sign of early fascism, but Jon killing a man for refusing an assignment at the Wall is just "eh man of his times"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

a huge part of why we are here is because people in positions of power, including at ostensibly liberal institutions, wanted either themselves or their friends to be able to grope women again.

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Broke: Betraying So Mi cos you're a good patriot and/or you want the cure Woke: Betraying and then mercy killing So Mi cos she messed with the Blackwall and given how god damn creepy everything beyond it is she needs to die for that

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Although while conservatives weren't dumb enough to praise leftists against the ACA for taking a stand against communist overreach and entitled welfare queens, tons of ppl said Trump whining that the US didn't do enough killing and stealing in Iraq was a stance against warmongering

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I wonder how much of that would be fixed by a single scene of Chris going to the other side of town and finding an ghetto, followed by that world's Vigilante saying "yeah this is the entire country except the few pockets the elite Nazis spend all their time in". Make it like the antebellum south

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I feel like it's a glaring omission that this article doesn't point out Erika Kirk's cynical exploitation of her husband's death. A lot of him becoming a meme is internet culture, true, but a lot of it is also that MAGA is such a cynical, exploitative movement that they become easy meme fodder

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Jesus getting flashbacks to an argument with a racist relative: "Them asylum seekers don't work!" "They're legally banned from working, we should let them" "Ah they wouldn't want to work anyway" These ppl have fucking genuine, religious faith in Racism Praise Be Upon It

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davidsarif.bsky.social @davidsarif.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It's like that meme about depressed ppl not showering. "Wait, some ppl find surviving homophobic communities so hard they wish they were straight?" "Yeah Becky, some ppl find surviving homophobic communities so hard they kill themselves"

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