#Nick is right

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

POV: you are Willy Stampler

#prediction right before the finale #this will happen i am manifesting #you guys ever notice that Taylor is just Eric cartman if he watched anime and learned empathy? #dndads #dndads s2 #dungeons & daddies #dungeons and daddies #nicholas foster #nick close #taylor swift #close family #dndaddies #digital art #digital drawing #my artwork #fanart #fan art #dndads fanart #shitpost #nicky swift #nicky foster #nicky close #fuck you Nick and your 4 million names

[heartofhubris]

He's about to break into his wife's house after bailing on his kid

#lb #mm #nick is right

[forgetful-nerd]

Samuel l. Jackson @ Supreme Court justices rn:

#he’s right #he’s NOT out of line and he’s right #samuel l jackson #nick fury #supreme court #sorry it’s political but I’m pissed #woman’s rights #abortion #roe v wade #roe v. wade

[yrsonpurpose]

#justice for the slutty shirts

#nicholas galitzine #mary and george #mary & george #mine* #and we would be correct! #first day on set and already half naked. love that for him #that picture is probably one of his best tho............only with the one on the floor #i cant believe this is the same person. nick is a shapeshifter fr #slutty shirt rights!! #friendly reminder that nick sees more than we think #not on here but probably twt and ig

[oodlyenough]

also i watched season 1 of the anime. what the hell was this. can't you just hug or shake hands or something. you guys are so weird.

#edgeworth dramatically grasping the air like nick blew him a kiss fhklghgkl #then they just ...stand there... #mia and franziska are right there. unsurprisingly franziska is immediately like alright I'm out #the anime imo is not great but occasionally it does something bonkers like this that makes it worth it lol #ace attorney #narumitsu #necessary feelings #oodly watches AA

[doctorsiren]

Part 6

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#doctorsiren #ace attorney #ace attorney au #gregory edgeworth #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #larry butz #eleanor edgeworth #metis cykes #signal samurai #missile the dog #<- the one from the anime #ace attorney oc #ace attorney fanart #astro boy edgeworth au #comic #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #not me quoting nick Valentine not once but twice in this part #and an accidental cabinet man reference HAHA #a shorter part than usual this time bc it felt weird to jump into the next conversation right after this in the same part yknow? #oh wow! a Phoenix Wright cameo in this Ace Attorney comic!! /silly #she died when Miles was 2 just like how Scout’s mom (in To Kill A Mockingbird) died when Scout was 2

[starwikia]

so like are we done with the idea that james is a victim of the internet harassment mob or whatever you guys like to call it when in reality no one like forced him to be part of the public eye again. he had multiple times to disengage but he threw himself head first into the spotlight with some half assed apology where he used his dead mom, illiterate dad, and like 293 mental illnesses that he was in the right to do a widdle plagiarism but it’s not his fault! it’s everyone else’s fault for not being nice to him about it!!! how dare these people bring these issues to the public not thinking how james would feel about it! like ppl are forgetting there was notable period of time james went off air entirely. and every time he’s jumped back it’s always attempts to paint himself as the victim.

like be real for a second if anyone was weaponizing the internet harassment machine it was james somerton. he knew what he was doing when he posted that note. he knew the shit his victims would get for having the crime of (checks notes) voicing out their issues with him. he knew there’s people out there who are foaming at their mouths to use anything they can get their hands on as a “gotcha!” at hbomberguy (right wing people yes, but don’t act like it’s just them i’ve seen plenty of lefties trying to prove they’re superior to harry). they don’t give a shit about james, not really. he’s the dude who hbomb did a “hit piece” (yes that’s a term i’ve seen people use) and that’s what matters.

not to mention the writing that’s also very clearly targeting nick who’s basically cut ties with him at this point. james pushed all the burden on nick by saying it’s their fault, actually. he’s one of the co-writers and everything going to shit was nick’s fault when they had the audacity to move. james is faultless! with james still trying to monetize stolen content on the blatant lie that he’s doing this for nick’s sake as a portfolio. acting as if nick isn’t an sentient human being who could upload their own content, as if nick would even want to be associated with james at this point. this isn’t a teenager being harassed for an honest mistake, this is a 35-year old con artist who’s stolen hundreds of thousands and peddled the most vile shit as actual history but realized he was in deep shit and weaponizes very serious mental health issues as a “i’m just a poor little gay baby!! my alter ego did it!!!”

for the record if you’re among the people who tried to wash down james’ crimes as “he just did plagiarism!! it wasn’t that bad of a crime!” fuck you, man. i’m not kidding.

the fact i’ve witnessed people whitewash his acts of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, antisemitism and misogyny (in fact i’m probably still missing a few things here), and say he’s being harassed by the internet just because he stole articles makes it so clear they have no fucking idea what they’re talking about. his shit isn’t fucking erased just bc he realized that he has to handle the consequences. he’s grasping at anything he can at this point to make sure that even if he’s not coming back, he’s sure as hell trying to take anyone he fucking can down with him.

he doesn’t get a second chance to be a content creator at this point. he doesn’t get to show himself to do better. he needs to fucking leave. and if he tries to publicly make himself the victim then he better know that he’s going to get public backlash.

if anything situation proves to me that he can never be trusted with a public platform ever again because he will immediately guilt people into feeling sorry for him.

#i’m going to be bitchy about this for the record #james somerton #hbomberguy #the funniest option is if james fakes his death like a fourth time and someone takes a pic of him in like a burger king or something. #updated i’m not 100% sure on nicks pronouns but i’m using they them just in case #update 2: the way i was proven fucking right immediately after posting this. you people are not real.

[howlsnteeth]

you'll see him in your nightmares, you'll see him in your dreams he'll appear out of nowhere, but he's not what he seems

#hi i rarely do fanart but :> #puss in boots #watch puss in boots the last wish 8> #lyrics are from #red right hand by arctic monkeys #or alternatively the original by nick cave and the bad seeds

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A taxonomy of corporate bullshit

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

There are six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial, and Nick Hanauer, Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen's new book Corporate Bullsht: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America* provides an essential taxonomy of this dirty six:

https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht

In his review for The American Prospect, David Dayen summarizes how these six lies "offer a civic-minded, reasonable-sounding justification for positions that in fact are motivated entirely by self-interest":

https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-10-27-lies-my-corporation-told-me-hanauer-walsh-cohen-review/

I. Pure denial

As far back as the slave trade, corporate apologists and mouthpieces have led by asserting that true things are false, and vice-versa. In 1837, John Calhoun asserted that "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually." George Fitzhugh called enslaved Africans in America "the freest people in the world."

This tactic never went away. Children sent to work in factories are "perfectly happy." Polluted water is "purer than the water that came from the river before we used it." Poor families "don't really exist." Pesticides don't lead to "illness or death." Climate change is "beneficial." Lead "helps guard your health."

II. Markets can solve problems, governments can't

Alan Greenspan made a career out of blithely asserting that markets self-correct. It was only after the world economy imploded in 2008 that he admitted that his doctrine had a "flaw":

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/greenspan-admits-flaw-to-congress-predicts-more-economic-problems

No matter how serious a problem is, the market will fix it. In 1973, the US Chamber of Commerce railed against safety regulations, because "safety is good business," and could be left to the market. If unsafe products persist in the market, it's because consumers choose to trade safety off "for a lower price tag" (Chamber spox Laurence Kraus). Racism can't be corrected with anti-discrimination laws. It's only when "the market" realizes that racism is bad for business that it will finally be abolished.

III. Consumers and workers are to blame

In 1946, the National Coal Association blamed rampant deaths and maimings in the country's coal-mines on "carelessness on the part of men." In 2003, the National Restaurant Association sang the same tune, condemning nutritional labels because "there are not good or bad foods. There are good and bad diets." Reagan's interior secretary Donald Hodel counseled personal responsibility to address a thinning ozone layer: "people who don’t stand out in the sun—it doesn’t affect them."

IV. Government cures are always worse than the disease

Lee Iacocca called 1970's Clean Air Act "a threat to the entire American economy and to every person in America." Every labor and consumer protection before and since has been damned as a plague on American jobs and prosperity. The incentive to work can't survive Social Security, welfare or unemployment insurance. Minimum wages kill jobs, etc etc.

V. Helping people only hurts them

Medicare will "destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance" (Republican Senator Milward Simpson, 1965). Covid relief is unfair to people that are currently in the workforce" (Republican Governor Brian Kemp, 2021). Welfare produces "learned helplessness."

VI. Everyone who disagrees with me is a socialist

Grover Cleveland's 2% on top incomes is "communistic warfare against rights of property" (NY Tribune, 1895). "Socialized medicine" will leave "our children and our children’s children [asking] what it once was like in America when men were free" (Reagan, 1961).

Everything is "socialism": anti-child labor laws, Social Security, minimum wages, family and medical leave. Even fascism is socialism! In 1938, the National Association of Manufacturers called labor rights "communism, bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism."

As Dayen says, it's refreshing to see how the right hasn't had an original idea in 150 years, and simply relies on repeating the same nonsense with minor updates. Right wing ideological innovation consists of finding new ways to say, "actually, your boss is right."

The left's great curse is object permanence: the ability to remember things, like the fact that it used to be possible for a worker to support a family of five on a single income, or that the economy once experienced decades of growth with a 90%+ top rate of income tax (other things the left manages to remember: the "intelligence community" are sociopathic monsters, not Trump-slaying heroes).

When the business lobby rails against long-overdue antitrust action against Amazon and Google, object permanence puts it all in perspective. The talking points about this being job-destroying socialism are the same warmed-over nonsense used to defend rail-barons and Rockefeller. "If you don't like it, shop elsewhere," has been the corporate apologist's line since slavery times.

As Dayen says, Corporate Bullshit is a "reference book for conservative debating points, in an attempt to rob them of their rhetorical power." It will be out on Halloween:

https://bookshop.org/a/54985/9781620977514

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong

#pluralistic #corporate bullshit #lies #books #reviews #taxonomies #labor #denialism #consumerism #Nick Hanauer #Joan Walsh #Donald Cohen #history #object permanence #taking the right seriously

[typewriter-worries]

folk songs everyone should listen to at least once

I'll Be Here in the Morning by Townes Van Zandt 

One of These Things First by Nick Drake

Something on Your Mind by Karen Dalton

Cannock Chase by Labi Siffre

I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind by Vashti Bunyan

Love Is Our Cross To Bear by John Gorka

Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) by Connie Converse

Ventura Highway by America

I'd Have You Anytime by George Harrison

By The Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell

April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel

The Kiss by Judee Sill

#should make it clear this is my opinion but i'm right #these are a few of my favorite things #townes van zandt #nick drake #karen dalton #labi siffre #vashti bunyan #john gorka #connie converse #america #george harrison #glen campbell #simon and garfunkel #judee sill

[nostalgicfun]

Feel free to share which is your favorite NOW in the tags, but this particular poll is about which you preferred as a child! ⭐ These are being grouped by a vague theme, so in a few days we'll do another one with more options!

Also, same rule as the last poll: REALLY popular choices (ATLA, SpongeBob, Scooby Doo, Pokemon, Digimon, etc.) are overwhelmingly popular and have been omitted for the sake of seeing the results for other shows!

Also also, one of these polls is going to be like "baby's first anime" so more specific anime choices will be on that poll, don't worry ✨

#polls #The last poll kept getting comments like ''YOU FORGOT/IGNORED ____'' #like. it's right there on the post that we're doing several of these polls and a poll can only have so many choices😭 #also it's for my own curiosity about shows i watched as a kid so obviously not every show known to humankind is going to be on here #''this poll is all CN/Nick where is PBS and Disney!!!'' #COMING SOON IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE CAPTION 😭😭 #AND ANOTHER THING so many of the ''where is ____!'' comments were out of the timeframe of the poll #Like. The Amazing World of Gumball. pls. pls look at the other choices and consider these dates

[genderqueerpond]

We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.

And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.

"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.

A child.

Now that's too big, surely.

But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.

And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.

In normal circumstances.

Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.

No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.

And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.

But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.

"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"

#like!!!!!! why arent we talking about this!!!!!!! #amelia pond #amy pond #the ultimate autism metaphor on top of being autistic anyway #doctor who #dw #ndw #dw theory #lavender thoughts #SHE CAN'T EXIST SHE IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE #you called clara the impossible girl but that's amy #and THEN the fact that even after it's all set right #she remains shaped by -- remains deeply traumatized by -- a timeline that never happened; a reality that never was #AUGH !!!!! #some wounds just can't heal even if the thing that caused them never existed in the first place #some wounds remain as a TRACE of the other time just as you yourself were once #THE mental illness rep of all time #and in the big bang of course the doctor had to take the shortcut because if they'd all gone the long way round #she'd have been gone before he got there #as starless universe's little amelia disappeared.... it could be millienia but from another perspective it HAD to be moments #they made it only in the nick of time #and the doctor knew that #pond #the life and times of amy pond

[nickhugs]

Nick’s journey from “hi” to “i would fight the whole world for you”

#heartstopper #heartstopperedit #heartstoppergifs #nick nelson #charlie spring #alice oseman #heartstopper netflix #mine #my gifs #nick leaning in closer to charlie in every scene until #FINALLY #he just gives in and rests his head on charlie's shoulder #it just got to me today #somebody tell me not to start another rewatch right now #it's literally midnight

[pjbooey]

"The night is bitter, the stars have lost their glitter The winds grow colder, suddenly you're a lot older And all because of a gal who got away--"

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I went into Fallout 4 already knowing which companion would be my favorite (Hancock) but suddenly finding myself enthralled with this grandfatherly synth detective with a semi-mysterious past. I kept Nick Valentine as my companion for most of the game and loved him so much I actually went back to Sanctuary Hills to build a development for him to live in (something I neglected the ENTIRE GAME).

(ps, does anyone else dress as silver shroud while travelling with Nick and dress in your minuteman general outfit with Hancock? we were matchies)

#fallout 4 #nick valentine #fo4 #fo4 companions #sole survivor #what are tags??? #my art #anyways i love this guy and i'm doing the dlc for far away harbour right now so i get to bring him along!! #I lurvveeeeee hancock but sometimes peepaw just needs to be taken for a little ice cream and mirelurk killing outing #plus it just feels right to take him with me on this detective journey

[7cfc00]

glenn close's total lifetime blackjack earnings is negative $7000.

#dndads #dndads fanart #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s1 #glenn close #dndads glenn close #in the top panel. glenn has a 12 in his hand but hits and goes over 21. losing the game #in the bottom panel the dealer (willy dressed as death) reveals his own hand. which adds to a 21 #glenn would have lost any way. #dndads odyssey #dndads season 1 #oh and left is death (nick/exploding heart/funeral pyre/scythe) #right is justice (nicholas/gavel/the foster's fire/sword of justice) #losely based off of the irl sword of temporal justice #and the cards correlate to the deck of many things cards that glenn drew #taken from roll20 dot net go look it up

[chillymuffins]

some love for our favorite valentine ღゝ◡╹)ノ♡

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #nick valentine #some of yalls tags on my last post gave me inspiration #howdy valentine nation #my art style is not very consistent #but i will always try to get him right!!! #muffin stash