Seasoned humanitarians do not operate this way because it's a terribly risky and ineffective way to deliver aid. Quick 🧵 on what seems to have gone wrong, and why nothing about today's events was surprising. (subtitle: humanitarians know stuff, actually)

Hitlers biggest mistake was not starting an aid program for displaced jews in late 1944, how could a nation state be guilty of genocide if they prematurely stopped it for PR reasons?

invincible fans when characters have realistic emotions and reactions to traumatic experiences

People are saying bombs, but they will all be arrested without resistance because every 1 in 3 members is actually an undercover agent.

"I can be killed never enslaved" Tumblr Prose ass meme

Honestly a weird choice that the films didn't include the "Wheel of fire" scene at the end of the books that clarifies this

"diversity of thought" on the right:

#SoyReich

Soundgarden Of BanBan “It’s just jokes” people when it turns out it’s actually just jokes and not his core belief system

Are those "ironic furniture dating sim" games a culture war relic or just Reddit humour?

“The actions of the Israeli army represents every Jew” is probably one of the most antisemitic statements you could really make by standard definitions. Now we’ve been told it’s the only position you’re allowed to have. Stupid

when grok gains control of the self driving mode

Russian criticizing Ukraine because there’s nazis in the military

with the singular exception of blade runner and 2049, robots/androids/whatever as an allegory for civil rights no longer needed in the era of chatgpt and other soulless machine learning chatbots

A large part of the appeal of the Labour anti-semitism scandal was simply that it gave a lot of racist white guys an opportunity to call black and brown people "the real racists", one of their favourite things.

The gif of Asgore running Dess over in her car was funny because it was so quick and snappy. Shame the version that became a meme template is the one with lyrics since it drags the joke out a little too long.