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Bob's avatar

President Bidan my name is Mabalaba I am 7 year old girl in Aleppo. Many Assad bomb drop. Please send commentary on New Zealand parliament cave man dance in next podcast.

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Ryan's avatar

Can't believed the Maori bombed the last hospital in Aleppo 🙏🏻

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Alex B's avatar

I read this while enjoying a bowl of traditional Murderbug cuisine that we simply would not have access to in a Strongchad society that believes in primitive things such as "borders" and "heroism". Terrifying to imagine!

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Daniel V. Gaglio's avatar

When murderbugs eat monkey brains on screen they are cool. When Indiana Jones does it; it's racist Orientalism. If you need me to explain why then you are not media literate

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Craftsman Redux's avatar

How did I miss this the first time it was posted? I blame Gmail's promotions folder.

I am now well-versed in media literacy and feel ready to don my spiritual armor and head out to the fields of Redditdom to do battle.

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Will Stancil's Greatest Asset's avatar

I had an aneurysm or 3 reading this, but now that I finally understand, I'm ready to fight the racist Trump voters who lack media literacy and definitely don't use Reddit, unlike high-IQ free thinkers like me.

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Daniel V. Gaglio's avatar

Any themes you may have noticed about religion were only there to teach you how bad and backward religion is. No church has ever done anything good for humanity. If you got the idea that religion, or worse the church, is good in anyway then you don't have media literacy

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Dimitris's avatar

The "media literacy" argument is just progressives trying to intellectualize the demand that we take their propaganda at face value. Imagine a burnt out 48 year old woman shouting at you "NO, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO THINK THEY ARE COOL, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE THAT" anytime you see a twitter simpsons pfp posting a 500 character tweet about how media illiterate reactionaries are. Progressives are fundamentally just angry that you are able to have your own thoughts and had university scholars go into coal mines and come back out with an explanation for why you shouldn't, and this applies to almost all their political theory.

Also, does anyone have blogs similar to this substack's history articles to recommend? I'm writing back and forth with a pen pal who loves history, and has enjoyed all of Mystery Cluster's historical articles about Russia and 1900's America but I have run out of ones to print.

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Belte's avatar

Me to the black social worker asking me why I keep muttering “Brick Strongchad” in my padded cell: “You wouldn’t get it. You’re not media literate like we Paid Subscribers.”

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Gray's avatar

Mr. E. Grove, Seashine is a beautiful free endless runner procedurally generated mobile game about being a bioluminescent jellyfish surviving at the bottom of the ocean. It has a lot to say about life because every aspect of creation is applicable to us in some way. It’s all made and kept updated by one French guy with muscular dystrophy and you should play it right now.

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Richard Temple's avatar

I am Brick Strongchad 😃🧱

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Eric Francis's avatar

I have (former) friends who failed to realize that Cannon Ball Run is about it being bad to drive fast. They. Have. No. Media. Literacy.

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WDot's avatar

Man remember "Death of the Author?"

It still boggles my mind how everything lefties purported to believe 20 years ago they have dropped like a rock: being anti-war, being pro-free-speech, expansive approaches to literary criticism... And sure, it's pretty clear there's a lot of bad faith and double standards, but I still get whiplash.

On the bright side, I feel, for the first time in a long time, less glued to politics. I haven't been closely following all the horsetrading with regard to cabinet picks, but I'm confident Trump will figure it out.

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Connor's avatar

And death of the author was basically a vehicle to shoehorn leftist theory into literary criticism in the first place. Really drives home that these people don't care about anything but gaining power, "the theory is just window dressing", etc.

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Connor's avatar

This reminded me that Dunc 2 came out this year and not two years ago, 2024 lasted three years.

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Eric Brancard's avatar

In this house we believe the bugs are the good guys.

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Dave's avatar

I used to like reading about young men fighting against insane communist revolutionaries, now with media literacy, I know that they were neolibrawls doing affirmative action for the white race.

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≠Cool2BCool's avatar

I think I prefer this version of DUNC

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Literally Kane From C&C's avatar

I was loling the whole way down, howd i miss this a year ago?

Now do dune; “see the handsome guy of noble birth that is fulfilling prophecy by awesomely riding a giant monster, and fighting all the evil people? He’s the bad guy.”

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