“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • Dude, come on, you have to be a fucking idiot way too credulous to take this at face value or even entertain it. It’s a picture of some guy calmly putting an acoustic guitar into the overhead compartment with everyone around him behaving normally, and the caption, with literally no evidence, warps it into how he started specifically “playing Maroon 5” and how he got shamed into stopping by some guy yelling at him to shut the fuck up. (You’d think they’d know the song he was playing for 30 seconds if they know it’s Maroon 5, by the way.) It’s the most generic “DAE Maroon 5 is obnoxious? XD” fake story you could make.








  • So you’ve moved the goalposts from “that’s not just participation, it’s [things that participation entails]” to “well this doesn’t apply unless you need it to exist”*. GN needs a major platform like YouTube to actually reach an audience.

    * By the way, the comic is illustrating a man with a car that’s seemingly from the 1920s or 30s, so there goes that tenuous argument.


  • contributing to, and directly benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about.

    You do understand what “participation” means, right? You understand that the original comic is specifically talking about contributing to and benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about, right?

    I agree with your other point that GN should offer more alternatives to watch their videos, but this one is creating a distinction without a difference.






  • The party also wants to introduce an allowance for children up to the age of 15 that they can use for cultural activities such as sports or chess.

    In its political program for the 2026 Swedish general election the Örebro Party writes that they want to “stop the ongoing population replacement” and make Sweden a monocultural society, rather than a multicultural one. The party also writes that this “will be a Sweden where ethnic Swedes are once again the clear majority.” The party also claims that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes” and "No other people shall ever be able to lay claims on Sweden. This is our land.” and states that they want to implement measures to decrease the immigrant population in Sweden through remigration, closed borders and a strict assimilation policy.

    Among measures listed to combat crime are: automatic deportation of criminal immigrants, enforcing the border, encouraging the establishment of neighborhood watches, [… and] establishing a dedicated crime investigation authority where police and prosecutors work side by side and use all state intelligence to detect and mark criminals.

    As a punitive measure the Örebro Party wants to allow for the creation of labor camps in Sweden and for penal labor to be a type of punishment for crime. The party writes that those who refuse work should not be let out of prison. […] The Örebro Party writes that these prisoners can replace migrant workers in their tasks, arguing that most labor migration to Sweden is “unnecessary”.

    Örebro Party strongly opposes state financing of green energy as well as green industry projects such as Northvolt, Hybrit, H2 Green steel and Stegra. The party refers to the Swedish handling of climate change as “semi-religious climate anxiety” and “fanatical insanity”. The party opposes the green transition, referring to it as a “bluff” and argues that the money spent on these projects would be more useful invested in nuclear energy, military, schools and hospitals.

    “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense. […] They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.”

    I could keep going.

    Just aaaaall over. Impossible to pin down. Can they even be neo-Nazis if they want to checks notes create direct democracy as a populist ploy to seize power by appealing directly to morons with disinformation, expand free healthcare, and decriminalize cannabis? It really evens out in the end, dunnit?