Sadly, no ranked choice here, so Kamala Harris on my official ballot. If I had ranked choice it would be:

1. Claudia de la Cruz

2. Cornell West

3. Kamala Harris

Sure, and there are plenty things to make fun of him for that don’t hurt other people. For example being a fucking creep or being a constant loser.

Ah yes, I am coddling Trump by saying this type of insult does nothing to him and only causes splash damage to others. Don’t mind all the things that you can validly criticize him for, like being a wannnabe nazi dictator, project 2025, his xenophobia, racism, or transphobia. Make fun of him for that stuff, not something that perpetuates shitty behavior

Toxic masculinity is bad when targetted at non-men, or non-masc-conforming men anyone.

FTFY

Who said I am bent out of shape? I am a bit annoyed, and pretty disappointed, but not angry. And yeah, you might succeed at making someone mad by making fun of their penis, but that isn’t productive, and does not make them rethink their own toxicity. All it does is tell them that this particular type of joke is OK since both sides are using it. So it can’t do any good, but can do harm.

AFAIK it’ll send a notification, but I would be incredibly surprised if Trump looked at any notifications from small accounts. But, even in the off chance he does see, I highly doubt he would think anything about it. He is not someone to listen to anyone

Ah yes, the invasion of Germany is the same as a small dick joke.

The issue is not that they are punching at trump, the issue is that punch hits other people that are not trump, and trump will give zero shits about it.

OK, so let’s say Trump sees this. How do you think it will effect him? Do you think he’ll be like “Oh shit, someone made fun of my penis, better stop being a Nazi.” It’s pointless and does nothing to even make him feel bad. You think Trump cares what anyone besides himself thinks? All you have accomplished is perpetuating toxic masculinity as a valid form of criticism.

Toxicity does nothing to them though. It only normalizes their behavior.

Oh you sure got him. I bet he’ll see it with your 11 followers. Be at the top of his feed in no time.

Except it doesn’t work. Name once where someone was like “oh someone did the same shitty thing I did, better change my tune.” All it does is reinforce their behavior as normal and acceptable

For real. It does not bother him because Trump will never see this. All it does is reinforce shitty toxic bullshit.

Toxic masculinity is an open invitation to be toxic, huh?

But all does is feed into the toxic bullshit. It isn’t some high parody or anything. It is trying to make fun of the thing by doing the thing

Can we stop with the small dick jokes? They are valueless and do nothing but uphold toxic masculinity.

For sure! And this article seems to be hinting at ultra-processed foods being a huge problem, when the actual problem is probably late stage capitalism and the poverty it creates (to be less than nuanced myself, lol).

I am by no means an expert, but I think the idea boils down to, as long as you have them in moderation, you’re fine. The issue arises when people can’t afford or don’t have access to non-processed foods (food deserts for example). It is a deep, complex, and nuanced subject, and I don’t think a single article that boils down to “ultra-processed foods bad” is really interested in the nuance.

I think there is consensus that processed foods are not as good for you as food in their base form. They tend to have more calories from sugar and the like. It is not that they are inherently bad, but that people eat too many of them, thus getting most of their calories from sugar instead of other macros. This study is older, but has better definitions:

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009892

I mean, the MSG scare was 100% racism.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-rotten-science-behind-the-msg-scare/

This seems like a holdover from that

Yeah, saying the presence of a single ingredient can indicate ultra-processed food then including an ingredient that is in a lot of Asian food seems like the racist MSG scare from the 70s-90s