I was wondering why the lemonade at this restaurant was so expensive and apparently it's because they give you an *entire mason jar* of lemonade

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

not loving that they've changed the order of buttons so that "save draft" is where "yes discard" used to be

now, yes, employment numbers are suffering. but have you considered that we are tearing communities apart and ethnically cleansing your neighbors?

cool to know I can apparently be told "actually that flight doesn't exist" at any time for no reason on no notice. definitely won't make travel planning harder or reduce tourism spending.

well at least things are more expensive for no reason and secret police are murdering people

Ill be honest, I dont really have it in me to hate Kamala Harris. Lady got stuck in an impossible situation, tried, failed, wasnt even really her fault, I just can't bring myself to be mad at her about it. Too much else going on to be worth it.

thinking about the "We Are All In The Epstein Files" thing and I think there is an interesting way of thinking about that in terms of "normalization" and an analogy to homophobia

something I think is a pretty huge looming problem is the normalization of Trump in the simple sense that there is a generation of voters that have grown up with politics being The Donald Trump Show

one area where i really diverge from people on here is that i have neutral to positive views on automation overall

reddit redemption arc continues

the thing about this is that if you have enough of a digital asset to take a million dollar loss on it and you didn't try to turn it in to a real asset, on some level you knew it was a fake asset

congressional visits, particularly if they're allowed short notice/surprise visits, seem genuinely meaningful for checking the worst abuses in ICE custody

shorting Bitcoin to take out a parlay on the polymarket Bitcoin price bet and the polymarket "polymarket Bitcoin price bet" bet and the

forget the "what is bbq" question here: if this is your perfect chicken your appreciation for chicken is deeply impoverished

what kind of monster only wants to have orange chicken once a week

you would think that elites would understand that demanding this level of impunity was a gamble

this really isn't enough. in order to ensure a single state can't falsify records, you should need a birth certificate and a college degree from separate states, or a stamped passport

the hussites, a religious group inspired by Andrew Hussie's webcomic Homestuck

without litigating any of the European fascists this seems clearly incorrect as applied to Japan

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

something this picture makes me think about is that I think a lot of our discourse on this issue is warped by people perceiving teenagers primarily through Hollywood where they are played by people who are 30. when you see this picture your immediate response is "that is a child"

The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.

the only thing this accomplishes is to make it easier for abusers to hide what they are doing

cannot imagine more loser shit than "society must give me babies"

now, I can't speak to this with confidence as a man, but I suspect phrases like "female vote" are not going to lead to you winning women

the data he appears to be citing here is a difference of like .2 for an age gap of two years, something almost no one would call an "age gap relationship"

people you're looking at bridgerton wrong. the fact that they are not asking you to tell a dozen weak-chinned british men apart is a gift

now I assume China and India have their own dipshits, but I personally would not extol the virtues of a system that elevated Helen Andrews to prominence

groundhog fall survival

leftist-MattY anti-newsom coalition

while self-immolation is most famous by it's use in Tibetan protests, there was a case in India of a man who self-immolated in protest of (the local version of) affirmative action

Elon Musk promises to "unearth the Black Garden from beneath the sands of Mars", says he will "bring about the end of flesh" and "instantiate the Godmind"

"crime is way down, because of our sexy, sexy soldiers. all the criminals are too horny for our smoking-hot soldiers to do any crime"

"offensive player" is funny to say in this particular context

an alternative strategy we could consider is allowing people to go to college and retire and just having some immigration

if you are committed to lighting dumpsters on fire the best thing you can do for a movement is to allow someone visibly associated with it to stop you from lighting a dumpster on fire

it always gets so fucking weird when the racists start talking about Asians

I should add that revoking TPS for Haitians (and others) is another clear sign that none of this is about "immigration enforcement." As stated above, this is an attempt at carrying out ethnic cleansing. And it should be reported as such.

Every story I read about the revocation of TPS for Haitians makes me shake with rage. I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of this regime, but it is deeply shameful that our country is doing this. This is simply ethnic cleansing.

deskilling America but the skill is "being able to function as an adult"

I guess the way to look at Kash is that while he is a fascist grifter, he is a grifter first and a fascist second

many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

trying to figure out who I need to post on the good side of to end up coming out on top in the purges when we depose vichy Twitter

I'm willing to overlook a lot from a recipe but I'm sorry: you cannot call for "3/4 of an egg". that is illegal.

ngl seeing the name "wambsganss" my first thought was "like from Succession?"

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