We haven’t even gotten through car-oriented culture war stuff which is really only just beginning, can’t even imagine this

They said I was crazy, but I knew my 4YO would like LOTR

I was confused about this when it was happening in 2010 but I’m not anymore. People are dumb as rocks

"emperor's attack dog who randomly chokes distinguished subordinates & indulges in the dark arts" lol I know a constructed scapegoat for systemic failure when I see one

Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.

oh my god

Trying to make this observation delicately, but there was an obvious relationship between users with the “posted more than 100 times yesterday” badge and users who had a very hard time with Senate developments

People with the urge to respond “but that’s not true!” are 1) obviously wrong, 2) missing the point in either case

Wish people with any kind of audience would please focus on this shitshow still actually being Republican’s fault entirely

I continue to think one of the biggest divides on this site is between people who understand that the last time we had a good, relatively easy way out of all this was Nov 5, 2024, and people who still don’t.

I just want more resilience from my side of the aisle. Which means from Democratic senators, but also from the people on this site acting like it’s time to die

My husband and I disagree about the politics of the shutdown, which means I cannot just close this app and escape the debate

Carturd had a post this week about how the current shutdown was “proving every day Obama was a failure” and it made me really reevaluate how likely Republicans were to cave

“This out gay man who was sixteen years old and living in Indiana when Matthew Shepard was murdered used to wish he could be straight. This proves that he is homophobic.” Do these people hear themselves?

I think this is especially important because a population too angry about “affordability” relative to the past clearly tends to turn on immigrants

Things are getting out of control

Thinking it over more/talking with my husband, I think Trump (or whoever is acting for him in these debates, maybe Vought? Miller) wants to keep SNAP unfunded to exert maximal political pressure on Democrats *and Republicans* because he/they want that fucking filibuster gone, or else

I think if I could control Senate negotiations I’d refuse to talk until SNAP was funded, though since Republicans are gonna say “no” no matter what at this point this is just a quibble, maybe even a bad idea and the headlines we got today are better

One of the (too many) knitting WIPs I have going on right now is my daughter’s Christmas stocking and it feels incredibly high stakes

“Actually letting the government compel women to carry pregnancies to term is *more* feminist because people hate me for it.”

really illustrates just how stupid and unnecessary this whole shutdown is that we're almost 40 days in and Dems repeating what they've been asking for the entire time has people howling for blood because it's so unbelievably little that it must be them caving and surrendering

jesus

It's bad manners to force the issue but in a lot of environmental advocacy (not necessarily climate), there is remarkable ambivalence about whether or not there should be people at all.

I am surprised to wake up to numerous people mad at me for saying that Trump is a uniquely successful and persuasive politician because 1) it’s … quite obviously true, look around you, and 2) it’s actually one of my more optimistic opinions

Second baby got mobile a lot faster than the first baby, though I’m told that’s regular (due to them watching the older kid as an example)

Random Redditor telling me “most moms” don’t mind doing every nighttime wake up with their babies, which is certainly news to me

I was not about to doom ahead of time but I honestly was a little scared of some targeted retribution or legal resistance to Prop 50 but instead Republicans are afaict pretending they just didn’t notice

Pelosi was one of the best that ever was, and we should (and likely will) remember her that way, but in sports that player often stays a few seasons past when they should retire and it’s bad for the team, politics doesn’t seem to be very different

Day after day of seeing what Trump has wrought kind of counts as new information tbh, along with how clearly senile he is, as opposed to Joe Biden, who seems remarkably lucid every time he's spoken publicly recently.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

“Look at those women with their Stanleys and their toddlers and their bullet journals” they will ruin your life buddy

Love how much it makes conservatives crash out when we just say “yes”

The “conservative feminists” and the anti-feminists have exactly the same theory of what gender should mean and imply but the “conservative feminists” think if you say “and it’s so beautiful” after explaining the obligation to pump out as many kids as possible, that means you’re pro woman.

The dynamics of the last 3ish decades are predicated on only republicans being allowed to coyly suggest that dems deserve to suffer and die, not for them to reply “you’re a piece of shit, I want to shoot you in the face” like the newly elected AG of Virginia basically did lol

We honestly don’t talk enough about how the press just publishes bullshit like this and when they end up with egg on their face, they just completely move on as if nothing happened. It’s maddening. And I don’t know what the solution it.

I fell for this! Man I don’t like what’s coming.

Noticed people started liking my old posts about Taylor Lorenz's antivaxxer nonsense, went and looked about why, and the woman is still at it downplaying the efficacy of covid vaccines. If your strategy to convince people to mask is to lie about vaccines, you're not one of the good guys.

whole lotta misanthropes on this site that are lowkey pissed Dems won big last night bc it fucks with their whole narrative

American conservatives absolutely believe (almost) everything they say but they believe it spiritually, not literally. It’s really confusing interacting with a whole political movement built on “it might as well be true” but that’s where we’re at, and you kind of get used to it

This is so weird since everybody knew he was going to win?? There is so much worse for them to despair about!!

Looking at Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope and deciding that Leslie Knope is the one who represents privatization-horny deregulation is literally probably the best "am I a sexist" litmus test I can think of

Ideally “Dems are out of touch with the voters” talk would be ethered after tonight but I do wonder how pundits will try to work back to it tomorrow. Totally ignore this even happened, perhaps?

Isn't she glorious

Four minutes until we all try to load the CA SOS website at the same time

We did it for you Dick Cheney

I actually don’t even know what a lot of my policy positions are anymore