social media bubbles fostering elite psychosis is probably going to be looked back on as the reason for a lot of This Stuff happened with academics and activists during peak woke and now it's happening to the richest man in history and the entire federal government

i have spent so much of my life pushing back on criticisms my young nihilistic peers make of Democrats and begging them to vote for Democrats and then these mfs go on TV and say "yeah the internet communists are right" fuck you

it is genuinely a fucking miracle that Trump is as stupid and narcissistic as he is

in the same vein as what i've said about how consequences need to extend to the private sector, we also need to not fall for the fall guys there will be plenty of people thrown under the bus as the wheels start to come off and we shouldn't be satisfied with the scalps they're willing to give us

Journalist: The government shouldn't decide what we report Me (waving a big foam finger that says democracy is #1): WOOOOOOO

the one thing that i don't think Bari Weiss (the fucking moron) recognizes is the fact that if there's one the press loves, it's about reporting on internal reporter drama

Bari Weiss probably could have gotten away with glazing the regime in facially benign ways (e.g. the Erika Kirk obsession) but cancelling stories is the one thing you can't get away with because it threatens the most important thing to journalists: attention

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

the latest of Bari Weiss' nonsense should be a reminder to everybody that consequences will have to extend to fascist collaborators both within and without this administration the list of persona non grata should be a massive private-public partnership

Wow this is an incredible statement. I'm proud of these reporters. It's also an indication of just how much of an incompetent stooge Bari Weiss is. May we always be so lucky to have the fascists be idiots

the Chiefs playing and losing to Tennessee right after losing Mahomes is perfect comedic timing

got home from visiting family and tuned into the Bears game with one minute left in the 4th, might be my most clutch moment of all time

They're low trust libertarians who erroneously convinced themselves they are communists because the formative moment in their political life coincided with a moment where the main anti-establishment candidate was a socialist

I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?

i'm being forced to betray my principles visiting gf's family for early holidays and her stepdad drives this obnoxiously big truck complete with modified exhaust and everything

this is one of those things that is just completely fucking foreign to me and yet is self-evidently extremely popular

holy shit look what i found in the Epstein Files SCP-██ Object class: ███ Containment Procedures: ██████████████████████████████████████ Description: ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████subject’s genitals█████████████████████████████████████████████

I just don’t think this is going away people are going to play amateur sleuth with the redactions, people are going to invent brand new conspiracy theories, people are going to rightfully complain that they aren’t releasing everything there’s no out here

this is going to be an ongoing problem in the post-Trump world

"i wish Republicans weren't such dogmatic free market worshippers"

imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken

the ADA was probably the last piece of great bipartisan American legislation on civil rights, and it's fiercely under attack from a deeply ableist administration. But it's a great achievement!

yeah man let's make it easier for the President to censor his critics on independent media platforms, great plan

fuck i just realized my twitter ban is gonna last all throughout the Epstein files weekend

there are extremely narrow revisions to Section 230 that i can entertain but deleting it entirely just means it's over for literally any public-facing data hosting service that draws the ire of a sufficiently litigious whiner

that's the goofiest two-points i've ever seen

Kenneth Walker is playing some great offense out there everyone else not so much

calling it the "Patriot Games" is a bit on the nose

guy who founded the Leopard-Human Consumption Research Corporation:

Not only this but the Daily Wire continues to put people like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles in front of a massive audience where it allows them to routinely advocate extreme right-wing views. Ben’s political project has been a massive cause of all of this.

we have got a FEAST before us for this football game

THE QUESARITO IS BACK???

maybe i'm unaware of it but what did AOC do to so far avoid the problem that Bernie and now Zohran are running into of hiring the most insane staffers of all time

"what are you gonna do, kick me out of the house?" -man who is about to be kicked out of his house

so like where exactly is he supposed to find 2.5 billion dollars before Christmas

wait you're telling me this was a live nationally televised event

every sports car dealership owner in the country just felt a shiver go down their spine

the cantina chicken tacos are a top 3 fast food menu addition of all time

it's not great that the President makes up so much random bullshit that he can publicly declare acts of war and everyone has to wait and see if they're real or not

i don't think there's anything worse than persistent nausea man you know you're cooked when puking doesn't fix the problem

we're really going to have to have some tough conversations about home insurance as climate change worsens and i don't know if city and state governments are equipped for it

foreshadowing

shoutout Donald Rumsfeld basically everything in politics more than a year into the future is determined entirely by unknown unknowns

i occasionally hear from a normie friend of mine about screenshots of my tweets that get reposted to instagram or tiktok i'm counting that as praxis

in retrospect there's some ominous foreshadowing from my middle school lunch table debate days whenever the Republican kids would argue that Sweden's universal healthcare only worked because they were "homogenous societies"

i'm a complete amateur speaking here but to my knowledge the entire basis of American military strategy since at least the 90s has been "doing things in multiple domains at the same time" and now we're trying to retvrn back to Army Stuff, Boat Stuff, and Plane Stuff

i will say that if the two front-runners are Kamala and Gavin then that's good news for those of us who want the primary to be a cutthroat competition in who hates Republicans more

following Trump's election i revised a lot of my personal ethics (maybe i'll do a write-up on that at some point) but the main thing is i care a lot less about mass persuasion polling and campaign messaging etc aren't *useless* but they are mostly washed out by forces way beyond our control

it's because yesterday all the right-wingers jerked themselves off on Twitter about how civil they were being in response to Reiner's death, trying to contrast themselves against the left-wing response to Kirk then, yknow, the obvious happened