Imagine how terrible your political party has to be if you’re handed “Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend and fellow pedophile has a masked racist occupying force terrorizing a US city where they shot a white woman in the face” and you’re like idk man we may have a chance here, it seems possible!

this is just actually evil. an indictment on the entirety of the uk's medical ethics. i wish i could say on this website what these researchers deserve

median dem elite: 83 years old, fondly recalls calling cops on vietnam protestors in college. likes to remind people that israel is besieged on all sides by “the arabs.” median gop elite: 23 years old, got job because the veep liked their 4chan posts, 3rd son of food processing plant oligarch

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Man, Lucasfilm Animation still killing it. Interesting to see the lower episode counts of all TV finally reach them (this one is just ten episodes), but it sure looks like it's making use of them.

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can't believe it

they’re going to need to impose consequences that are felt in a personal way by the people in charge ruining Trump’s big sports show, travel bans for the GOP (or, hell, all of congress), travel bans for rich Trump allies, sanctions on the Trump family they feel invincible, change their minds

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

it is functionally impossible to watch this video and not be incredibly proud of everyone standing up to the invaders, the people of minneapolis are extraordinary it isn’t going to be easy but we are going to win

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It goes without saying that the internet is not real life, and that the opinions of fans on here are the self-selected opinions of a radical minority. But it is depressing the extent to which that group generates a sizable influence on culture, consistently in the worst ways.

I don’t know what exact role Kennedy had in shaping the story of THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, but given that film’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd priority is loudly and unambiguously shitting all over THE LAST JEDI, it feels disingenuous to just say Rian Johnson “got spooked.” www.avclub.com/rian-johnson...

This is rad as hell, because it’s A) funny, B) going to ruin some awful peoples’ days, and C) reveals what absolute fragile-as-glass snowflakes these widdle babies are, that the prospect of ice in Minnesota in January gets them this angry. Fuck em up, Minneapolis. Fuck em up.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

trump doesn't want people to be angry about ICE murdering people, he just wants ICE to murder people. being angry about that is what *you* should want. you're a politician, man. you should know that anger over injustice is like, one of the best ways to channel political power into action. grow up

I want to cosign & underline this. Art takes effort. Even the worst art you've ever seen. There's a pretty high floor: a minimum amount of effort it takes to end up with a finished result. Every work of art is a testament to someone's passion to see it through. Aaaaaand, guess what AI gets rid of.

It's important to stay informed, I think, but do occasionally do something else to. Post a little joke. Talk about a hobby. Joy matters. A 9 hour "HERE'S WHY EVERYTHING SUCKS" posting stream is probably bad for your brain.

These problems are bigger than any individual so this isn't a solution but I do think Schumer and Jeffries should be replaced by any two Minneapolis residents who are out doing ICE patrols right now

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

Most of Trump's political actions are incredibly easy to smack down, because they don't make a plan for being smacked down. They're not geniuses. It's just that their opposition is either complicit or cowards.

The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

there has to be a line, and "condemning over 10 million people to die" has to be over it

“we will bring Elon back into the Dem fold” no break him

This is a heinous war crime and puts all civilian aircraft at risk

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Incumbents gotta go. Regulation needs to be embraced at every level of government. Anti-corruption is the only way we survive. Fight for it. Right now, though ... our economy is about so suffer greatly so like 2,000 douchebags can afford a third house. Brace yourselves.

This, like the flat and possibly declining price of oil, shows how we're in a phantom economy. Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.

Growing up in Texas in the 2000s made anti-immigration fear mongering not work on me because I'd hear adults and politicians describe the most horrific war zone imaginable, evil criminals crossing the border into your country to do violence... but I could step outside and see everything was *fine*

It's why I get angry whenever I see Dems saying that ICE just needs to be reformed. Because what you're saying is a secret force being used to detain people in detention centers and separate them from their families is a necessary evil for the crime of not having all proper immigration paperwork

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

"Elon Musk, the white nationalist..." with no hedging or qualification is an objectively stone cold factual description that no mainstream media outlet would ever allow be included in an article about him.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

“Let’s take our suite of programs, all of which are epynomous in their category, and rename them after our slop factory that everyone hates” What could possibly go wrong

Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

Increasingly feels like we're entering a new warlord era, with Russia and the US just taking whatever they want from countries that don't have nukes. If you aren't nuclear-capable, you simply aren't viewed as a sovereign country. Your resources, your leader, all can just be taken freely.

Based on responses so far, when Trump attempts illegal invasions of Greenland and Canada they can expect stronger support from China than they can from the United Kingdom.

Elon Musk should be in prison (for many reasons, mainly the mass murder, but this too). X should be shut down. Its remaining staff should be investigated for criminal wrongdoing. And then we should have a larger discussion about reigning in tech platforms in sweeping, systemic fashion.

Genuinely think that any political candidate who makes their two main priorities going after AI and sports gambling would put up LeBron numbers in their election because the amount of people who've had their lives ruined by one of those two is astronomically high and climbing daily

Our society will be judged by what happens to Elon Musk. Between the USAID cuts likely killing millions of people over the next five years, and him releasing a fucking CSAM machine, he needs to go to prison, or vigilantism is the only option, and I presume that's something the powerful want to avoid

literally laid the modern groundwork for the imperial presidency. see also bush v gore. see also iraq war. see also "reality-based community." literally the trump blueprint. despicable

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People who try to shill AI on the backs of the disabled are lower-than-low trash humans exploiting people who never asked for this bullshit to make a quick buck. It is so profoundly insulting to the disabled to assume they need the plagiarism machine to make stuff. I find it deeply offensive.

It would also go a long way in explaining why generative AI has found such a foothold with fascists - it's a tool of power consolidation, sure, but it's also a tool to hurt and attempt to replace those who can make things that resonate with people in ways they could never.

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