Given past performance it's not unreasonable for them to assume an asymmetry of consequences where natsec dems do jack and shit even if karp writes a letter calling for their execution as traitors and lonsdale promises to pull the trigger himself

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.

it's sooo endearing. every game ive played that people have called a dad game is always, like, "having a child is a burden unlike no other and these challenges teaches me they are human just like me" pragmata is nonstop "oh a kid is an endless font of surprises, new experiences, and joy"

Exactly one year ago today:

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

victor gideon: leon you big stupid bitch. i'm going to kill you leon kennedy: i can't be a big stupid bitch. victor gideon: why's that. leon kennedy: you're taller than me. victor gideon: HOURS LATER victor gideon: FUCK victor gideon: victor gideon: FUUUUUUUUCK

“If you are a Republican candidate, you would like to not be talking about the economy right now. So this gives you an opportunity to control the debate and move it from economy to problems with Islam."

We should have never doubted this man

I for one believed this to be a Ralph Lauren ad due to the nearly identical logo and overall aesthetics. This belief made me think less of and be less inclined to purchase Ralph Lauren.

I have to be scared of being arrested for not shoplifting because the AI thought somebody else was me, but I don't have to be scared of somebody doing a drive-by at my house. interesting!

The right wants everyone to have to gamble for their future--but the house always wins. The left should guarantee everyone a decent life.

“What about Lula in Brazil? What about the leaders of Spain or Portugal? What about the leader of the UK who is doing exactly what you’re asking and has a 15% approval rating and is getting overtaken by the Green Party?” No, no one is more popular than Mitt Romney. I’m the newspaper, just trust me.

And here I've been saying that he worships Moloch instead, apologies Mr. President!

Think about it from the papers perspective. They know a real progressive Dem is gonna come for media owners to break up their bullshit, so they want you to vote for a guy who's gonna lose. Or at best a guy who is on their side.

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war

Been saying it's the one issue independents that hate ICE or think Trump is a pedophile that are the easiest to activate to go to the polls. This mythical kitchen table Iowa Dem voter that loves Liz Cheney is just an excuse for the DNC to play footsie with fascists. Fuck all that

Oh no, we were very normal about losing in Vietnam. Pay no attention to the flag we force every post office to fly

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The Mariners are now 4-0 since the Ichiro statue’s bat broke

Average GOP policy outcome

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

lmao “currently”

the new pope must announce SuperHell

The United States and Israel

I would be unsurprised if leaks from the negotiations eventually disclose that they could have had "peace" but Trump wanted a 75% take on the tool booth (which is consistent with what he said publicly).

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING. "We win, no matter what." He's willing to destroy the world to avoid admitting he fucked up.

So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

my favorite(?) recurring trope is when someone describes the logical, problem-solving, non-ideological party they wish existed and it’s just the ineffectual version of democrats that we already have

Trump and his administration do not care about women’s lives. Posting a video of a woman being graphically murdered is yet another form of objectification and dehumanization. The purpose of it was to shock and offend, in order to encourage racism against immigrant men. It is a form of terror.

They don’t look into the rise of misogyny or violent men (many of whom are white men who live here), they just view this as an “illegal immigration” issue because they’re simple minded dipshits

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

this goes hard as fuck

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

Repeating it is lowkey goated when refusing to learn from history is the vibe

Really seems like the through line on American foreign policy is “never learn our lesson”

burnishing his reputation as a centrist by arriving at the left-wing position he would've laughed off someone as unserious for having 5 years ago

Planting my flag they’re going to make the drunk take the fall for this one. It’ll be enough to placate Dem leadership and move onto the next awful thing they do

Donald Trump must be removed from office for threatening war crimes and genocide. Speaker Johnson: bring the House back into session. Invoking the 25th Amendment and impeachment must be on the table, but Congress should also move on a War Powers resolution to stop Trump.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

"We handed an insane Nazi pedophile with senile dementia the nuclear football" is a fact few had dared to look in the face until today, and despite the fact that it was all a disgusting farce, I'm glad it's a conversation we're having. We are a nuclear armed fascist state. We have to reckon with it.

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way