TIL that there are people who still believe this in 2026.

Rekindling the spirit of our forefathers this D-Day anniversary

Never ask a tankie who did antifa consider to be fascist…

"We need Joe Rogan of the Left". The monkey paw curls...

Chillin’

“Reflecting pool is longer than the tallest building is tall” sounds like a factoid from a tour guide for a retirement home trip.

Meanwhile in the extended neo-Luddite universe…

Reading material in my hometown Metro vs reading material in SF Muni. Gee, I wonder why are Europeans more keen on using public transport...

Ceasefire is holding…

real personal income is now falling behind in both absolute and relative terms it's not a mystery why consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff. this is literally worse than 2022/23

LOL, when a rando thinks he knows better what company was named after than the founders of the company themselves :-P medium.com/the-north-fa...

Amazing how some people will confidently say things that are completely wrong, and couldn’t be more detached from the reality.

Existence of Artificial General Intelligence implies existence of Artificial Lance Corporal Intelligence.

CIA is the Culinary Institute of America. Have you seen the price of the beef recently? No wonder they needed $40 mil

I heard smoking is popular again…

Things went really quickly from “owning a house is basic human right” to “owning a house is like owning slaves” really quick.

This reads like the old Soviet propaganda: “The imperialist have attacked peaceful farmers’ tractors. The tractors have returned fire in self-defense and safely landed in Nahuiovo Air Base”

Not wanting to wade neck deep in fecal matter is exactly the same as wanting to be coddled, apparently.

Libya was a UN intervention led by the French. An intervention after insane dictator massacring civilians led to a civil war. But of course it was Obama’s fault…

Literally “HE”.

Theoretically, what happens if Rs gerrymander +10, +10, +10, -5, -5 to +4, +4, +4, +4, +4, and then the state shifts from +4 to -3 red?

Contrary to popular belief, grocery stores do exist in San Francisco. Heck, there's even one Costco.

Taylor doesn't have time to cook at home. That's why she has to eat at WHCD dinners.

It's obviously cheaper to order than to cook. If you cook at home, you have to go to a store. So you need to buy a car. That's like $50k. And to cook at home, you need to buy a home. That's like $2M easy. So you'd be spending over $2M vs $80 burrito from DoorDash.

California, 39 million people, budget $349B vs Spain, 45 million people, budget €216B. Tell me again how this is a tax revenue problem…

Tax-funds spend in the EU is €19k per person. Tax-funded spend in the US is $32k per person. But worry not, if we just raise taxes, we’ll have all the public services just like in Europe…

I thought Taco Bell was famous for giving people e.coli, which leads to very rapid weight loss :-P

I guess on average the avocado pits are normal sized...

It’s that time of the year when Americans are weirdly excited by European public television, while Europeans are complaining how cringe it is.

The good news is the inflation is only 1.4% The bad news is that's per month.

It’s a mystery. Why would Amsterdam worry about climate change? A city at 15 feet below sea level, in a country where every kid has to learn how to swim out of a submerged house fully clothed, including a winter jacket, because of generational trauma when one bad storm drowned 50,000 people.

Bio-plastics have been a thing for decades. Yet petroleum-based plastics are still in use, because they’re far cheaper. Same thing with fertilizers, there are alternative ways of producing them, but they’re far more expensive.

In a week or two diesel is going to be above $10/gal. The price displays only have a single digit for the dollar amount. I wonder what’s the plan? How did that work in the 1990s when all the sudden they had to add dollars to displays that only had cents?

Putin wants Gerhard Schröder, a Rosneft and Gazprom executive, to [try not to laugh] represent Europe in negotiations with Russia.

Remember to use the correct soundtrack when doomscrolling. open.spotify.com/album/2kYRPh...

In today’s May 9th Vatnik Soup, we discuss the ambiguous relationship of the Kremlin with Nazism and explain why so many vatniks can be outright Nazis, or even promote or excuse them while at the same time being so hysterical about alleged “Nazis in Ukraine”. 1/23

We'll all starve...

Rock music was banned in the Soviet Union as Western bourgeoisie decadence corrupting minds of the communist youth.

“Inflation is just vibes”

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog. 1/20

The same Mr Pickle’s sandwich which was $8.99 in 2016 is $17.99 now. “InFlaTioN is jUSt vIbES!”

Gasnarok may be starting

The admin wants to take over the Fed, drop rates to cause hyperinflation… but yeah, let’s wait until that happens before we’re allowed to have negative opinions.

She say she wasn’t fed… … and the lie detector determined that this was a lie.

Something is brewing in the midterms…

No autocorrect, when I text “K”, I mean “K”, not “I”.

A few days later I had the displeasure of drinking Lugol’s iodine. Vile stuff.