Honestly I’ve found that this is actually a very effective line on right-NIMBYs. “Oh, you want heavy regulations on what can be built in your neighborhood? You want housing control? Government deciding how much housing gets built? Are you a fucking commie????” Flip the script on em

It's actually really interesting how this is entirely true, and really interesting how the people in question never seem to think "gee, am I qualified to wield power over life and death. is anyone"

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

guys I hate to burst the blowjob bubble but the "blowing Bubba" thing in the Epstein e-mails is very likely to be them making prison rape jokes. Trump is going to prison, therefore Trump is going to have to blow Bubba - the mythical rapey fellow inmate of gross prison jokes by U.S. men.

This is not true. Republicans win in the South because a majority of voters choose them, not because of "voter suppression." They win ~90% of white voters in much of the South and there are more white voters than Black voters because there are more white people than Black people

The thing that gets lost in prison abolition discourse is that abolitionists seem to ignore the *other* side of "what do we do with Bad People?" That other side is "Vigilantism is bad, so how we do protect murderers (or worse) from a member of the general public trying to kill them?"

There’s a few posts getting mad at this without proposing or linking to even a single alternative.

prison reform is quite difficult enough politically without the added wrinkle that nobody can give an explanation of prison abolition that isn't both practical and not absolutely heinous

Us beating Bama is actually even funnier the second time

"Don't act like a Yankee, by which I mean insisting on workers having the freedom to form their own trade unions, a typical American obsession that every American loves to yammer on about."

"Tibet is a part of China and has been for thousands of years" Tibet has only been part of China since 1951. Before that it was part of the Manchu Qing state, then the Dzungar Khanate, then the Khoshut Khanate, then Tsangpa, then the Phagmodrupa kingdom, then the Mongol Yuan state,

The extent to which these people will go to avoid placing blame on Republicans for bad things Republicans do is actually remarkable I do not actually think Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding guest list was at the top of mind for the Virginia senator when he voted to get federal employees a paycheck!

I knew the son of a doctor living in the suburbs, who went to a good private school, who started hanging out with a gang and is now in prison for a long time for being the driver in a drive-by. policy by anecdote is bad but I don’t believe material needs are the *only* reason people commit crimes

Also, to flip the script for a moment, if your anarchist solution to crime happening is “just shoot them” (which is what the OP that started this was saying), you leave a huge swath of people who can’t work a handgun (the disabled, the elderly, etc) completely defenseless.

are the people saying we should accept marjoram tarjoram glarjoram as a Democrat immediately with open arms in the room with us right now, Brent, or are you just bound and determined to use this new and exciting way to take a bong rip and then blame the Democrats for your weed hallucination

We're going on what, 40 years now of this shit? Epstein literally says "Clinton was never on the island" in between being unable to shut up about how Trump *was* on the island, and still this conspiracy brained Dems Bad trash. I'm sick of it. Learn a new song.

I hate UMich but please don't let them lose to a school that employs a Holocaust denier

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How finalized are we talking here

I don't think we need to nominate totally a unqualified person who had a Nazi tattoo and used to be a racist/rapey/homophobic reddit shitposter to have a chance to win any future elections ever again

Fake bluecollar Nazi failsons shouldn't get handed Senate seats. Hope that helps.

On the other hand maybe we've got this all wrong! We've all let the sensationalism distract us from the REAL (((Epstein))) story!

Every journalist post: hey guys I know you think that we should have said something about the child trafficker who hung out with our boss and emailed with our coworkers, but you guys are making some real journalistphobic assumptions and forcing us to do emotional labor, please examine your attitude.

“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.

It is very, very weird that people on this site seem genuinely disappointed that Bill Clinton never went to the island.

Pretty fucked up since Al Sharaa is trying to make peace with Israel but Netanyahu was attacking Syria nonetheless.

Kyle Kulinski is a massive piece of shit. Poses as a Liberal, promotes the most deranged tankie crap.

The absolute disgust on his face

Summers last has a formal role in Democratic Party politics in 2010 and his last prominent appearance in national politics was as a vocal critic of the Biden Administration

ALL OF MY ENEMIES ARE PEDOPHILES AND THEY’RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER

there are gonna be so many people disappointed and coping hard about this, because there is a crowd and not all Republicans who wanted the Files to get Clinton way more than they wanted them to get Trump

This judgment of how people can find an obvious twerp impressive is a little funny from Chris Hayes

Simply put, right wing rage about trans kids is that when they shove their hand down a little girl's pants, they don't want to feel a penis.

Russiagate apology forms now

Apropos of nothing, reminded of the time when I was like 19 and playing Battlefront 2 and some people on the call were parroting the claim that Trump cut ties with Epstein the moment he found out what Epstein was doing. Wonder where those guys are now

The lack of understanding (most charitable interpretation) on here between documents that were produced by the estate under subpoena from House Oversight (lol Comer and thank u Ro, I say for the first time ever) recently and what DoJ possesses from investigations/etc is going to drive me batty

you genuinely do not hate the media enough

I suspect that what truly happened that day was that the guards were given explicit orders to stand by and let Epstein take his own life.

Tired: She was just riffing on a Johnny Cash lyric and they should have caught that and let it slide. Wired: Bluesky was right to suspend Sarah Kendzior for what she said. Inspired: Everybody should block Sarah Kendzior for being a doomer cognitohazard and then none of this matters.

Dick Durbin is the party whip and, if we are to believe reporting, ran his own side whip to effectively coup and undermine the party leader and the rest of his caucus. It doesn’t really seem like things are operating smoothly even within the Senate caucus, much less between chambers

Sarah McBride isn't an authentic voice for the trans community because she focused on saving transition care for the needy instead of important trans issues like backing my favorite Middle Eastern war criminals against their sworn rivals, slightly different Middle Eastern war criminals.

"the American middle class is shrinking" is true but the reason why is a truth nuke so devastating that nobody will ever believe you: it's mostly because people are getting richer

the key difference between America and China that i'm pointing out here is that you're posting a publicly available press release from the *American* Civil Liberties Union criticizing the United States' incarceration policies

this is more fucked than anything i’ve heard mcbride say

My dad's cousin, who works for the OKDHS, keeps hearing from her sister that actually she's been certifying "illegals" They are legally allowed refugees.

"i don't like the value judgment implied in 'that kid can't read so well'" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

This would be worse, actually. Healthcare providers are where the high prices come from! He is suggesting that consumers pay the full exorbitant prices!

This is great news but a lot of people reacting to this are unaware that US emissions have been dropping for almost 20 years

USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍