Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

Imagine telling someone in 2005 that young Republican males would be doing travel ads for the Taliban

Holy shit, the ads I'm getting on Facebook atm!

The Geely showroom looks like it feel off the bland tree and hit every greyscale branch on the way down. The perfect car for people who are looking for the most forgettable crossover money can buy.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Not taking pain relief medication to own the libs

century of national humiliation

The hypocracy is a feature not a bug. They don't care if you call them out on it

I wonder if there's a bit of self reflection from some people in the media on how they treat orgs like the free speech union, who clearly don't care about free speech. So many of us have been yelling at them not to take their claims at face value.

Who are the free speech guys going to silence next for saying things they don't like.

Three days of the Condor is fantastic (if a little bit problematic in some parts). It's worth a watch in honour of Robert Redford. Not his most famous movie but often overlooked.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

It's really hard to explain to normies who wish things were more authoritarian coz they want more efficiency and competence, that authoritarian regimes are actually in practice extremely incompetent at almost everything and extremely inefficient. Democracies actually being order. The Empire doesn't

Pretty sure the Free Speech guys will say nothing about this, and if they do it'll be pro firing the guy for his speech.

All the VSPs out there abasing themselves to lionize Kirk and, hilariously, the toxic narcissist at the top can't even pretend to give a shit.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

When you have a really uncommon first name it's kinda wild when every other post on the internet is like "(my first name) deserved it".

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

After owning a Skoda for a few months I totally get why the police chose them. They are extremely comfortable seats if you're planning on spending a lot of time in a car. Much more so that the sportier and newer Peugeot that's our primary car. Also they have just insane amounts of boot space.

This is something to keep in mind the next time a CEO says they're unhappy about climate policy or online safety. These rich guys are all a pack of spineless cowards. The state always has more power than them and they know it.

Who could have guessed that meeting the other side halfway just means they move further right. If only there was some political theory that described this concept.

Dems: [rearranging the deck chairs and writing their next book] Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager:

I think it's important to remember in times like this - nothing good ever happens.

I think some liberals haven't come to terms with the fact that some people actually want all those fascist things that are happening. Pointing those things out won't make them like it less. There aren't a lot of non-violent ways of dealing with fascists who want you dead or in a camp.

The median German citizen was not killed or imprisoned during the Third Reich, so it’s hard to see how anti-Nazism is a winning message for the left.

The Simpsons garbage man episode was perhaps the best predictor of the future than any other thing the Simpsons predicted. It really captured the thought process of the average voter - as in voting on vibes.

Ex-National Ministers Key and Joyce have ended up on the Boards of oligopolies- ANZ and Foodstuffs. Today’s National Party Govt decision to do nothing about supermarket duopoly, follows the decision to partially privatise Kiwibank.

These are rubbish. Just 7, yes only 7 cookies in the box. And they didn't even taste all that great. I can bake better cookies.

Tonight's unplanned meal with stuff I found in the fridge. Japanese curry with Karaage chicken on rice. Side of Brussel sprouts in garlic chilli oil, and some kale chips.

Made some Caldo Verde. Portuguese soup with chorizo, kale and potatoes.

Perfect. Those words the consultants say Dems should stop using? They don't use them. *Republicans* use them... in the process of saying that Dems use them.

Wtf is this shit

Someone at Lenovo is trying to scam Govt departments by charging $11,475 for a Māori keyboard. No way this shit costs any more than a couple dollars.

I think we have to admit that one reason there's no "liberal Joe Rogan" is that anyone on the left who actually starts acting a little wild, drawing a little attention, making a little fuss ... immediately draws shitloads of criticism & scolding from other people on the left.

On the first guess. Lol 🟩 ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛ flagsgame.net

Me only just now realising that mevo is an anagram of move...

When Richard Prebble thinks your campaign strategy is a good idea, it probably isn't.

Cbf cooking so made roast cauliflower with miso butter and toasted sesame. And a mains of butter beans & Burlotti beans in Spanish paparika sauce. Compared to Indian cooking this is fast and easy.

That sums it up. The systems are only as good as the culture. And the ghouls like Rupert Murdoch have created the culture that abhors morals and shame.

Them: How much time do you spend online? Me: yesterday I had a dream where I was looking in a mirror but my head was all large and round like that JD Vance meme but with my face.

Has he considered giving Trump a golden calf? I doubt Trump has read the Bible so he definitely won't see any negatives.

Nothing will prepare you for how ugly that new Kia ute looks in person. I'd include a pic but some of you might be eating around now.

Never judge a book by its cover!

The thing is South Park can't shame someone like JD Vance who doesn't have any shame. He'd literally fuck a couch on live TV if Trump told him to. If they had any shame or moral fibre they wouldn't be where they are.

When you're up against pedo dog murdering Nazis, and still losing it's less about your candidate or policy, and more about the massive propaganda network that makes this all acceptable for so many people.

Shifting all drivers to RUCs is one of those things that will annoy most voters for very little gain. I'm guessing they'll schedule the changeover to after the election.

Seeing Director Krennic in Place beyond the Pines as a deadbeat redneck was a real holy shit moment

If National lose the next election it'll be like how the Dems lost because of the "price of eggs" but with butter. And yes that would be hilarious.

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?