Okay, I am going to show you something but you have to promise to remain calm:

The history of America has been forged by political violence, and contrary to the narrative being built on the news at this moment Most of that violence was at the hand of conservative white men against minorities and women throughout our history. Slavery was violence Jim Crow was violence Etc

As long as it’s us dying, not the rich, their puppet politicians or their useful idiots, it’s all fine.

anyway

truly being like "charlie kirk is what will tip us into an era of violence" when LITERALLY JANUARY 6TH HAPPENED AND THEN TRUMP PARDONED THEM ALL

Shut the fuck up friday is in full effect

As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today

democrats should be like 'we deplore this shooting and demand action on gun control right now' to make every republican go 'nah prayers are fine'

Okay I believe in magic now

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I will say that I find it weird that a lot of people are like "this is the moment that will tip us into violence" when a Minnesota politician was assassinated in her home 2 months ago and someone literally shot Trump in the head last year. how exactly is charlie kirk the tipping point

Idk about u but I don't think it's actually why fascism is happening, clowning on our enemies for having predicable consequences of their own deeply fascist actions done on them, I don't think our behavior is why fascism will happen to us more again, actually, usually it's most fash who say that

lets put zuckerberg in prison. i want to see his face as he gets sentenced

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

For like the past decade he's incited a stochastic terrorism cult centered on the Epstein files, probably not a big deal that all the most violent conspiracists who've cooked their brains in it are now squinting at him and wondering

it is my absolute pleasure to share that even the conservative reddit is starting to turn on him

Honestly it’s good to know that when a guy who spent decades hanging out with a famous pedophile and is accused of being a pedophile himself spends years hyping up the existence of pedophile files and doesn’t release them, people will only elect him president twice before they get suspicious.

Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1999 that one day Teen Vogue would be such a powerful progressive political media force that one of the world's richest men would seek to destroy it at enormous financial cost

Ranking member on oversight

A few things are clear from this: 1. Trump has lost control of the narrative. 2. Trump is panicked about what is in the Epstein files. 3. When the files get released, Trump will say they are forgeries. 4. Trump is going to target Democrats with political prosecutions.

this is the first time i’ve ever seen the replies to trump truth social post turn against him. they aren’t taking it well!

The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.

"Move fast and break things" is inescapably the philosophy of a group which has never faced real consequences for failure and to whom other people are not quite real.

“…In a ditch, covered in petrol, on fire. I think that's fun!” www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uD...

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"

This is not hyperbole or metaphor– there are a lot of techno rich that sincerely believe that we are in a simulation and that anyone beneath them isn't an intelligence.

when you think about it, it seems pretty bad that the entire American government is run by a South African billionaire and the only reason he's able to do that is the giant media machine run by an Australian billionaire. I personally think we should not have these people in our country owning things

Whenever we try to chase more conservative voters by offering them some kind of Diet GOP platform, WE LOSE. Biden openly embraced trans kids* and swept in 2020. Harris focused on how she would ALSO be tough on immigration and started trotting out the Cheneys, and her campaign tanked.

Effective altruism and all of its nerd-ass hand-maidens will have the blood of millions on their hands, thanks to the Musk-Trump regime. They were always this evil: it will be one of the 21st centuries great tragedies that too many failed to recognize this before it was too late.

We’re truly watching the so-called effective altruist go to war against actual altruists: this is the root of why they take such sick pleasure in destroying USAID.

my husband and I have a running bit where whenever traditional wisdom actually works and it pisses us off, we blame a nonspecific "they". they're right about showering. they're right about exercise. those sons of bitches

I am probably only able to write this because I live outside of the United States. If I was in America I would be afraid to post it. Even now I feel the need to stress that this article is NOT an endorsement, it is an explanation and a refusal to condemn.

they want worldwide jim crow

They never talk about AI replacing billionaire CEOs which is really weird because it’s easy to teach a machine how to be a fucking parasite.

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

every day of my life i wake up, read the worst scariest thing i've ever read, scroll down and immediately see a democrat scolding their constituents for begging them to do something about it and i wonder when enough will be enough and at this point i'm forced to assume the answer is "never"

I do think that the odds of crypto bros ending up hanging from America’s gas stations also goes way way up if they suddenly impoverish every normal American in a deranged attempt to jack up crypto value.

Really wondering if this is throwback robber baron stuff, like buying vacant land ahead of a railroad. They'll end leases to restart them in buildings they own/lease. Commercial real estate ain't hard to find or to buy these days.

We need to trust our eyes. Nazi salutes, racist purges, an ambush on the Ukrainian president by a far-right regime. If what we see aligns with what we know and is also in line with an established track record, our default assumption should be that what is happening is actually what it looks like.

All the most maddow-brained winemom Russiagate stuff was basically true and Trump just successfully covered it up by firing people, pardoning co-conspirators and obstructing justice. And the media (who likes Trump and wants to help him win) helped him.

Notably they already failed this test on immigration and it has gotten them nothing

Ketamine gave me my life back. It's helped some of the folks I love most in the world. Some of whom would not be here without it. I know I wouldn't be. What it doesn't do is make you a fascist.

If you've read the "employee handbook" Mr beast wrote for his workers you can't really conclude this is anything other than criminal negligence