this is always tempting to say but the reality is that there’s lots of great art made by conservatives wherein even the art sometimes shares their values, it just rarely happens anymore because these guys hate books and art and stuff now

There's a very funny disconnect where a lot of casual people who don't follow the details will still be like "Why don't you condemn the theocrats in Saudi Arabia??" and then the actual Israel and US foreign policy professionals are like "Saudi Arabia, bastion of liberty, home of the free, etc".

How the fuck did libs get every pro sport except for UFC and men's hockey?

I Will Not Dunk Repost but I actually do believe that being part of an organized religion with a long history is, in fact, different from believing in healing crystals because the former gives you a starting point for thinking about existential questions whereas the latter is just false.

My sports haterdom is: 1. The New England Patriots 2. The Houston Astros 3. The entire Southeastern Conference

“AOC is right:The bigger ambition is to change the world, not just to be the one in the position to change it. To borrow from Hannah Arendt, action, “the political activity par excellence,” entails starting processes that, through the plurality & interconnectedness of humans, multiply consequences”

After UFC, college football has got to be one of the most reactionary/right-wing sports in the country, right?

Yeah people talk about partisanship in economic sentiment like it’s completely irrational but my perspective on the economic outlook flipped the night that Trump won and think that’s been pretty justified? Like I couldn’t foresee he’d fuck things up by closing Hormuz but I knew he’d fuck things up.

Misogyny is at the root of fascism. Hatred of the human is at the root of fascism. Is Paxton a “real man”? Sure, he’s in an ancient, ugly tradition of manhood. One that does its best to deny its humanity and the humanity of others. Let’s none of us take his bait and “debate” “manhood.”

I didn’t learn how to become dateable from the Internet. I think my only saving grace was being more cynical than most, where whenever I looked for tips online, I thought “well, THIS online nerd can’t be right, he wouldn’t be here otherwise”. I figured it out by working as a cashier, barista, etc

I think this was basically an incel conspiracy: some guys got together on the internet and concocted a new version of masculinity that, rather than being based on the achievement of widely-recognized cultural ideals, required only loyalty to that group’s project, plus a few arbitrary shibboleths.

Wes Moore, if you're listening, this is your chance to turn the Maryland Defense Force into the woke CDR.

I really cannot overstate how good employees - especially tech employees - are at optimizing for whatever metric you are paying attention to, performance-wise you had better make good and fucking sure you want a lot of something if you’re going to put up a damn leaderboard

Speaking of my current project I'm obsessed with right now: If you ever had a truly creepy Disney World experience, I'd love to read about it. I'm especially looking for creepy 1970s Disney World anecdotes. Please repost so I can hear from more people!

I don't remember anyone valorizing the traits they are so hot on. I learned traditional things about men and women --but it was all completely different than this narrative. I can't figure out if it arises from a subculture they are raised in or if it is just invented whole cloth. It's very ANXIOUS.

you can’t be a secular humanist as i am and say well also i believe the spheres in orbit cause me to be happy or that my future can be controlled by buying clear rocks. two completely incompatible things. just not how it works my guy you pick whichever one you want but you get one.

Controversial opinion: for a large-scale fleet-on-fleet action, the Battle of Endor remains undefeated for managing multiple perspectives and giving them all visual and dramatic heft - despite being technically far more limited than modern copy-paste CGI fleets.

I love Kurosawa for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that the end of Ran shows an old chivalrous, feudal order being swept away by modern firearms, but only after he's spent two hours showing us that the old order was equally as violent.

It's genuinely funny a 74 year old senator got played by the most obvious conman ever and is now posting passive aggressively like a pre-teen who hasn't learned subtlety yet.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism

Everyone always spreading the lie that Argentina was a magnet for fleeing nazis when the germans there actually arrived in like 1850. No one wants to face the truth that their right wing segment has same origin as the American North East's: 4th-5th generation Italian Americans

Was there a maximum height limit for this thing?

One-state reality aka annexation has already happened

Blue Origin rocket test, 28 May 2026

Bumping this reply. I do not think the problem is the American people or public opinion. The problem is our Supreme Court is packed and corrupt. The people cannot pay attention to detailed constitutional law while a corrupt Roberts Court rewrites the constitution case by case.

This is my number one frustration with a particular strain of chart bro. If you have reported consumer sentiment way down, but your standard fundamentals aren't aligning, then the obvious answer is the data is missing something, not mass hysteria.

oh wow it's that thing that was only happening in everybody's heads

The reason Time Magazine had a cover that just said "Why?" after Columbine was because we didn't want to say the obvious, because the obvious was horrifying in a way that few things are; so we make them out to be replacement level disturbed individuals in a vacuum with no context whatsoever.

I'm convinced you could stop this guy's heart with a sufficiently incredulous, coolly mean-spirited "what the fuck are you talking about?"

this is what's driving the "no one wants to date someone from the other party" dynamic too. it's pretty easy to have a relationship with someone who's conservativism is quietly wanting lower taxes and regulatory tweaks. modern conservatives just want to own the libs and scream about it

the seed of truth here is that any guy my age who is a right-winger is almost 100% going to be batshit crazy, which creates the illusion of a vast right-wing shift among genz because there are a disproportionate number of insane right-wing men relative to generations before *gestures at all of this*

It would be very funny to see him get settled only to have Millei get impeached or lose an election because of crypto scams.

Republicans elected a showtunes guy who couldn’t name an obscure wide receiver from the 2000s if his life depended on it

"Wah I don't like either party now" from any trump voter is a W, we take those

I am starting to come around to the idea that they might be stupid enough to try this it will last fifteen minutes before every single person who uses an airport, which includes every rich person in this country and everyone who works at a television network, throws an apocalyptic shitfit

I’m paying in-state college tuition rates to send my kid to daycare for two days a week and no one at any level is going to do anything about it now or by the time she’s old enough to go to public school or possibly within my lifetime

So this guy is a paratrooper who, along with Mike Flynn, was part of Army leadership on January 6th.

It's really funny that neighborhoods that were built in the pre-car era are basically the urbanist version of low-background steel except we could just choose to build new ones whenever we felt like it.

I blocked them but before I did I saw a pro-Israel account having a meltdown about how the US doesn't 'control' Israel, and, you know, lol

ICE is hiring for concentration camp doctors on LinkedIn.

Honestly, FIFA and Adidas should be grateful that I'm too large for knockoff soccer jerseys.

Ahahahahahahahaha

It’s a dumb name but a good idea. People are never going to support higher broad based taxes and expansive public spending if they are not routinely assured that the money is being handled responsibly this is just good governance and open and transparent city government.

neat, frinkiac got a built-in way to stitch together frames

People are going to have to internalize just how much illiberalism is necessary to get us out of this, and just how dangerous that is.