The homoeroticism is a result of the misogyny, not its cause. A subset of these guys are so misogynistic that they think that women's sexual attraction to and desire for men is irrational, therefore the rational thing to do is to perform desirability for other men.

Speaking of the stroller, a *lot* of this is gendered

Having the kid in the stroller did really make me realize how fucked things are for wheelchair users, especially in the winter

the idea that supreme court reform would lead to the dissolution of the republic is a very stark demand that republicans be enabled to rule for eternity, and whatever else david french says about the republican party, this is what he actually believes

the basic problem with David French is that he accepts that tremendous evil has been done to give his ideology power which he himself admits it has done nothing but misuse, but he is willing to threaten the mass murder of the people whom it has been misused against if it is ever taken away

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Fascinating article that makes the case for indigenous discovery and habitation on Bluesky's favorite South Atlantic islands. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

it will be a point of punditry to basically say running two attractive millennials is cheating

an underappreciated downside of hiring a particularly stupid senator with no law enforcement experience as the head of your law enforcement agency is that he’s too thick to know his statements in that capacity will be used against his agency successfully in court

Decided to look through the last issue of the Theosophical Society's "Quest Magazine" and perhaps unsurprisingly it's all-in on AI psychosis, articles about using AI as daimon to access the world's wisdom and LLM generated "conversation" between "Blavatsky" and "Krishnamurti"

the fox news guys and hegseth heard about VDV day in st petersburg and were like "man that sounds awesome, i wish our troops were like that"

What is the republic when the president can do no crime and has his own personal kill squads?

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

That's not the Capitol, that's Barad-dûr.

The Great Gatsby

people who get precious about driving in NYC are like universally insane, it's basically the worst place in the western hemisphere for driving and you have to hate yourself and humanity generally at least a little bit to willingly do it.

My two kids fight a lot, and I know it's not because they hate each other. It's because they are stuck with each other all the time and there's no one else to fight with.

The big news outlets (NYT, ABC, etc.) often dismiss their critics, particularly people who use social media. But the coverage of last night's speech was actually pretty honest---and therefore scathing. People on here and other places demanding less false equivalence/both sides are getting results.

If you told me that the first guy was a PCI MP from 1987 I'd believe it.

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

I used to think this was silly but it's basically all just objectively true and is only silly insofar as we act like it's silly to say out loud

Trump's speech was nothing. It wasn't a Reichstag Fire moment or the end of democracy or a national emergency or anything. It was a hoarse old man shouting about how wronged he is and how pathetic our country is. Nobody is listening anymore.

Yeah no the folks who are like, "we don't need the government! community will take care of us!" are basically just libertarians for the left. Is your seven-person homesteading polycule going to monitor parasites that cause explosive diarrhea or what?

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

This is painful to listen to because Miller is trying so hard to make his voice deeper.

Left wing groups worked with right wing groups in 2003 to stop redevelopment of a nuclear plant in TN. Now that area is a private prison ran by core civic.

Never in my life have I ever wanted anything less than to hear what people who look like this think about politics.

Oh please oh please oh please

God I love how their rivalry basically turned into this

Hero of the Republic. Merrick Garland. I know SCOTUS legalized bribery, but come ON. That drop under Obama is insane.

Metaxis thinks he's Dietrich Bonhoffer but he's really Julius Evola, who became a paraplegic because he liked to go for walks in Vienna during Allied bombing raids.

In these matters, it pays to see the United States as something of a laggard, absorbing developments which have been apparent in other societies for much longer.

Talarico: "When I first heard this low T thing, I had to look it up. Guys my age aren't really worried about that kind of thing."

I think it’s nutty to argue that we can’t diagnose Donald Trump with NPD just because we haven’t performed an exam. What is a doctor going to get in a brief exam that we haven’t gotten a thousand times over in our ten years of constant public exposure? It’s not exactly a close call on the diagnosis.

You could write a whole thesis on the rhetorical brilliance of the wording "I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans"

The corruption in the Trump regime is one of the main reasons its policy is so fucked up and disjointed, not some extra evil tacked on. Everyone involved is constantly optimizing for chaos in order to seize a little vig for themselves. And it produces a mutually abusive relationship w/ markets.

There's a great moment in Isaac Butler's "The Perfect Moment" about the 2LiveCrew obscenity trial where Henry Louis Gates testified that they were using absurd hyperbole for comic effect in a way that's common in Black culture and the white jurors were just like "no we think this is hilarious too"

Heather's brain is 200% fried. I'm reading this live as I post, and everything she says is going to be a trip, I bet.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

And they marveled at the Beast, saying "Who can contend with the Beast? Who can make war against him?"

I think rural red areas should have hospitals and mail and broadband but I want people to be clear eyed about what rural America is and isn’t, and what it definitely emphatically isn’t is a sleeping giant of left wing revolutionaries in waiting or even a reliable source of potential Democrat voters.

My first impression: "oh it's a generic solidarity with POWs flag ig probably Trump's shenanigans" Me after reading about the organizatiom that came up with the flag and who sponsored the bill that made it mandatory:

Ha ha ha, silly Argentina can't get over losing the Falklands more than 40 years ago. Americans would never do that. Anyway, I'm off to my local post office.

Is it weird and worrying that the closest to an universal national slogan [other than football] since the last military dictatorship points back to a bloody war of choice initiated by the last military dictatorship? It damn is. But not I think unique to the country.

"So we do what the other teams did: Get some early points and park the bus." "Did that work for them?" "No, but it could work for us."

Sun City employed a lot of people. Many of those people were low wage workers. The international boycott of Sun City absolutely negatively hurt those workers because bosses used the boycott to justify cutting their wages. It was VERY GOOD that the Sun City boycott was popular bc it worked.

“single man does not want to work in a field where he is a grain of rice in a giant plate full of women” is also a very strange thing for me to imagine

If the invasion hadn't happened the islands would be run by Argentina now.

The people who proposed it are seditious in my view.