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mods? mods? mods?

Video Game micro-transactions predate the 2012-2013 interactions with Kotick by more than a decade. Even if you ignore mobile gaming or the Asian Market: The “Horse Armor” scandal with Bethesda was 2008. EA & FIFA introduced lootbox mechanics in 20009.

I remember a lot of poasters who are now claiming they backed the Dems in '24 actually making gags about writing Harris in for water manager or wtv in November. these guys made social media into a total anti-Harris three-ring circus—while never saying anyone should vote for Trump, of course! /3

This is the thing that always blows my mind about Trump v US: presented with the very real circumstances of a president who violated federal law, the majority decide to treat it as a theoretical creative writing exercise, and treat those real circumstances as a far flung hypothetical.

Cheney is like "I'm obnoxiously conservative and Trump is so bad I can't vote for him even though I prefer his policies, so I will vote for the only other option" and the dumbest people alive were (apparently) like "well, now I can't vote for Harris."

I wish I could inject the crypto crash into my veins

I don't think any discussions of the knowledge class should focus on journalists.

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

every single Movement in my living memory that's had something genuinely important to the betterment of our culture has been, without fail, parasitized by agitators and useful idiots who fucked it dry of anything good and important and hard and true it was demanding of us as people

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

libs have done more good for the world than anarchists end skeet

I love it when someone's posts are far more insulting as to their character than anything I could come up with

You say this like a gotcha, but is the purpose of the protest the self-actualization of the protestors, or changing some political condition? because if it’s the latter then it does seem like being effective is better than being ineffective, yeah.

Looking at youtube comments for literally any boomer music video is a great way to feel things.

They will be singling tales of the valorous torching of that dumpster in the fabled halls of Sto-Vo-Kor

Lord please give me the power to not let Mamdani's crazy fans negatively polarize me against the man.

I think the main professional activists who haven't horribly failed their issues of choice over the last two decade are the YIMBYs?

Hey, it’s your gal, the queen of antifa. I’m here to remind you all that Will Stancil is a little bitchboy who doesn’t take opsec seriously. This is why you should listen to me, the open Hamas supporter encouraging you to commit arson on social media instead.

unigiri 🍙

Also a lot of organizers, by their own admission, have never had a single success. The world is only getting worse and worse and they can't even get Dem politicians on their side. Like, if you don't have examples of success, a theory of success would be nice.

jeffrey epstein insulting people is actually extremely funny. you have been measured against the standards of the worst person alive and found wanting

Kinda surprised that Blanchard isn't in the Epstein files so far

Admit it, if I had said two years ago “donald trump could audibly shit himself during a live press event and reporters would find a way not to care” you would’ve rolled your eyes and said I was being dramatic

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Hate to be a broken record but these guys are absolutely in full on conspiracy mode about Israel and the Epstein files. Hasan has 3 million followers. Not fringe.

The last time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta they enacted the largest expansion of public welfare in half a century through Obamacare. The last time Democrats had a trifecta they spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to fight climate change and tax credits for families.

His social circle includes people who only go to Thailand for that which is why he accused the cave diver. Guy was so certain calling him a pedo would pan out

The unitary executive as license to loot the U.S. Treasury.

How on Earth are people still doing "Both parties are the same" in the Year of Our Lord 2026? Even Uncommitted is like "We never said we were committed to being uncommitted."

Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks Probably nothing! 🙃🥶

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

Meanwhile:

also Sarah McBride is actually doing a lot of good for the trans community

The op against the pussy hats was so effective it’s crazy. Millions women cowed into going “oh gosh was that rude of us??? I’m sorry!!!” but wokely, even as they suffer the biggest setback to their rights in a generation

Would be really nice if the media cared to cover how Republicans hate the idea of good governance

Reminder the guy who primarily funded the anti-Cop City protests is a trust fund millionaire communist with a sex cult and an oedipal complex (and his fixation on Cop City is directly a manifestation of said complex)

The notable leftist victories in the primaries proxying for leftist-lib social media slapfights have all been some degree of wrecker. Kinda telling

ed markey thinks you're an idiot

It’s no wonder that Americans are now more low trust now than four years ago after Lina Khan’s aggressive anti-trust actions.

my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.

you can't just throw up your hands and say "well, BruiserCrusher is an autonomous agent so no one is responsible if he sends a little kid to the emergency room"

Mutual Aid is the Leftist version of the Flat Tax

And maybe this level of reasoning and introspection is unreasonable to expect from a random citizen who is seeing their neighbors snatched or killed by the state. Totally fair. But a professional writer?

And would happily deny whichever group of "those people" they could at any given point.

So to recap: Trump & Republicans are in full retreat, congressional Republicans are making tons of concessions to Democrats, & all of the sudden a bunch of accounts, both big & small, are working overtime to dampen enthusiasm for anyone left-of-center on here.

The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40