Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

I wish we didn’t have to pick up the tab for his mother’s refusal to hug him as a child.

almost literally Trump tonight

After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?

Per the Bible, Jesus specifically identified himself with the poor, the people others turn away (and he suggested you likely go to hell if u do that), and those in prisons

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

hmm

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

This has 100% happened. The DOGE boys have an unmonitored, unsecured Signal chat where they make their plans and openly exchange data that are completely illegal for them to have viewed, let alone exfiltrated.

Trump should lean into the bit with the shoes thing. Clown shoes, high heels, those wooden shoes the Dutch wear, and so forth. Test the limits of what he can get away with.

It actually rules to watch LLM centrism develop in real time. "Ok yes, tech bros are taking things way too far but LLM skeptics are just as silly, surely we can all agree that it's a transformative new technology and we all need to get onboard" and like, bro. Bro. We know who's side you're really on

this is...insane???

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

I laughed out loud at this because it's true.

Marching orders are given. "That school had it coming." See it parroted by influencers and media outlets.

We have, by far, the biggest, most expensive military in the world not to mention enough nukes to eradicate the entire world population dozens of times over, but we're supposed to believe we're also so feeble we were at risk of attack by a military a fraction of our size. Complete and utter bullshit

you know who wasn’t so fucking stupid as to start a war with iran with no strategy or conceivable purpose? george w bush. george w bush knew that was stupid as shit. george w bush.

boomers aren’t allowed to complain about nixon anymore. i’d kill for nixon right now.

I would watch a West Wing remake named "Everyone Hates JD."

True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.

the united states may be the leading world exporter of radicalization.

Fox News is not news

the U.S. military has been undermanned for years, we are absolutely unready for any kind of meaningful conflict. i imagine the regime will back out before they try to force a draft. it would not go well for them.

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

The discourse about not being ‘surprised’ is entirely unhelpful. These are depraved acts and we should act with shock and horror every time they are perpetrated lest they become normalized. This doesn’t mean we are ignorant.

And I swear to you the Venn diagram of people who don't want gay characters in kids' shows and people who demand that antiblack cartoons from the past remain uncensored and free of warning labels is a single circle.

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

it's fascinating how most presidents don't have a button to lower prices, but donald john trump has created USS Enterprise levels of buttons for generating inflation

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

People got real mad at Biden for looking at his watch during a dignified transfer. Looking forward to the same outrage at Trump for wearing a fucking hat

This whole thing is just batshit fantasy atop batshit fantasy.

I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.

Yeah, that seems like a good idea!

Me (looking at the world): Things really suck. Existence is pretty soul crushing right now. Nintendo: you wanna ignore it and go hang out with Pokemon? You can build them little houses and decorate them. Me: ...yes? I will spend approximately a billion hours doing that.

There is literally no way to find a real life fox that attractive and that’s sort of the dealbreaker for folks, most real life foxes just want to eat chickens and not be sexy

"Iran is a big country, filled with many Iranians." -> things our media apparently does not know

just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order: 1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost 2. this is unprecedented and because of me 3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost 4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders

This is the big irony; the best-case scenario for Trump is that the Islamic Republic survives, which lets everybody declare victory in three weeks and go home so the media can anoint him with a Triumph and make fancams of explosions. State collapse or civil war makes this impossible to end.

imagine the media coverage of the Iran withdrawal (if it gets to that point)

Remember how this guy lobbied hard to get a pardon for a war criminal who slaughtered children? Turns out that’s literally his entire philosophy of armed conflict

What an absolutely psycho thing to say.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Yes exactly.

me: you think somewhere there's a taxidermist who uses a stuffed pig as a piggy bank? wife: we don't actually have to talk about every thought you have

Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports. Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else." Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.

I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%