Ansari without a beard looks like a Backbench Tory MP

Polio next year

The man with the fakest job of all

Visual novel where you get interviewed by Isaac Chotiner

Mister Mamdani would you have nationalized the Prophet Muhammed's caravans y/n ?

imagining this in the tone of Colin Powell talking to the UNSC in early 2003.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Saying this on the retirement social media for hyperlexical internet geriatrics is bold

Masculinity fetishism always leads to misogyny.

Maine is the Idaho of the East Coast.

Kinda funny how "making things political makes them suck shit" doesn't really apply to anything chuds whine about but universally applies to Trump

came to me while chillin outside

Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.

You know, in hindsight that whole “inciting a genocide in Southeast Asia as a hobby project” thing he had going on was a sign Zuck‘s a bad egg…

"What side of the Emu War were the Minions on?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate.

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

How it feels posting on Bluesky instead of enjoying America on July 4th

The Founders always feared the emergence of an autocrat. Now, on its 250th anniversary, the US is under the thumb of an idiot Caesar. Everyone knows it’s a betrayal, which is why the celebrations are so muted.

Marquis de Lafayette, Toussaint Louverture, Ho Chi Minh, and basically every other colonial independence leader of the 19th and 20th century: “Damn the Declaration of Independence goes hard af” Wealthy Dallas suburbanite turned social media influencer:

Happy Fake 250th birthday! See everyone in 11 years.

This is 100% the NYPD milking the city for overtime. MSG holds events all the time without closures like this.

What no one ever considers is: What if "investing in Red America" is just politically hopeless? Can we maybe, for once, invest in blue America instead?

Is it only me, or does believing in demons disqualify you from holding public opinions?

"Hi, we're here to talk about following the PRC's lead in socialist internationalism—" "Reorient your entire economy to making Happy Meal toys for Americans." "No, there must be some—" "Help Reagan give aid to South African backed Angolan paramilitaries to kill ANC fighters and Cubans."

i genuinely do find it fascinating how being authentically "working class" in America now has nothing to do with like, your actual relationship to ownership or your wage relation/bracket, but entirely about what you consume or look like

I see it's time for the bi-monthly "a NYC DSA guy demands AOC apologize" ceremony

I think we should take all the weapons we're sending to Israel and instead send them to Ukraine.

He really picked the best possible thing to be right about, amidst getting almost everything else wrong

The thing about generalized performative cruelty is that it gradually seeps into everything you do if there's not hard lines. Most people can't be trusted with being mean, because they can't keep a hold on it. It just starts happening all the time.

the term "consequence-free sex" implies you think there should be consequences for it

"We can't make actual political parties legal in the US, but we can rebuild them in the aggregate"

becoming chief wallet inspector

“Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice … in the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York.” —Félix Guattari, 1989

lmao

Brutal, Monday morning and no one can do their banking.

i like how like basically every Anglo pundit argues that the EU is a regulatory hellhole and then also basically ponders about why Eastern Europe has been booming lately

Yes when I think of Donald Trump’s policy towards Iran, it’s how he heroically stopped bombing them that I will remember

We weren't losing wars when we had Woke

American Suez signed in Versailles feels like the generative AI that runs our reality has run out of ideas and is just repeating things.

it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general

Dems shouldn't defend shit. Let Trump defend his massive fuckup.

I think it's fine to say that Trump completely surrendered to Iran after murdering 150 schoolgirls because both of those things happened.

The world if center left parties globally were much less penis and realized the median working class person now is a CNA

Thinking white people are better is "being opposed to racial preferences" is more or less how Trump supporters see it. Unclear to me why the times editorial board sees it that way bsky.app/profile/jame...