When marketing (hype) meets engineering (physics). The laws of physics are the only set of laws the MAGA/Tate/etc sort of people won't violate, and only because they can't.

LMAO

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

I only managed to listen to 45 seconds of whatever we are calling that performance last night. It was like watching a mashup of all of the Saturday Night Live skits patted and formed into a dim-witted humanoid with butthole lips spewing Nazi talking points.

Ah yes, prices are coming down tremendously if you only look at the prices that came down.

Kristi Noem claimed a few months ago that they arrested the girlfriend of the leader of Antifa and that was going to lead to the prosecution of the entire “organization.” What happened with that? Any updates?

The trick of these extreme religious cultures is making real life so impossibly awful that escaping into an available fantasy is very appealing, then making sure their alternate reality is the only one available.

It's really been maddening watching this play out. This isn't even satire or a joke. This is a hair's breadth away from being a literal description of what the last ten+ years have been like in the U.S.

It makes sense when you recognize that white supremacy is a tenant of their actual "religion".

There’s no need to treat these people as anything but the sordid rabble of crooks and grifters and subnormal bigots that they are.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Did they kill all these sailors, too?

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

We know, dude.

The youths will never know the satisfaction of defragging a hard drive after uninstalling a bunch of stuff.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

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“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man how to fish and Pete Hegseth will murder him.”

This government would LOVE to make every single living soul on "our soil" re-apply for their citizenship, with gas chambers out back ready to go.

Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

Love Bertrand Russell. I think it's not a coincidence that most people aren't familiar with him and our civilization is a wreck.

The Supreme Court is doing naked partisanship the right way. - Ezra Klein

They want impunity to kill whoever they don't like, for whatever reason they claim. Fishermen. Immigrants. Protesters. Political opponents.

Juries have been one of the few checks against tyrannical government that have held up the way they're supposed to.

They need to release this video to the public

imo, this is actually a very common problem with people. Because we can't know everything, we're often left to our instincts to decide who to listen to, and too many people will accept confidence as a proxy for correctness.

SHEEP: This meeting of the Wolves Who Eat Sheep Club seemed pretty cool at first, but I started to get a feeling that I wasn't being treated the same as everyone else.

Brett Kavanaugh cracking open a cold one and watching this in his recliner.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

HEGSETH: I was fogging the war when I said, "Kill them all." You can't know if someone is there for sure, so maybe no one was there and I didn't order them to kill anybody! BAM! Case closed! It's WHISKEY time!

LMAO "So against wokeness I sleep all da tyyyyyymmmmeee!!!!"

Why did they do a second strike if they didn't see that someone was there? They were blowing up flaming wreckage just to make a "BOOM SPLOOSH!" noise and pump his fists?

I feel like these rhetorical games, as described so well by @davidjroth.bsky.social , wouldn't work so well if people were more decent, so the mirror this holds up to society is showing something very dark that social media has allowed us to see in a way we couldn't before.

Is there a Human Centipede version of throwing people under the bus?

According to the US Coast Guard, the year prior to Trump changing our policy to summary execution, only 21% of the vessels interdicted by them off the coast of Venezuela suspected of trafficking drugs had drugs on board. The other 79% had nothing. But now we just kill them all.

The threat posed by AI is indirect. It presents society with an uncertain situation which tempts us to make a series of horrible mistakes in response. It's like terrorism that way. 9/11 wasn't an existential threat to us DIRECTLY, but boy did it cause us to overreact in all the wrong ways.

Neo-Nazi administration.

LMAO

But I'm trying. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd.

When Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern send material asking for donations, do they include links to a Trump SuperPAC so donors don't have to bother with a middle man?

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.