it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Eight whole minutes so far, of the lads very specifically deriding the idea that McSweeney may have paid a bicycle ninja to steal his phone. Precisely that idea, in isolation. Fans of the art of columnists pretending to not understand things they do understand will be in hog heaven, here.

Absolutely top notch lobby journo “Nothing is fucked” here, as the guys kick off hooting and snorting at the idea Morgan paid a bike-assassin to rob him in the street. Insane, ludicrous! Is that what people are saying, though? Could there be somewhat more to all this that can’t be giggled away.

Delighted to explain that the lads so not mean “Don’t tell your readers McSweeney and friends are ‘whistleblowers’ and repeat their most idiotic lies and bullshit”, or “Don’t invite Peter Mandelson to lie to your listeners”. They mean “How to make it sound like nothing weird or bent is going on”.

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Really glad that police are gonna start arresting Palestine Action supporters again. In the time since they stopped making arrests, we have seen a huge explosion in Palestine Action-related terror attacks with a whopping zero people killed and zero more injured.

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I teach early childhood educators at my community college and many of them become daycare workers. Could not agree more.

The media political establishment across the West is absolutely *fuming* that their dogged insistence that black is white and shit smells like fresh daisies isn't convincing the general public any more.

The halls of power have become far more socially conservative that the rest of the country, on a wide variety of issues. But I don't think people see the extent as clearly as they could. The anti-trans push of the Biden years was never aimed at the public. It was for the pundits.

"In other words, it appears to be LaBeouf’s position that he — as a sexual abuser — may discuss Ms. Barnett’s trauma and suffering whenever he wants without restriction but that Ms. Barnett — as the survivor — is prohibited from discussing LaBeouf or her story."

If there is a video of him getting his phone nicked, then that’s fine and it clears the matter up.

I don’t think anyone’s saying he hired a Phone Assassin to rob him. They’re saying he pinged it into the river and then told the cops it had been stolen. This one can be satisfactorily cleared up with a bit of CCTV, and I’m sure the cops are looking into it as we speak.

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this is somehow going to end in India joining Iran's side in the strait war, don't ask me how, it's just that kind of timeline

both afghanistan and pakistan border iran btw if you want a really fun fact. and Iran has an afghan diaspora of millions. just in case you needed more gunpowder in that barrel of regional escalation

The late, great Richard Ben Cramer dropping some serious truth bombs in the 2005 preface to the paperback of HOW ISRAEL LOST: THE FOUR QUESTIONS —

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No argument about Streeting being scum, but *also* - they're not fixing the bloody potholes.

They always use the word "brigade" when it's a group of people who disagree with them but who are right. This reads like "House fire is exactly what fire brigade wants" no they have just been telling you not to fry chips while drunk for the last 50 years.

But George, what if we go through fitting solar panels and batteries to all our houses and the oil price comes back down. And I'm left with nothing except a clean and essentially free source of power forever? What then man?!

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Pretending this is just Netanyahu, or even his fascist party, is a mistake. This is simply Israeli culture, no different than apartheid South Africa, no different than the Confederacy

Would the wizard lady name me Faggsley Twinkletoes, or Kingboulevard Hausnegger? I don’t think there’s room in her writing process for two stereotypes

There is no way government emails should be only natively stored on a device and if they are the CTIO should be fired

The way this government thinks we don’t know about backups or cloud storage they treat us like we’re 5

Is it good that the entire media goes on a massive pants shitting screaming fit every time someone who disagrees with Thatcherism gets even vaguely within spitting distance of popularity?

You can just do Islamophobia on the cover of your magazine; it's so normalised now that you don't even have to worry

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

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First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

None of the panel seem concerned with *how* a government’s supposed to sell “sorry you’re fucked now, put a jumper on if you’re cold LOL” when the *why* is “Israel had some uh important business to sort out which unfortunately hasn’t gone as well as expected.”

here is an illuminating exercise: count all the first person pronouns in the posts of someone who claims to be pro-palestinian liberation—ah but it’s so complicated and tragic, shucks

this is the difference between “ah shucks what a deplorable atrocity” and “it was genocide”. that is what these nihilists and hypocrites want to make hash of. this is what they call “magic words” and “purity tests”.

I said this before, but I think people recommending other fantasy series to replace Harry Potter are barking up the wrong tree. That wasn't what made it popular. It's that people love cordoning themselves into little groups they can be loyal to, yet pretend it was fate. "Houses" was the key imho

its the paradox of the online gun owner all over again are there people who can be trusted with home firearms, yes. are any of them the people who think the Internet needs to know about their everyday carry setup: good god no

... ... ... See. THIS type of shit is exactly why Sun Tzu's Art of War was written. Because nobles who wouldn't dare set foot on a battlefield were becoming in charge of this sort of shit. So an exasperated general had to very carefully write a guide they would read.

“…Among other things, deeply corrupt governments tend to be very bad at waging war, no matter how much they may exalt “warrior ethos” & “lethality.” When we do a post-mortem on how the 🇮🇷 debacle happened, arrogant ignorance may still get top billing. But grotesque venality will come a close second.”

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

In an exceptionally good year, corn ethanol provides 100-101% of the energy that was input as fertilizer, tractor fuel, pesticides, and distillation. In an average year, it’s 98 to just under 100%. In bad years, turning petrocarbons into corn to turn into carbohydrate fuel is a waste of petroleum.

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

When I got my furby tattoo (which I will never regret because furbies are perfect), both of the tattoo artists in the room said that a) my furby tattoo was awesome & b) that Harry Potter tattoos were the most common thing they had been asked to do cover ups for & that it was an industry wide issue.

whenever a lib does the "why don't you hate muslims, you stupid queer?" bit, i should be allowed to throw them off a roof