Wow a transphobe is also a huge racist, Islamophobe, and misogynist.

individuals getting blamed for systemic problems example #63829018

this is not only not prickish, this should be basic etiquette talk to people on here like you're talking to someone at a public social event: don't assume strangers want to engage with you, specifically. and if you're gonna approach, have a baseline level of respect and be prepared for rejection

For those of you too young to remember Iraq, imagine someone walking around right now wearing an ICE baseball cap.

video game journalism has a misogynoir problem. i think one of the best pieces of evidence of this problem is that you really only need one hand to list all the black women writing about games.

this is going to be more embarrassing than any of us can possibly imagine and I cannot wait

the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

“The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.” LOUDER

at best, Platner is a squishy populist with no real defined principles beyond what sounds good enough to win, and his judgement alone should disqualify him from office, but Mills is so utterly unliked that he will probably win the primary in spite of the red flags because he's got the backing.

Let me get this straight: Democrats had a plan to fund most of DHS (without giving ICE more money) this whole time. But Republicans blocked it because Trump told them to. Then, after weeks of chaos at the airports and TSA workers missing paychecks, Trump and Republicans caved. The Art of the Deal.

shout out to reading something carefully before you make an ass of yourself in a professional setting, you da real MVP

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

This is a huge part of why education is in such a crisis. There's no one in power willing to fight for it. It's a two-party consensus that a lot of it doesn't matter enough to invest in or protect.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

They're setting up Vance to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to fall for it.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Unpopular opinion alert: Chuck Schumer deserves credit for keeping his caucus in line until Republicans folded.

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

This is RAOS you can’t do this to RAOS

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

"what do you mean the president declared victory and then said iran wants to make a deal and then said no deal was necessary and that he won but that iran is being stubborn but that they're working together and gave him a nice gift", like it sounds utterly insane

there is a part of me that thinks that anyone who legitimately wants to cover trump has an impossible job because accurately describing what he says and does make you sound like a lying psychopath

I would think you could help dealerships transition to auto service centers. give them a transition strategy, a tad bit of money, and get the ball rolling with a list of 10-12 chain stores across the country that want to pilot moving into the actual dealership part that’s next to the service center

if i'm running for President i'm announcing all these people are welcome to have their jobs back with a raise as part of a new investigation into Trump

wait your telling me a candidate for president in 2028 is suggesting how we can make things better for ordinary people instead of talking about how gay his opponents are i was told no one can win this way anymore

to my new followers: i will not hold it against you when you realize most of my posts are bad. you were tricked by one good post into expecting more, and for that i apologize

Damn, why did Ric Flair stop podcasting?

one of the things i deeply believe is that a lot of people saw Trump win the Presidency twice and decided that decency and morality were for losers and girls and that the only way to exist in the world was to be a giant manly asshole and that means being a bigot is now fair play

you will not win a race to the bottom with republicans and you're a fucking fool to try, because they do not have values. you won't ever reach a gutter lower than they can, because they mock the entire idea of even having values.

It makes me feel like such an old man but I remember being a kid and hearing stuff like "you need to set a good example for others" and "it doesn't matter if everyone else is doing it"

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

people go on and on about how smart JD Vance is but anytime you force him off script he winds up saying some WILDLY idiotic shit like this where you can't tell if he's lying or just stupid (the answer is both) it's like when he said you stick gum in leaking dams all over again

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The shipper... (takes off glasses, pinches bridge of nose) The shipper chose DHL. (unable to look you in the eye) We don't know when your package will arrive. We may never know.

GIVE ME MY HD STARFOX GAME YOU COWARDS!!

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

populist mouth noises and generalized homophobia are the flavor du jour for washed would be democratic candidates right now and i need to see what data they're receiving that tells then this is a good tactic for the electorate other than hyper online white Facebook dads and moms

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

not dunking on anyone in particular but you really do not have to mention Israel anytime a democratic politician you don't like is bought up in conversation, you don't think it's antisemitic conspiracy theorizing but it kinda is

the anti-corruption, tough on white collar crime lane is WIDE THE FUCK OPEN for any democratic politician who wants a super easy thing to run on

mamdani was like "potholes suck i'll fix the potholes" and then he became mayor and started fixing potholes like this shit isnt rocket science

yeah, it sucks that rural hospitals are closing, what are you actually gonna do about it. yes, gas prices are expensive, what are you going to do to reduce dependence on foreign oil (THIS USED TO BE A THING DEMOCRATS TALKED ABOUT!). stop gesturing wildly at problems and fix some shit.

again, the trend for democrats right now is to making populist sounding prenouncements while not actually offering to fix or do anything about it. yeah, it sucks that there's long lines NOW, but how are you going to fix the fact that dealing with TSA sucks IN GENERAL

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teach it cursive

Not a problem on this website, but look at those 4 recalls we just posted and imagine getting throttled by an algorithm while trying to notify the millions of people who potentially own one of those products. This is why we can't sleep at night.

one thing a whole lot of us struggle with at times is feeling isolated and depressed and like not enough people care about what’s going on and I really cannot emphasize enough that going to a no kings protest helps this feeling a lot there are so! many! people! who hate all of this shit

you know what else they stopped teaching in school? TYPING! they assume every kid knows how to type because they use tablets and most kids can't even tell you what a Home Row is, but because that codes as tech related no one is asking to pass a law about it even though it's a crucial skill

the thing is that even if there's some evidence that teaching handwriting and/or cursive is beneficial to kids, this is still mostly a conservative reactionary movement born of a desire to retvrn to the good ol' days when a teacher could smack a kid with a ruler for writing an A incorrectly