The word 'Orwellian' is overused, but calling countries with active human rights protections 'human rights violators' is pure doublespeak.

Idk how many times people are gonna have to say "stop using ai it is literally killing us" before people listen. No not even as a joke. don't go near this shit.

Not a new movie, I'd just make Disney put out a physical release for Darby and the Dead.

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

I posit 3 things: 1) We can vastly reduce the "Drudge Work" needed to maintain this living standard with only minor adjustment, 2) humans are social animals that actually enjoy cooperation when their own needs are met, and 3) people will still want (and therefore make) money for Little Treats

The world does not need more Rush Hour, directed by a man with serious accusations against him, and the last entry featured an extended cameo from Roman Polanski, who proceeded to give the leads a "hilarious" invasive cavity search. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Terminally Online Leftists are functionally Conservative in that they believe the world is always very simple and when it's not it's because someone made it that way. For Conservatives, that "someone" is pretty much always Liberals, Jews, or Liberal Jews. For Leftists it's anyone they didn't like...

Another person who claims to be a "leftist" but is happy to pirate books. Authors are some of the worst paid workers out there, rarely coming even close to minimum wage for their work. Pirating ensure that only those who are independently wealthy or supported will be able to write and publish.

PEARL JAMBONI

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph

People like you don’t deserve to live

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

However much you hate the "health" insurance industry, you don't hate it enough, frankly.

This whole thread is full of marvelous little nuggets. Even better than chicken nuggets

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the Console Wars

This is a great lesson in why you don't make every argument you can. Even if this were true (I have my doubts), juxtaposing it against a serious charge comically undermines it. "The Defendant committed murder...and also his shoes are untied!"

For friends who are just today learning about who Nick Cave is.

It feels worth mentioning that Graham Linehan’s harassment literally continued in the courtroom, as he repeatedly misgendered Sophia, and referred to her as “Tarquin”, a fictional deadname he made up for her as part of his harassment campaign. The judge was complicit in this harassment happening.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

"Activist" is being purposely used by Sky News here to obscure the fact that Linehan had a violent outburst with a teenager.

What if we did a reverse Gävlebocken where we start with a fire goat and people have to keep adding kindling so he lasts until Christmas

It's a standard that has been adopted by large sections of the press as more and more derogatory language is used on a regular basis. Even those who 'play nice' tend to just not use any pronouns at all for trans people.

People really need to learn the value of saying “I was wrong”

More than halfway through. Part of the plot of this novel involves the leadership ignoring warnings of danger to their home because they're coming from a woman. Very Alien, but also very America.

All I'm sayin' is that we didn't bail out Ty when Beanie Babies crashed.

ok i snorted

"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz" -____________-

they are not playing 3D chess. they are fucking idiots.

This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.

A mother of 8 was sexually abused by an ICE officer. She went public with the abuse, and was deported the very next day. Her lawyer says she had a stay on her deportation order They disappeared her so she couldn’t speak out. Silvia Reyna Mendoza deserves justice. ICE should be abolished.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

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NYT salivating at the chance to make this Nazi a columnist

We've evolved from "so you hate waffles?" to "so you endorse every imperialist act of Belgium by eating waffles???"

I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things. Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum (also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)

She has it exactly backwards. The domestic deployments to date are a much weaker case for being so manifestly illegal as to justify refusal; that's a high bar. The boat strikes are outright unambiguous murder, everyone in that chain down to the one pulling the trigger has had a clear duty to refuse.

This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.

they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

This literally means that if a trans person requires GnRH blockers for cancer treatment (i.e breast or prostate), they CANNOT get cancer treatment. Insane. Absolutely insane - and deadly.

Seen a lot of people wondering why X, The Everything App would have a feature that gives away how much of the popular right wing accounts are foreign actors and this is why. They thought every left wing account would be that way because every accusation is also a confession.

The question "soldiers should obey illegal orders" ultimately boils down to "should soldiers shoot and kill opponents of the regime when the pretend dictator commands them to do so?" Whether they realize it or not, these people are arguing the regime should be allowed to kill political opponents.

Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue, Charlie Brown?

“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”