righteous gemstones was a documentary

The host of the Great Australian Bake-off has spoken:

SPREE (2020) is good. My friends all disagree. They are wrong. Joe Keery rocks

no charlie kirk joke i make will be as funny or insensitive as this

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

everyone has already got the explicit discourse on this covered so i will simply add its insanely funny to say this as the developer of games where you kill like. ten thousand guys

this is who we're forced to have a national conversation about lol

I have already stated how I feel about pop culture as a political organizing principle (spoiler alert: I'm very much FOR it)

this exists it is called thinking

He's turning into Ursula Le Guin

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

it is so telling about the state of democrats that, facing this, they see it as easier for them to give up than change anything about themselves

Democrats simply addicted to losing and not knowing anything, they get a rush from it

Ok let’s be clear that the recent events are part of a trend for Disney

'Ginkgo Tree' (1965) Shiro Kasamatsu

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

single issue voter on bulldozing the ballroom on live tv after sanding the names of the donors off

getting the special starbucks order honoring charlie kirk (flat white with a hole poked in the side of the cup)

do we think the response to LLM/AI would be different if the technology wasn't inherently tied to rapacious silicon valley capitalism?

"the very rich man from television is a bigger victim than the normie who was jailed and might be deported for opposing genocide" is about as pure a distillation of what it means to be a member of the ruling media class as you will get

"Right now, Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is doing politics the righ5 way

we gotta destroy twitter with hammers man it has cooked so many fucking peoples brains

For the class of people running things in this country, America was just a vibe, basically. All the rah-rah, chest-beating, flag waving stuff. None of them meaningfully believed in any of it. Just swept aside completely in the face of literal cartoon villainy. Minimal resistance. Whoosh. Gone.

Prominent Newspaper Admires Authoritarian's Power, In Awe Of His Strength

For some reason the fox is very comfortable walking into a henhouse, and yet the hens do not walk into the fox's den. Because they are afraid of debate

to be fair this kind of idiot post hoc logic is also the way the supreme court decides cases

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

just remembered the FiredForTruth dipshit from google lol

what happens when an entire presidential administration goes Karen Mode

This is the current political situation. This was the political situation in 2016. I'd argue this was the political situation in 2010. It is perhaps true that it has been the political situation since 1980. In any case, it remains the situation. No one who matters believes it.

yet another W for "normal, working people" bsky.app/profile/reic...

referring to my front teeth as gum cutters. going out of my way to force it into conversation while people keep ignoring me and trying to leave

Contra this, saw someone (correctly) describe our situation as the administration wanting to skip to the steps at the end of an authoritarian consolidation when they haven’t even managed the first ones

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

The largest owner of ABC affiliates will run a state-TV style Charlie Kirk Memorial instead of Kimmel this Friday and throughout the weekend:

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

imagine joking “i wouldnt give speeches in utah right now”

That’s it? That’s what they’re banning him for? Hahaha

One day everyone will have always been against this

So it's fine to joke about some people—just as long as none of them are powerful white American millionaires who built an empire while fanning the flames of hate and bigotry? So it's only funny when powerless people die. Got it!

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

they are absolutely going to take our vaccines away and cause mass death, especially around children. fucking psychopaths and serial killers and eugenicists

Good to remember that the entire purpose of this article is to promote this group to donors. It’s an advertisement masquerading as news

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

*John Yoo* now outpacing Chuck Schumer for bravery/moral clarity, incredible stuff

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Manhattan DA loses its two terrorism charges against Luigi. www.nycourts.gov/legacypdfs/p...

Ezra Klein has revealed himself to not be much of a liberal at all in the last week, but rather a defender of elite status and hierarchies in a time when the greatest battle currently being waged is over the virtue and power of those hierarchies this is fundamentally conservative politics