The value of Platner- if it works, and it may not- is not that he’ll actually win the WWC, but that he’ll appeal to PMC males by making them feel TUFF. This is exactly the value Fetterman had, and it worked, but if invoking that name makes your buttcheeks clench…well, welcome to the nightmare of ME.

this mamdani speech is aggressively lincoln-pilled. it’s very funny that he’s coded as the leftist when his actual politics so far is unapologetically resistlib-meets-hope-and-change

can't find it but there's that tweet that's like "I (viciously unpleasant -20 Charisma grad student), am the natural person to lead the worker's revolution. Come, comrades." and I always think about it when I see posts like this.

Dodger Stadium is burning in Chavez Ravine. The team was scheduled to play the Padres in San Diego this evening, but Acting MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has postponed all games indefinitely. The Dodgers can't defer salary to escape this mess.

Trump is not America. He's anti American. America is eating birria with some randos on folding chairs in the parking lot of the Food 4 Less watching the world cup on a flat screen wearing my knock off Mexico jersey.

this guy has it

the problem with klein specifically is that he’s gotten got by conservatives on this for going on two decades now, despite having had an abundance [rimshot] of good faith, constructive feedback from others

He actually hates this country.

The right-wing love to talk about the "dangers" of exposing kids to trans people or same-sex couples. I'm living proof that if you introduce your kids to the gay rights agenda, the danger is they might grow up to be governor.

If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.

This clip made me realize that AES is, stylistically, very similar to Platner and (pre-stroke) Fetterman. It hits a lot different because he's Arab (and doesn't have those two's other problems), but the casual dress, no-BS speaking style is there.

They say this as if it's obvious that there *should* be consequences for sex, but I'm not willing to grant that premise.

To me, the weirdest part of this is that there are so few sex scenes out there that I really don’t know what’s bothering anyone.

Every bar has that one guy. He’s loud. He’s obnoxious. He makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender — and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Ken Paxton, and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

Yeah. This is a rent freeze on only apartments that were already rent-controlled. It’s good, but it’s not enough. ZM would say it’s not enough. But the point is, he made a specific, easily understood promise and then he *pulled it off* and now he’s loudly telling everyone how he pulled it off.

You can’t come on to Al Gore’s internet posting about how “Bernie was the compromise” and “its the fire next time” and then start blocking people when they make fun of you for it.

Man, I know I’m a shitlib, but I think that hounding a gay man with a multiethnic family is maybe not what progressivism is.

unironically I wish more people on here would do this we’re gonna have disagreements, sometimes they’re heated, but we are - generally speaking - on the same side and I wish we didn’t spend quite so much energy ripping into each other

theres an argument going around that interracial marriage is bad, that the children are disadvantaged and that the culture is under attack it was wrong when david duke said it, and its wrong now

I've never actually seen a Democrat struggle to answer this question.

It *really* sucks that antisemitism is rising at the exact time that two groups who conspicuously sell themselves as the voice of the Jewish people- AIPAC and Israel- engage in more and more atrocities, with more and more bad faith justifications. Just an awful, rotten time to try to be a person.

Everyone making an anti-AC argument is a protestant, even if they don't know it.

I think it's funny that we didn't spill this kinda ink when, say, Stratton and Biss won in IL.

This is hilarious. They desperately needed something to show that they were serious about affordability, and Trump just refuses to let them have it.

one thing you can see on TikTok etc is that there are a lot of young, low info people whose primary exposure to the concept of antisemitism is as a bad faith smear, and my guess is that’s not good.

A really shitty side effect of dipshit rhetoric like this is I guess now Frum has to conclude that "anti-Jewish messaging" is a real vote-winner?

I suppose I understand the emotions behind this, and I, too, was annoyed by Bernie's anti-Dem rhetoric, but otoh those guys running as Dems is preferable to another useless third party bid.

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

And one more thing: all the cranks demanding third parties should take a look at what Mamdani has done. He won his Democratic primary and then threw his support behind other primary challengers and won those. He's the King of New York, and he did it as a Democrat and with Democrats.

In fact, I'd almost argue that in the UK post Thatcher it's been the opposite. Functionally, the voters seem to default to the Tories and only turn to Labour when the Tories build up a decade plus of fuck ups.

sorry, what? israel being on the same level as the uk and france is such a ridiculous upgrade i almost can’t describe it

LRT: Mostly true, but, OTOH, there's only been three US Presidents since WWII who could survive Question Time.

i really do think it would be fun to do a politician exchange since i'm reasonably sure that a replacement level democrat would be an apex predator in the UK.

UFC as a whole may had cultural currency, but that doesn’t mean every given event does. I think it’s telling that the sports outlets really aren’t talking about it.

First it loses the Bears, now this. Might as well just treat it the way Daley treated an airport he didn't like.

Meanwhile at the White Trash White House last night the main event wasn’t even in the ring. Fights were breaking out on the lawn everywhere under the light of fireworks. Not since the White House burned down in 1814 have we seen so many battles. Sign! 🤡

4) none of this implies these guys are masterminds. Far from it. The opposite, in fact. In their lack of any intentionality other than being awed by fire and blood, we have the opportunity to write these events’ meaning in real time, to reclaim the symbols they’re stomping on.

YES HA HA HA…YES!

C'mon, it's not like they're the first powerful old men who always wanted to be pegged.

I'm'a buy 'em just to make Thomas and Alito kiss.

The other thing about this is that Fetterman and Platner clearly hate each other.

I hope Spencer Pratt ends up in 5th place as a salute to Riley Gaines and whatnot.

One of the underrated dumb parts of this is that it refuses to recognize what NYC actually is. Sure, it’s cool shit like Mamdani and the Ramones. But it’s also Giuliani and Wall Street. It’s Trump! Rich white pricks have always been part of NYC, and you’re not impressing anyone by pretending.

I’m sure NYC is great and I’m glad New Yorkers love it but let’s be clear that the vast majority of people who move from inland towns to coastal cities are not after ‘swag and style’, they are following the money & opportunities that big cities pull to them, especially through corporate HQs

This. I'm sensitive to the idea that it's either him or a Republican Senate. I also agree with him on a lot of policy issues and love the forceful way he expresses them. So...I'm not telling anyone how to vote. But he's clearly a jagoff and very possibly unwell, so don't pretend he's ok.

Imagine if this was the other George Wallace saying this.

To my Pride folks. You are loved. There ain't no other you. You are so fierce you got these wockaflockas shook and whatnot. Go on with yo' bad selves.

This is a fun choice. Madden cover isn't about picking the most accomplished player--it's about identifying one that people (esp kids!) are excited to watch.