terminal levels of MFA-brain in the prose sampled here. NB: I do not know what degree the writer actually has.

this sounds pithy but is just kind of stupid.

*doubt*

I feel sorry for him. A 15 year old boy has been aged up in a Shazam scenario gone horribly wrong, and given power beyond his comprehension

Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try.

A lot of Westerners in the replies engaging in Sinophobia & doing Colonialism, smdh.

Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro in TUMMY TROUBLE

I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

They are to a set of people what Operators are to the right.

you know… I simply do not think this is true

”That’ll be the day.”

Everybody picking the same song about being unique and special is kind of great

simultaneously growing more interested in political thought & less interested in politics these days.

attended a screening of The Searchers, & when “Directed by John Ford” came on screen, a woman went “wooo!”

people have over-indexed on the “the academic left is just a smol bean.”

Many times I see this site on Mamdani & have to wonder if people never before followed an elected official’s Facebook or Twitter account.

Whenever people claim “Dems need to sell what they did!” I always bring up the is photo of Biden an McConnell celebrating infrastructure investments in Kentucky and NO ONE is aware this happened. Because media and social media influencers don’t actually spread positive Dems news.

Political homelessness, another reason to build more housing….

imagining being president & posting in all caps something like “SCEPTICAL WHIGGISM, COMMERCE, & LIBERTY!!”

Who said the state was responsible for "promoting the prosperity of the commonwealth" & "may prescribe rules, therefore, which not only prohibit mutual injuries among fellow citizens, but command mutual good offices to a certain degree"? [The answer in the alt text.]

The thing is, if you think this, you should be fine with people doing it.

Make a note to discount the political opinions of anyone getting mad about this.

Call me Pepin the Short, because I am not a fan of this Merovingian fellow.

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Curtis Yarvin as Phoebe Bridgers. Now imagine they're Hungarian. Doesn't look so much like the Challenger disaster was caused by adult Bluey fans virtue signaling now, does it?

I usually try to explain it like this: picture Jim Varney as Xeni Jardin. Now imagine they're Native American. Doesn't look so much like the stock market crash of 1929 was caused by kiddies lurking now, does it?

When I‘m traveling, I usually bring a different Jake Tapper free press pocket square for each day I’ll be gone.

hell yes.

A big tell here is tapper’s pocket square doesn’t quote the entire first amendment. Omits the religion clauses and, critically, the right to petition the government.

A good pair of travel underwear will dry overnight after hand-washing in the sink, or can even withstand back-to-back wearing over a day or two. We’ve tested 70 pairs to find the best options for men and women. nyti.ms/4tSxDoY

Shout out to this stadium in…uhhh…Poland? for taking a strong stance against antisemitism.

seriously, there’s a certain level at which you can appreciate the power & pomp of eighteenth-century monarchy in Burke’s eyes or whatever; it’s harder when the lost tradition is “playground equipment in the early 2000s.”

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

is this as funny as i think it is

by like 0:12 I’m crying laughing.

this makes sense when you take into account the ideologies of the people who did the portraying

something about my brain just kind of turns off whenever we get to this level of Imagining the Future. maybe it’s the same part that kept me from ever being into sci-fi.

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Justices Alito & Thomas, don’t listen to the liberal haters; we need you to stay on the Supreme Court for the next two & a half years.

“Pharisee press” is…dark.

my theory with Kash is that he is smart enough to know that his girlfriend will leave him if he isn't providing her with a certain lifestyle and that the man he has bound himself to is a senile fascist who betrays everyone he ever works with, and that this is why his drinking has gotten worse.

Strive to live your life so that biologists can’t say you are *clearly* a human in a bear suit.

tfw I run with a tummy ache & shin pain.

the guy's whole thing is trying to bring left and right together against "the establishment," which is the same framing that Bannon uses, and the same framing that brought us Trump.

[tenetatively] dudes…rock??

I'm really tired of a two tiered election system where real candidates have to have real policies and are held to often brutal standards and clown vibe candidates can be caught in print defending war crimes and saying slurs and refuse to cover it or care.

*good lord.* what a fucked story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

hello there.

The basic dilemma of no constituency in American society caring enough about climate change to actually make it their priority does feel especially vividly illustrated in how virtually all the groups ostensibly dedicated to climate change instead focus on other stuff now

if the police were rocket scientists: “we have ascertained the spacecraft has experienced a ground-involved motion stoppage.”

In the navy I like "kinetically induced boat-to-submarine conversion"