in conclusion i wish them all the joys of each others' company in Hell and i wish them alacrity on their journey there

Car dealerships are a pox on this country.

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

It’s not even hard to identify where market failures take place, but rent-seekers always know that they’re parasites and prioritize gaining political power (see landlords, car dealerships, private utilities with control of zero-sum infrastructure, etc)

Imperium in shambles after Leman Russ falls to Nurgle then gets killed by an Eldar goddess attempting to steal fruit from the tree of life but the Iron Warriors defect to the loyalists after the Administratum agrees to issue Peturabo a Certificate of Superiority to Rogal Dorn Who is Dead.

SILICON VALLEY was hilarious but puncturing the techbro billionaire genius myth was its most important achievement

I wonder how mad that character makes Mark Cuban

Embrace Millism, Kristollism, Schwarzism and Humphreyism.

Liberal Trotskyism is the way.

What reading the news feels like every damn day now:

Maybe more Marshall Plan and less Project for a New American Century.

DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!!! (laudatory, complimentary, celebratory)

As always, in the debate between realism and liberal internationalism, my response is: Why not both?

(The existence of Joe McCarthy does not mean you have to hand it to Lavrenti Beria.)

Based on some of the commentary I've seen on this site, some people think the answer is "Dissolve the United States and send every citizen to the Hague."

People genuinely cannot process the not-actually-a-contradiction that basically all the US foreign policy horror stories are true and that still leaves us in strong contention for the kindest and gentlest hegemon in recorded history.

BOYCOTT THE ADVERTISERS OF SINCLAIR AND NEXSTAR

I'm a firm believer that we need to purge the Hindutva and Nippon Kagai from the earth, and make an example of them so no one tries something like this again. Those guys scare me.

Let's invade North Korea! Let's hire assassins to kill Putin, then sweep in and build a democratic Russia! Let's fight the literal Nazi's in India and Japan, and wipe 'em out like we did in '45!

I'm being negatively polarized towards Kristolism. Let's give democracy to everyone!

>>>There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We are the largest economy on earth. Even if I thought that was moral thing to do, it's not possible

Counterpoint, our population and resources aren't going away, and the cumulative effects of our history aren't going away. We're *here,* the choice is just are we going to do good, or bad

This makes logical sense. Unfortunately for China, it faces the rather incredible headwind of its cult-of-personality ruler believing some very wrong things about macroeconomics, such as “deflation not so bad if it happens”

Most Cops Are Bad just doesn’t have a good ring to it tho 😂

the reason I roll my eyes at "CHINA IS GOING TO RULE" is Xi is the same type of person as Trump, maybe a little smarter BUT I think that's more like Xi is still in his Trump 2017-2020 era. When Xi decays, oh boy

"want to make potential dating and/or sex partners fill out horny questionnaires? We had a site for that, it was called OkCupid!”

so I guess also let’s try not to fuck it up when we can

I do not know how to explain to progressives that the energy you spend on yelling at other liberals could be better spent making a list of all the businesses advertising on Sinclair and promoting boycotts against them

This is the thing Schumer and Jeffries were trying to get Trump to do in response to their offer to meet with him It’s a shame that these insane Republicans would rather have a shutdown than work with Democrats!

RE government shutdown, i know schumer isnt the best politican strategy wise, but this is baby's big day out level one kayfabe chucks doing and theres a bunch of people on here falling for it

“It’s [not] true but he should [still] say it.”

this isn't the usual context in which you see libertarianism and a 13-year-old

Need a labeler that tracks which of my mutuals are in relationships with one another. Zuck was cooking back in 2004 putting Relationship Status in the original Facebook profile.

Claiming Tylenol (paracetamol) causes autism is now the current version of how the refrigerator mother theory was weaponised decades ago.

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler is easily one of the most criminally underrated castings/roles I've ever seen. He plays a completely believable psychopath and his ability to portray overwhelming intensity and ride the limit without pushing it to a point of absurdity is really impressive.

In short: Biden touting his own achievements was likely to have alienated weakly partisan Republicans against their impacts, and weak partisanship among politically engaged leftists meant a refusal to tout those achievements in his stead, which meant: no one noticed.

I think there is also a cultural norm at work here where people on the broad left do not want to be identified with Democrats for essentially social signaling reasons, which creates a negative feedback loop of weak partisanship if not outright negative polarization against their own side.

There's a double edged sword where you want to be associated with the policies that deliver concrete political wins, but in an extremely polarized environment, wading in to policy risks polarizing people against good things ("get your government hands off my Medicaid" --> defunding Medicaid)

If ppl want to effectively deploy a boycott here, figure out who the sponsors are that advertise on your local Sinclair or Nexstar affiliate (if applicable) and threaten to boycott them. Will have much more direct impact than your D+ account.

As someone who helped lead this boycott I'm not white and we have phase 2 Sinclair and Nexstar need to protect free speech! bit.ly/wehavefriend...

Breathless pundits: Can dems hope to survive republican schinnanigans? All hope is lost woe to the world. Rs in Trump +6-8 districts: Man this environment sucks I'm out.

Congrats to Donny Trump on completely owning the looming government shutdown, let's get those numbers down even lower!

Who knows if this is the actual tipping point, but the whole point of "the straw that broke the camel's back" is that each individual straw is in and of itself insignificant. When it happens, there's no accounting for why that one in particular was the one.

Did anyone else have a massive crush on Donna Beneviento from Resident Evil: Village?

i saw goodie proctor not endorsing mamdani and the non-endorsement looked at me

The direct result of media obsession with swing voters. Your wife and I will see ourselves out.

the evil vizier fucking the other evil vizier is not an alternative lifestyle, it’s just vizierfucking