why is it that all youtube videos show a little highlight of the upcoming video before actually starting who thought this was a good idea why is it like this why are WE like this, as a species?

watching “From” and it’s fine, if a bit bloated and plodding, but I can’t shake the feeling a halfway decent Call of Cthulhu group could have at least gotten to a boss fight by episode 4

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price.

yes that is precisely what happened

any half-decent dungeons and dragons player could parlay the ability to teleport, but only to a waffle house, into being a billionaire in under a year.

he’s not as visible as most of the folks in the administration but after stephen miller vought is probably the most evil of the lot he is ideologically committed to destroying the entire concept of the public good

The key criteria for a just war include 1) just cause, 2) legitimate authority, 3) right intention, 4) last resort, 5) proportionality, and 6) probability of success. Trump's actions against Iran can be challenged on ALL SIX COUNTS.

Nobody who's "losing hope in the system as it is" would vote for a guy who was already President, and sucked at it. I'm sorry to tell you, but Trump's marginal voters were assholes who don't want to be told about politics and who thought Trump would help them run crypto scams.

Everything leftists believe is ass-backwards. -Democrats who vote Democrat are Republicans -Progressives don't need to make any progress -Jews are Nazis -Not voting is fighting fascism -Leftists who don't vote are the base -Black people are the "low information voters" -Platner is a viable candidate

Stalin did a genocide and was actually fine with Hitler doing one, too.

Progressives are in a state of collective delusion about this. Right now unemployment is 4.3%. Inflation is 3%. Real wages have been increasing. And consumers literally think it's the worst economy IN MODERN HISTORY. Yes it's funny it's happening to Trump. But it will (and did) happen to us, too!

Dutch shoe company Allclogs to pivot to tulips

new Frum corollary just dropped: if MAGA has to choose between Christianity and Trump, they will choose Trump

Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this

if the disney channel isn't already starting production on a "the vice president needs help from a high school model UN team" movie, come on, what are you guys doing over there

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

Reddit has an apparent inside account of Vance's failed negotiations and the sheer puerile idiocy of the American regime. www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/co...

I think we have to face up to the fact that no healthy country re-elects a man like Trump And that problem goes beyond the people who cast a vote for him bsky.app/profile/asel...

this horse is not as apartment friendly as the guy who sold me it said it would be

As I’ve said: We elected the one person in the whole world who is NOT interested in reading the President’s Daily Brief.

Feel like the dog owner hatred is pretty specific to New York City. But some of these New York dogs are real bad, literally one of them in Yonkers convinced a guy to kill a bunch of people back in the 70s. No wonder folks on here are wary.

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

It’s because no one gets a cool countercultural anti-institutionalist thrill protesting Donald Trump for being bad, something that your grandmother probably does. Only ranting about Democrats gives you that. Sorry but that’s largely the answer

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

i don't think it counts as employing "madman theory" if you are an actual madman. if you can't turn off the madmanning, if you're madmanmaxxing, you're not really engaging with the core thesis of the idea.

it’s really striking how much we are now living in a normalized situation in which there’s the actual world and then there’s the narrative of the world that exists to allow the markets to keep functioning and these are not the same things even a little.

3 is absolutely sending me

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

Winners and Losers of the Recent Nuclear Holocaust www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/win...

For the American press the rest of the world only exists in relation to the role it plays in the breathless soap opera of US politics, and US politics only exists as an extension of the drama surrounding its main character, the worst person in the world, the imbecile president, Donald J. Trump.

I keep seeing people post that Republicans are “scared“ of Trump, but that’s missing the point. They’re not scared of this. They’re happy and excited. These people are sadistic, and Trump is making all their darkest dreams come true.

But I wasn't electing a president! I was telling the world and my friends how I feel about things via my choices in consumer products, in this case, candidates! I did what I always do: "There's an election? Are you guys voting? Who are you voting for? Does this vote make my ass look fat?"

he won in 2016 on handling of classified documents and 2024 on not starting foreign wars, which is proof that God is real, hates us, and has a sense of humor about it

see, the thing people don't get, is that the deep core of Trump's support, the real unbreakable spine of MAGA, is the white evangelicals, mainly based in rural areas, who hate the United States. when he says a great civilization will be destroyed, they're hoping it's ours.

human shields is a war crime too, not like anyone cares at this point

the "will he/won't he" of this week's Trump Show cliffhanger is, just to be clear, will he cause a humanitarian catastrophe that will define the rest of the century, or won't he?

"emotional support leftism" is so good, and I think a useful distinction from ideological leftism even the kinds I still hate.

I just don't know what to do with the fact that there are a great many people for whom deranged threats to do war crimes, to slaughter people en masse, are actively a good thing; what they want from a leader. This is their idea of strength, their valourised masculinity. I think I hate them.

All you're doing right now is making it so the reaction to Trump creating a massive humanitarian crisis that will kill hundreds of thousands of civilians will be viewed with relief instead of outrage.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Because there is the realm of, "we tried our best, things go wrong, big countries can break big things by accident" and then there is the realm of, "we made an intentionally negligent choice because we thought it was funny and wouldn't effect us." And this is the latter.

trump supporters are dumb and stupid people and you are better and smarter than every single of them

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

it's probably bad that the incentives for congress is to abdicate real power in the institution to make content for their audiences and audition for their cushy private sector jobs after they leave office

I don’t want to be controversial but I do think it’s turned out that the possibility of nuclear war is a bigger threat to the future of humanity than the woke mind virus

in australia there are beetles which are not mating because beer bottles look more like their ideal mate than any beetle. donald trump is like that but for guys who watch fox news

The number one demographic the Democrats lost were 'dudes on their phone looking up the election' and mostly the reason they voted for Trump is that he was on Rogan or the Apprentice and hey until COVID the economy was good so fuck it

i probably should not unwisely spend money just because i've got a case of the sads, but on the other hand, I could probably get 4k/144 out of a 5090 build...