I’ve seen people ask why Iran uses Lego figures for these videos. I’ll tell you why: because they’ve accurately clocked that we are a nation of idiot children.

This is kind of making me insane as I think about it.

sometimes i like to imagine what the celebrations are going to be like when it happens, just as a little treat to myself

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

Trump announcing in 24 hours that he’s converting to Islam

Sometimes I think about the fact that Labyrinth bombed at the box office. Maybe the real sign that we are a crumbling society was that.

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

This was the promise of the Internet.

He has a driver. He keeps it in the bag with his other clubs.

Personally I’m excited to hear what the Ephors have to say about whether being a true Spartan is a matter of birthright or whether it requires something else that is totally undefined and would create a permanent underclass of semi-stateless helots!

they are so much better at propaganda than the trump admin lol

The idea that (white) American farmers and ranchers are the "true volk" while cities are a sore on the body politic, filled with greedy merchants and mobs of laborers, is the foundational, racist blood-and-soil myth of America that still pervades all of society including mainstream media.

Sorry you expect me to believe Kash Patel doesn't adhere to rigorous e-mail security protocols? THIS Kash Patel?? No way!!

life hack: nobody is making you celebrate america

Oh look, another thread about how “the left” needs to adopt police state policies to deal with “anti-social behavior” like pissing on the subway or else voters will continue sweeping the right into power.

this guy's 80 years on this planet have revolved around people rearranging the dimensions of reality to allow him to save face every time he fucks up like he's the child demiurge in a Twilight Zone episode and finally someone is not catering to that and he's fucking completely lost his shit

we need a “shut up and dribble” for law professors. why do i have to hear what sam moyn thinks, he’s been wrong about everything for a decade. stop sharing your opinions. go teach civ pro to a 24 year old.

The Jetsons lied to us

Caligula is said to have declared war on the sea and ordered his legions to lash the tide and collect sea shells as their spoils. Anyway,

The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars; the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab.

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

when i was a kid i bounced right off tolkien but these i loved. why not a new film series of these instead of milking the jk rowling wizarding stoma

pssst hey you yeah, you come over here (whispers) harry potter was always bad

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Some truly incredible photos of what people are calling the "most unemployable men in history."

Mar 24th 1984 - #TheBreakfastClub had detention. 📽️📅 The Breakfast Club (1985)

Embarassed I ever fell for this guy's schtick.

this guy used to have some lizard-brain sense of what people liked and didn't like right? or was this also just myth making? no one likes these fucking guys, you want to make them the face of snarled airport lines? and they do nothing but stand there being that? odd choice

Good thread.

Even if Trump backs down now, he will still have: - replaced an old Iranian leader who was negotiating with a younger one who won't - strengthened Iran's theocracy and wiped out any chance of internal dissent - proven USA cannot wield its vast military, so it is functionally worthless

let him coward out, say whatever he wants, declare it a win, whatever — everyone with a working neuron will know we got our asses whipped and it’ll stop the indiscriminate killing and destruction. at this point i’ll take that tiny w.

RHETORIC - You -- against the atom, the charm and the spin. Where the whole world failed -- matter failed to bend to human will; human will failed to get out of bed and tie its laces -- you alone, single-handedly, will rebuild the dreams of the working class. You are The Last Communist.

my main concern with graham platner isn't that he's actually a devout nazi but that he's the sort of ideology-free populist who can't be trusted

BRAZIL (1985)

As bad as Fetterman is, and as much as he always was a Zionist weirdo, he really wasn’t this far right lumbering monster he has become. And in that sense he’s incredibly useful. The perfect, forever go-to example of how brain damage and right wing politics are intertwined

me, signing up to be trump’s next sycophantic yes-man advisor as my predecessor gets shoved feet first into a wood chipper: lol, look at that loser, could never be me

I know Nothing Ever Happens but really — truly — Something Has To Happen, soon. No political system can survive this kind of chaos for long.

hate to be a debbie downer but as a veteran of living through economic collapse sparked by republican policy, not looking forward to the next decade or so

nodding

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.