I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

Is Goodfellas a Christmas movie? Not really. Does it have an excellent Christmas based punchline? Yes. youtu.be/tRiXxX5Lets?...

Not an exact comparison but close enough to be very funny.

Sadly it's likely that the extra 1 million Epstein files the DOJ just "discovered" are going to be redacted way better than the first batch.

I'd only be 50% joking if I said Trump. A Rush Hour sequel is being made because Trump wants it. There's every possibility Disney would have him join the avengers/save the multiverse if the tax break or political favor was big enough.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

just thinking of white liberals who insist everyone left-of-center has to be accommodating/accepting of everyone to "win" it's clearly bullshit when the people the Right hates most still go crawling to them

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The tea is some actually use leftism as cover for their racism. They think they're better than a liberal because they think race is a distraction from the class war, where a liberal says they don't see race. They don't ever want to interrogate their position in a way that could be uncomfortable.

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It SICKENS me that people on here, ESPECIALLY in the LGBTQ+ community REFUSE to show up for Black folks on this app. Putting Black folks on blocklist for no reason ? Ignoring mutual aids? Constantly criticising what we post? Wtf man?

'Ghebreyesus stressed that efforts to prevent famine in the besieged enclave remain ‘extremely fragile’, warning that worst-case scenarios...a halt in humanitarian aid deliveries due to operational restrictions could push the entire Gaza Strip into full-scale famine by mid-April 2026.'

'He noted that Gaza’s health system is struggling to cope, with only about 50 per cent of health facilities partially operational and facing severe shortages of life-saving equipment and essential medical supplies.'

'‘Estimates indicate that more than 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women will suffer from acute malnutrition by April 2026,’ Ghebreyesus said on Sunday.'

The Western myth that Easter Island society collapsed because they built so many statues that they destroyed the ecology of their island really was just Westerners confessing their societies would happily destroy all ecology for no good reason.

Men would literally rather destroy the entire environment and light trillions of dollars om fire than admit they once came out of a vagina

This is how serving officers of the armed forces manage to get their views out, by asking former colleagues to speak up. Relations must be terrible within MoD and Westminster.

Not the biggest issue here but fascists are making very clear they do not believe in hard work. They are telling us that if you are a bigot you should have absolutely everything handed to you.

I think the LLMs get the tech bros so hard because it more effectively hides the Mechanical Turk nature of all capitalist technology, but its also why its value is purely speculative: just trying to resell and reprocess already multiply depleted labour power

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

one little thing that really rankles about the reporting on this story is how they say she "cited" the bible. no she didn't! she alluded to it at best

The process of every institution from universities to the press thoroughly converting themselves into a bunch of bowling pins to be knocked down by whichever passing right-wing imbecile has the least shame is pretty much complete

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There is a slow motion, managed Economic Collapse under way & no one is talking about it. The fact that a stoner w/ free time and a bug up his ass can figure this out is an indictment of literally the entire Financial Media apparatus & a sign of the complete collapse of Journalism as a profession.

A common thread between Bari Weiss' career and the trans instructor purged by christofash is liberal gullibility. It was obvious what both were from the start, but instead of their bs just being crushed they were heard out, considered, pondered. Grow up. This too precious bs gets people killed.

Happy Christmas Eve, the traditional time of giving gifts in Poland!

Day 26 of posting this until there is justice for brothers Fadi and Jumaa Abu Asi who were murdered by the IDF ‼️

It's so fucking sickening how much of Hollywood is a bunch of nazis, and completely fucking stupid as hell, too.

Putting all other ideological considerations aside, unless you believe that the beliefs and mindset that enable a person to acquire vast amounts of wealth are the exact same that leads to you having society's best interest at heart, you don't want billionaires to control society.

Also for every Caesar there was a Caesar, genocidal prick that he was.

You simply cannot have a level of wealth inequality, where someone can be paid to by billionaires this much to be a bigot, and have democracy. It isn't possible.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

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It does suck to believe military history has some merit and then have these guys dominate it. Especially because even quite a lot of pop military history shows just how awful war is and how incompetent historical elites were. For every Caesar there was at least one Crassus.

It is pretty striking that Trump has created a secret police force, ICE, that's better funded than the Marine corps (who operate a navy and airforce more powerful than many countries) and there's just no mainstream discussion of how this could threaten democracy.

andrew and other rapists killed virginia guiffre, she managed to escape her traffickers but only by fleeing into the arms of a violent domestic abuser even if she 'killed herself' none of that revictimisation would have happened without the original victimisation. we shouldn't have a royal family.

And then they fucking deleted it. Was this support so dangerous it needed to be silenced?

Probably not gonna get a better example of liberal elitism than an Atlantic writer in my mentions absolutely desperate to get the last word because I dared to suggest I might have had a correct opinion before he did.

I just remembered this frankly lunatic quote Armando Iannucci gave in the Guardian in 2022 and it's so, so funny now

On top of everything I really feel people don't understand that children aren't property. You owe them care and support if you choose to have them, they don't owe you in return though; it wasn't their choice to be born, it was yours.

Once again, The Shite Knight bows down to wealth. But protest against the genocide that he's complicit in, and he'll have you arrested. Whose side is this charlatan on?

It is pretty wild that in sci-fi such as WH40k there has to be a cataclysmic war or huge disaster to cause the loss of corruption of all knowledge but IRL the ruling class are just choosing to do it.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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The mayor of Bethlehem: "Yes we are dying in Gaza and in other cities in Palestine, yes we are targeted, yes we are facing immense hardships because of the occupation..." Christmas in Bethlehem.

It's nice I guess that Liberals are catching up to what I, an ignorant rando, was saying years ago. But why did libs go along with "cancel culture" for so long? 1) Liberal fear of "the mob" (the public) caused them to see any non-elite attempt to influence the public sphere as dangerous. (1/4)