if you can only vote for one party or else you get fascism then you don't live in a democracy. you live in a failed state offering the illusion of choice.

Yeah this is pretty much just Aaron manufacturing a reason to go after people who don't like him

i saw a tiktok about how blacking out in childhood is a sign of lycanthropy and i can't stop thinking about it

You see, kids, the US in the '90s and aughts was so uptight about sex and especially women's sexuality that Sex and the City was considered controversial and groundbreaking

i was in the backseat of a friend's car where i was on shark duty to appropriately hug the shark and you know DAMM well i hugged blahajini (her name) tightly the whole time. apparently not everyone does take shark duty seriously and i think that is a mark of poor moral character.

If members of Congress are struggling to feed their families on their $174k a year salary maybe they should consider cheap cut meats like liver or more affordable meals like a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing.

You've got to kick down the door before you can fight the fire, and establishment Democrats are not only acting as the the door, they are actively barricading the door and fundraising off the fire, and they can all go fuck themselves.

It is a right-wing issue, a lot of men just don't want to admit their views, particularly when it comes to women, are right-wing. The solution to birth rate handwringing is using women's bodies to birth babies, then using their labor to raise them, through coercion or force, while men do very little

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that nearly all the people getting the vapors about "fertility," a loaded term to pathologize women not giving men babies, are white men. And in most cases, men who quickly reveal their poorly masked misogyny.

Literally the only reason I knew about Kars4Kids was because of The Good Place

It's even worse. The money was used to directly fund Israel's genocide and colonization of Palestine

I got too depressed reading about Trump's relationship with Vince McMahon because if someone had just seriously cracked down on either of them back in the '80s we'd be in a whole different world now. But of course our system is practically built to insulate men like them from consequences

I maintain that this man's entire existence is elaborate performance art to call attention to the elite impunity problem in this country in the most garish way and it's still not working

Somebody just told me that Obama was given a "razor thin" margin in Congress, and when I pointed out Obama in 2009 had a 60/40 Senate and a 257/178 House they said "oh so now we're just saying stuff stage" a reminder why it's so rarely worth it to assume good faith and so much better to just block.

going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you

LIKE WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE TO PRETEND TO HAVE SECURE PASSWORDS WHEN OUR PASSWORDS ARE NEVER CRACKED THEY'RE JUST SOLD THE DARK WEB BY SOME GUY WHO WATCHES US SLEEP THRU OUR TVS

this is so funny like they want you to be so hyped for a pic so dark you can barely see anything

“Joe from Forsberg describes himself as politically moderate and identifies as an Independent. While he’s supported Donald Trump in the last three elections, he says he votes for the candidate not the party.”

Linda: I am a 60 year-old homemaker who raised three wonderful children here in Davenport, Iowa. Last year, I organized over 1400 other moms in my county to stop book bans in our public lib- NYT reporter: [shoots Linda]

If you're going to do one of these for rural Nebraska, "All politicians are corrupt and they're career politicians so nothing will ever change. I vote for the incumbent every time," is a must-include.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Man it's not my fault you banned Gender Studies instead of taking a class in it and now you have no fucking clue what's going on

i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations

This is fundamental to the worldview of almost every conservative I've had the misfortune of knowing. Reliably votes GOP every election, yet are convinced they're independents and their views are just common sense. Maybe handwrings over it for a few minutes (bc they're not sure GOP is racist enough)

Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means

they don't even WANT my vote anymore. they're straight up telling me to kick rocks every fucking day lately.

"At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/at-...

Like insisting on reopening. Like telling people they could vax and relax. Like telling a young girl that she didn’t have to worry about getting COVID at school and infecting her family. The list is long and depressing.

Trump 2.0 is the worst public health presidency we’ve ever had—and it’s not close. But it didn’t happen out of nowhere. The failures of the previous admin had ripple effects. Like ending pandemic relief as inflation hit, plunging millions back into poverty. Like giving ground on the lab leak.

Meanwhile, the right was taking victory laps, declaring that its crank doctors (several of whom ended up in the Trump 2.0 administration) had been right all along about lockdowns. Trump was able to claim he wasn’t uniquely unqualified.

It was also as the omicron variant was ripping its way through the population. Omicron would kill even more than delta. But the administration was simply unwilling to stand by public health in the face of attacks from the right and industry pressure.

Biden’s priority was the economy. In his December 2021 jobs report, he boasted that his administration had “got people out of their homes and back to work, even in the face of wave after wave of COVID." This is after delta killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

There is a considerable effort made to memory hole this. Whenever I mention the rollback of protections, testing sites, the quarantine period, I get responses that say “yeah, fuck trump!” And yes, but that wasn’t him.

Washington Post in 1979: U.S. State Dept. found Israeli "abuse during interrogation of arrested Palestinians," including "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness"

I was just reminded that part of the context for the ban on Alex Haley's Roots was that older conservatives have been furious about it for decades, and even held a grudge against LeVar Burton for starring in the TV miniseries. They've *never* gotten over any of the L's they've taken

The "socialize male" claim really makes me mad given how prone so many of us are to fawning behavior

Two things are true: 1) Trump is probably going to fail to consolidate power because of how corrupt and incompetent he and his circle are 2) He's still largely getting what he wants in the moment because none of the people or institutions able to seriously impede him have an interest in doing so

My favorite thing I've seen said on the topic is that trans women are largely not socialized male, they're socialized doormat. Taught that if they ever speak up and ask for a need they must immediately beg forgiveness and mercy. And yeah, refusing to recognize trauma is cruelty.

The eternal cycle of loneliness -> try to find new people to connect with -> it goes nowhere -> I re-embrace isolation -> loneliness

this use of “traditional” is something else

The more radical segment of liberals' theory of change seems to rely on something magically replacing the current Democratic Party with a completely different one between now and 2028

During the pandemic that killed a million Americans there was no talk about sacrifice from republicans. If you said it wasn’t safe to go to Dave & Busters because there were no more hospital beds available you were a traitor to America. But a war of choice? Better start your liberty garden now.

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

Also, trans men are basically women, so they're cool and not tainted by maleness. This is a very enlightened position

When a Democrat is president, the press only cares about the swing voters who oppose him. When a Republican is president, the press only cares about the conservative voters who support him.

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.