I realize now that the use of the "n-word" was completely inappropriate. I didn't understand the hurtful legacy behind the term n***ratu. Stephen Miller's ancestors and many other hardworking nocturnal Americans like them came to this country just like the rest of us.

What the actual fuck is Evangelion even about?

At least in the US, a "Protestant Franco" is an utterly incoherent concept because there is no single Protestant church.

“Protestant Franco” is a combination of words that would get you killed for saying to Franco.

People talk about the Soviets in the Winter War, but the PLA going from holding its own against the UN in Korea to shiting the bead in Veitnam is a world-historical story of incompetence and organizational mismanagement.

Honestly, if you're trying to understand Trump and at any point you use the word hermeneutics, I think you've lost the plot a bit.

Did Tucker just say the Jews killed Charlie Kirk?

We should just redefine proficiency with small arms, especially pistols, as America's traditional martial art.

Charlie Kirk's murder was despicable, but if you were in any way moved by anything he said or did in life, or his work was in any way important to you personally, frankly, I think you're stupid.

Imho, this is the root cause of a good 70%-80% of what's wrong with contemporary left-wing politics.

When watched today, it almost fails as a comedy, but only because it's become a tragedy. A man has, to the best of my knowledge, never been killed for having crummy ratings, but almost every other piece of absurd, over the top satire in the film is our reality.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Okay, but seven just is more random than five. No, I will not elaborate further.

It’s pretty funny that Eminem became a guy who would be really excited to vote for Mayor Pete. It’s like he received the exact opposite energy Kanye got. He’s probably at home in a comfy chair reading a John le Carre novel right now.

Automation driven abundance is necessary for egalitarianism to have a chance.

I look at things like this and wonder if Vance will actually be the nominee in '28 and not a member of the Trump family.

One of the darkest trends in American politics is the transition from a brand of right-wing politics that sees people from countries like Venezuela as victims of leftist oppression to one that views them as racial enemies to be destroyed.

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

As a political agenda, capitalism without free markets can be best sumerized as this:

This is ridiculous. "Actual malice" is a legal term of art with a specific meaning. Plaintiffs must show that defendants acted out of feelings generated by having actually just watched the 1993 neo-noir thriller "Malice."

It wasn't much of a reichstag fire, but it was the best reichstag fire we had.

This thread is getting a lot of play. With the greatest respect, it is full of errors about federal criminal procedure, fanciful speculation about motions that would not actually succeed, and other things that a federal criminal practitioner would not say.

One thing large parts of this administration have in common with the shooter is that they've totally cooked their brains on the social media culture war.

The fact that a Turing complete, general purpose computer was actually designed during the Victorian era always gets me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analyti....

Open the schools.

Police brutality is bad; systematic racial profiling and illegal deportations are bad; abortion clinic bombings are bad; mass graves are worse. You know what a child's skull looks like after multiple blunt-force traumas? That's the floor. Keeping everyone out of mass graves is the fundamental goal.

The big reason I'm trying to hammer "civil conflict/political violence" here is because I've spent a substantial chunk of the last five years looking at mass graves. I want a society where people aren't plotting to kill their neighbors and throw them into one. That's where all this can lead.

So, men's suits looked ridiculous in the 90s, did they? You apologize to Wesley Snipes right this fucking minute.

It's great to see Fox News pivoting from condemning violent rhetoric to asking if Aktion T4 was such a bad idea.

Every once in a while, Femi will tweet out something like "Romero, Von Ketteler, and Gibran all bringing it today", and I stare at for like five minutes before realizing he's talking about soccer.

One of the stranger asymmetries of American politics is that self-identified conservatives have undergone kind of ethnogenisis and think of themselves as a persecuted ethnic minority.

The Gaul is hung over. The Pict is on 72-hour meth binge. The Illyrian is lying in bed just sort of feeling like, you know, generally kind of icky.

A path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, DC and Puerto Rico admitted to the Union as states, and a national mandate that all Congressional districts be drawn by a single algorithm would go along way to bringing this about.

I doubt there's ever been a time in history where the majority of self-identified Christians would endorse the tenets of the Nicene Creed in a blind poll.

I'm going to remind everyone that "Charlie Kirk was kind of a dick and didn't deserve to die for it" is a completely consistent take that you can have. Everything else aside, he was just not a person of much political consequence.

If anything, countries with colonial histories may be, on average, more open to some kinds of immigrants. Imperalism has always involved a complex mixture of domination, assimilation, and cosmopolitanism, with the exact mix depending on the empire in question.

Guys, it was Charlie Kirk.

i would prefer that the country to my south *not* have years of lead

Guy who thinks that the Trump Epstein letter was planted and the Bill Clinton one was real, even though in 2003 everybody thought Clinton's wife would run for president and nobody thought Trump would.

No it’s cool now, Justice Kavanaugh said this wouldn’t be a big deal.

"Wait, are yours really particular about their tea?"

Europe: We have these people, who live off the continent on a chain of islands off the northern coast. They’re kinda weird, quite xenophobic, but also have a tendency to imperialism and supremacy against the mainland. East Asia: You’re never gonna believe this…

Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich could have watched The Simpsons.

Imagine Buckley's reaction to the administration that put this out. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

You do have to wonder how much of the ubiquity of QAnon/Epstein/other child trafficking conspiracy theories that have colonized society in the last few years is about people wanting to find an alternative version of MeToo that doesn't involve having to actually do anything real for actual victims.