The inconvenincing others is the enjoyment for Trump. The game itself is inconsequential.

Yes and millennials were the 'hook up generation' and these people hated that too.

Yep! I very, very rarely get asked about why I continue to mask but one of the anecdotes I always share is that I have had one cold in six years.

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Xenophobic nonsense but also written by people who didn't grow up in NYC because schools here rarely shutdown for snow.

elected democrats who want their constituents to remain non-violent in their protests of these abuses must actually offer a path for ending the abuses non-violently. they currently are not as a party and it’s a major problem.

All great policy that should be pursued to make society better overall. That being said we will never get the same level of pop growth as when women had less access to birth control, education, and career advancement. We should also be investing in how to support an aging population.

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Little Women came out in 1869. I'm being a bit flippant but the idea that it is a modern convention that friends are hesitant to turn things romantic is false.

women don't like the vehicle b/c women like walkable cities

You procrastinate, and then you write the fucking paper the way the gods and nature intended. Several hours before it's due, high off either caffeine, nicotine, sugar, drugs, and PANIC. Fuck AI.

These people are inveterate liars who hate every good thing about this country.

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

How long before some centrist weirdo pens an oped for WashPo or NYT saying we absolutely must engage in this straightforwardly eugenicist push for more white babies?

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

MattY doesn't have principles and thinks everyone is just like him.

Devastating. Just adding to the list of war crimes.

Every "ally" of the United States should contemplate these images.

A racist rightwing regime led by people who are obsessed with birth rates, IQs, natural selection, a mythic past, is purifying the country through mass deportation. I’m sorry that a moment of public awareness is occurring through something as gauche as a mall-brand ad campaign but … grow up?

I have used location sharing for my 80+ year old grandmother who likes to go out for walks and not pick up her damn phone. Otherwise, I don't need to know where you are at all times!

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

Absolutely fucking not. That's a child.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Yep, disgusting racism and engagement farming. Dude has been blocked by so many people on this app that he can't 'own the libs' in the way he was clearly salivating to when joining. It's really pathetic.

This is ridiculous top to bottom. Trump doesn't even give answers when he's on TV. He gives absurd sound bites, but I guess that's enough for POLITICO!

Truly what is the point of living if you think like this ad.

This Liz woman needs serious therapy. Living with the constant anxiety that your partner will leave you for some random under-22 year old is not healthy. And, you certainly shouldn't try to soothe that insecurity by having kids!

people are genuinely dismayed at the administration and if *I* were a democratic (or even republican) politician who wanted to build myself a nice national platform i would be taking every opportunity to perform that dismay and anger for an audience

Fanfiction and BL manga/manhwa Let's make it weird on the senate floor by talking about the omegaverse. I would 100 percent be arrested.

This is obviously good news. I think it's hard for people to hold two facts in their mind 1. COVID deaths are going down (excellent!) 2. COVID is still circulating and has knock-on impacts like long COVID that don't immediately kill you (not excellent!).

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

My controversial opinion on young men’s right wing radicalization is that we should not undo the second wave and sacrifice women’s rights, dignity, freedom, and access to the public sphere for the sake of men’s feelings.

"If we throw minorities under the bus, Republicans will stop calling us too woke" is the same logic that got us Clinton's welfare cuts and Obama's immigration crackdowns. You can't policy your way out of a right-wing propaganda problem.

The simplest way I can educate on this is an argument made during abolition: "I think it's not right, what we're doing to those Blacks down South but I worry who's going to fix the dinners, pick the cotton, and mind the children if we were to see them free." That is the simplified moderate mindset.

Imagine being a teenage girl now. Your male peers are all watching Andrew Tate and doing Nazi salutes and every week the most prestigious magazines in the world run a piece about how it’s a social emergency that you’re not having babies in the 10th grade.

What's the turnover like in Sen. Warner's office?

Incredible that Murphy would issue a statement like this after Trump declared himself a king while "killing" the program. Embarrassing cowardly, and stupid.

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Exactly. People are delusional about what 'lockdowns' and remote schooling actually looked like in the US. Even in places like NYC, which had longer virtual schooling than most, it was opt-in for 2020-2021, not default!

Incredible how quick folks in the mainstream media were to call pro-Palestinian protests led by Jewish people antisemitic but need to split hairs about Musk and his bigotry. Dude is publicly engaging with and boosting neo Nazis!

IMO, if those people can't stand to hear fuck you, especially from the people who are currently being harmed by this admin, then they're not sincerely sorry. Also, if the 'what they voted for' was rampant bigotry and 'what they got' was higher prices then, no they shouldn't be welcomed in.

They should do it all, tbh.

one thing that gives me a microgram of hope for the future is that maybe this is what it takes to finally attract a generation of our best and brightest to public service careers. maybe now we stop shitting on people who choose a life of service over making 10X the money at a tech company.