The kind of shit that makes your blood boil. "The third time Anna Liedtke was subjected to an illegal strip-search in Israeli detention, female prison guards forced her on to her knees, covered her mouth to stop her screaming and raped her" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

You don’t have to like us for it, but “hey, when you constantly shit on urbanists and try to shred the safety net out from under us it makes it harder for me to convince my urban lefty friends to support the aid our communities need” is a good argument you could raise with your rural neighbors.

So this fucking coward disabled replies and quotes because they don’t want to hear that they aren’t actually the one paying for their healthcare or utilities.

It is uncommon but I am indeed asking. Was it okay to condition Medicaid and Medicare funding to rural hospitals if they desegregated? Was there a better option?

Worth keeping in mind this is probably more common in your church than you’d like to think.

Is it too late to get fired for disrespecting Charlie Kirk, because despite my prudence on the matter thus far, I did in fact find him to be a singularly unpleasant individual in life.

Sorry, the what act?

A “jewish state“ has always meant a jewish supremacist state and it always will. We can’t play footsie with this shit anymore. www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/s...

The only appropriate response, really.

see they have me on TV because I'm smart and know a lot, not for my looks. This may be hard for you to understand, as an anonymous loser whose life has nothing going for it.

This is lazy tokenism and wrecker bullshit, and no, it does not matter why she thinks she’s doing it.

The thing about Platner discourse is that no matter how righteous it is to hate him, there is a difference between the most contempt-laden image of him you can construct and the facts on the ground. You may choose otherwise but it’s dumb to fault anyone trying to put the latter before the former.

Seems like we just don’t all have the same concept of a fun and open conversation. But, by all means, go to X and enjoy all the free expression Elon Musk will allow.

Just a cordial request here: I don’t want anything to do with loli. If it’s important to you that I show some deference to it or to people who consume it, please just block. No questions asked. It’s clear that we have nothing to discuss.

i have been whining about platner for about five months now, and intend to continue whining about him, but now that we are both whining about the same thing, should i expect the slightest hint of introspection from the people whose candidates i have dutifully punched the button for for twenty years?

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Looks like Stancil’s in a petulant left-punching mood today. Time for a mute spell.

The problem with Red Americans is they think nobody else in the world is real. When you say TACO after we double tapped a girls’ school or make our allies deploy a tripwire force against us, you’re just the other side of the same coin. Strength is not the eagerness to kill.

It’s good that the WSO is safe, but I’m not trying to be edgy when I say this feels unworthy of celebration. This is an illegal, immoral war of aggression and we are killing people for defending their homes.

Lotta people on this site still feel really self-righteous saying despicable shit about people in public and then smol beaning when they respond without blocking out their username.

If you are exhausted by reading criticisms of Trump, there's an obvious solution. You can log off. Just literally do anything else besides post on social media. Rather than lecturing the entire rest of the universe that we aren't producing the kind of reading material you'd prefer today.

"How can we guarantee Iran will stop if we don't completely take control of the situation?" This is going to be difficult for policymakers from a declining superpower to hear, but most countries kind of have to work this out by compromising rather than insisting on complete and total submission

Still waiting for the Brave Blossoms to put three of these dudes in the front row.

Someday they’re gonna tell you this man hates white people.

Here’s a good question to ask about the Biss allegations. Here is his accuser’s description of what inspired her to come forward now: “If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign…” What specific behavior on the part of Biss is being characterized this way?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon... Bet you guys haven’t seen a building that looks like a basket before.

classic sign of someone who doesn’t think deeply about politics is they cannot imagine the agency of actors outside of their social millieu

In support of this, I think this is the other side of the coin of “stranger danger” moral panics. It’s kind of like horror movies. You want to believe everyone’s safe inside and the villains are out there. But usually, the call is coming from inside the house.

It doesn’t matter how liberal you think your church is. It doesn’t matter if they’re LGBT affirming. If you’re doing shit like this you’re no less a bigoted, chauvinistic dogmatist than any evangelical.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... So the thing is, I don’t think Nancy Mace is hinged, competent, or sincerely interested in protecting victims. That an overwhelming bipartisan majority read this as counterproductive seems perfectly plausible.

This really is the crux of it.

Dem Senate caucus sucks so much of the time but the only splitter in Schumer’s caucus has an apparent medical condition. Gotta hand it to him honestly.

apple.news/ABTn6SlIqSUm... I know there are a lot of decent, thoughtful, educated talented people who are very excited by the possibilities of AI. With all due respect, it’s time to retire the luddism/progress framing.

i think the "israel has not historically tried to strong-arm the united states into attacking iran" line is pure, unalloyed cope www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...

This is why I’m very frustrated by the minimization of Israeli responsibility in this war. We know this play, we’ve seen Israel run it before in Gaza. Netanyahu wants to make Iran an incoherent mass of threats that justify ever accelerating cycles of violence for generations.

Throw some gochujang paste in there and you got some Boy Red Kibble.

it’s depressing to think about how every single faction of the Democratic Party fucked up in the Maine senate race -Schumer/DSCC for recruiting an unpopular almost-octogenarian -labor/progressives for getting behind an unqualified failson with a Nazi tattoo

Broke: Trek/Horatio Hornblower in Space or Wars/Samurai Westerns in Space Woke: The Expanse/Three-Body Problem/Dark Forest Bespoke:

Guys, it’s very simple. We just gotta call early elections federally and in all fifty states and win supermajorities in all of them so that we can amend the constitution so that we can call early elections! What’s so hard to understand?

Anyway: "Will leftists vote for Newsom in the general" is a classic have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife-yet question. If you swear to vote for the D nominee they can ignore you because they've got you, and if you won't they can ignore you because you're a wrecker.

The thing about Gavin Newsom is I think he’s a bad candidate and a sleazy, creepy dude. I think he would make a terrible candidate if he won the nomination. I think he would make a terrible President if elected.

@squidgerugby.bsky.social Is Ireland exploiting the kick because they anticipated that France subbing out their veteran wingers for up-and-comers would leave them short experience under the high ball?

My dog is the best. She can tell I’m sick and she’s very concerned. But clearly the cure is to give her pets and she’s very puzzled that that hasn’t sunken in yet.

Apropos of nothing, doesn’t “normie libs need to shut up and listen to anarchist black blocs” strike anybody else as hierarchical thinking?

youtu.be/QOjF6rRRHWQ?... I think about this play like once a week.

you are made witness to a rare Homer of Victory. yell "woo hoo!" before sending this to the ally on your flank most at risk of capitulation to the enemy

Not quite a Human, but almost. More of a Homan.

The thing that you don’t quite get if you didn’t grow up in a red state is that the median Republican absolutely delights in this shit. Trying to appeal to the better angels of their nature is the most Charlie Brown shit imaginable.