in this house we believe

like i was saying

Which is why the media, who like Trump and want him to rule us like a king, stopped covering Democrats calling the fascists weird, & started quoting consultants who didn't like it instead, creating an alternate reality in which Harris & Walz abandoned an effective strategy because of consultants.

double down, you stupid motherfuckers, every car dealership, personal injury firm and local franchise is about to get inundated from the angriest fucking libs you have ever met in your life demanding they stop advertising on sinclair stations

i like seeing reposts on my feed, in general. i'm weird, whatever. but i wish i could turn off reposts for specifically the accounts that repost every single positive quote of their articles, including the ones that are just like "this is a good article", because otherwise i'm just unfollowing

I am trying so hard to think of a "ism" word that sounds less lame than Georgism because fusionist progressive liberal democracy + strong social redistributive facet powered by LVT is what I believe and I think the case for it only grows stronger every day 🔰 dammit, Henry George, why is your name

like the 'replication crisis' is a product of improving scientific rigor and training, of science *improving* overall. and it's used to attack the entire enterprise. it would have been better from the public relations perspective of academia to leave bullshit papers unchallenged.

doesn't help that "neoliberalism" means whatever people want it to mean at that exact moment

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

so fucking cursed

If pro-natalists were serious about their cause and not just misogynists with a breeding fetish, they'd be pushing things like a Manhattan Project for robo-wombs, massive research investments in the health of maternity, and coercive measures to make fathers pull their weight.

The king is impotent, he cannot even successfully fire the court jester 🤭

i just now realized, i created this account on the 21st night of September guess i *didn't* remember, i'm sorry Allee & Maurice

When nasal spray flu vaccines become widespread, I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out a big chunk of vaccine hesitancy was just people trying to come up with a less embarrassing reason than “needles scary.”

i wonder whether "they're afraid of needles lol" is a viable attack when it comes to vaccines and such because like that's gotta be part of it, right

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

see, this is why i think "they will not break us, they will break upon us" works for my brain bullies, assholes, and fascists are trying to convince *themselves*, more than they're trying to convince everyone else, that they're so big and tough and scary i'll ride for the Khan

I guess the ideal thing to happen re: people resubscribing to Disney+ (or not) is for some but not everyone to do so? Which is what'll happen, so, cool.

That was way faster than i thought it would be i'm still not going to give money or mental bandwidth to The Mouse, personally

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

i knew when i said it that this seems kinda plural/system-coded, but jury's still out on whether any particular flavor of dissociative disorder most applies brains are weird

As a trans girl I can't be thankful enough for Trump being a complete idiot.

the Pope should excommunicate the Vice President

The F-35 oxygen system forces the pilots to breathe phytoestrogens extracted directly from soy. The sensor fusion implants subliminal imagery into the pilot's hindbrain, of long stockings and spinny skirts. JATM and CUDA launches will play a prerecorded "good girl" for the pilot on missile release.

This one: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-0... Still think it's true, don't at me.

"uppity" is a funny choice of word, considering the demographics involved

Marrying Abigail in STARDEW VALLEY is the best choice because it means that my children will inherit Pierre's store. This is good because it will represent my final victory over the old bastard, but also because it will secure a vertical monopoly on agricultural production and distribution.

for absolutely no reason at all, idly wondering how effective it would be to intentionally refer to every minor inconvenience as a war crime so that the term is cheapened and can't be used against us

'chart' and 'shart' sound too similar now i'm hyper-aware of where the tip of my tongue hits the roof of my mouth for tsh vs sh based on the preceding vowel sound

not to make everything about me but I do very much resent spending my 20s trying to have success making content on the internet, finding that success at 28, only for the app I found that success on to turn into state media by 30

i'm glad there's still so many people willing to fight on our behalf, even though online we tend to be kind of awful allies to everyone else and often engage in friendly fire *checks earpiece* i've been told that saying this makes me a pick-me. ah well, nevertheless.

This position of knowing, worldly cynicism is just another way to feed into the permission structure of reactionary violence. It's giving up and marching into the sea.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

I don’t know, seems like it should be big news that the President doesn’t remember the surrender negotiations he directed with the Taliban back in his first term. Maybe a reporter can show him some clippings of Trump himself talking about it?

hp lovecraft would really thrive as a rw influencer terrified of cities

My 5-year old, yawning: "Monsters aren't real." Me: "That's right." 5-year old: "There are no monsters in Canada." Me: "Mmhmm." 5-year old, just as he falls asleep: "But there are many robots on Mars." True. But the way he delivered it: chilling.

To make the rhetorical-fu a little more explicit: we are looking to rob conspiracy theories of their interest and novelty, NOT attack them on facts or debunk them. Those are important to do too, but we first need to steal the oomph from these perpetual (and boring!) two steps people find out there.

signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve

When you pump the cavity of the human soul with noise, certain shrill tones emerge

As I keep saying, it would be real nice if everyone could just acknowledge him as the leader of the party sooner rather than later

someone is toiling away in the mines, deep in somebody else's mentions, and they see a flawless gem of a comment that has had zero attention before this exact moment they repost that comment i want a feed of just those

Yeah, it's not too surprising that the people who tell you Jesus wants everybody to hoard money and hate foreigners will also tell you MLK didn't like uppity black folks

i just know that there's some crazy motherfucker (laudatory) out there who somehow has a Bluesky client running on their Nintendo DSi and they write all their posts with the little slide-out stylus

Andrew Fox, if you're looking for another project after Slam Frank... (i have no idea if he's here, i've only seen him on TikTok)

OH, so Charlie Kirk was the surrogate son for a bunch of elderly conservative weirdos whose adult children have gone no-contact for whatever reason. This explains everything

onboarding processes would need to be *very* efficient, but sortition for currently-unelected positions might be fun like jury duty but "surprise! you're now a senior analyst for the EPA for the next few years, get to it"

Like I keep saying: we have yet to develop a political counterstrategy to Refuge in Audacity

VINDICATION

she's A-10 but her weakness is SAMs 💔

This leftist creator on TikTok is very frustrated with leftists who don’t recognize allies when they see them and cats seem to tell the difference between comfort and safety. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRHsr8h/