Honestly believe Hollywood needs to create a Strategic Yayo Reserve to bring back good movies.

"Log #89"

Every time I start up an app on my computer.

Charlie Kirk was a human Twilight Zone episode: a man who used sophistry to annoy and irritate his way to meme stardom who then suffers the ultimate grotesque murder and then his name and likeness are stripped of context (like how he used to argue) and he's turned into an immortal meme goblin.

Meanwhile, far from the attention-seeking headlines of the White House Correspondents Dinner, the starving sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln begin to plan what future historians would call 'the death spasm of the American Empire'.

Everyone's a high roller until an Iranian missile hits your petrochemical industrial complex.

Negotiating across from them, a guy who wrote in his memoir how in college he once was terrified of burning his tongue drinking sparkling water.

For Americans alarmed about negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran, just ask yourself 'What Would Reagan Do?'

This account is occasionally like a Woot alert for cool toys so long as you don't eat them or stick them in your eye.

A visual guide to Iran's strategy of targeting the allied Gulf states in the war

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

This is also the reason Macy's itself is dying. Consumer spending is down because all of our money is spent paying bills.

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In history today, the Great March of Return, a peaceful march for Palestinians right of return, began and was met by extreme violence by Israel in 2018. The noir of the day is 1953's JEOPARDY, directed by John Sturges for M-G-M and starring Ralph Meeter, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Sullivan.

There is no way any major media outlet *favorably* compares Oysters Rockefeller here to one of their progressive foes unless the editors got an instructive phone call from the boss.

Every day of this war has seen some kind of anecdote that a historian would spend three paragraphs writing about in their history of the fall of an empire.

Saying something "violates the mandatory standard" sounds like the coldest insult you can give.

many people might not know this, but in iran, unlike america, it's considered extremely impolite to murder a bunch of innocent school children.

In addition to the one novel he read (Lolita) Epstein probably based his identity on one movie he's seen.

Americans may have unlocked the North Korean power of Chukjibeop www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEqc...

It's telling how the broadcast TV shows now sound like your grandparents misremembering the titles.

The U.S. 'Department of War' sometime next week, after oil hits $150 a barrel.

Worstalgia: n. The desire to relive the most humiliating era of your life. Ex: A VICE / Wonkette style blog article while pursuing a quagmire middle eastern war in 2026.

Congressional staffers taking their legislators to vote.

An American 2026 World Cup is like imagining Germany hosting in 1941. And most of the world leaders are still going to show up.

Everyone united behind your precious Democrats in 2020 because It Was Time to Get Rid of Trump...and then the Democrats told us to stop bothering them about Getting Rid of Trump. And now Trump is back.

CBS is the only network where it takes an hour to say the Fourteen Words.

When Pablo Escobar was negotiating his surrender to the Colombian government he changed his tactics to kidnapping relatives of the social and business elite. Inconveniencing the upper middle class at airports is Trump's 'Escobar strategy' to break the Senate Democrats in the shutdown fight.

they want an award for voting for 99% hitler against 100% hitler but also will vote for 99% hitler when he's in the primaries against a bunch of 0% hitlers

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You know what? I don't think I've ever heard AI itself hype AI as being intelligent, infallible, the Great Replacer of Humanity, etc. Meanwhile this guy has spent 3 days arguing with his phone because he believes he can talk it into computing better.

Here in LA we have a caste system of grocery stores, based on how rich and exclusive they are. Peasant tier: Korb Middle class: Sun Harvest Upper middle class: Wow! Victuals Upper upper middle class: Le Baskete Celebrity class: KARKOZE

The Epstein Files are showing how expansive and all-encompassing the networks of the rich are, primarily because money buys access. He was connected to everyone and everything. When you're rich and have ingratiated yourself with the biggest players in the game, the ruling elite want to know you.

The Liberals have been accustomed to console themselves with constitutional illusions and phrases about the rule of law, and close their eyes to the real relation of forces, to the class struggle.

By virtue of being the only public figure to say no to these perverts Norman Finklestein should be the American Robespierre.

The groundhog was also allowed to view the golden plates of the angel Moroni, making him the secret Prophet of the Latter Day Saints.

The most convincing argument for communism might be the moral and intellectual condition of its fiercest critics.

Comedy is okay; but clown is more difficult.

When the Wario wins an argument against the Mario.

One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way

he’s mad about the basketball game

Movie Recommendation of the Week: ROBOT & FRANK (2012). When an elderly father with dementia is given a helper robot by his estranged children he instead uses the mechanical assistant to return to his life of cat-burglary. A quiet, charming story of keeping active with hobbies and friends.

ICE is the unemployable waging war against the employed, but it is also online-brained vs. offline. The chuds talk about Call of Duty and George Soros conspiracies while the people they kill have real hobbies and mature interests.

Fascism ultimately preys on its own. The Nazis hanged Aryan German citizens. Israel kills its own people taken captive. An American immigration force murders white citizens. There is no tiered ranking of enemies; everyone is marked for elimination.

To be fair, it's an academic term.

Personally I've moved so far past anger at most Dem politicians in this moment beyond a couple local exceptions. Disdain & contempt are the closest terms. Just fundamental inability to rise to the moment while refusing to get out of the way for someone who might.