“There is no good Zionism; it is a racist ideology, a violent ideology,” said Miko Peled, the son of a prominent Israeli general who later aligned himself with the Palestinian cause. He added: “There is nothing to justify, nothing to excuse what Israel does.”

When Obama was President you couldn't swing a goddamned cat without hitting some Conservative talking about "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Where are they all now?

I wonder if there is a podcast like This American Life but for conservatives, that can cover stories intimately and personally in a way that would make me have sympathy for MAGA.

Keep the vision board simple and fun.

D20 and Critical Role represent a better way for me than capitalism. They are offering competing products but cooperate with each other in a way that makes the entire market healthier. They're not doing any of that to better their bottom line, but it does.

I was just reminded of transferring to a new high school at 18 and joining the RPG group mid-campaign. They were playing Top Secret, which is like D&D but for modern spies and non-cooperative. They handed me a generic 007-type character and were shocked when I started murdering the other players.

The chilling thing about this is that by the current SCOTUS reading of the Constitution, she is right. If the President has immunity for what he does while in office, then the orders he issues are all Constitutional. There is no such thing as an unlawful order anymore if it comes from the President.

#FreePalestine What fking ceasefire? Fk Netanyahu Mileikowsky the polish mass murderer a wanted international war criminal for crimes against humanity. en.mehrnews.com/news/239055/...

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A senior Gaza official warns toxic materials from Israeli bombardment may be seeping into groundwater, worsening the besieged enclave already devastated water system. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7gw1h2

Normally I don't care about this kind of thing, but it will be interesting to see how powerful people react to his tantrums in the next few weeks. A lot of his power is based on fear. If this recent loss has showed that he's vulnerable, people might not be so eager to knuckle under.

Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of scientific method knows that the onus is not on the vaccines to prove that they don't cause something, but on the CDC to prove that there is a link. Until now there has never been any evidence.

An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. n.pr/4r39Phv

Don't scratch your heads too hard over Trump suddenly pushing Congress to release the files. Bondi starting up an investigation into them will immediately lock them up again.

I'm a little dumbfounded that people are still asking questions like this. MAGA voters knew he was a pussy grabbing rapist. They knew he was a fascist. Why on Earth does anyone believe they will draw the line at child rapist? Why do they think there is a line?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME BLUESKY

This is extremely accurate and once you understand it, then you understand that the AI bubble is not just based on tech bros selling vapor, but also on C Suites who will buy literally anything.

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed by how little any revelations damage Trump's base. They're dumb but they're not stupid. They've known for as long as we have that he was a rapist dirtbag, but he's the rapist dirtbag who overturned Roe v. Wade and let's them hurt trans kids.

I think the problem here is that Democrats think anyone on the other side really cares if Trump is in those files. His supporters think that any 15 year old getting paid to give massages deserves to be raped. They know perfectly well what kind of a person he is and they're okay with it.

Pretty remarkable how closely Trump's response to Epstein allegations mirrors what Wolf suggested.

It's hard to make political predictions in a climate this insane, but I am certain that as long as any Republican has a say, the Epstein files will not be released in their entirety. Also, one day, they will all be released, and they will be way worse than anyone suspects.

IRL my friend group is pretty evenly split between Europeans and Americans. Frequently, you'll see an American talk about a disabled relative and how everyone is having to drop everything just to keep that person fed. The Europeans are too polite to say anything, but it sounds barbaric.

If you've never lived outside of America, you have no idea how weird American high school sports seem to everyone outside of the U.S..

Having kind of a rough day, so I thought I'd watch a movie to get my mind off things. Decided on A Dog's Purpose. Big mistake.

A lot of people these days root for the cats.

General Strike being organized in the US. We’re Shutting It Down’: Nationwide Economic Blackout Kicks Off Nov. 25 www.binnews.com/content/2025...

post-election coverage #satire

The only truly important takeaway for me is that $ does not buy elections so long as there are platforms that a candidate can use to get a good message out cheaply. This is the same takeaway that billionaires have learned so watch for them to start exercising more control on those platforms.

I was just thinking about my ex and her Mom. Years ago, MIL was bankrupt after some terrible business decisions that had put her millions in the hole. My ex was very stressed about how her mother would ever dig out, and I told her, "I DREAM of being so rich that I can have that kind of debt."

I know a few conservatives who went MAGA whom I maintain some contact with and at least a couple of them are at the point where they are realizing that the people who told them where this was going back in 2016 were right all along. Fuck them anyway.

I will never stop admiring Pratchett and how he managed to infuse so many books with so much gentle wisdom.

That poor poor man. HOUNDED from palace to palace like some commoner (who lives in palaces).

You guys remember that episode of the Twilight Zone where the world is reduced to rubble in a nuclear holocaust and the lone survivor is all, “I finally have time enough at last to try a buttplug without embarrassment or judgement!” and then he falls and breaks his only ass? Weird episode.

Just wait how low Trump’s ratings get in his third term

This is one of the prices you pay for living a life in a distorted reality. You can't tell what is real anymore.

Honestly, who has time to give a shit about this when they're taking food away from hungry kids and facilitating genocide? With the destruction of our actual institutions happening, who cares about the destruction of the symbols that represent them?

More people need to watch The Fall. It's one of those amazing movies that comes out without much fanfare and somehow flies under the radar, never getting the attention it deserves.

There has got to be a reckoning for these people.

Breaking | An Israeli occupation quadcopter dropped explosive bombs east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

I like watching dystopian 80s and 90s SciFi because, as bad as the images are supposed to be, they tend to be much better than what we actually got. Watching Strange Days now, and the whole premise is that LA cops killed a black guy in a traffic stop and are terrified that it was caught on video.

I don't even have words.

I don't trust any of these Republicans career politicians or thought leaders who switched sides after Trump. If the trajectory of the party was obvious to me, you had to have seen what was obviously on the march 50 years ago.

I remember in 1999 being stopped by a cop in DC for going across a pedestrian crossing against a red light. They asked me for my ID and I told them "no" which left them no recourse and no way to give me a ticket.

The most important aspect of this, and what you miss from the headline is, that they didn't just destroy the crops. They destroyed the fields. Gaza was mostly self sufficient for food. It will take a long time before they can be again.

SOLD!!!

I've never been one of those people who talk trash about their exes. I always remember the things that made us fall in love. Lately I've been thinking a lot about how my ex-wife would be giggling still days and weeks after a bit that she'd seen on SpongeBob with our four-year-old.

Since I was a kid, people have been telling me that far-left and far-right ideologies always lead to authoritarianism, and since I was a kid, I've been replying, "But for fascists, authoritarianism is the goal, and for communists, it's because the movement gets hijacked."