"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them." Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)

You should see "One Battle After Another" partly because it's a very good movie, but partly to make sure that three-hour-long upper-middle-brow movies are profitable enough to get made.

Calling restaurants 'concepts' should be forbidden in an updated Geneva Convention.

Thought I would cook something up

We need Tommy Wiseau to do Trump at this point. "Don't take Tylenol! Don't give it to the baby! It's bullshit! Oh hi Vlad!"

Wow. The Kimmel clips sound like, honestly, a little victory, and I've resubscribed to Disney+.

He's just tweeting crime.

NEW: Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX has told faculty that they can't discuss trans people in curriculum. When I asked the justification for the policy, they referenced Texas state law - but Texas law doesn't forbid discussions of trans people in higher ed. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Okay, so, do we all resubscribe to Disney+? What's the play?

Which needs your help more?

Student-led demonstration for #academicfreedom TOMORROW at Texas A&M 6pm! 👏✊👇

this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I'm starting to think that I might have picked the wrong time to do a little reading about the 1938 Czechoslovak crisis.

Pertient repost. Might've been from you.

The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

this is an America post

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The number of living people who've ever seen a real debate is *very small*.

"These elucidations enable us clearly to understand motility as basic intentionality." Do they, though? *Clearly*?

Here's the Robinson indictment. Make of it what you will. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The follow-up post is the best part.

Some lawyer actually submitted a document containing this.

I've repeated this quote before, but Stanley Rosen is reputed to have once said in a grad seminar at BU: "You liberal grad students think postmodernism is cute, but just wait until the right gets a hold of it."

"but america has always sucked, why are you surprised" don't want to hear it, if you can't seize the ideals that people attribute to this country - even inaccurate ones - and use them to your advantage you have no business in this fight right now

For the record, I haven't celebrated a death since bin Laden's.

On university campuses in Texas, students have the absolute right to hold and espouse the views approved by the Texas GOP full stop.

"The killer has done a great disservice to the nation in the elimination of Rockwell by making a martyr of a despicable enemy of America." Samuel Samuels, the leader of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, in 1967 on the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.

Well said!

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

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Donald Trump: “smart people don’t like me”

Mic drop.

I recommend everyone watches this

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This you? Just two hours later?

@espiers.bsky.social cooked.

This is extremely sad.

Does anybody else remember a time when "what niche political view did the murderer have, and is it dangerously close to mine or delightfully distant from mine?" was not a question that we had every fucking time a crime was committed?

Per the press conference, the actual inscriptions on the casings are: "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three down arrow" "O bella cao, bella cao cao cao" "If you read this you are gay lmao"

These were the engravings on the bullet casings of Kirk's suspected killer: "Notices bulges OWO what's this?" (reference to a meme) "Hey fascist! Catch!" w/ arrow symbols Another had the lyrics of Italian folks song "Bella Ciao" "If you read this you are gay lmao" www.nbcnews.com/video/inscri...

Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits