One thing that worries me about this era is the collapse of any resemblance of virtue. It is now uncool and lame to be compassionate and kind. wtf is wrong with us

"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.

hoi4 doesn't let you just randomly attack allies! these guys aren't even good at the map games, they just like epic memes about bad mods of the map games

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Being against "self-driving cars as currently constituted" is understandable on a couple levels including safety but never forget that propelling ourselves at high speed in big metal boxes alongside other people doing same is fundamentally bananas.

i am starting the caucus for white guys with beards against White Guys with Beards

hold on now, let him cook

If you spent 8 hours a day yelling at Dems to post better and then you immediately switch to “a post, who cares” it does not seem like you do

Whatever happens in Iran I highly doubt Phil Leotardo ends up being Shah again, no matter what he thinks

first finished mini of 2026, little freebie Helsmiths of Hashut i grabbed from the Warhams store when they were going. fun little tester scheme, i wouldnt mind more of these at some point! great fun to do :D

Gamergate is as big a moment to understanding the modern right in America as 9/11 is and there are still people who think it is insane to say that.

I think the “giant SUV moving towards him” point would be compelling if Officer Gross was a Sentinelese islander who had never before encountered a machine rather than an American adult who has presumably been in a Walmart parking lot at some point in his life

insomnia sucks

need more cosmopolitan chauvinism imo. to be able to go to a world city and do this without crossing a border is something you should be proud of, it means you're a great country. To want to tear it down means you are inbred provincial hog with no greater drives than envy and fear.

I totally get how the comments about 'fentystan' or jokes about cousin-fucking are bigoted and mean spirited, but you really have to understand that if you're an American from like SF or NY or LA or whatever the double standard about whose feelings you need to be sensitive about can be very grating

🎵would you 🎵like to 🎶see a muuurrderrr

Sorry folks, this is the one thing that you should _not_ be freaking out about under the Trump admin. A quick thread on the context this article leaves out:

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

critical support to future congressman Ken Jennings

I'm not sure what to do when a tankie is this confused or brainwashed about basic accepted facts in the historical record, except to hope they get the help they need.

me doing what I can: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! others inevitably making me suffer what I must: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

"HOLD THE GROUND AT ALL HAZARDS. FIX BAYONETS!" wow, sounds like something that some kind of Great, Immovable One would say

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Basically the only thing that keeps Donald Trump from ruling the Earth is that he's too much of a big dumb asshole to recognize the necessity of letting the empire's underlings save face. It's not enough to have basing rights in Greenland. We have to shove Denmark in the locker and make it cry.

They shot her for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Rest in power, Renee Good. 💔

Making up liberals to be mad at

I am just so stupendously angry. I didn't know it could burn like this. The incandescence of my hate, like bile in my throat.

I'm not sure what to do when a tankie is this confused or brainwashed about basic accepted facts in the historical record, except to hope they get the help they need.

Imagining a guy named Rich carrying this around a bar wearing a top hat

Boosting. Really need to close this out with about $500 more

i see Hegel, i post the F:NV Hegel monologue

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

When I post, sometimes I am a hasted Open Hand monk spamming Flurry of Blows, sometimes I am a Vengeance paladin upcasting Divine Smite, & sometimes I'm a Lore bard unleashing psychic damage with Vicious Mockery.

rightly or wrongly i think of this dynamic usually in terms of misery. social media is just immensely attractive to people who are feeling miserable (some of that's justified, some is fleeting, and sometimes it subsumes ppl). it gives misery company, but also makes it easy to inflict it onto others

I may regret this, but for every like, I'll give a fact about the "Hunt for Gollum" story from the text.

How dare Ashley hate pancakes this adorably!

it's this scene on a civilizational scale

We're going to land troops in Greenland without telling anyone in NATO beforehand, and dare them to do something about it while we conduct "defense exercises". Maybe it will finally wake Europe up to the threat we've become.

i saw a tiktok about how leading a country to war on false pretenses in childhood is a sign of low T and i can't stop thinking about it

There are so many real reasons to hate GenAI, you really really really don't have to make up bullshit ones. Really.

I wonder if these people will ever figure out we weren't funded by USAID in the first place?

I need someone who has played this new Terra Invictus game that released today. Because a combination of paradox grabs strategy & Xcom from the people that made The Long War mod sounds like it was designed in a lab to keep me from going outside.

"Jake Sullivan, shut the fuck up" 2026 edition!

Important part is cut off here, wherein it is clear that Hegseth is basing this at least in part on something that never happened. It is simply a lie to say that Kelly told anyone to refuse lawful orders.