He’s indicating that they intend to do things that would make liberal democracies consider the option

Literally did the meme lol

We’re also celebrating her:

Dean Martins real name is so cartoonish Italian, you'd think a klansman made it up

There’s banning and there’s banning. We have laws against a wide variety of anti-social behaviour, much of which we have no hope of ever actually eliminating.

I suppose Israel is our air craft carrier if our air craft carriers didn't work, cost ten times more than they already do, don't actually stabilize anything, cancel out soft power repeatedly, and divide the public on the issue of your statecraft's legitimacy

German energy policy and Irish neutrality are the two dumbest things those respective countries are smugly and stupidly proud of.

It’s possible that Germany should not have staked its economic future on cheap gas from a known terror state

As one does

I’ve been saying for years that the next wave of British republicanism will not originate on the left.

It’s not hard to understand why the post-OWS ended up the way it did when you realize that—however well intentioned—the idea of ‘the 99%’ was effectively an attempt to create class collaboration.

This guy was murdered by the government for absolutely no reason, and this fact will be lucky to get a fraction of a percent of the coverage given to dead squirrels and uneaten house pets.

i think that one of the basic problems is that most things promoted as true by those critics are either false or irrelevant. it is like criticizing Trump by asserting that he is a vampire who eats babies. he is worse than a vampire who eats babies, but he is also not that.

Important point that so many people miss. A billionaires tax, actually doesn't raise that much money. What it does do is put some control on the astronomical concentration of wealth, and therefore power, in the hands of a few suspect actors.

Imagine when this pic hits their group chat

That first Nazgûl who lost Frodo right outside the Shire fucking choked

im going to take a hard position here and say that getting married to "video games", a song about someone desperately in love with someone who refuses to give them the time of day, may be worse than getting married to "Every breath you take"

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They like Trump and want to help him rule us.

i'm going to go live in the woods with my friend and keep the computer in a room in a box and the only other electronics in my house will be a ham radio and an incandescent light bulb

you know what kills off Main Street? everybody having to drive 20 minutes to get there

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

What if we funneled the saddest asocial people who go outside very little onto one subject? Surely the conversation will be productive.

In general it seems like the issue is that everyone on all sides has relatively high standards on insignificant nonsense because that's all you can filter on since the real red flags happen later and nobody seems willing to acknowledge this, leading everyone to get increasingly angry and sad

Dating discourse on here reads to me as mostly made of people self reinforcing their own depression and it’s weird that people who are married participate by thanking the universe that they’re not dating online.

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

States wouldn’t have been able to incubate the tyranny that eventually ate American democracy without it though

demanding that the Danish return to their homeland (Iceland) and return it to its indigenous people (Basques)

the Falklands war was an act of imperialism by a European country (Argentina, 97% white) against the indigenous people (the English) of the Falklands and their suzerain, a country with substantial populations from the Global South (the UK, 86% white)

You can just say the measurement system you learned as a child feels better to you and drop the ridiculous pretext of objectivity.

People like to say that the system of measurements they grew up using is "intuitive." It probably feels that way to you, but this is because of your familiarity with it, not because of any objective property of the measuring system. I know this b/c the "system" below feels totally intuitive to me.

“Polyamory or refugee” is the funniest of these for me but “genocide or library” is close

Not wrong, but this is a real hotdog suit post.

A lot of you have inexplicably pivoted to this idea that it was not reasonable to expect that the kitchen fire would eventually spread to the rest of the house because the fire had been confined to the kitchen until it wasn’t.

there's been an instinct among elected liberals for the past ten years of "we can't risk escalation" and all it's done is allow Republicans to escalate to the point of armed insurrection *and beyond* without consequence

Trump represents a *breaking point*, but ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ was written in 1964. The series of beliefs and impulses behind MAGA are not new, and it’s been clearly getting worse for decades.

NOT begging

Probably there was no procedure for spiking a 60 Minutes story 24 hours before airing because it had never been done before.

At a certain point you start to at least understand where groups like the Committee of Public Safety were coming from

But I thought social media was good because it allows people to avoid this kind of censorship? That can’t be right?

this claim was developed in 2007 as a weapon for the 2009 Obamacare fight and it is manifestly unfit for purpose

this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems

I know it's easy to think Trump's position is unrecoverable, but in his first term, many GOP senators were on the brink of defecting, his own DOJ was investigating him, the Russia scandal was spiraling out of control, and he was firing cabinet members all the time. And then he did partly recover.

When I think “profiles in courage“ I do not think “Canadian media conglomerates”

Tired: stem is right wing Wired: the USSR and the PRC were led by engineers by training Inspired: the USSR and the PRC were in the relevant periods of their history right wing