Trump benefited a great deal from TV and movies painting him as a brilliant businessman for like 40 years. I think most hyper-informed news consumers and pundits really miss the forest for the trees on that front. The economy is bad now. So, I'm gonna vote for the famous business guy.

The moderate left needs to challenge this kind of nonsense. NATO is a diminished alliance that is finding its feet at a critical moment – pushing back against an actual imperialist power.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

The media's complete lack of curiosity over our nearly 80 year old President's health when he has permanent bruising on his right hand, swollen ankles, facial drooping, disappeared for days from public view twice in the last 2 months and just had an unexplained MRI is notable

Elon's post here makes me very confident that he's footing the bill for some RW publications

I've made a new t-shirt design to commemorate an important memory that we all share roryblank.bigcartel.com

the diseased monkeys were reportedly on their way to @osullyville.bsky.social's family reunion. at this time, the cause of the crash is believed to be "insane monkey road head"

Texas chain saw massacre is full of plot holes... what happens to the victims when they die? is there an afterlife?

fun fact we could double snap and pay free public college for everyone just with warren’s wealth tax

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

Maybe if we start calling Trump “Joe Biden” the media will report on his clear cognitive decline.

There are just so many people who believe in trade unions and social housing who don’t have Hitler tattoos and haven’t praised Bashar al-Assad on Facebook. The way some people dig in at all costs defending crappy people to own the libs or something is possessed.

I still can't get over the fact that the people who think Buttigieg briefly working for McKinsey is disqualifying are somehow caping for a blackwater mercenary with a death camp tattoo who said he loved to fight in colonial wars.

"A dark fleet of tankers carried tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil to Asia, evading Western sanctions. Reuters found the ships were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand, run by a British family." www.reuters.com/investigatio...

strange and eerie things

As inane and ill-informed on the issue as her colleague Corbyn. The arrogance of thinking you can tell working-class Ukrainians what is in their interest. The idiocy of equating aggressor and victim. Putrid.

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people: Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

I saw The Blair Witch Project way too young and it made me afraid of projects

please I am begging you I will vote for literally anyone who promises to enforce FARA

The President has started his very own anti-anti-fascist club and he’s invited me to join! The only requirement is that you have to pretend not to know how to reduce equations to their simplest form.

Players can do drugs, whenever

"Man Dies After Secret 4-Year Battle With Gorilla" is a hall of fame-tier Onion headline

Soft as shit PMC dudes insisting that the future of Dem politics is not PMC and PMC adjacent feminine coded jobs but rather white men in hard hats is a non-zero portion of why we continue to be in this mess

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

The thing that most frustrates me about Platner is his insistence that we judge him not by his words, not by his actions, but by a secret third thing

Every October the neighborhood kids (especially my own) ask “where’s the eyeball??” until I put it up. I always think maybe I’ll do something different in that window, but folks love the eyeball, so it’s become a #Halloween tradition.

Between this and people saying they had never seen a Totenkopf I'm becoming increasingly convinced Americans do not actually register things they see when they see them, like at all. Like they see motion and shapes but do not process at all what they're seeing as a contextual point, like a dog.

how does jules suzdaltsev still post. if i were him i would be afraid for showing my face on the internet given he is literally the originator of Burrito Serf Too Expensive discourse

Patrol police released footage of children being evacuated from a kindergarten in Kharkiv after a Russian strike on October 22.

Just found out my wife has been arguing with another man

This is a huge story - the richest man on earth, who regularly promotes and talks to neo-Nazis on his self-owned forum, now using his neo-Nazi friends to use that forum to target their enemies. Let's be clear: these people absolutely intend for their anonymous far-right psycho buddies to kill us.

Holy fucking shit

making the world a better place by turning credit card debt into a cryptocurrency casino

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

What if POTUS decided to simply demo the entire White House, pave it over, and conduct all business from some other location. Camp David. NYC. Moscow. If he just allowed to do that? No notice? No permission? The answer now seems to be: Sure.

Symbols matter in politics, especially to fascism. The demolition of the East Wing, and its replacement with a golden ballroom, is an arrogant public declaration of total entitlement, of ownership of the fabric of US government. Trump is pissing up the wall of your house and saying "mine now".

The guy with the nazi tattoo isn't the problem. I'm the problem when I say 'hey maybe we don't elect people with nazi tattoos they probably are nazis.' They act like we are wanting to string this guy up and cut his tattoo off. We are just saying don't vote for him. But here I am being the problem.

it's not even just the money (67 cents per American), it's that he's paying himself for trying to overturn an election. This is insulting. He's laughing in your face.

my diagnosis for why this is the case btw remains the same: tattoo guy performs the precise kind of white masculinity that absolutely everything is excused for in american society

man shouldn't even be hosting a podcast without being vastly more honest about his past from the start

Nobody wants to send this dipshit to jail or hit him with a broomstick. They have just lost faith in his judgment and don't want him to be a United States Senator. It's not a punishment. There are hundreds of millions of people who don't get to be United States Senators and that's fine for them.

Presumably the slogan “Poland. See, that wasn’t so bad, was it?” was already taken.

Menswear guy has spies everywhere. Doesn’t matter if you’re showing collar gap in the Twin Cities, being rude to service workers in Charlotte, or wearing a raggedy white t-shirt to eat at an expensive place in Malibu, he *will* know about it and burn you if you force his hand.

man some of you guys have the survival instinct of a fucking water balloon 1. Platner is probably going to drop out 2. This almost certainty isn’t going to be the worst thing that come out if he stays in

kind of hard to avoid concluding these guys just ... think Nazis are fine.

This has less to do with that kind of leftist being fine with Nazis than with the fact that one of their core beliefs is that most of the Nazis will join them once they've beaten the libs (as they're only Nazis because of economic anxiety, you see).