Hasan Abi doesn't even sincerely believe in any of the politics he spouts. I don't know why people can't see that. He's just like his lovely unkie Cenk- just a vacuous well of egocentric conspiracy theories he passes off as a politic.

This Presidents Day, we honor the leaders of our nation who have worked tirelessly to uphold our democracy. 
The rights of our nation have never been more important or fragile. We must continue to fight for freedom, liberty, and justice for all.

My opinion on the 2028 primary is that it's the midterms, be for real people. The insistence that we need to always be in Presidential campaign season is spiritually corrosive.

Left-liberals and Democrats are organizing patrols to foil ICE while the Left sits at home and says that they're pre-emptively not voting in the midterms because Newsom will be the nominee in 2028 (which he will not) and performing ~opsec concerns~ for why they'll never protest.

Several points here: 1) This likely isn't true; if someone is telling you something in narrative, you should assume it is a narrative. Maybe it's describing their perception, maybe it's describing something that *feels* true to them, but it's rarely describing reality.

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I do not like anti-data center populism. I am above all a loyal Party man and so will support the messaging that the national Party and Democratic Party of Georgia ultimately chose to go with, but man, please, could we not?

I'm literally an accounting graduate and will occasionally check the balance in my checking account convinced it's (small number) and then be surprised when it's (respectable number for month-to-month living, given circumstances). This has nothing to do with my actual circumstances!

"If Hitler were to invade Hell, I'd make favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." I think Newsom would be a mediocre President (I do not think he is the abomination people paint him as). Even at his worst in evidence he would be better than any Republican candidate.

1) Emma Frost 2) Aragorn 3) Plastic Man 4) Geordi LaForge I'm certain a lot of you are answering this with "date" being euphemistic, but I'm thinking about the whole picture here.

You see, I don't think Brianna Wu sincerely believes any of this shit, not that that's especially exculpatory. I think she's a pathological contrarian. When she was closeted and in centrist gaming spaces, that meant performing being obnoxiously Woke.

"Ariana" shares, "After a day of picking lemons, I come home super tired with back pain and bruises around my neck from carrying a full bag. I go up and down a ladder all day long. I earned $35 per 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou

I'll be honest- the whole "Woke 2" framing is extremely obnoxious to me. It reflects a desire to just pretend all the retrospectively dumbass parts of social justice have nothing to do with anybody while just wishcasting a form of social progress into the future without coherent definition.

This person doesn't believe that Texans would commit a hate crime against her, and she is wrong, and her blithe attitude towards this is a direct insult to every trans person in Texas risking their lives just by existing.

Baptist's book is important but unfortunately hasn't withstood the criticisms posed by other historians and economic historians. He claims slavery drove 50% of the US economy, but economists found this to be the result of double and triple counting. The real contribution was ~5-6%, not 50%. 1/

This is in response to "Would you, as a trans person not in America, rather live in California or Texas?" To inform you, Aria: Texas has passed anti-trans bathroom laws and are actively passing more laws to restrict trans participation in public life. CA is not and will not.

experiencing a dangerous cortisol spike after getting pizzamogged by a noidchad

People arguing that we are already a monarchy are just giving the farm away to Trumpists. Nast used depictions of Tammany as Caesar as a visual florish, not a sincere position he held.

Here's the thing about forgiveness and grace- they're good. When someone has decided to go "I was wrong, I want to do good", that is *not* the time to try and kick them while they're down or demand they participate in a Struggle Session before you accept it.

You know, I'm a mixture of amused and mortified that ChatGPT has now apparently been hard-coded to dump ice water on people using it to ERP.

You're a racist motherfucker. Just call Cameron a house n****r and get it over with.

Now, I condemn violence as a religious principle, but: respect for that fat white boy who ran his hands on that shithead in his school. "You're gonna get in trouble!" "Okay, but that's not going to make you get unpunched for supporting ICE".

I do not think that AOC would be starting a war with Greenland or having seven-year olds starved to death in concentration camps. The fact you do not care about this is, very literally, damning. If there be a Hell, you will go there- if not, your memory will be spat on.

As a newly-out (<1 year) bisexual, it really is striking how much being queer is treated as a subaltern of niche left-wing radical belief system, as opposed to a descriptive term of sexual attraction or gender identity.

I literally said that, and I am a "vote Blue no matter who" person, but also the left on this site wasn't arguing that Mamdani should be abandoned en masse because something something neoliberals something something heightening the contradictions.

Yeah, this person is being racist. It doesn't mean they deserve eternal damnation, but this is disgusting shit to say, to imply one of the greatest Black thinkers America has ever seen was hornswoggled by flowery language.

"Your favorite game genre is probably not going to survive capitalism" I think if someone talks about capitalism as if it were something which has come into existence since the invention of most genres of video game they should not be treated with any respect for their ignorant dumbass opinion.

I realize this is unusual, but this is a favor for a personal acquaintance: this is a fundraiser for a Vietnamese person trying to immigrate to Japan, they just need $2000 total, please spare anything you can:

No johns, but I didn't fucking lose. 1. I had a horrible headache the entire campaign. 2. I didn't even know the minimum signatures required. 3. You're being a bit unreasonable. 4. I barely even play my main. 5. My signing game is shit. 6. I was kinda schmoovin. 7. I had a seizure a few moments ago

While everyone else has "shouting that Gallup are selling their souls to Trump" covered, I'll go a bit further afield and ask- do we really think that individuals have value in approval polling anymore? *everyone* has observed there are very tall floors and low ceilings on those now.

dear peace monks, you don’t know me but DO NOT GET ON THAT BUS

I mean, on the one hand, heard that, on the other hand the GOP has generally had the ability to try and pivot away from what pissed people off last time. Which means that this time, all they have to do is disavow Trump and Trumpism in favor of, uh...

Not trying to start smoke with this person, and I agree with the sentiment overall, but- "degenerate" is a 15th-century word, and its application to art predates the Nazi's official adoption of *Entartete Kunst* to describe modern, countercultural artistic movements by some 40 years.

I was assured that this would never happen and the Legislature was now the Dumas.

Choose your fighter

Post a banger not in English Can't go wrong with Ningen Isu: youtu.be/CLoUY1kA4ZY

As I have said before, I believe an apology should be equal to the offense caused. It has been brought to my attention that "Lost Canadians" apparently refers to a very specific subset of people who identified as Canadian but couldn't attain citizenship, see below:

requesting one (1) hell yeag

Like, I'm of two minds about the Discord thing: 1) I shouldn't have to verify that I'm a grown adult when I've had a Discord account since before the Pandemic and have had Nitro for years. 2) Hot take incoming: having kids on Discord has been a travesty and the answer can't be "do nothing".

You're smoking crack, Eric. This chain of logic has so many holes in it that it doesn't merit much more than this.

So, asking for a friend, who is me, for no particular reason, which is Discord finally deciding to shit the bed- I have an old (~3-4 years) Alienware computer sitting in my living room unused right now- if I did a factory reset on it, how hard would it be to turn it into an IRC server?

Late night spicy post- what's the over/under on the weirdo PR separatists getting assblasted at Bad Bunny's show tomorrow morning?

The Tweet is going to be *so fucking mad*.

A strong ameliorative in all of this is that Japan's youth as a whole aren't on-board with the insane social program parts of Japan's right-wing TMK and don't want autarky, and with the youth carrying the LDP into unprecedented territory they'd be bugfuck insane to stab them in the back.

So about that whole "Shinzo Abe's assassin proves that political assassinations *work*" thing...

The thing is, you can do that without using slurs. For example: I believe you should have either your keyboard or hands removed, you fucking stupid dope.

No, you stupid cracker, that isn't why, it was because the Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act with gritted teeth and the niece-raping landowners down here never forgave them for saying a n****r has any rights at all.

Since we're apparently debating Schmitt today, with many a gloat by people about how even if fascism was defeated by liberals externally it crushed "liberals" internally: 1) I do not think you can reasonably call anybody in Weimar Germany a liberal. 2) Schmitt's theory was *sui generis*.

You know, I used to sneer at the "Man in the Arena" speech as a pat way to deflect criticism. After seeing people howl in atomic fury at Gov. Walz over the past two weeks for reasons that are 95% hallucinatory and 5% exaggeration, I no longer do so.