So I happened across a treasure trove of old images, videos, memes and other junk on my OneDrive earlier, and since I've nothing better to do, I'll share my highlights from the collection of more than 1200 files from 2016–21.

I blame Hollywood for this. Not because of any deliberate choices, but because the bulk of surviving English language popular media from the era being produced and set in the richest location in the world's richest country provides a seriously skewed window into how people lived back then.

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Multicam Stop Resisting would be an absurdist bit if it wasn't real.

But Bluesky assured me the PRC is a country of 1.4 billion rational actors who have a bulletproof plan to run the entire world for the next 500 years.

That plus a city before plumbing and waste treatment. The disgusting public restroom was basically the entire alley.

Mamdani is going to implement Daria law. All New Yorkers are required to become snarky, antisocial cynics who look down on everyone else around them. Wait a minute…

"The mass adoption of cars made cities *cleaner* because horses are just that fucking filthy" is a historically verifiable fact people do not believe until they've had to spend roughly ten milliseconds around a horse.

"But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.” - Chesterton

It is incredible that the richest man in the world is also the most pathetic man in the world.

I think that the good people of ICE are woefully underestimating the Filipina capacity for verbal and emotional violence. I live in constant terror and I have the right to say it.

Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.

I think they're way too deep in culture war/anti-woke shit to give top priority to boilerplate neoliberal proposals from a generation ago. Not that they don't care about them anymore, but like, making it illegal to have interracial couples in ads is of much greater concern right now.

EuroTrip

One of the reason I pushed back on "Israel is doing Genocide" was not that I found Israel's war crimes acceptable, but that I strongly believe we need to reserve the assertion of genocide for true, intentional, and overt attempts at it. Israel's actions can be unconscionable and not genocide.

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My 15 month-old niece stands straighter than this.

Guy who's been unconditionally supportive of Ukraine since Feb 2022 and flies the blue and yellow from his house and in all his bios: "Sorry, these elections change nothing, Amerikkkans still deserve to be universally reviled and isolated forever for fucking up one too many times at the ballot box"

Ciabatta was created in 1982 and the pyramids of Egypt were not built with slave labor.

"bloodthirsty kahanist" = "does not wish to forcibly expel 7 million people from where they've lived for decades and likes seeing psycho Jew killers get got"

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

I'm on a kick where I restrict myself to ogling boobs, thighs, pretty faces and good hair: No Butt November.

I’m on a workout regimen called no-gut November

Dick Cheney coming round to endorsing and campaigning for Kamala in the last presidential election before his death is a good demonstration of how a hardened son of a bitch who nonetheless has immovable lines in the sand is better than a totally amoral snake with no loyalties to anyone or anything.

No, I'm not a lib. I just want them to suffer.

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Gaza coverage on TikTok consists of 70% disinformation, 25% videos of antisemitic caricatures that steal money from people under the mocking pretext "it was promised to me 3,000 years ago", and 5% factual reporting.

Heritage *and* Hate!

Dick Cheney would be loving this

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

MAGA entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to terrorize and openly fantasize about killing everybody else and nobody was going to strike back against them. At LA, Chicago, Portland, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation.

If you were tasked with turning NoVa 0x0000FF Blue for the rest of our lives, you could not have come up with a more bulletproof way of bringing it about than DOGE.

OUT: ghosts, vampires, undead, skeletons, fog, jack-o'-lanterns, Michael Jackson, and more pumpkin pies than I care to count IN: elves, reindeer, ice, Mariah Carey, ever-mounting pressure to get good gifts for everyone without wrecking my savings, and watching "Kevin" with the nephew another 50×

Not even joking, this singlehandedly immunized me against bad faith questioning of "why don't they just come legally?"

The people demand soap operas. The Iliad? Soap opera. Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Soap opera. Comics? Soap operas. Pro wrestling? Soap operas. CRPGs? Soap operas. Longing for soap operas is part of the universal human experience.

Scarface (1983)

Who else is excited for the future Wikipedia article "Bloody Christmas (2025)"

It is officially Bernie Sanders Hate Hour in this house. An absolute Hall of Fame wrecker.

It's especially despicable because Bernie, *who lost relatives in the Holocaust*, should be able to see how this mental model of the world is bog-standard Protocols antisemitism with the serial numbers filed off. Alas, New Left Brain has some... interesting symptoms.

Still thinking about how he called Clinton's immigration platform a "Koch brothers open borders plot." Bastard helped cost a massive shot at reform.

and everything bad in their life is because of a (((shadowy conspiracy))) acting against them personally.

A cross-partisan, multi-generational cohort has been bred, of dickheads who think that everyone who's not exactly like them is an indistinguishable "establishment," tradeoffs only happen because politicians are pussies who don't want to fight,

Another reason to hate Sanders, whose initial base of support also consisted disproportionately of Ron Paul 2008 veterans, is the enormous role he played in mainstreaming this conspiratorial line of thinking but from the left.

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Bernie's main life achievements have been: –Helping to kill immigration reform in 2007 –Fomenting a civil war within the Democratic Party right as it needed to become a united front against MAGA –Championing the exact outdated economic vision that killed Biden's presidency God, he sucks so much.

Yglesias and the rest of the reactionary centrist set are in love with a version of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign which exists only in their heads.

Happy for the people of LA. They deserve something to celebrate after all this shit they've been through under this regime.