Because I am totally going to treat you as a serious person if you act like an edgy teen.

Well this year's been an interesting year when it comes to male characters and positive masculinity: aka men who are able to have space for compassion and empathy, and who helps others not because they expect to get anything out of it, but because it's simply the right thing to do.

Anything sounds silly when boiled down to a four word summary. But when "the price of eggs" actually means housing, gas, school, healthcare, groceries, stagnant wages, prices still inflated from the pandemic... "It's the economy, stupid" has always been the better phrasing.

Yeah, its SO over the top and *insane* that they made those plans *public*, they were *proud* of them... that folks on both sides of the aisle were able to think it must just be a made up scare tactic. It's so cartoonishly evil.

Yeah. Not everyone’s online all the time.

Also, can we just mention all the various times the Democrats (or at least the majority of them) held the line and didn’t cave at all whatsoever? Or is that too inconvenient for some people?

And on top of everything else, the R's went SO cartoonishly evil it's... easier to brush off? Because.... "They have a 900 page playbook of literal Nazi plans they made public" just sounds... insane? That has to be made up? Why investigate or believe something that crazy? Can't possibly be true.

Yeah, some of them are all in for the horrors... but MOST people when shown children being pulled away from their mother say "that's bad!" They also don't get that the first 2-3 years of a presidency are economy inherited from the previous guy.

Similarly, folks that say EVERY SINGLE PERSON that voted Trump is an evil amoral monster that wanted all the bad things. 77 million voters and 90 million non-voters just weren't paying attention. They really WERE concerned about the price of eggs, that's not a smokescreen for "bwa ha ha racism!"

With all the Epstein stuff that's come out, people have already forgotten about the shutdown.

"The people are never going to forgive Dems for caving, and are going to remember that for 2026!" ..., are they? Not to say you're not allowed to criticize them, but otherwise I would remind people social media is not representative of everyone in the US. navigatorresearch.org/how-american...

Saw The Running Man 2025. I’ve seen the Arnie movie, never read the book. First off, add it to the pile of inexplicably yet another movie that speaks well to the Political Moment of Now. Powell’s a powerhouse, Brolin and Domingo chewing the scenery like they owed each other money.

The subsidies were lost the moment voters decided Harris didn't earn their votes. They by extension decided those subsidies weren't worth saving. Because they were always set to expire on January 1, 2026. This was a hail mary by Dems to save voters from themselves. Again.

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

Anyways, Predator: Badlands. Story's pretty simple (stoic hunter-warrior discovers compassion and companionship is Awesome, Actually), but manages to make it sing through the lens of Predator's visceral brutality that still manages to shine through in spite of the PG13 rating. Check it out!

There’s no evidence to suggest Harris/Biden lost over Gaza. www.jns.org/poll-gaza-wa...

I mean, yeah? If Harris had won we'd very likely not be in this situation.

Yeah? If that's the case, why hasn't there been a news leak saying that's what happened, versus when we did have a leak back in March of him actually doing that for the budget framework?

Gonna generally remind people who are thumping “Primary, NOW!”: you can’t be reliant on just pressuring moderate Dem politicians. You need to also pressure moderate voters as well. Don’t pretend they aren’t there.

The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...

Iunno, when people stop overwhelmingly showing up to sequels, remakes, and adaptations?

Still, would caution people to not assume what Mamdani achieved to be reproduceable everywhere else. It only happened ‘cause the other candidates were just that terrible, and NYers were already fed up with corrupt centrist Dems. AKA: don’t assume a DemSoc Texas governor by 2026/28 is inevitable.

OHMYGOD???

...man, I'm in LA, but really y'all had fireworks ready to go when the game wasn't even called yet? What were you going to do if Jays had won??? lol

Tron: Ares is…eh? In the moment, and putting the Leto-ness aside, it’s a fun sci-fi blockbuster that I enjoyed watching. It’s thinking on it afterwards that you run into issues. Namely that its story is unnecessary. (No your eyes aren’t deceiving you, they deadass invoke the Akira bike slide)

Oh, from a week ago, saw Good Boy. Currently in the running of my favorite movie of 2025. Not just 'cause cute dog, but just being visual storytelling at its purest. And while no, the dog does not die, the ending is still one of the most emotionally devastating things out there.

Today, saw Roofman. As weird as it is to say, it’s the coziest movie I’ve seen this year. An escaped prisoner, yeah, but it’s ultimately a story about a guy trying to pick between freedom or the desire to live. Tatum’s still got it with his himbo charm, but the rest of the supporting cast is great.

Lefter-than-thous are "a bunch of egotistical people who are not happy with themselves, uninteresting, untalented, that needed to create a chaotic situation in order to make themselves feel self-important." www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdeE...

Leftists love Andor and then get upset when Democrats throw some people under the bus and compromise with people they disagree with to fight a larger evil. They think they're Luthen when they're actually the Maya Pei Brigade.

There is a reason Luthen gets written out the the Rebellion’s history!

The Rebellion carried out assassinations and other very dirty acts throughout the Galactic Civil War. Rebellions are not very good looking when you actually start to look at them.

I forget where I read it, but the Rebellion recruited a whole bunch of people of extremely questionable background. People who legitimately committed crimes like murder, kidnapping, and whatnot as soldiers.

I love how me pointing out online American far-leftists who oppression Olympics Gaza over ICE raids somehow implicates me as being a fascist or a liberal, lol. Also socialists I dunno about socialists being that clear-headed. See: being all for USAID getting dismantled. jacobin.com/2025/01/us-f...

Ok, finally saw One Battle After Another...yeah I can see why the American far-right and far-left are both pissed off at this movie simultaneously, lol. Still, if it's provoking that kind of reaction, I'd say it's own political theme is a huge success. Worth checking out for that.

I didn’t know I was whining about anything in the first place, LMAO

No it wasn’t. Economy was the main reason why Harris lost, not Gaza. In fact all signs point to it being a pretty low priority among American voters. www.jns.org/poll-gaza-wa...

Nah. I don’t engage with whataboutism bait.

Ah, so after I manage to prove leftists did dismiss P2025 as a scare tactic, immediately pivots to whataboutism-ing Gaza. Typical.

Carve all this on a fucking mountain.

Finding out Aleks Le is voicing Daredevil in Marvel Rivals makes me think of Matt Murdock hitting on women but in the most Jiji (DanDaDan) way possible: "YO ELEKTRA! UR SUCH A CUTIE~!!! 😘👉"

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HELL YEA BROTHER

Good morning Rider!!!

Wut? How is this in support of Hitler? youtu.be/I7vb89c6pQY?...

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

Like I keep trying to tell people, when you underestimate "Disney Adults," you do so at your own peril. We know a villain when we see one.

We've even seen the rebuttals to the examples posted. Tax the rich? Will kill jobs and put you on the street! Universal health care? Poor coverage! Death panels! Limit political contributions? Against free speech! Raise minimum wage? Price out low wage jobs, makes them illegal!

There's also that whole "Billionaires control the media" thing. If you start appealing to those far left people, even on these popular ideas, the media will bury you if it even presents a whif of threatening the rich.