Not to defend Qatar to a fulsome level or anything but it's pretty indisputable that they care about the hostages infinitely more than Israel does, right

I believe that you're narcissistic enough to regularly refer to yourself in the third person man I'm just not sure that's a sterlinh defense

If you were to actually read my timeline beyond perusing for cheap dunks it would be pretty obvious that "insufferable hysterics" was me rhetorically adopting the language that people used to dismiss it in 2018, but that would be expecting far too much from you

It would be nice to have an actual opposition party, in my humble opinion

This is so goofy. Biden signed the law that banned TikTok last April. Trump is a hypocritical opportunist who decided to switch his position because he saw a political layup. To get more favorable terms TikTok is sucking up to the incoming president. Not everything is an Anne Applebaum column

the fact that the liberal intelligentsia could not fathom a multi-racial reactionary coalition for the longest time is probably a sign of how provincial americans are

reminds me of how #justicefornanjing was trending on the chinese social media apps the day Shinzo Abe got shot lol

my grandfather has a conspiracy that global governments and Big Science are hiding the truth of the dinosaur extinction from us

one thing that's objectively not good game design but that i am actually very nostalgic for is the ridiculously ardous ways you had to undergo in order to collect certain mons in the older games feebas only spawning in 6 randomly selected tiles in every copy of the game was peak

Happiness evolutions have got to be the worst pokemon mechanic ever right?

Wow, what a year it's been! At the start of 2024, I was wasting all my time posting garbage on a website, but now, as we enter 2025, I'm wasting all my time posting garbage on a different website. It's a heartwarming tale of personal growth

it's par the course nowadays but it's crazy how quickly Stranger Things fell off from being relevant in the cultural zeitgeist (i also stopped caring after Season 1)

the hagiographies of Carter run a little hollow but he's really fascinating as a tragic figure

Jimmy Carter was a war criminal. Wait no! He was nice he built houses! Wait no! he was still bad because he was a conservative Democrat! Ok guys I finished the discourse you can move on

RIP Jimmy Carter, you were a bad President who wasted FDR sized majorities in Congress, but you did eradicate Guinea Worms

Kind of crazy that Venezuela is ending the year as the anti-Americanist regime most likely to survive indefinitely Not a Chavista whatsoever but from a sheer amoral tactical level you kind of have to have it to them

i knew ozempic was legit when a bunch of disparate global dictators showed up in 2023 having lost 100 lbs

Sorry for the excessive politics posting, when school starts up again this will basically just be a books account

is this a rhetorical question? It's p. obvious

matt yglesias, noah smith, and that armand guy truly believe that they can convince republicans to moderate on immigration by extolling the virtues of low wage asian tech workers. this is foundational to their worldview

the Vivek-Elon tech bro wing is very obviously going to lose this mock gop civil war and it's pretty funny no one except for silicon valley and neolib pundits actually believes that illegal immigration is the problem but legal high skilled immigration is good. elite politics with no constituency

What these people want isn’t an education, it’s societal prestige. You can get just as fine an undergraduate education at University of Vermont as you can at USC or Yale, especially in liberal arts, but people don’t market themselves as getting a degree from UVM Fund👏the👏colleges👏

Being a nerdy kid who was obsessed with Pokémon design/lore is surprisingly pretty handy..."did you know Infernape is just Sun Wukong" is a good conversation starter for a certain kind of person in my age cohort lol

yes? if you're an educated adult who has never heard of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms i reserve the right to look down on you

might just be a product of Jews being the most visible and influential diaspora in the west for centuries, but it's interesting how anti zionist Jews are essentially the only really prominent international dissident community like there's no equivalent "Turks for Kurdistan" or "Azeris for Armenia"

Genuinely don't grasp how anyone can watch Whiplash and think that Fletcher is supposed to be admirable lmao

between this and Oppenheimer I appreciate Nolan's commitment to making movies i can watch with my dad

Doesn't know that she's supposed to refer to it as The Democrat Party yet. lackadaisical grifting effort smh

the cinemasins-ification of criticism is such a cancer

beyond anything else it's funny to not have the sufficient self awareness to realize that every empire in the history of humanity spoke like this

kinda crazy that the pokemon anime got away with a character as obviously gay as James for 25 years without some kind of conservative moral panic tbh

was gonna get chinese but it felt too cliche, a little passe even. got thai instead...innovative, fresh

i've been laughing at the twitter screenshot of people who have never heard of the odyssey before all day we're so fucked anyway merry christmas to the girls/gays/misc

might just be a social media exclusive thing but tbh I've already been seeing variants of this

many people are saying

I will be seated.

somehow watching Buffy for the first time ever and this show really is incredibly fun

That's my point though- populism is an affect and not a coherent set of policy positions. I think the NLRB stuff and Lina Khan were great but the sheer fact that I'm familiar with it demonstrates that I'm in the 1% most politically obsessed people in the country

Posting catnip for the most obnoxious blue MAGA accounts so I could proceed to block them all worked out much more efficiently than I even anticipated lol

Bernie sanders US senator is neither god or satan but a man who believes in certain things some of which are wrong and some of which are right if at this stage of the game you think anything more than this either way you are a fool

i realize that a lot of people seem to require a mechanism for making loving Biden seem cool but sadly I am unable to pretend Gaza doesn't exist

the way to fix that was to nominate bernie sanders i don't even say that as an embittered bernie bro, just that it's pretty baffling how people on here have been spending two months trying to puzzle out a way to win the Left's tacit approval that doesn't involve giving them a single inch

Nvm on the Shakespeare course this is the most uninspiring selection of plays that I think is even possible 😭

finally gonna achieve my long time goal of pretentiousmaxxing in January im excited

i'm still stuck on the guys released from Assad's dungeons who thought it was still 1992 and they were being liberated by Saddam. can you even imagine

obv super contigent on what happens afterward but >bad for Iran >crucial for Turkey's grand Ottoman revival ideological project >perhaps good for Israel short term but longrun they prefer Assad over either a functional Syria or Sunni Salafists on their borders >the alawites are absolutely fucked

the giant pictures of Assad apparently plastered on every fucking building in Syria is almost charmingly retrograde. I feel like even in North Korea they're less brazen

A hundred years from now this tweet will feature prominently in some arcane PhD dissertation

oh yeah, obviously no one should be glorifying HTS but the people who still think Assad is a bulwark against Israel or whatever have a knowledge base exclusively made out of memes