If you make a good product someone from a huge corporation will come to your house and offer you ten million dollars to make it bad

I'm developing a theory that millennials are just very dateable

me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen

I think if rich and poor alike in your society feel incredibly precarious about the near and long term future, it doesn’t really matter what the charts say, your economy is not in good shape. Commerce relies on trust and we got rid of that in favor of subscriptions, scams and planned obsolescence

I get that reporting on sexual assault by powerful men is complicated, but journalists circling the wagons to defend the limitations of journalism is a real water is wet moment.

Any system that disincentivizes people “doing the right thing” is a bad system.

[every job listing] Is [VANILLA-ASS JOB SKILL] your passion? Do you know all there is to know about [VANILLA-ASS JOB SKILL]? Would life be empty without [VANILLA-ASS JOB SKILL]? Have you killed and would you kill again for [VANILLA-ASS JOB SKILL]

out of power, republicans spend every waking minute calling anodyne things impeachable and democrats can't make themselves regularly say the same about war crimes, self dealing or dementia

Don’t love the fact that for the first time in my life I’m seriously weighing the pros and cons of buying a gun.

Say it louder for the Will Stancils in the back

Saturday Night Live documentary called Lorne Survivor

One day we’re going to have to have a serious discussion about military maximalism being the enemy of military efficacy.

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

I think there’s a real disconnect, especially on this site, between people who want to vocally oppose every unprecedented negative outcome we’re seeing and people who think the bad outcomes are baked into fascism, and want to capitalize on them politically in the most effective way.

Today’s lesson for the Democratic Party should be that if you get too cute in your opposition to fascism you will die in ignominy, but I have zero confidence they will internalize it.

The thing that’s giving me hope today is that historically speaking, people who refuse to understand that geography is a determinant (and maybe THE determinant) in geopolitics pretty much always fail.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people making very valid complaints about very horrible things, but pointing their anger in the wrong direction. It’s fascism. This is what happens under fascism. Be mad at the fascism. The rest of it is downstream of that.

They say movies don't cause real people to imitate them but they made a movie about leftist revolutionaries and now everyone who saw it is fighting over who understands the text and who's a dumb reactionary

A joke three and a half decades in the making:

I think a lot of the criticisms I’ve seen of one battle after another fall flat for me because they come from people who are mad that the movie stops to ask “what will be the human cost of creating a better world?” And that’s a question they’re not willing to ask or think about.

People need to be asking the autistic people in their life how angry it feels to go outside in the US right now. I think all the politics people are really underestimating the intensity of the backlash that’s coming. I’ve never felt anything like it.

At some point we’re going to have to stand up and say that the United States government isn’t the make a wish foundation for psychopaths and grifters, and clear all these sick fucks out of there one way or another.

(Rose)Agnes and William(stern) are dead.

My most cynical pre-Oscars takes: One Battle After Another is a movie made to be grossly misinterpreted by online activists Sinners is a movie made to explain to people why Sinners won’t win best picture

Movies are political and it's good to discuss their politics, but if you view a film primarily as an ideology delivery system that is caked in stupid art and entertainment and pleasure that it uses to distract the dumb unwashed and make What It Is Really Saying palatable, you might be the problem.

I don’t need to pit One Battle After Another against Sinners—they’re both amazing. But I think it’s wild to see people criticize PTA, who is nominated for making an explicit call to revolutionary action for white people, for not being “vocal” enough about injustice in his acceptance speeches.

The thing that democratic leadership doesn’t seem to understand is that they really really don’t want a public consensus consolidating around ideas that the end of the empire is imminent.

Donald Trump is a rapist, a rapist of children. The president of the United States is a degenerate monster, who now has the power to order the military to commit mass murder. I’d like to end this post with something positive, but JFC.

They are not manufacturing consent for war, but they are manufacturing expectation for violence.

In hindsight, the late season Gilmore Girls plot line where Luke refuses Richard’s money to expand Luke’s diner into a chain is one of the most radical things that’s ever been on network television.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

At some point we’re going to need a national reckoning about how much institutional knowledge has been destroyed by the “move fast and break things” disruptor ethos.

I forget that I can say whatever I want here because nobody can read.

I’m sorry I apocalypse posted on main, I just can’t shake the feeling that we’re all flying in a plane that has lost power and is just gliding and the landing gear won’t come out. Also the pilots are all 80 and have dementia.

Guys I think we might need to start having some urgent conversations about the possibility that the United States government has completely collapsed.

I’m dumbpilled so I smoothmaxxed my brain.

People are already being murdered in Trump’s concentration camps. And it’s going to get worse. Much worse. So much worse, we can hardly imagine. how long will we let this continue?

I’m not familiar enough with Talarico to know if he has the juice, but while people (fairly) rave about Z’s ability to stay on message, I think his real talent is staying on message with a wink that exposes questions as being in bad faith. (Which protects him against allegations of being evasive.)

Everything is bad, and I’m feeling pretty apocalyptic, but one thing that’s bringing me a tiny bit of joy at this moment is thinking about all the antisocial assholes who drive giant ass pick up trucks on city streets having to fill those bad boys up.

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Sure does feels like the “don’t criticize democrats” crowd has gotten a lot more squawky and a lot less in touch with reality over the last week.

I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who prefers maintaining order over fighting fascism.

One thing you should know about me is I’m not dooming, I’m redacted.

We live in a country that is building concentration camps and doing imperial invasions of sovereign states and you’re talking about protecting your enemies’ right to free speech.

Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!

With the caveat that everything is horrible and I don’t want any of this to happen: Seeing people who dismissed me as hysterical and a conspiracy theorist horrified by the exact things I’ve been saying would happen for the last eleven years is really testing the limits of my empathy.