How can this be when all the tankies told me 6 months ago that Ukraine was about to collapse and has no cards?

Freaks me out a bit that every mobile game ad is the nastiest incel goonslop and that's apparently just completely fine being beamed into the eyeballs of children, often multiple times a day, even while the governments of the world scramble to make viewing an exposed ankle a capital crime.

See, this is the most transparent administration of all time.

There are layers to the grift. It appears to be the only thing this Admin is good at.

We used to make fun of the USSR for this shit.

I'm convinced you could stop this guy's heart with a sufficiently incredulous, coolly mean-spirited "what the fuck are you talking about?"

Democrats self-sabotaged in 2024 when they stopped talking about these guys as the weird perverts and assholes that they are. Most of the country sees people like Stephen Miller and think they're gross monsters. They will always respond well when leaders/institutions that affirm their gut vibes.

Kwik Trip. It has clean bathrooms, and some of the prepared food is sometimes OK. This is what it takes to impress people about a gas station, apparently.

The actual guy running things says "people understand the hell I've been through not being able to beat black people in the street while calling them the N-word, and the extraordinary paradise I'm building where we can do that again".

Not only that, but in the US at least, most bits of infrastructure you see was done in the last 80 years. Almost all of it was done in the last 150 years. People built it then for us to inherit. Some of their choices were shit, but they did it with fewer people and less tech than we have now.

If you want to kill people, don't do it with a gun. Do it with paperwork and make lots of money at it.

Remember when right-Libertarians said Trump would legalize weed, and that was good enough for their vote? And how nothing happened since except a weird farm bill loophole that wasn't intended, and then Mitch McConnell worked to shut it?

This isn't the world young people clamour for, is it? It's the world that old bastards were galvanised to vote for. The one pushed thru middle-aged Facebook feeds into your failing geriatric eyes.

And so, you have the "vibecession." It's not so much that people are blind to economic well-being. It's just that as the good book says, man cannot live on bread alone, and economic actors cannot be satisfied on good fundamentals alone. People need to believe in beautiful things.

As a general rule, anyone objecting to "twee" is usually brushing up against a very millennial expectation that we will all live to fulfil our unique potential, or at least come close enough and live a rich enough life trying to do so, whilst retaining our moral center and relative innocence.

If you take electoralism as given, then there is no path to putting progressives in power that does not somehow go through the Democratic party. If you don't like that, then consider abandoning electoralism.

The "replace Ticketmaster" idea was probably the only one anyone had that would be slightly useful for NFTs. It also completely falls apart if you think about why Ticketmaster is a near monopoly, and where NFTs would fit into anything.

Seems like security worked even with a gaping hole in the White House. Proof we don't need a ballroom.

November 5th, 2024. When I don't have the words, someone else does. We're all just stories we tell each other. 1/12

When you want to look right into her eyes and say "we're going to do so much cocaine together".

any estimates on when these patriarchal dinosaurs are going extinct? Would like to plan for a better future, but, godDAMN if there ain't a lot of deadwood clogging the path. Can someone either educate or eliminate them?

He has so many important naps to take at the White House

YoU eXpEcT uS tO lOoK uP eVeRy CiTaTiOn?

"Please let me have some of that sweet IRS slush fund settlement money"

We know how his place works as Black people. We have the view of all the hateful machinery undergirding America. From our daily experience, from our community memory. When you as a white person are looking at someone Black, you're looking with someone with troves of the inside info on your country.

I don't think the J6 people are going to see any of that slush fund. The ones that are still useful to Trump have joined ICE or some other low level part of the administration that abuses people. Trump doesn't give a shit about the rest. He'll hand that money out to himself, family, and friends.

It's well-established that talking about how strong and self-assured you are is directly correlated to being exactly that. Works every time.

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

We've reached the biblical plague stage.

Hathaway part 2 quick review: when Universal Century Gundam is good, it's really good.

My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.

Considering how willing AI advocates are to show their whole ass, they should take up exhibitionism.

update: the white gays are proving my point about how mainstream gay rights is literally just partisan Democratic party advocacy. Dismantle it all, don't support any of these orgs. They'll throw you in a woodchipper to make sure Newsom's feelings aren't hurt.

I love corporate projects that are based on the theory that with 9 fembois with GI tracts full of cum, we can have a baby in a month.

"Yes, we do" - every expert who lacks financial ties to the oil industry

If Taiwan wasn't nervous already about the solidarity of US support, then they're ringing all the alarm bells now.

yes. correct.

An entire generation of feminists were thrown in jail for distributing pamphlets on birth control, which violated Comstock, incl. Emma Goldman, who was eventually deported from the US (not the only reason, but one of them) Birth control, abortion access—all a right we with uteruses are entitled to

Russia lost in Ukraine the moment they invaded. Same with the US and Iran. Same solution, too. Keep fighting to avoid admitting that you can't meet any strategic objectives. You can't even articulate what the objectives are, because then people would notice you're not meeting them.

He was on an important fact finding mission to search for evidence that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

The fuck good is being a superpower if we just have to accept eating shit?

It's interesting to contrast how Mikey responds compared people inside the White House. From the inside, they adopt Trump's tactics of attacking the person asking the question. Mikey tries to deflect to an obviously self serving response while pretending he's taking the question seriously.

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

The working class right now has the best opportunity to demand the sky. We do not need to side with the same old Democrats. I don't think any third party is viable, but we don't have to compromise on a list of issues just because "the time isn't right yet".

"Why are you persecuting me?" says man with bloody knife standing over a stabbing victim.

Prayer didn’t abolish slavery, secure women’s rights, defeat segregation, or expand civil liberties. People did that — through activism, reason, democracy, and constitutional protections. Progress comes from courageous action, not politicians staging prayer circles for cameras.

KEEP HIM!!! He's just the right amount of incompetent to grind out the FBI from doing actual damage. Bondi? Noem? Just competent enough, which was too much.

Interesting thread. Lines up with my thoughts that in the 90s, a lot of white people thought racism and misogyny were problems in the past. We were waiting for a few old codgers to die off, and then we'd be in happy liberal bigotry-free utopia. Oh boy, were we wrong.