To be fair, humans have figured out autopilot for space and aircraft but our self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a speed bump and a child.

“Your feelings are not tied to real conditions” is telling people that it’s all in their head. You are saying their perception of their own household budgets is incorrect. That the squeeze they feel isn’t real. Take a break Will. It’s been a long year.

I like Will, but waving off the struggle that people are feeling is such a dumb idea and will only result in an own goal. Shit is more expensive, and it’s noticeable. How do we address that without pointing to a fucking chart and saying “it’s all in your head”?

That’s not how decisions are made in this regime. Trump makes a post > his sycophants issue orders > people ask questions > they’re told to make it happen > new crisis unfolds. Trump thinks he can solve everything with false narrative. But at some point reality takes control of the narrative.

A reminder that the Russians, Israelis, Feds, and MAGA-funded troll farms are also on Bluesky.

In an administration full of punchable faces, this guy takes the cake.

Hey Democrats, the reason Massie - who is otherwise a garbage republican - is so popular among liberals is because he has a political killer instinct. Find yours and see where it take you.

He’s 100% auditioning to be the next SecDef.

I was neighbors a guy who wanted to join ICE and the only thing I actually knew about him is that he kicked a beloved neighborhood stray cat. Being a sociopath is a job requirement for ICE.

Hey so this is bad but can we not deliver it using a fascist mouthpiece quoting a Neo-Nazi media outlet? MTG jumped the MAGA ship because she’s siding with the antisemitic Groypers in the post-Trump GOP. The post is less “Trump bad” and more of a “Jews bad+control Trump” dogwhistle.

Was just thinking the other day about how gross I felt recommending Apocalypto to a friend. Mel Gibson is truly the only conservative who actually has a decent body of work.

This is also my experience, and as the analog world begins to go completely away, the skills needed to live in that world go with it. But some of those skills are the building blocks to digital skills we use today - like writing with pen/paper vs texting. Overemphasizing STEM simply isn’t working

One silver lining about ICE working in the airports is that they all have to be unmasked. Meaning that ICE will be forced to show their faces and identity. So, y'know... maybe this is an opportunity.

“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”

Alternative outcome: roundhouse kick to the face

This has the most pathetic “I want to be a real man” vibe. None of these men have ever consensually touched a woman. Nor do they want to.

In 2028, I don’t want a Democratic candidate who will “own the conservatives”. I want one who will send this administration to The Hague.

The reason CEOs and Elites/Epstein class are pushing AI so hard when there’s so much pushback is because they want to enslave knowledge itself. Knowledge is power. And if they can steal all of yours, they have all the power.

“Well, we had a good run” should be the official motto of America 250.

Nothing like starting a major war with the goal of *checks notes* making Iran pinky promise not to build something you said you already destroyed.

MAGA is a Neo-Confederate movement. They’re closer to the Confederacy than they are actual Nazis, but still fascist. The ideas of the Confederacy are just fascism with American characters.

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Reminder: if not for Republicans, we’d be running a surplus. Analysis is from 2018 (so pre-COVID) but the core concept remains true: Democrats are MUCH better on the national debt vs. Republicans.

I don’t think people have any clue how much influence the Very Online have in the real world. Literally everyone is online to some degree, and the line between online and reality is continually blurring. Trump, for example, won because he was the Most Online candidate.

“So called straight” Is he subtweeting Lindsey Graham?

Hell yeah

It’s been my experience that vaccines are the one area Boomers get right better than younger generations. My parents told me about their own experience with (now) preventable diseases and the horror stories of childhood friends with Polio.

Oh, so Israel absolutely would use a nuclear weapon.

This is like Americans saying that North Koreans and Iranians should just simply overthrow their governments. It betrays their ignorance of the US and the complicated crisis we find ourselves in. I’ll say it again: Trump is *A* problem. He’s not *THE* problem. Dumping him doesn’t fix the US.

It’s probably even simpler than that: it would ruin the career of anyone who took part. They’d have targets on their backs the rest of their lives. Trump transformed the government into a mafia.

POV: you’re an F-22 pilot and you just locked on to one of the last remaining fully operational F-14 Tomcats

I’ll say it again: the candidate that takes the hardest line re: bringing the Trump admin to justice and dismantling the rightwing propaganda machine gets my vote. But if Colbert ran, he’d win. Democrats are primed for an outsider/populist candidate in 2028. It could be a wild primary.

The 21st century has people once again asking “is theocracy a good idea?” and the theocrats have shown us that no, it still isn’t a good idea. All of that to say: I wish both Iran and Israel a very happy Color Revolution.

As someone who has lived exclusively in red state flyover country all my life, I am very tired of the media pretending that the emotionally stunted knuckle draggers who vote Republican are somehow the default “real American” who needs to be handled with kid gloves so we don’t hurt their feelings.

To be fair, it would be extremely difficult for him to take any moral high ground, even against Trump. I think he’s keenly aware of how his presidency destabilized our country enough to get us to this point.

Related gripe: every single successful communist revolution in the 20th century took place in a country that had been completely devastated by war, political instability, or colonialism/imperialism. A communist revolution won’t happen in the US unless the US has already mostly collapsed.

Normalize being mean to MAGAs.

“The Democrats don’t have to do anything”. Ah so the same playbook they’ve had over the last decade?

ICE and DHS have become so toxic and unpopular that even Glenn Greenwald, who I do not support, is posting negatively about Kristi Noem, who I do not support.

I might stand alone on an island with this take, but Kanye crediting Reddit support forums with part of his recovery further cements my belief that Reddit is one of the last major social media platforms that hasn’t been completely lost to algorithmic destruction.

POV: you were wrong on Reddit

I vote we call them the Anti-Man Hunting League. www.masshist.org/collection-g...

This is the correct and most appropriate way to treat these people.

Germany when they finally get to be the good guys in a world war vs. Germany when they realize they still have to fight the US.

You do not hate this regime enough. You are not angry enough.

Trump is clearly playing HOI4 since he has no idea how Navy works.

“Hello Mr. Fellow Blueskyer. I am Canadian Ally, and I am imploring you to publicly talk about committing violence. No I’m not a fed…why do you ask?”

A U.S. Special Forces operator engages with combatants during Operation Twink Annhilation (2024, colorized)