Did Obama fix the problem when he looked forward not back and did nothing about W? Did Biden fix the problem when he looked forward not back and did nothing about Trump? Is looking forward not back in 2029 fixing the problem or refusing to fix the problem?

It already is being weaponized against progressive everything in red places and even in blue ones. A post like this indicates that teacher is a threat to some of the school’s students and the administration’s job is to protect students from teachers who would do them harm

Just as I won’t pretend conservatives have no agency, I won’t pretend centrist Dems have no agency. If centrist Dems want the support of their left wing they should choose a candidate who their left wing can support. If they don’t/won’t, they also bear responsibility for destroying the coalition.

I would like someone to ask whether they think Epstein and the people he provided minors to so that they could commit various sex crimes did nothing wrong or that we should not prosecute the things they did wrong

Forums were obviously different than today’s social media but I have trouble with this in part because I was a conservative in ~2006 when I started arguing with people on the internet and was left of Obama by the time he was elected, and continue to have my mind changed by stuff I see to this day

Neat!

If the devil is real I think making him president is bad? What are we doing here?

This approach is morally, ethically, and politically bad, and on top of all that, it doesn’t work. Democrats conceded 90% on defense to Republicans and Republicans just demanded more. Same on immigration, same on taxes, same on policing. Stop running the play that never works!

This is exactly right, far right authoritarianism could never come to power in countries like *squints* Italy, Germany, and Japan

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“If a government’s actions in a democracy require masks — if the people being governed in that democracy cannot know who is acting — that is a problem with what the government is doing, not with the governed.”

“Decathlon? Wow what’s in that?” “Running, jumping, throwing.” “So track and field. What about the triathlon?” “Swim, bike, run.” “Ok so it’s just a big race. What about biathlon?” “Skiing and guns.” “… as separate events?” “No.”

Wife gifted me with these homemade bookmarks for Valentines, perfect for when I want to read just one more page...

We’re being encouraged to use AI at work and a coworker had it create an estimate based on a report we made that included a huge table of necessary equipment and the estimate included a bunch of equipment counts that did not match the equipment counts we gave it.

this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level. the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.

r/news might be my favorite sub to username scroll

Republicans are literally targeting your best neighbors and demanding you say thank you

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

r/news might be my favorite sub to username scroll

when you celebrate valentine's day.... dig two graves

Claiming this kind of power is a direct attack on the very concept of America. It is a declaration of war against the United States and should be treated as such

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

When I was in high school I ran track and XC (and swam for a season) and just had an incredibly high metabolism and for a couple years there I was indeed drinking 4-6 pints of milk (skim, but still) a day, which is insane, in retrospect

The idea that you can deeply understand slavery but that that understanding won’t influence your politics is a great example of how the reactionary centrist brain works. 1/

Several years ago we made Mickey cookies for Valentine’s Day at the request of my then-2yo and she decorated them with little candy eyes in the style of a Guillermo del Toro monster/biblically accurate angel

Jesus Christ

Why are podcasts good bing this man a microphone

I would like to live in a country where being a pedophile ruined your political career

It’s because of all the sex they’re having in the Olympic village, saved you a click

Los Angeles museum unveils immersive 'Ponyo' exhibit by Hayao Miyazaki reut.rs/3O8EmeT

The people you’re supposed to represent don’t want ICE reined in, they want ICE to no longer exist

Being brought into the principal’s office and being shown that a bunch of 38 year olds on a website you’ve never been on approve of you punching a kid.

Kid really said

it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

He died doing what he loved, corruption

Happy anniversary everybody

Completely true but I do think it’s funny that they’ve got the army going “come the fuck on, uggo, she’s out of your league!” to it’s own soldiers

The first time I went bar hopping was in Muncie, Indiana in maybe 2005 and we finished the night in a basement dive bar that sold “dollar pitchers” (32 oz, but still).

“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.”

I would very much like to vote for someone who is promising to put these people in prison forever

Suddenly reminded of the incredulous “I can’t believe you’re calling masculinity toxic” nonsense when you talk about toxic masculinity hurting men, too

“The guy with the Nazi tattoo is part of the democratic tea party” feels like a “Hillary the Hawk, Donald the Dove” headline

Ok but I DID have it* all figured out until they rearranged the grocery store! *the grocery store

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

“repealed” what? What the fuck are you talking about? Scientific findings are not legislation or executive orders, they cannot be repealed. Y’all should be smarter than middle schoolers

This is called misappropriation of funds and it’s illegal and unconstitutional and we should aggressively charge everyone involved