The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?

when your extremely normal campaign is going well

I simply do not think this woman should hold elected office

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

You’d think that eventually there would be a bottom, but the ghouls in this administration keep finding new ways to go lower. Absolutely disgusting.

a thing that's striking about the aftermath of the callais decision is that it (1) completely disproves roberts's "i don't see race" view and (2) a lot of the south just has not evolved at all from 60 years ago politically, which is horrifying

I was all excited because a bunch of Cliff Swallows were starting to turn my apartment complex into a new colony this week, only to come home from work today and see that the nests had been taken down. 😞

me when im dr gero

I'm an atheist, but I'm starting to think that there is a God and that he sent Trump to test Christians but they failed. So he kept making easier and easier tests for them until he eventually sent a literal golden calf, and they still can't figure it out lol.

Jesus Christ, this thread is bleak. It makes me sick just hearing what they went through, and I can’t imagine having to go through it. People are sick.

Disagree, LibsOfTikTok explicitly understands that her audience is full of extremists, and there's a direct connection between her posting about a school and that school getting bomb threats, for example.

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

"Respectability politics" became a slur instead of a neutral description of an important tool. And because there's a libidinal pleasure in letting your id take control, people forget that while being respectable confers precious few gains, being a jackass invites many *losses.*

1) the "wacky shit" Greene believes is that Jews control the world. 2) she only cares about brown foreigners in so much as she can use them as a stick to beat Jews with.

Love that Hasan is now full-on simping for fascist Japan *and* claimed (without evidence) that FDR knew about Pearl Harbor. Love that pop leftists just regularly push conspiracy theories out to shitload of people, seemingly on a lark.

communism is when you simp for a fascist empire aligned with Hitler because they opposed the United States

buddy if Mass Effect is too right wing for you should probably just not play mass market sci fi games, like the genre is not for you if BioWare-Star-trek reads as triumph of the will

MTG is probably one of the most straightfowardly antisemitic reps in congress, she's leading criticism of Trump *from the antisemitic right* the refusal of media figures to acknowledge the reality of base jew-hatred as a force motivating politics in this country is incredibly fucking worrying!

An under appreciated thing about SpyxFamily that I love is that every so often the show takes the time to remind you that Anya and her friends are first graders, with all of the weirdness that comes with being six.

Ordered and paid for a medium pizza > got a large.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

yes the "solution to the deleterious effects" would be 'hire middle management' because contra the idiot leftist reading of a very stupid book, middle management actually serves an essential purpose requiring skills not all that common in the population at large graeber and his ongoing consequences

"her campaign never explained the importance of the court" she explained it constantly, over and over again, in simple terms, and people would NOT shut up about how the Court was not a good reason to vote for someone who wasn't Bernie Sanders, please stop lying to our faces, Dave

resegregation was ALWAYS the "Again" they had in mind and the number of people who insisted it was bad faith to say so was not small.

Democrats stripped 50 anti-LGBTQ+ measures from the last appropriations bill; Republicans put those measures there. Pretending these are the same thing *puts queer people at risk* and I am fucking sick of pretending it's acceptable. Stop throwing us under the bus for internet clout points.

"Got so mad online I tried to SWAT Will Stancil" is a level of online you should risk all hazards to avoid

This is Gemini. She's at the vet because she keeps flying away. Luckily it's just a harmless case of airplane ears. 12/10 (IG: apolloandgem)

Something like 35% of this site's power users should be banned outright

There’s a lot of people on here either having a delusional crisis or lying when it comes to Stancil, or some combination of both and no matter where on that spectrum they are, it’s extremely unhealthy behavior.

"this wizard has a WAND that can kill you INSTANTLY the muggles simply cannot--"

I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.

counting myself, i know at least two trans women who agreed that there's a big "kiwi farms, but leftistly, so its good actually" vibe around these parts *before* the hated enemy from Minneapolis posted that. and one of us doesn't even know who he is. that's just what some of y'all are like.

Honestly peoples' insane fixation on Stancil is just not ok. You're not going to get to prove your communal might by destroying a man. If you dislike him, don't associate with him. That's what mature adults do.

You should be able to condemn harassment without mealy mouthing about how the victim kinda deserves it for unspecified crimes.

I want to ADDRESS the death threats towards will stancil [nods] You KNOW I don't think will stancil should be harassed or anything Absolutely BUT!!! what the fuck are you talking about man

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

Some people are throwing around "AIPAC" while hollering about Will Stancil, who has nothing to do with AIPAC whatsoever, and it has the same vibe as tiktokers calling everything they don't like, "spiritually Israeli". It's a half step away from Rothschild posting and doing triple parentheses.

Sure is weird how quickly "we don't care about his Nazi tattoo, he supports M4A!" turned into "We don't care if she supports M4A, because [unsubstantiated] AIPAC!"

It is deeply disturbing how quickly this has infected the broader left. This used to be shit only cranks would say.

A lot of you use Bluesky like Kiwifarms and it’s fucking disgusting

When I was six my dad took me to the Natural History museum in LA and called the Allosaurus skeleton in the lobby a T.rex. I proceeded to give a detailed explanation about how he was wrong that attracted multiple bystanders to listen.

He *lied* about the tattoo. He then lied after he covered it up and said *it was never a Nazi tattoo*. He then called people the r-word for even *caring* about it in the first place. People are truly delusional about this.

People keep saying that everyone is judging Platner based on what he did at 22, but no, the issue is that he didn't get rid of the tattoo until this year. He spent years making a whole lot of people feel unsafe whenever he took off his shirt and we're supposed to treat him like a smol bean.