the thing that sucks about being a leftist is every mechanism for accountability in the government can also be used in bad faith to sabotage the government and in a war of escalation of accountability powers against the other party Republicans win because they like sabotaging government

American Canto Report Ethically, an autobiography

i can't believe, despite the plague of islamophobia that characterised the first quarter of this century, new york elected its first muslim mayor just 36 years after the release of belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam

"look we might as well bet on 800% growth because if we don't get that the Saudis will kill us all anyway"

i honest to god don't think these people would've had the guts to just say this a decade ago

that would make her good. the problem was she was an evil woman who did a good job

i forget who that one notorious judge was who was always staging dumb courtroom demonstrations to "test" the veracity of the parties' claims. anyways imagine him making jurors throw sandwiches at each other

Macro Georg is an outlier and should not have been counted

Pekora entering the Aerith death cutscene worrying she's about to get NTR'd by Sephiroth because she got NTR'd by Zack is the funniest thing I've ever seen

I don't think "Democrats could have done this" and "Democrats could have done this but didn't because some Democrats didn't want to" are contradictory statements though

Sandwich Guy Trial shows that the nation yearns for a new American Vandal season.

shocked to learn the ""Heritage"" Foundation has a wee bit of a racism problem

thinking about an interview from the 2000s where a border patrol agent was sobbing that he gets demonized even though the border patrol HELPS immigrants, and the example he gave was saving a migrant from drowning in the rio grande, which he immigrant had dived into because BP was shooting at him

is this good

now thinking of a dozen "mar a lago face" women with "not a mimic" labels

it's not exactly this but "Beelzebubs" have a loyal fandom in monster girl circles

they love AI and don't give a shit if THAT ruins the workplace. it's about stealing womens' souls and making them their slaves

I'm going to run for mayor IN MINECRAFT

noo that perfect cat vid

a number of people writing at the nyt need to be tried and hanged and im not joking

the MTG - Loomer primary debate is going to be lit

Codenames: Household 35

It was actually the 5th episode, and someone posted the resync-ed open on YouTube -- truly a genius swap. youtu.be/pbbLsN-JJEc?...

that's weird because four years ago the NYT was telling everyone Youngkin in contrast to Trump was very moderate and not an anti-public health, anti-woke lunatic

remember a few days ago when pundits were posting "liberals in their bubbles don't understand that real Americans think Trump's taste is classy and not tacky at all"

every time I see Lina Khan mentioned all i can think about is a Trump Goon saying "Lina Khan went too far on antitrust and we're going to swing the pendulum back"and Matt Stoller quoting THAT as evidence that Republicans were more antitrust than Democrats

whatever else is up for debate, i think a big message that we can 100% take from Mamdani is that Dems can get their message out and beat the media if they try. "the media wanted Trump to win," while true, was not an insurmountable challenge

popularism is looking at policies and politicians that go from 5% support to 49% support within a year as people are exposed to them, and saying "we have to run from this"

has there ever been a presidential honeymoon period this short? america HATES him

and before that we had mccain's illegitimate black baby, and before that willie horton

no idea if the LA algebra thing is one of these cases or something ACTUALLY inexcusable but i know where im placing my chips

*slamming on my drum again* a guy who wanted democrats to win or democrats to be more conservative would not be writing articles saying the Democratic Party's priorities are banning plastic bags and math. that's what someone who wants Republicans to win writes

RIP dick cheney. sorry RFK Jr had to kill you and amputate your giant hog but he needed to grind it into a powder to cure scott adams's cancer. he was just more important to the conservative movement than you

I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative

when it comes to where the overton window of where the conservative public is, i don't think you ever would've gone wrong betting against Fuentes. i think it's a really bad indicator that he's comfortable shooting his shot like this

then maybe she should have fought instead of telling everyone it was a distraction and not a big deal????

at least when Dick Cheney stole a heart from a child he was vice president, now we're doing it for a comic strip writer who unironically thinks he's charles xavier

it's still so unreal to me that we have cops on video straight up doing this lol

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looking at the Teen Vogue and Target news and it's dawning on me that the MAGA response to Trump absolutely decimating 95% of US companies is going to be "good, all those companies were woke"

randomly thought of "all parades have a right to exist" and almost started laughing in a meeting

you're still better off reading That Fucking Newspaper than listening to Joe Rogan, but on really important issues, like Trans Rights and Covid/Lab Leak you just flat will not understand what is true by relying on NYT, it's a big problem

i'm far from the first or the smartest to say it, but while "tyranny of the majority" is a valid concern, it really is not good that our government is set up to explicitly promote tyranny of the minority

if they just played an instrumental version through the credits without the lyrics, i could respect the vision

"X Jewish organization or leader endorses Cuomo, upsetting many Jewish voters" is an equally true and newsworthy story throughout the campaign so I wonder why I've never seen it once

personally i don't remember the "9/11 means you can ignore US law, international law, and the constitution" clause so i'm not sure of its relevance here