listening to Candace Owens theory of how and why the Charlie Kirk murder happened and i think the problem is right wingers aren't anime ENOUGH. get them some bungo stray dogs and it would fill whatever need this is filling. apparently anime titty avs are like greek avs, they don't know the source

I'd really date it becoming a nonsense factory in 2006, when they moved out of Boston, laid off most of their staff, and hired James Bennet, Jeffery Goldberg, and Andrew Sullivan. the infamous Singal article wasn't until 2018

despite the efforts of The Consultants, it's getting through to even the shittiest centrists how unpopular reactionary centrism is. most of them would still rather lose than be not shitty, but it's something

I wonder how many of these people you could get to openly admit they define "bias" as "not aligned with the Republican Party platform." i bet it's a lot

this new accusation against Trump, which matches something he is on video saying himself, is unfounded

i love the implication that the postcard found in late 2019 was submitted "right before the election" as some kind of obvious election interference scheme

it's funny how every conservative-leanong person with an ounce of brains has identified the contradictions and is either a full on Nazi or a liberal; so the only "fit for public consumption" conservatives in media have pudding for brains

i really do believe America actually ISN'T basically a KKK Klavern with borders, but numbers like these give me pause, these aren't ALL reflexive Trump loyalists and what on earth would anyone be approving of besides racism

say what you will about the many problems of our higher education systems but i feel like "professors and TAs know their career is at risk whenever they give a poor grade" isn't good

you ever think about how, in addition to the sanewashing of his public statements, shitloads of journalists and politicians including Democrats must've been in rooms where he just entirely crashes out and covered that up too

cyberbattleship (derogatory)

it's cool that when you figure out the whole deal of silent hill f the bunny outfit becomes terrifying instead of comical

Like if i really believed in one specific version of God i would probably be an evangelical too. but US culture kinda brushes past the fact that evangelicalism by definition is antithetical to any kind of tolerance for other religious views, that's the whole deal

LRT: what if we get a Battlestar Galactica/Battleship the Movie scenario where Trump's ships save us because he insists they use steam instead of magnets or whatever

Battleship Galactica

remember when kickboxing champion and Punisher director Lexi Alexander said if she could pick one person in the world to fight it would be the champion of the tough guy/birthday boy act, will stancil

conservatives exist in a quantum state of both objectivism (two genders! IQ! biotruths!) and postmodernism (there's no such thing as "facts,' so the role of "news" is just presenting disagreements)

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

it's very clear that Bari thinks "news," as a format, is a podcaster softball interviewing a nazi, and is confused by anything that isn't that

*Kramer slides into the room* it's called THE NYT EDITORIAL P

my nephew showed me that every time his score in his mobile game contains 67 in it he takes a screenshot

there are STILL people who insist that aside from Israel, Bari is a leftist. the entire media is full of right wingers who either sincerely or dishonestly think they represent the leftmost boundary of the overton window and Bari is their final form

Bill Clinton loses to HW Bush: no drudge boom, thus no breitbrat, thus no shapiro, owens, o'keefe, kirk, and numerous others

to be fair "fight over bigotry" doesn't necessarily mean "bigotry vs non-bigotry" there's two bigotry godzillas and true to form vance is waiting for the winner before wading in

remembering the shit 60 minutes let broadcast under Lara Logan

we are really about to test the thesis of "none of the stuff we think matters, matters, because normies don't pay attention and nothing gets through to them unless it's aired between Simpsons and Young Sheldon"

maybe she's TRYING to get fired, again

stancilpostin

cowboy who stubbed his toe:

one of the weird things about "leftists are purists" is if anything leftists are TOO charitable to people who reach out to them; Greenwald, Briahna Joy Gray, Fetterman but every politician or pundit leftists pin as a scumbag turns out to be 1000 times worse than even the leftists said!

"in public, in private it's a given"

on the flip side a couple of the ones i play don't have startup ads, but the unskippable timers on the between-level ads are so long it's faster to close the app, reopen it, and navigate back to the level this seems to be the opposite of what an ad purchaser would want

the thing is, fortnite? Epic. Rocket League? Epic. Hogwarts free on Epic game store? Epic there's gotta be either a transphobic executive or a huge money deal there, right?

i have to confess that would be my SECOND guess, after "an anime"

much like apocalypse cult leaders who invest in long term bonds, most of what musk says is driving half of his companies doesn't make sense in the context of what the other half of his companies are doing

thinking about how dr oz would've been no worse a senator than Fetterman and as a senator wouldn't be running medicare. politics is fucked uo

it's people who aren't coronating Newsom in 2025 that want "instant gratification" and people who aren't endorsing a shit sandwich because it's convenient who are "fast food society"

if your praise of yourself is "i had a bunch of noteworthy ancestors (don't look too closely at slavery records)" it means you have no achievements of your own and you suck

"What's to day, my fine fellow!" said Scrooge. "Today!" replied the boy. "Why, LOWTAX DAY'" "It's lowtax Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it."

tfw you're a iew who wrote that America is "plagued by bad Jews" and you go to get your pat on the head from your Nazi masters

"look, i want the rich taxed as much as anyone, if you doubt my credentials look at this NYT article. but no, not like that"

i always buy things at exactly the wrong time so building a new beef PC in the valley between COVID price bubble and AI price bubble is a rare W for me

then leak the fucking documents

Community Does Jack Shit To Make Christmas Better For Town’s Second-Poorest Family https://theonion.com/community-does-jack-shit-to-make-christmas-better-for-towns-second-poorest-family/

me: who cares if he signed the Harper's letter, he's wrong, i don't consider Chomsky to be the leftist pope Chomsky: will you consider me to be pike the pope NOW

don't ever want to hear a defender of Dem fecklessness say "b b but the rules" ever again

*shopping for a car power inverter for my laptop voice* ok but WHAT IF i need 3000 watts for something sometime in the future

having these people do this raises the interesting question of between bari weiss and christina hoff sommers, which is the one that wouldn't collab because she thinks the other is beneath her