I think a lot about how so many right wing influencers are anti-charismatic. Not interesting, accomplished, funny, or even pleasant to see and hear. Just awful little men screeching and screeching around the clock.

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

I think this is onto something. One of the developments of the last…fifteen years is the growing sense that being good at something is for suckers. The new model for money and being conspicuously successful doesn’t involve being good at anything in particular other than fucking other people over.

Eddington (2025)

Even regressive models of masculinity had some pretense that a man should be good at something, charismatic, self-possessed, something. Now it’s just rapists, racists, frauds, and emotionally incontinent losers.

Gave that man a soulfood boil.

there's replies here giving the (correct) answer that these things do not happen primarily because the democrats do not want them to happen, and i'm always amazed by how delusional some democrat voters are in arguing with that

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

Their new girlfriend is women

Treating this stuff as anything but stupid is a choice.

Platner is a dumbass and I’d prefer for him to not be a senator but I just cannot take this navel gazing about character and ideology seriously when the GOP nominated Ken fucking Paxton for senate 72 hours ago

It’s undersung how this administration is bent on making the United States as non-competitive as possible; just ceding the future—and the fortunes to be made—to everyone else

cut to ken paxton stuffing a dead catemite into luggage and dumping it in trinity river

Republican men are not attracted to existing adult women.

It’s so easy to treat your trans neighbors as human beings and to hell with any pol who won‘t do it.

UW - Madison has over 500K living alumni. Our alums are fanatical about Madison & the university. I have seen exactly zero attempts to publicly mobilize this network in opposition to the federal budget cuts, foreign student restrictions, or any of the other existential threats. Again, mind-boggling.

We used to send guys like this on doomed sea voyages.

Thank god they're too chintzy to be good at this.

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

And it was opposed by Obama's vice president, a certain senator who is now the minority leader, almost half of his own party in Congress overall, the entire Israel lobby, the entire Gulf lobby, every "serious person" think tank, the Center for American Progress, and more.

JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh

I don't think a billionaire on acid would be a very good second unit director.

Dave Cullen's book Columbine makes the case that Harris and Klebold were not nerds lashing out, but a sociopath and his depressed, suicidal partner taking inspiration from neonazi Tim McVeigh. The shootings were paired with a homemade bomb that failed to go off. White supremacism from the start.

Every social media is illiterate in its own way.

Hello, for over a decade I have believed there’s a line in a Gregory Corso poem that runs “rely rely rely in times of weakness,” and when I went to verify just now I learned that actually it’s from Achewood

Stay strong, Jersey.

Republicans argument has reached the "Either you can choose pedophiles or socialists" stage and that's not hyperbole. It's almost verbatim an actual quote!!!

Dr. Van Kerker is an Achewood character (complimentary)

me, a person who has been caterwauling about Socialism and Big Government for my entire life: finally, six alcoholics who are buddies with the president will decide where flights can go from now on

BREAKING NEWS: Sexual Chocolate has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

This is cool and all but I still think the true "Trans women are not biologically advantaged at sport" is ultimately a less strategically productive line of argument than "Some women are just better than other women at sport". This framing seems to me to concede to trans-exclusive talking points.

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They say, from a studio in Manhattan.

So close! These are rich people being awful, not people being poor.

Conservatives know that a real man sees an attractive woman and gets so mad he has an accident.

we’ve hit an interesting moment when all these guys are starting to realize at once that it’s impossible to hold the insane beliefs they do while living a normal, pleasant life. and instead of changing the beliefs they’re gonna needle each other to death over which of them is the truest scotsman

my new thing is, if you use gen AI i am simply better than you. smarter and less lazy, obviously, but also prettier and more fun to hang out with. your pets like me better than you and your parents wish i was their kid instead. because fuck you

Bass (center-NIMBY) is puffing up Pratt (right-NIMBY) as a way to lock Raman (left-YIMBY) out of the race, meanwhile Huang (left-NIMBY) is acting as a spoiler to divide the left vote. 3/4 candidates functionally collaborating to shut out the only one who would do something about LA's housing crisis.

NIMBYs are always so concerned about safety unless it involves drivers killing cyclists

This is astoundingly weak. They can't even bring themselves to say "FREE CHILD CARE" - instead they talk about "giving parents back the power of choice." Centrist garbage that'll end up being another tax credit starting six years from now.

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

They‘re all like this.

The story is that the CIA agent requested and received the gold and a bunch of currency for work-related expenses and please believe me when I say that there is a guy at your work running whatever your work’s version of this is with his expenses right now and somehow getting away with it

It's like that Roald Dahl bit about how you can have wonky teeth and a weird face and a double chin, but if you're kind, beauty will shine out of you like the sun—and if you're a piece of shit, it doesn't matter how symmetrical you are; your personality will infect your features aha found it

i was such an avid reader of stuff i did not even get CLOSE to understanding as a kid and all it did was make me read more, and ask more questions about the world. there's a concerted effort from almost every consolidated power on this planet to make people less curious!!!!

“Paxton used his office to help Nate Paul,… fend off foreclosures. Paul returned the favor by remodeling Paxton’s house and employing a woman who Paxton, a married man, visited in late-night trysts. (His lawyers disputed the remodeling part.)” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/endo...