yeah ICE’s behavior in 2025 has solidified to a lot of normies that it is the functional equivalent of the SS

I sure do have a candidate for you.

Why do you need a mod to recreate the average Western Roman Empire experience in Attila?

Thoughts and prayers. Sometimes they get answered.

There is raw, primordial appeal in watching a man in pink beat the shit out of Andrew Tate.

andrew tate lost a fight too this weekend?

Well that's just asking for trouble.

“The nature of the drug terrorist threat does not neatly fit into the classic definitions or manifestations of armed conflict, which ordinarily involves some sort of armed attack with military weapons.” The argument amounts to “the president can kill who he likes if he calls them terrorists”

feeling good about this format

Much as I love RedLetterMedia, it's extremely hard to debate that if you had three typical Midwestern nerd women do the exact same shtick that it would have been anywhere near as successful. They would receive a mind-blowing amping of hate. And that's not even touching other options.

Honestly impressive how much they're fucking up this cover up

One of the best movies ever made, and I'm absolutely going to do a rewatch tomorrow with my dad.

The Lion in Winter (1968) Katherine Hepburn plays Eleanor of Aquitaine, released from prison to celebrate Christmas with her husband, King Henry the II. Full of insane one-liners and a star studded cast, this movie demands your full attention as love and hate ensnare each character. 10/10

New list of superhero movies and shows (that I have seen) from 2025 in order from most to least favorite: 1: Superman 2: Thunderbolts* 3: Peacemaker Season 2 4: Daredevil Born Again 5: Fantastic Four First Steps <the pit of Hell> 6: Captain America Brave New World

Is that Santa in Agartha at the beginning?

This is something which ties a bit into my Mare of Easttown reading: all the Sheehans live together, even Mare and Frank live close by. Carrie is in the wrong in part because she wants to take her son, Drew, away from the multigenerational living arrangement. It's a very conservative show!

K'mpec is a real one for trying to shoot his shot with the surprise witness at Worf's trial. Props to him.

it would be interesting to explore what motivates this because i think these people genuinely believe they were “radicalized” by a single event when a look through their profiles indicates they’ve been posting extreme and violent content for a very, very long time

the emergence of the technology that allowed ordinary people to call anglosphere elites “asshole” to their faces coincided with a crisis of elite prestige and status due to the iraq war and financial crisis. a lot of elites faced harsh criticism for the first time and felt scalded.

my thesis is that social media allowed elites to hear from normal people directly for the first time. a lot of them recoiled in shock and isolated themselves in little group chats, which formed little epistemic bubbles, which were really easy for wealthy bad actors to poison.

Being an anti-woke lesbian Jew is a luxury identity that's only made possible by decades of struggle by the people Bari denounces as totalitarian scolds. But Bari thinks she'll always be one of the good ones because she's white abd went to the right schools.

We gotta start arresting people for this man. This is entirely what laws and governments are supposed to be there to prevent.

Man, the Battle Hymn is such a good fucking song and I wish it wasn’t incompatible with being the national anthem of a secular republic.

“I’ve made a huge mistake”

wow, seeing Jake Paul get beaten half to death, true terror in his eyes, really improved my whole outlook on life

Does anyone remember the bit in Pokemon Rusty where the Bidoof is watching Rusty get the piss beaten out of him and starts to smile? I feel a bit like that.

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

This is a real dedication from a 1920 book titled 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.

holy shit look what i found in the Epstein Files SCP-██ Object class: ███ Containment Procedures: ██████████████████████████████████████ Description: ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████subject’s genitals█████████████████████████████████████████████

the fact that actual academics need to be told this depresses me more than I can say

hey nerds tell me which medal ribbon looks better

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Update: Lynch is a filmmaker who I tend to appreciate more than I love, he interests me more than he captivates me. So it's a good movie that I find interesting and I see why people like it, and it has very striking imagery and could be dissected endlessly. But I don't like it per se.

Now watching

Look I know the even when I was a child the CoD Zombies storyline was a bit...complex but reading up on it now makes me think Treyarch just let the writers do whatever the fuck they wanted and honestly? Props to them. Go wild, kids.

i had people telling me 'and you believe Kamala Harris won't do Project 2025???'

I liked it quite a bit. It's not one of my favorites but it was a very good show, and didn't enrage me with the ending twist the way I felt Broadchurch did. The mystery made sense and I like how it tied most of the details back together, including the first call Mare gets in the show.

The Texas Democratic Party is simply an elaborate scam designed to convince out-of-state Democrats that there is a secret Democratic majority waiting to be activated this election cycle and that this time around Blexas will be real.

Any time you get the urge to fight a liberal/leftist about your hobbyhorse, I will simply smile and tell you to meditate on this image

‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Glad I got to swing by the club here again for a night of HEMA, and I didn't do too badly for being half a year out of practice (and really out of shape) but gods damn I really need to find a place down south to do this regularly. If nothing else I need the exercise.

translation is a good example of a task that seems highly rote to an outsider, and therefore ripe for automation, but actually involves a ton of nuance and decision-making based on specialized expertise to be useful.

Someone should do a "Who Goes Nazi" style article about the types of people (especially on here) who are most likely to join the next reactionary movement down the line, and the ones who almost certainly won't.

Really don't like that Aftermath website. Its name is fitting, because every article in it reads like it is in fact the aftermath, the ruins, of once was actual gaming journalism before market forces destroyed it

Welp