That Duvernay documentary was like a cognitohazard for the dumbest motherfuckers on this website “The Thirteenth Amendment didn’t do anything” yes it did shut the fuck up

If in among all the antisemitism he had just once said “Free Palestine” the Free Press would hold the opposite opinion

A movie couple that absolutely would have had a podcast:

In general the pressures of domestic politics plus a more open info environment make international conflicts harder to resolve. I keep thinking about how the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved largely because the US was able to hide a major concession they made to the Soviets from the public.

Biden meeting with the person who actually won the presidential election meant that Harris would have kidnapped Maduro as well.

I won’t get mad or jealous if the Big Cat scores free stuff today like I’ve been known to do because it’s his birthday. Since it’s his birthday I’m basically okay with it.

Sounds just like a simple misunderstanding to me.

I need to commit suicide immediately

Unfolds the newspaper at the kitchen table. Examining text with narrowed eyes. Calls out to the next room “Hey honey apparently Theo is paying for our gas now? Also it says here he’s burning in hell”

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

Radical Zohran is filling your holes while Quaint Theo is filling your tank. Who do you really love?

My experience watching Trump "negotiate" with Kim Jong Un was: Kim never offered to disarm, Pompeo would wishcast disarmament, lots of media would amplify, a couple of summits happened, but no deal emerged ... leaving Kim stronger than before. Maybe this time is different.

There is a world where Theo is paying for your gas and he hates it.

In my mind I am paying those high gas prices tor you. In my mind I am paying for your gas and it is awful.

I’m basically paying those high gas prices alongside you even if I’m not.

I psychologically place myself in a position where I genuinely feel that too am paying those high gas prices. It’s called solidarity.

Just because I have a hybrid that I only drive locally to preserve battery life that doesn’t mean it doesn’t effect me to see other people have to pay high gas prices.

I happen to be of the opinion that gas prices are too high.

this is probably beside the point but for a split second i thought this was a photo of robin williams and now i can’t unsee it

Didn't "destroy" Hamas, didn't "disarm" Hezbollah, didn't "decapitate" Iran, didn't "force" Ansarallah to back down, didn't "restore" its public image, didn't "reestablish" deterrence.

As soon as the initial sugar rush wears off, Trump will cast around for someone to blame. Domestically, it will probably be Hegseth. Internationally, NATO.

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

The bare minimum Democrats can do is deliver Kylie Jenner and Margaret Qualley to my doorstep in bikinis and they CAN’T. GET. THE JOB. DONE.

"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.

Interesting to see “how did we get here?” and “maybe terrorism can work for us?” debated simultaneously on this website

Also if he had brought back side characters you were totally fine never seeing again like Danny Cooksey and the prison psychiatrist and you were expected to also remember a lot about them.

They were still wrong because the normalization was Russia blowing up every hospital it could reach in Syria as the Varangian mercenaries of the failson who hired them to kill their way to his staying in power. Dead Syrian children just didn't motivate them if Russians killed them.

Avatar 3 is kind of like if James Cameron had followed up T2 a couple years later with a third one in which it was mostly the same except he added ten morphing guys.

Sridhar is a failed sketch comedian who cloaked himself in “Gaza Gaza Gaza” under Biden and then 🤷‍♂️

Some of you are insane. “President Trump says he wants to nuke the world but the real problem is what Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer are tweeting about it” nope, fuck you!

I've been using this every time they pull that shit

Kamala Harris decided that instead of being the first woman president and the most powerful person in the world for at least four years she would lose on purpose to slightly increase Democratic Party fundraising

“Make Republicans own this!” [articles of impeachment filed multiple times, not successful] “These fucking worthless Democrats can’t get it done.”

Well-deserving of its rep as one of the best action films of all time. A martial arts comedy with an endless capacity to surprise and delight, like a Buster Keaton silent comedy classic if BK was a bad ass martial artist. One of movie's set pieces even takes place on and around an old-timey train

It’s important to understand it as a mindless group signaling gesture at this point like they think “this is how I’m supposed to engage. This makes me a good person” and they get really apoplectic if you ask them to do the bare minimum of thinking critically about it in practical terms.

Antidracula - goes around putting blood back into bodies - extra visible in mirrors - positively thrives in sunlight - barges into your home without being asked - often played on screen by Lee Christopher

Not familiar with their work but I always thought the film adaptation of “We Need to Talk About Kevin” was unnecessarily judgmental and low key reactionary in ways no one really addressed.

Failure to return Tester, Brown, and Casey to office may be nearly as consequential as the disastrous return of Trump

Nuclear threats effectively become normalization over time so the taboo against use loses its power if that doesn’t also apply to rhetoric. You see that in Russian nationalist propaganda, bragging about a willingness to use nukes becoming intractable with identity.

Credit where due

Yet again, Israel is so powerful they could have forced America into a nonsensical war, but so weak that Biden could have stopped the atrocities in Gaza with a phone call.

Ehhh this is just what your “healthcare pleas” replies and meme-ing wrought. Absorb the blows.

This is a good point and most likely what happens.

He made nuke threats in 2017 and I don’t mention that to say he won’t do anything or w/e but it should have been properly appreciated then that the threats themselves were a transgression and crime beyond what other presidents do but culturally we looked for any excuse to equivocate the two parties.

Like you don’t say this if you truly understand that electing the non-fascist party would have stopped this. His rationalization here is no different than the duped Trump voters you see complaining on X today.

Again it also gets back to that thing where it is just a fundamental impossibility to blame the party for failing to persuade enough voters if you yourself were persuaded but it’s the only “socially acceptable” way for people like this to complain about what’s happening so….

This is how you cope when (for lame and truly pathetic social currency reasons) you never publicly treated voting to stop this as an imperative. Many such cases and it’s beyond a played out act.

It brings to mind how in pretty much every case when you saw someone complaining about rainbow capitalism (if it wasn’t just covert bigotry) they were doing just extremely luxury fear type shit like if you had the time to complain about that your life was great, you were very comfortable.

there are worse things than rainbow capitalism, it turned out