yet another bare minimum qualification for the next dem SECDEF: all these fucks need to be booted out at 1201 EST 20 Jan 29

Trump could not be doing more to weaken the US than if he were an agent of a foreign state or fin-Novak interests which, yes sheer stupidity is also an option but

Years from now when your loved ones are dying or bankrupted by the results of this…remember who did it and who enabled it

finally some real culture

oh that's a new level of rock bottom for Boston lmao

Look I don't want the Nats to be too good, but this would be a nice problem to have, like, once.

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run em out the gym

So Ms. Jane is doing a very good thing, but it does raise the question as why the default isn't to show me the people I have asked to follow. This is a question for all of social media now, and I know why, but still the question needs be asked.

This is why I’m never on Facebook anymore. It refuses to show me posts from my friends and family, just slop.

Deeply bizarre to me that apparently many people’s response to this is to watch the slop, rather than to close Facebook.

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

Ah yes, Vladimir Lenin

See all the works about Trump that will try to give him or find some depth to him will fuck up because there's nothing there. He's tasteless. He's basic. He likes blondes, steak, and gold. That's it.

i hate this shit

Tilting at cyberwindmills like I’m from Neuromancha

If being in the military was a divine calling then his ass could have gotten the shot at any point. I don’t know what god he prays to but I would pray he gets to observe heaven through a no-cut fence topped with Ultra Barrier for his anticommunal transgression

I am not concerned that Hasan Piker is going to rob the Louvre, I am annoyed that people with huge platforms to spread progressive ideas have nothing better to say and I have contempt for the Atlantic writers who just write the same article over and over again and the editors who let them.

the one thing that gets me motivated to write more is knowing that TCW gets paid the big bucks to push nonsense out

Everyone involved in this "discourse" is stupid; the panicked response to it and the soapboxing is pointless, the original interview was just boring, sophomoric philosophizing, the people pretending to not understand that are pretending to be idiots, and we're all stupider for being exposed to it.

Look video games, its really simple, if the ticking clock doesn't matter, don't put it in.

I get the sentiment but NYC really does let you rack up hundreds of speeding tickets and tens of thousands of fines and just have nothing happen

Cop culture is certainly bad but the real problem is the car culture we have where it's like fucking impossible to tell drivers that they can't break the law forever and ever

And yeah cops SHOULD be held to a higher standard than the public but again in practice the problem is that (especially since the pandemic) NO ONE is really held to any standard at all & if you say they should be people are like "you're basically murdering someone when you don't let them drive"

there's this weird shared belief among both anti-communists and people who haven't read enough soviet economic history that the main reason of Soviet collapse was the Reagan-era administration when it was primarily a result of interest groups within the Soviet Union refusing to rebalance

one thing I've picked up from being a philosophical pragmatist alongside reading lots of history is the importance of understanding contingency as fundamental to history, alongside avoiding dogmatic ideological claims

my god www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

you dumbshits have been trying to make him the republican latino obama for 15 years and he’s too stupid and lazy lol

gonna be hard for him to perform the duties of president while sitting in a pre-trial cell in the netherlands

... What do they think happens to stuff stolen from museums? Both in terms of displaying it and the material condition of it.

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the reason left candidates are glomming on to Piker seems pretty simple: his audience of leftist millennials and zoomers has disposable income, wants to give it to leftist Democrats, and is looking for direction. the reason centrists are trying to elevate him is a lot more confusing to me

In addition to the naked racism here, imagine thinking you could remove 1/3 the country without destroying it and then calling that common sense.

cute blonde woman who wavers between preppy fashion and pop star outfits is part of a conspiracy to take over the United States and also wants to peg men? Is it Taylor Swift or Ashley Graham

A really bizarre thing about modern American media is that it treats "Christian antisemitism" as a completely incomprehensible aberration, instead of one of the bedrock pillars of Western Civilization.

primarily because it's not about the kingship of Christ, it's about identity www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/s...

The author's barely disguised fetish strikes again.

Allow me to propose something based only on my personal experience: a pretty static and cohesive social circle that gets *geographically* diffused. I'm in contact with a *lot* of my high school buddies, but they're spread out over multiple states.

One thing is that it's I think more common now to have a relatively static and cohesive social circle where most or all of your friends already know each other, meaning friends can't introduce you so much as suggest you should date your mutual friend.

yeah this has definitely dropped sharply, probably for the best all round. it was never quite *as* common as on TV where people needed to date every week, but it did happen.

We must absolutely defend freedom of speech and also shut up every goddamned pundit after 2 years.

ugh the never ending ourobros of the commentariat commenting on things the commentariat said

If I may complicate this discourse a little bit, British rule over the Falklands is absolutely a manifestation of colonialism and empire in the categorical sense, rather than the normative or moral way. Things can be shaped by the past without necessarily demanding or requiring redress.

martin liked his depictions and especially references to horrific sexual violence but you get the sense he understood what consent was and when its violated

Part of the issue is that while the Stalinist growth compact was actually quite effective at industrializing the Soviet Union, it basically fell apart after the Soviet economy reached the frontier and failed to maintain the productivity gains that the Western world was getting

how is he even coming up with this stuff? When is the last time he was even at the Lincoln Memorial?? www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

Exactly. “Dropped”

Oil Supply vs. Oil Markets

This is going to sound like a joke, but Gorby's anti-alcoholism campaign alongside a decline in oil price revenue drove a HUGE decline in Soviet tax receipts, which in turn forced the Soviets to print more money in order to maintain the Soviet social compact, driving inflation.