mooooom, the world's most gullible idiots are reinventing pascal's wager again

Genuinely cannot imagine seeing this question and not thinking the answer depends on who the nominee is

"slavery is absent from our founding documents" is a take that I imagine most third graders know is false. Like what are we even talking about here

*raising your hand halfway through a villain monologue* yes hi excuse me are these sexy threats or just normal kind?

not for nothing but McCarthy explicitly calls the strikes illegal from the get-go. He doesn't really think this is technically a war crime, because the entire operation was just a regular crime from the start

Andor actively makes Rogue One so much worse because now we have two seasons of watching Cassian grow into and beyond Luthen's callous pragmatism, only to be told that actually he's a jaded cynic who needs Jyn Erso to show him how to hope again

"economic populism" and it's raising the minimum wage to slightly less than what the 16-year-old cashiers at a movie theater were making in 2018

guy who thinks Labour is failing because they're anti-fracking

Trans rights are human rights

the thing that amazes me about Matthew Yglesias is that liberal parties across the entire planet have taken his advice as gospel for years now, have done nothing but eat shit since, and this has apparently caused absolutely zero internal reflection on his part

He could literally shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and the centrist crowd would be writing op-eds scolding "The Left" for their hysteria the next morning

does it bother you at all that your immediate reaction to this ruling, effectively threatening to arbitrarily imprison trans ppl for habing sex, is to nitpick the tactics of the ppl protesting it? do you actually believe in anything? is there anyone you wouldn't sacrifice in the name of pragmatism?

How did we find another, even stupider Sam so soon after Bankman-Fried? I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on Sams until we can figure out what the hell is going on

I have seen a vision of the future. In it, we spend the rest of our mortal lives trying to undo the Jim Crow State that President Gavin Newsom erected in 2029. Time is a flat circle, everything old is new again, we will be paying in blood for the failure of Reconstruction for 7 generations

I think that we need to get rampant speeding under control, but I don't want to further empower the police or artificially restrict cars. This leads me to the logical conclusion that we must let nonspeeders affix heavy weaponry to their vehicles and die historic fighting bad drivers on the fury road

How are you gonna defeat trumpism by letting trumpists determine your position on everything?

the War on Terror broke something in Americans' brains such that they think just because they can imagine a thing potentially happening, they must act as if it *is* happening or is going to happen imminently and do everything in their power to stop it

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what american democracy really needs is a system of patronage. every time a progressive politician retires, a no-name staffer with a mysteriously large bank account should appear and announce that they are the duly appointed successor to comerade Ocasio-Cortez and the Mandate of Heaven is theirs

I am so here for the Pritzker-Walz United Front waging holy war on the Democratic Establishment. The two Great Khans of the Mid-West

This is the XCOM Theory of History. Nothing is my fault, there was a 50-50 chance I'd have made that shot. No, don't ask why I was in a position where I needed that 50% shot to hit, that's irrelevant. It's BS RNG 0/10 terrible game

The qualitative distinction is that they are doing it here now. Terror designations; emergency powers; mass surveillance; disappearing people to third countries and outsourcing the torture there; DHS itself; everything that we built in Iraq has finally come home

It is categorically incorrect to say that Scar "threw" Mufasa to his death. He simply allowed Mufasa to fall (though some critics argue that he caused Mufasa's fall when he clawed his paws) into a stampede, where he was trampled to death. Terms matter.

I don't think they think they'll never be out of power, necessarily. I think they think they'll never be punished for doing any of this, and Democrats will never abuse their power like they are abusing it

Really starting to think that maybe us LGBTQs shouldn't pin all our hopes on cis-hetero society protecting our rights

SHORT EVERYTHING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

ironically, "civilizational suicide" is a prettty apt description of what the "the woke left is committing civilization suicide" people ate doing

guys come on don't let the perfect be the enemy of the very, very, very bad but not technically as bad as it is theoretically possible to be!

can someone pls explain to me how one company that Elon Musk owns buying another company that Elon Musk owns somehow makes him more money?

girl nobody wants you here

Mythbusters OceanGate episode when

take star wars behind a shed and shoot it. create giant piles of confiscated merchandise and dvds and set them alight. in 100 years, when the fires have finally gone out, we can make a new Star War

Why is it so hard for people to believe that fascists believe the things that they say?

day 10,943 of asking internet users to stop treating the trolley problem like a serious moral question with a correct answer when it was only ever created to demonstrate that people's answer will change depending on the wording

the going to bed early and waking up at 3am to getting home exhausted and going to bed early pipeline

Amazing to see so many people come out to #defendtranskids in DC today! Organizers were expecting between 20 and 50 people, but at least 200 showed up! Don't let the fascists scare you, there's plenty of people who are eager to fight for trans rights

evergreen

First as tragedy, then as farce, then as farce again, then as some more farce, then as just a little more farce, as a treat

At the risk of being hated, “the left” (whatever the fuck that means) has a Joe Rogan already. Does drugs? Tradionally masculine coded? Annoying to but charmingly dependent on a competent woman to produce the show. Talks to Cool People in a Cool Zone. It’s Robert Evans. Gas station sober savior.

Look yall I get that we're all still processing what just happened, but the more time you spend mourning the less time you'll have to prepare for what's ahead. There's no one left to fight for you, you need to fight for yourself now

A warm Autumn day My death sentence has been signed There is much to do

"Joe Biden looks so alive now at the DNC! He was just tired and sick from campaigning" ok? have you considered that maybe a presidential candidate needs to be able to campaign?

Democrats lost the debate on immigration the second they abandoned opening the border and giving migrants a pathway to citizenship You can't call Republicans inhumane when your policy basically amounts to "this abused underclass needs to stay abused because they're essential to the economy"

liberals keep saying Dems will pivot rightward if they lose in 2024 and I'm sorry but what is your evidence for that, exactly? They lost in 2016 and yet 2020 was the most progressive lineup in the party's history

Literally nobody thinks a brokered convention would be clean, and nobody thinks it would guarantee beating Trump either. They were so disturbed by what they saw in that debate that they think replacing Biden, however ugly that will be, is still preferable to pretending like nothing is wrong

bean gang rise up

need her in my life

every so often i am reminded that this movie exists and i get unreasonably angry about it

This app is fun and much less brain-rotting than twitter, but it won't even come close to being as relevant as twitter unless businesses, politicians, and even a few shitheads hop on board. that's what makes twitter special: *everyone* is on there and interacting with each other