ok I'm more pro national service than most on here but I get that there are valid concerns etc etc. but I'm sorry 'pro-communism but also furious at prospect of govt controlling my employment choices' is just a very funny type of guy. you think a command economy is gonna let you follow your dreams?

Reminder that the President imposing taxes on Americams by decree is the thing that would be by far the most disturbing to the founders of this country

Oh hahaha if they strike this down we're in big trouble

It honestly won't matter in the long run but I'll own, it royally fucking pisses me off that piece of shit got American 250, the World Cup and the Olympics...

Euros: “it’s football you stupid American!” *monkey’s paw curls*

Once again, the American people got madder that we withdrew from a war they swore they wanted to see end than they have that we are committing ourselves to an illegal war we've already lost. A war that is nothing but warcrimes and grift stacked in a trenchcoat.

One day someone will accept that social democratic parties modern class basis is an alliance between urban service sector labourers and (typically young) educated professional types. Presumably this will be an electoral advantage just because working on the basis of accurate information is good.

Enforcement of the status quo is seen as normal, good & right, non-political. Attempts to change things, to introduce other choices & perspectives, is seen as aggressive, political, violent, an imposition. Reactionary thinking is the same everywhere it pops up, in every context.

Notice the structure, extremely common to reactionary thinking: our one way of doing things, enforced by law, is good & democratic; your attempt to introduce diversity & choice is bad & authoritarian. See the parallel to the "war on christmas"? The parallel to gender hysteria? It's all the same.

I would argue that most immigrants to the US today - coming as they do from at least nominal republics in most cases - are much more culturally prepared to live in free society than the 19th century immigrants that largely from monarchic states, some of them truly or at least nominally absolutist

this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated

AGAIN: the #1 predictor of a mass shooter is violence against women. Cops perpetrate VAW at higher % (though exact # unknown ofc) than the gen population. At some point our culture must take seriously the fact that this is a real red flag. It requires hating women less, though.

good encapsulation of how concentrations of wealth are inimical to free markets

Guys, I'm going to save you the time - every one of these young people has cooked their brain on the Internet in the exact way you already know they have. Nothing to learn here.

The good news? Basically none of these young 2024 Trump voters are big fans of his presidency. The key honestly is to demoralize them further and get them to not vote because these are not people Democrats are ever going to consistently reach.

The cult is weakening.

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

Treat these people with the open contempt they deserve. "What's it feel like to sell your soul to a con man?" "Do you think your grandkids will be proud of you one day?" "Jesus Christ, have some dignity. I can't even look at you."

One thing I really like about Ossoff is his seriousness. He's genuinely disgusted here, not merely camera-disgusted.

"The month of July," as if July belongs to everyone equally. Some of us are managing seasonal trauma anniversaries and can't perform bookish leisure on command.

what the ever-loving FUCK is this Not that I didn’t think this before but: Ban online betting and prediction markets

And that is called paying the Danegeld/ But we've proved it again and again/ That once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane

The people who aren’t “integrated” in society are the nativists who refuse to accept that we are already a diverse nation that has been open to immigration since the start. Those people are the problem.

Two guys travel, disagree about whether to shoot guns or go birdwatching

But only because of the deeply ingrained liberal thoughtways of *checks notes* Eastern European peasants!

again, i really cannot emphasize enough, the united states has accepted an enormous number of immigrants over its history, and--this may come as a surprise to you--they integrated pretty successfully like there's just no there there

still thinking about how nothing makes any fucking sense anymore, tank bottoms at the end of May in some places and NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED. "look for July being a problem in the US" still fucking waiting. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/25/o...

The assumption in all of these manifestos and proclamations is that there is some kind of Final Settlement that can be made on contentious cultural issues that will remove them from the playing field entirely, and I will just say that I think that this is very, very unlikely.

ICE killed another person.

I hate this game!

Maybe I’m stupid, but I don’t understand how you are supposed to follow the law when there is no way to know how it is being interpreted.

Your retired 3rd grade teacher who posts cat gifs on Facebook is chanting the Battle Hymn of the Republic’s fourth verse like it’s the fucking Shahada.

How was the ICE officer involved with the shooting

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

The other thing about this is that it's cheap, and the cupboard is going to be pretty bare for new social programs in 2029.

Read the column. She supports those assertions with polling data. The perception that the only people who want ICE out, Medicare for All, etc are NYC DSA people is absolutely wrong.

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

1/ 100%. For some Jews, this fact rankles for an understandable reason based on their (mis)understanding of solidarity itself. They say “why should we have to do something for A, B, and C groups for them to respect our right to life?” True! We shouldn’t have to! But that’s not what solidarity is.

… are you implying that alignment with white supremacy might not be the thing that protects and saves Jews, ultimately? 🤯 But.. but.. that would mean that solidarity with.. *everyone else* (including Black and Brown Jews) would be and might always have been the most logical pathway..?!?! 🤯🤯🤯

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

Why do you spend all your time at the British Library? Well…

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What did guaranteeing international freedom of navigation get America, huh? Only a system of open trade facilitating unprecedented prosperity and widespread acceptance of U.S. hegemony, making America the richest, most powerful country in world history.

The way “Zio” is just a casual thing that leftists say now is pretty chilling!

In January, Clavicular sang Kanye’s “Heil Hitler” at a club with Nick Fuentes. Netanyahu has long given his hechsher to far-right antisemites like Viktor Orbán in exchange for political support, but Clavicular can’t even offer that. Netanyahu just likes to hechsher far-right antisemites.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Somehow, it gets worse after this opening paragraph. It's honestly hard to envision how you reform a party this far gone. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

LMAO