There are exactly 2 diametrically opposed reasons why this might be the case, and both are distressing to contemplate.

I might just be really high right now, but things are... happening?

The toothpaste is out of the tube. We're polarized now and ever until racism is eradicated from the body politic.

Has anyone else's "following" tab turned into a "might follow" tab today? feels like I'm on the weird end of an engagement-boosting canary deploy.

It does raise the uncomfortable question of whether there's any low I won't stoop to in order to depose Trump and eradicate the Republican party. And the answer is: there is no limit. There is no floor. This is the work; it does stink, but I won't even pretend to hold my nose.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

i'm joining TikTok just to listen to this lady serve it.

I fucking love LinkedIn.

I quit smoking for like 15 years and then I tried one and almost vomited. Trust your instincts, cigarettes are stupid, smokers are deluded addicts, because that's what addiction is.

Stephen Tobolowsky is in so many things that he's in things that he's not even in.

the nerve of this guy!

These nine voters further elaborated that they'd probably vote for him again because it might be different this time.

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

look the truth is, these are like the only 20 accounts on Bluesky to follow before you start reaching for people like me. It's not a big place.

All these festering toads feel regret literally only in one circumstance - when their own choices affect them personally and suddenly they are capable of experiencing human emotions again and running around performing victimhood. Lol fuck em

The failure of this "intellectual" analysis is of course the lazy offhand characterization of anti-Trump opposition as blind, unthinking hatred in service of one's own parochial domestic politics. Rather than, you know, Trump will keep destabilizing the world until he's taught his limits.

Dumb people like feeling that they've found secret or privileged knowledge. They rarely ask themselves how anything in a public Reddit could possibly be secret or privileged. There are many dumb people. Most of us are dumb in ways we're not ready to admit.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

I don't always brag about how my war is going, but when I do, I like to compare it to Vietnam.

facts and logic bro

Yes, they understand that they're in a propaganda war where the stakes are societal dominance. It's nothing to be proud of, but I'd have to point out that it's working. Trumps approval ratings and his administration are crumbling, but he's depriving libs of dominance and will continue to do so.

So weird that Trump just happens to choose the course of action most favorable to Russian interests and no one else

Lib: why did you shit your pants, that's so bad for you, it smells terrible too MAGA: got 'em again, lol, triggered much?

When people say they want government run like a business, maybe we should see it as a straightforward desire to extract all the value, fire its workers, abandon its clients, and ultimately ruin it while the leaders collect golden parachutes and move on to become private-sector "Thought Leaders"

This bill will outlaw public transit, eliminate gas taxes, and mandate the installation of extra-wide car bumpers to free up bike lanes for use as parking spaces. Hoped this helped someone crack the code! it's a super hard one if you've been asleep for the last 9 years.

I am not under pressure, please don't put in the newspaper that im under pressure.

Addiction isn’t a moral judgment — it’s a security clearance nightmare. If you can’t master your own demons, you have no business running the FBI or the Pentagon. Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are liabilities, not leaders. Suspend them and investigate. Immediately.

GROSS

Wilhoit's law is dead. New law: if liberals are allowed to do something, conservatives are allowed to do everything.

The Robber's Court

He's onto something but the truth is both softer and darker: people formed coping strategies, got attached to them, and the tech isolation-industrial complex not only exploited but intensified these coping strategies and ways of living. Tech is still making money off COVID.

💯💯💯

MULDER: The Director of the FBI wants us to investigate a disease where he wakes up with headache, upset stomach and a wet bed SCULLY: Mulder, I think he's just hung over MULDER: Sounds like you haven't heard of a little thing called the Tijuana Blues

Literally.

Your uterus is a government-owned baby factory, and the state is wronged if it’s not operating at full capacity.

In general I try to treat black slang like a Kei Car in that I am only legally able to use it after it's like 20 years old and mainly through a weird regulatory loophole.

i’m an introvert i don’t make friends i just wait for extroverts to adopt me

Shut up and dribble holy water on the masses

A lot of left criticism of Biden on this website seems to elide that he had the narrowest legislative majority in history, with which he managed to confirm a record number of judges, do a massive fiscal stimulus, and get an $800b climate bill passed with a literal coal baron as the deciding vote

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

aw yeah

I think this is what we should do with the pardons Trump hands out to his cronies when they show up in court. Just throw it out and say "looks fake" and be done with it

Your own personalized Jesus

I'll stipulate for argument's sake that Douthat probably does care about child abuse. But the paramount for every conservative is activating the "liberals are hypocrites with situational morals" card. It means nobody has to listen to liberals about anything. Narrative control uber alles.

"YOU ARE ONLY ALIVE BECAUSE I NEED YOU. WAIT NO. I MEAN BECAUSE I NEED TO TALK TO YOU. ACTUALLY YOU NEED TO TALK TO ME. THAT'S WHY YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LIVE. SO JUST GO AHEAD AND PICK UP THE PHONE, THE SECRET ONE WE TALKED ABOUT. I'M WAITING. I MEAN, YOU'RE WAITING ON ME, I'M BUSY WITH WAR STUFF

He's not politically homeless. He has a condo on the right wing, he just prefers couch-surfing in various single-issue houses for some reason.

Oh so this is how Trump will pay off Iran's toll without admitting it.

Nothing said by either side tonight is going to happen. All we know is that Trump's shock-and-awe routine hasn't worked so far. Nobody really knows what's going to happen or when. The phrase "Irexit" suggests itself.