It is with a heavy heart that I report today I did actually see someone riding in the passenger seat of a cybertruck. RIP to one of my all time favorite Twitter/BlueSky jokes.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

He may want to, but bragging about it would infuriate the moon landing deniers and the flat earthers, and he can't afford to alienate any more key GOP demographics like that

If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.

Which is to say: Children are intrinsically dangerous and untrustworthy and inclined toward rebellion unless and until all desire to assert their own personhood is literally abused out of them

It doesn’t hate only its own children; it hates *all* children with such awful ferocity I don’t think it’s all down to how conservative Christianity itself views children but I do think that’s a huge part of the psychology behind it

If I were the pope, I would be excommunicating all these fuckers.

"You boy, what day is this??"

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them. There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

We have been, and operated as, a de-facto empire for ages. We don't officially call it that for the same reason that the Vietnam War wasn't officially called a war.

I've said this before, but there are two kinds of people in the world. - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something, and think it's unfair unless everyone else also suffers - People who have suffered or been traumatized by something and don't want anyone else to experience that.

We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.

suspending Sarah Kendzior sounds like the death knell for this place.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

what movie do you consider "perfect?"

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

It's the internet. Don't put shit on it you don't want people to know about. Was true when we were all in IRC and it's true now. Only difference is at this point the corporations figured out how to make a tidy profit off the human foibles; the game hasn't changed even if the stakes have.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

assassins dress like cops bc that’s who’s allowed to murder people in broad daylight

The appeal of de-regulation is the bias of living in a THOROUGHLY REGULATED world. "I would simply be fine" is easy to project into the future when you've has spent your life actively protected from harms you literally cannot imagine because you've mistaken the protection as inherent to reality

The protests & slowdowns & leaks & refusals to comply & boycotts & strikes & antifascist art & gumming up the works & sanctuary projects & all the other stuff that we’ve got to run all at once have to feel like that too. Break their hold bit by bit. Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.

just randomly thinking about tacos and media about tacos today, for no real reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg5-...

I believe that everyone should be allowed the space and time and opportunity to become who they truly are. I am sad that some people, given the space and time and opportunity, choose to be assholes.

None of this stops until they throw members of the Trump regime in jail for disobeying court orders.

And now lots of people will try to play Russian roulette with their retirement trying to ride the waves of up and downs, seeing how some people made out like the bandits they are, and get rinsed. Because those bandits know when the chamber is empty to take their turn. You get the bullet.

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

Remembering for some reason how surprised everyone was at how quickly and comprehensively the USSR disintegrated, like it had already rotted from the inside and all that was left was a facade that seemed impressive and enduring but was hollow as papier-mache.

I forget who said it but I remember the quote: the message of TV is stay home and watch more TV. As Bob skillfully points out, the message of YouTube is you only need to watch YouTube.

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face -- forever

euripideez nuts

I've been playing video games ever since video games existed and there is no one on this Earth I despise more than gamers.

We need awake ourselves of the materialistic, capitalist view of the world, where people are either customers or marks. Capitalism will sell you the rope to hang yourself with & then make you pay for the coffin & pass the debt onto your kids. People must say enough and make the oligarchs fear US

Yup. The whole ethos of Reaganism and the neoliberal project was “we can’t segregate public services, so let’s divest from and privatize everything”. Everything today is the logical conclusion of that decision.

It's just transparently obvious that no company has the business model of providing a good or service in exchange for money anymore. They all went "You can have a way higher profit margin if you just charge money and don't give anyone anything." Insurance is only the most obvious example.

It’s almost like 99.9% of mainstream media is owned by people who support what Musk did to Twitter and view Bluesky as an upstart threat to their bottomless fascistic capitalist agenda or something I dunno I’m no expert

Anyone saying that stuff is a distraction simply isn’t affected by it. But, of course, they actually are. Because the whole point is that Republican are chopping away at each group individually before they get to the rest. You aren’t exempt. They are just making sure you stand by for your turn.

Then it hit me: The big success of the US right over the last decade or so, helped by a cadre of centrists, is convincing a lot of people that the Democratic Party is whoever you think is the most radical, most annoying person on the internet. Therefore, voting Republican is a vote against them. 3/x

Trump won — now it's time to prepare. Some tips on what you can do in the next 2 months to get ready for the collapse of the administrative state.