I'm going to be a broken record on this one. If you spent 2024 telling people to vote blue no matter who over Gaza but you can't do the same over Platner's tattoo, that makes you look like a real moral monster.

Javier Becerra feels like the Kier Starmer of CA politics

Begging you all to recognize that a huge percentage of people on this website are wish-casting an economic collapse and adjust your interpretation of their analysis accordingly.

I agree with George generally here, though I will say that I personally think he's overstating the economic implications of $200 brent. It's actually been that high before, adjusting for inflation. In early 2008, before the crisis, when the economy was considered good (no it didn't cause the crisis)

I love how these same companies that just hate government regulation eat shit over and over when regulations are ignored or (in this case) non-existent in large part thanks to their lobbying effort

this fuckin company man

god if you want to know why people aren't bothered by platner being a scumbag it's because on the defining moral issue of our time he's on the right side and Schumer's standing with Benzalel Smotrich.

congrats to jared polis once again

Every Republican staffer

Ossoff is very charismatic, so it's a shame he's so conservative

I fucking hate it when the sleep of reason creates monsters

man the elves in the new elder scrolls game look terrible

it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with”

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

It's crazy to think but for like 3 years under Biden we weren't at war

My least favorite conceit on this website is the idea that literally everyone knows what a Totenkopf looks like

It happened in 2001-2006 too. Same shit different day

My moral standard is that you should gird your loins to do hard things to restore the republic. If voting for a guy with the wrong skull and crossbones tattoo is the worst thing required of you during that process, you should count yourself lucky.

It happens because LLMs never see words. They just see tokens

Part of the standard driving test in every state should involve simply taking you to a roundabout and making you use it correctly

there's this weird narcissism to stuff like this which casts trump as a punishment for the democratic party for its actions, and which ignores the fact that harris had literally nothing to do with gaza

There's a huge difference between an avowed fascist and someone who gets a fascist tattoo because he is a dumbass and later disavows it. A vote for Collins is a vote to accelerate fascism and a vote for Platner isn't.

AI is useless because a very lightweight model, designed to handle billions of queries a day, will earnestly but incorrectly try to answer contrived questions about spelling that are actually category errors

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

The concept of “free speech zones” and “first amendment zones” is fucking bonkers. So you mean the full constitution doesn’t apply outside of the little square y’all decided on? And we’re supposed to just comply with that?

we completely lost touch with what effective protest and dissent even look like decades ago. we don't have the skills anymore

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

I'm dying

One thing I think a lot of people on the left should get on board with is the idea that it's okay to use identity-based insults (excluding slurs) as long as the only thing making it an insult is the recipients own bigotry

One of the bigger pains in the ass has always been getting your local python environment set up correctly to run some new repo you're interested in, because python dependency management is... uh... not great. Claude Code automates the whole thing. Amazing.

THIRD RECONSTRUCTION

I don't really get this thing where you say "maybe there should be a test for voting!" and everyone points to Jim Crow like it was some well-intentioned program for limiting the franchise to the literate and not, you know, a transparent program for disenfranchising black people for being black.

This is the basis for my view that we should simply limit voting rights to people who can demonstrate an elementary level of knowledge and rationality. What's easier: fixing whatever is causing people to behave irrationally, or limiting the civic participation of the irrational?

I just think "people no longer respond positively to low unemployment or improving conditions" is not really something you can accept and move past. It's a death blow to the entire concept of rational liberal governance, replacing it with a phantasmagoria where we lurch between delirious panics.

The reason Democrats struggle so hard with this is that they have fully internalized the view that they can never have a true mandate. No matter how much they win by, they believe their victories are always fake. Only Republicans can truly represent the people.

As someone who lived in Nebraska for a while: lol, lmao even

I don't think I've ever heard a good take that has the word libidinal in it

That's because they are all hidden loading zones

Really not a fan of this idea you all are pushing that enlisting in the military means endorsement of a particular political alignment or foreign policy. It's wrong and bad -- wrong because it's not true, bad because it can become self-fulfilling and we really don't want that.

"These women are so ugly, unlike Stephen Miller" I say, very herosexually

Reminder to my fellow manly MAGA warriors to update your list of "ugly women" for the May 2026 additions. I know, I know. Look, I get it, okay? I'm heterosexual too. We gotta put that aside; the most important thing is racism.

Fascists are definitionally uninterested in the responsibilities of self government, which is why we liberals should feel unburdened by guilty conscience for depriving them of voting rights. If they want to be subjects, they should be made subjects.

You can join the national guard at 45?

I've noticed that rockets built under the traditional model of NASA running the show seem to have less problems being explodey

Should Deb Fischer decline to endorse Pedo Paxton, I think we can safely assume it's not because of the pedophilia. All GOPers are either pedophiles or pro-pedophilia. The more likely explanation is that she is frustrated that Trump endorsed Pedo Paxton over the incumbent pedo

We don’t reflect enough on how the revealed preference of the richest men in history, who can afford any material luxury or human experience, is often “being angry and resentful all the time.” Righteous grievance turns out to be the absolute pinnacle of Maslow’s pyramid. The ultimate luxury good

Whenever I see someone being smugly sceptical on the internet I remember that Sharon Stone was banned from multiple dating sites because men SHE WAS INTERESTED IN kept reporting her profile as 'fake'

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

Under 2018 poll weighting practices this is probably a point or two worse

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