Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

English longbows had an approximately 180lb draw weight. You had to draw them by pushing your torso into the bow rather than drawing back. It was so difficult that becoming a practiced longbowman deformed your body such that skeletal differences can be identified in the archaeological record.

I'm very mad about the whole vexillology thing. Leave the flags alone. They have important history!

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Something called the America First Policy Institute was stupid enough to 1) advertise on Reddit, and 2) leave their comments open, lol

people will say "dems need back off unpopular positions to win", then suggest *abortion rights* like, what? that our one solid wedge issue in red states

It's not the most important part of this by a long shot, but "American Know-Nothing"? They were already American

yeah I think this is a good metaphor for the tension between people who do longer term activism and the more normie types who join in moments of unrest and momentum like the present. warriors who regard the conflict as a part of their identity, vs. soldiers who want to win and fucking go home.

My wife and I moved houses a few months back. The new house has a Bosch dishwasher, and... I don't know what the fuck they were thinking when they designed this thing. They seem to have saved us from the scourge of visible buttons at the cost of making the controls completely impenetrable.

I think George R. R. Martin's critique is about realism, which is fine as far as it goes, but also the genre in question is fantasy and so a lack of realism is part of the form.

When I read this, it made me realize that "Donald Trump was elected because of information security practices" and "Donald Trump was elected because of inflation" are true in precisely the same way

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Friendly fire is manly

no charlie kirk joke i make will be as funny or insensitive as this

I hope it's not Hegel

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

This would have sparked endless speculation about Biden's mental state, but because everyone knows Trump was always an idiot this stuff doesn't register

That can't be right, because the guys who keep calling me a white moderate were also hammering Biden and Harris on Gaza throughout the election

There is a longstanding conservative talking point that MLK would have been against affirmative action because he was all about judging by the strength of character not by color of skin, but that premise is undermined if you google MLK affirmative action

It's an admission that they are committing murder. Not even right to call it a war crime because we're not at war with anyone. Next admin should send them to Venezuela to face trial

I'm going to spend a lot of time hammering this between now and the 2028 primary, but everyone should vote for the candidate they like the most and not play 11-dimensional electability chess

An underrated argument against Kantianism is that, as a purely practical matter, there is precious little evidence that anyone outside a tiny minority of people have firm and inflexible principles

I mean look I think it’s worth saying here that there are other ways to make people change their mind. One way to do it is to create an indelible association between “voting for Republicans” and “suffering significant harm”. And it’s hard to do that if you don’t market them together!

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Any regrets yet on this one? (The answer is always no, nobody ever admits they were wrong.)

One of my favorite Evangelical cultural affectations is how they can spend an hour arguing vociferously against a pluralistic society and then give this holier than thou "I respect your opinion". Bitch, if you respected my opinion you wouldn't hate pluralism.

The thing that really did this for me was having kids and seeing the sorts of wild toys you can get that cost almost nothing

She was kicked out of show business because her brand was a parasocial relationship and it became clear she was a terrible person to her staff and the show’s guests.

It is a rule, with few exceptions, that the “person” in Personalist Authoritarianism be an idiot

I want both "we got your back' and "woe to you who collaborates with the regime"

I earnestly believe that if Dem electeds were more recalcitrant in their opposition to the GOP you would see more resistance from other institutions. Like, for example, tech companies who are getting fucked by the H1B change.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

I heard of an H1B whose plane was on the runway for a trip to Europe when they heard about the new policy. They got the crew to turn around so she could get off. Turns out it wasn't necessary! We love our big orange baby

It's always the other who gets it in the neck. I would never personally suffer from politics.- idiots everywhere

A lot of Trump-supporting Chinese H1B's in tech are finding out today

I hope it's not crazy

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Left-wing cancel culture: This shit is bad and nobody should want to be associated with it. Right-wing "cancel culture": The government will punish you for criticizing the dear leader.

"And you thought they were in favor of free speech!" I did not think that, actually, because I'm not a moron.

I'm trying to figure out why so much of the New York Dem party establishment hates Mamdani. It's either racism or, like, "he was supposed to wait his turn!"

These people are insufferable

yeah man that's literally the entire point: I don't get off on being radical. it is not an emotionally important identity to me. I do not like that many of political beliefs are outside the mainstream. I consider that bad. I would be happy if that changed.

The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.

One thing I would be fascinated to see is a pollster splitting the sample 50/50 and asking the first half to provide a percentage and the second half to provide a "one in ____" figure to see how well they line up.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The whole “Dems are playing sophisticated politics that your brains can’t comprehend” thing is exhausting. Always these excuses “they’re doing X now so they can do Y later,” but they NEVER do Y and X wouldn’t have helped them anyway.”

It's wild to me how often it's people on the *far left* claiming that it's too dangerous to go protest

Political opposition is not getting shipped to camps, which is what we're talking about. You are free to go around the country saying whatever you want about Trump. Virtually the only limiting factor is effort and courage. Again, do you know what actual resistance movements would give for this?