The starting point in every negotiation shouldn’t be what you think is possible, but rather what is necessary. If you don’t start with maximalist demands that go far beyond what power is willing to grant, you’re not going to get anywhere.

King K. Rool if he was in Donkey Kong Country Returns (they just give him squinty Retro Studios eyes).

Arresting every ICE employee would get more criminals off the streets then arresting all of the people ICE is targeting.

This administration’s ideal citizen is a screen-addicted white suburbanite who is massively in debt and trying to consume their way to a rugged, rural identity. Almost anyone who has friends or community or creativity and just wants no part of this hell they are building has a target on them.

It's probably just me but I have rarely ever had a good experience with a Bluetooth device. Wireless shit is exhausting. DCs, charging issues, my phone not pairing...all constant annoyances. Just give me a wire to plug in and I'm a happy camper.

My guinea pig, Pumpkin, passed yesterday, almost exactly one year after her sister. After living with a cyst and a tumor, she finally started having seizures, so I made the decision to put her down. She was always a fighter, with an appetite nearly as big as her personality. Rest in power, Queen.

The United States of America is not the good guy. We are terrorists with better weapons.

It's no surprise Trump pulls another Iraq the day after CBS became another Fox News.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

One of the main things driving me insane is that all of this is so transparently, word-for-word, a retread of the same tired old shit. Trump is just copying Putin's homework. Musk is literally just a rerun of Henry Ford. Basic history lessons, subjected to repeat forever because people never learn.

Everything we accepted being done in places like Palestine will be done again and again elsewhere until we stop accepting it anywhere. We can't carve out exceptions where human rights don't apply and expect human rights to still apply everywhere else.

Trump poses the same threat to North and South America that Putin and Russia poses to Europe and we should be treated as a pariah state by the international community. I said what I said.

There is literally no moral difference between what Trump is doing in Venezuela, and what Putin is doing in Ukraine, or what Hitler did in Poland.

Trump isn't merely stupid. He sincerely believes if he has the power to take something from you by force, and you have it, then you are wrong to have it, and he is right to take it. Every aspect of his life, every decision, every idolized dictator proves this is his rule. Not stupid. Evil.

The US is obsessed with making the population sympathize with the perpetrators, not the victims. That's one of the easiest tells that we're the baddies.

It’s time for the world to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the U.S Avoid the Olympics, World Cup and other sporting events. There’s no reason to celebrate the 250 birthday of this fallen nation

The only way that you're going to stop Trump and address the causes of Trumpism is by ending capitalism. Everything he's doing is tied to the US imperial project that's rooted in global capital.

ok, wait…we’re removing presidents from power who claim they won fairly? Well, shit, let’s keep the ball rolling.

The US and Israel are the rogue states they claim all their enemies are.

I'm so sick of this shit. Fuck this president, this government, and this entire goddamn country.

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

Going to try and use more interrobangs this year. Feel like I'm gonna be needing a new way to punctuate things.

My year in review: - Pet died - 6 months spent being incredibly sick - 200 hours spent playing F-Zero GX - 2.5 months spent watching The Beverly Hillbillies - 1.5 months spent watching Daria - A billion hours of sleeping - Lost 25 pounds (then gained half of it back) - Donkey Kong Bananza was cool

Sega bought Atlus just to do this.

This President commits at least one impeachable offense daily… You could literally present a new charge every morning to justify why he should be impeached but you won’t even attempt it… At the very least it would put a spotlight on all the shit he is doing that should see him removed from office…

Every time they try to make a "cool" Pokémon even cooler with a new form or something, it always backfires. This is why the best Pokémon are the ones that know they aren't cool and never try to be. Goobers like Dewgong, Seaking, and Claydol are the ones out here keeping it real.

"Mario Kart 200cc turns the game into F-Zero." No it doesn't. "Fast Fusion is basically a new F-Zero game." No it isn't. "Have you tried Wipeout? It's like F-Zero." Not really. "Kirby Air Riders is-" Stop it. Closest thing to F-Zero is Aero GPX. But I still want a new F-Zero.

Kirby Air Riders has the same problem that Mario Kart World has, in that it is a racing game for a console that also has F-Zero GX

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

I'm so tired of having to entertain the idea of "debate" with fascist ideology as a necessity of democratic society. We agreed their ideas are bad a long time ago. They already lost. Debate should be about what color to paint our libraries, not whether or not people should have rights.

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Any economy that requires me to constantly buy shit I don't want or need is an economy that deserves to collapse.

Kind of want to play Kirby Air Riders, but not badly enough to spend $70 on it. I generally think most Nintendo games are worth their asking price, but there's the occasional title that makes me wish they'd go on sale at some point. Kirby games I especially struggle to justify paying full price for.

The ugly secret is that AI is a narcissist machine that’s programmed by people who desperately need validation for a lonely, isolated population that desires an increasingly frictionless existence.

The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after. Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.

The Spongebob movie? But that came out in 2004.

I'm an Open Borders true believer. I think we should replace the entire DHS with a New American Welcoming Department that hands out Social Security numbers and green cards to new arrivals right at points of entry and helps them find places to live and work.

The presidency of Donald Trump should not only destroy the pernicious mindset that "government should be run like a business" once and for all, it should also expose the reality that *businesses* should not be run the way they are.

My favorite console of all time, edging out the Dreamcast. This stupid purple box and its bizarre library of games have had far too much influence on what I enjoy and value in video games.

Me: "You're not going to take over the Dems. You can't reform the party. We've been through this before." DemSocs: "Yes, we will! We'll run candidates, primary the establishment, and kick them out of office!" AOC: "Nah."

It's been raining for like 3 days now (my ideal weather) and man, seasonal depression is gonna hit me like a freight train when the sun finally decides to show up again.

Realizing I've only played two new games this whole year. That's a step down from my usual three.

One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

I refuse to believe anyone with a fully functioning adult brain can look at the kind of transparent, childlike opportunism Trump operates on and not understand it for what it is. I refuse to believe his supporters aren't entirely aware of his corruption and aren't just feigning ignorance.