Man if you stopped watching cable news years ago and try to watch five minutes in a row you will feel like you’re in the black lodge or some shit no thank you what are people doing to themselves every single day with this stuff

In 2012, there was a six-week gap between when we sold our house and when we moved into our new house, and during that time, we stayed with my parents. My dad kept cable news on the TV all day, and after 20 minutes, it felt like my brain was being stung repeatedly by hornets.

One issue is that while there are conservative people one can have interesting discussions with (some of my best friends and cetera) if you go to spaces dominated by the contemporary right they are *unfathomably* inane. Even other conservatives struggle with it! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

we uparmored now

when the intern at fox news suggests they do some coverage on the stock market imploding instead of a trans competitor in a mongolian throat singing competition in albania

YOU GUYS.

the plan? blindly destroy the economy and institutions of a nation accustomed to comfort and heavily increase the number of angry people with nothing to lose relative to the number of firearms

fondly remembering when everything was produced locally and global trade was minimal (you were an illiterate peasant subject to famine)

Rhodesia tried to get recognition by inviting a bunch of European diplomats to attend the unveiling of their national anthem. When they found out it was just English lyrics over Ode To Joy their jaws dropped. The Rhodesians thought they would find them sophisticated; they found them Philistines.

Woodrowen Wilson watching Birth of a Nation: Wowww

well i’m glad i finally ordered that body armor before my american dollars are a bit worthless

[guy who only has knowledge of trade disputes from star wars watching the news] getting a lot of phantom menace vibes from this

you vill eat ze plants. you vill live in ze temple. you vill desire nothing. und you vill be contented

my wife and I have been obsessed with the show Yellowjackets and she made this meme after seeing @redcloak.bsky.social and I's interaction lmfao

i voted for the economy i don’t care about all that other stu- oh what’s that

The US university system was the envy of the world; now it’s being actively disassembled by America’s inbred elite, all of whom enjoy legacy admission to the same six finishing schools. It’s disgusting beyond measure what is being done, shame is the correct emotion.

👀🇺🇸 Victoria Spartz was booed during a speech in Indiana.

NEW: Musk announced that Sunday he will “give a talk in Wisconsin. Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election.” There he will “personally hand over 2 checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote.” www.propublica.org/article/wisc...

on this day

you know, major paper employees pout and cry about how bluesky is mean to them but the amount of normalization they did of authoritarianism should never be forgiven endless articles about how these corrupt sociopaths were "antiwar," or a friend to labor, or supportive of "antitrust reform"

In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily. It’s not too bold to predict that every university president will face a similar choice in the coming months.

was clearing brush from the storm and then realized my hand was like an inch away from a copperhead that i guess was docile since it’s only 60° but i have never jumped backwards faster in my life

my living room

every time you convert a movie to vertical format with extreme over saturation and sharpening a puppy dies

one of the most reddit responses i've seen in a long time

donald trump portrait cum tribute

in Big (1988) starring Tom Hanks, it is believable to the audience that as a 13 year old in an adult body, who does not know how anything works and has no form of identification, he is able to stumble his way into getting an office job. This is a subtle nod to the fact that 2025 sucks ass

There’s something special about the first time your dog looks you in the eyes and says “Dude, let’s figure out how to make nitroglycerin.”

what kind of ketamine addict are you

still thinking about this

mom was telling about a coworker’s kid who had these chocolate bars “from some kid on youtube who invented them” and then i clarified and had to figure out a way to explain to my basically offline mother than mrbeast is actually an adult man and is also the antichrist

i got two modes

these people are nazis

“Musk’s planned visit to a secure room in the Pentagon was called off after The Times published its article on the visit, according to a person with knowledge of the matter” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

between this, the rampant misogyny, the regression to "what if things were other things" level of philosophical discourse & the uncritical value of superficial beauty as moral virtue it feels like western civilization has reached a togas-and-white-marble future in the most monkey's paw sort of way

we are living under fascism right now

alpenflage secured

men only need one piece of decor

i saw a lady on reddit or somewhere saying "applicants you NEED to be sending a thank you note after an interview!!!" and someone asked if she sends thank you notes to the person applying and she got mad

mr beast is paying me $100 to be surgically turned into a gummo

See I wondered if people got used to this in the pandemic and then they... never stopped.

she runs let me tell ya

not everyone has agreed with me about this but my read is that schumer is essentially telling donald trump to frame mahmoud khalil for something, anything, so that he can openly support his expulsion. trump does not seem to respect schumer enough to do this.