Just like Elian Gonzalez and Emmett Till, if you actually want the story to be effective, you should get her orphaned six-year-old out in front of the camera. It's brutal but life is brutal.

Well well well Now suddenly the left cares about "real economic data" "rather than vibes"

A majority of America voted for it, but I fucking didn't.

Everyone in the UK hated Prince Charles, and so people thought that the monarchy would go away once he became king, but as soon as he became king, they liked him about as much as the queen.

The US economy is a juggernaut and is often doing well. It's actually not that closely related to how it's viewed politically!

Oh thank fuck, finally a person who can talk like a human being

Stop telling us that our deaths aren't relevant if you want to make inroads with us, or if you complain that we don't vote the way that you want us to.

I know that people say this a lot, but it's really worth remembering, none of these people behave like they're ever going to have to answer to God.

Society needs this and I'm so serious

I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit. If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.

I watch a significant amount of police body cam footage (including ones where police were culpable and found culpable) and this is immeasurably more straightforward than most. ICE agent completely in the wrong, cold-blooded murder no question.

I wouldn't consent to being interviewed saying I had a good time at a garden. The relative upside versus the potential downside is completely out of whack.

I don't mean to cause the conversation to lose focus, but why is Minneapolis so often the flashpoint for this stuff

Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Stone cold murder.

It's early 2026; elections are still a ways away. Time to admit that Dragon Age Veilguard sucked tremendously and it was actually super annoying and lame as well

I told you guys this one was going to have actual legs because it (unlike attacks on Haitians which as far as we can tell were totally imaginary) did have a significant truthful core.

Correct, this is also why the Haitian thing didn't stick. It was effective for the moment but didn't have legs. This one has legs since there is a significant truthful core.

One of the things that always gets me is that support for fascism so strongly comes from the poor and from the petty bourgeois. These are two groups that tend to care disproportionately about property rights. Fascism is a *terrible* system if you care about property rights.

These are basically people advocating for a worse world, and they think that we're not allowed to say anything about it because of, yes, a pervasive amount of self-abasement in our own culture. We have to stand by fundamental human rights and human values, even if it's new or novel.

Most straight men dislike homosexual men more than they dislike homosexual women, but if you do run into a guy who hates lesbians more than gay men, he's a fucking FREAK about it

I'm so fucking good at reading books

They should just let him live there in a little enclosure, like birds at dentist offices in the 90s

Jesse Singal is the dumbest motherfucker in the dumpster of Old Country Buffet and that includes the maggots

Okay fine, you win; give the Elgin marbles back to Turkey.

If a genie offered Bernie Sanders the opportunity to switch bodies with Mr Beast in exchange for 10% more likes, he would take it

A huge problem for Democrats here is that people who had followed the rules, who had worn their masks, and did get vaccinated, were forced to keep doing frustrating things that we hated for over a year because of the people who decided they weren't going to do them. Why follow the rules?

I don't think this 'caused' reaction so much that it did serve to undermine the effectiveness of one of the main tools against it. if you concede ground on empiricism it does make it easier for people to regard the reactionary peasant-brain evidence free worldview as legitimate.

crazy rizz pope. he's got the swag

boring whitey culture was the nicest one toward women

Very bleakly funny that circa-2012-2015 conservatives have been totally vindicated in their arguments against the postmodern turn in parts of academia, the embrace of ‘ways of knowing’, rejection of bureaucratic rationality, etc.…because they embraced all those things and it was indeed a disaster

I can be a bit of a Luddite on some stuff and despise Musk and all his works but Waymo otoh I think is very good and I think will substantially reduce traffic accidents that kill pedestrians, cyclists, and pets.

I really like dogs and deeply dislike puppies.

I'm gonna make people really mad and say this also applies to politics.

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Everybody knows there's only one way out of this. And first it's this, and then it will be the next thing… I don't know, man, I personally am not going to do anything, but it's obvious what certain powers should be considering for their own strategic purposes.

The British are a multicultural society and there's a lot of great food that comes out of Britain. If diaspora foods count in the United States, they certainly count in the UK.

That's what gets me about guys like Yarvin; nothing they're doing or saying is all that special or different. Every plea to join this neo-reactionary garbage is some variation of "c'mon, you know you already believe in racism, just admit it." It has nothing to offer genuine believers in equality

Whether or not it is objectively a worse problem now than it was in the past, it is absolutely top of mind for voters and the vibes on affordability are still terrible.

Out-of-pockets things like "there are different kinds of oil" and "it's kind of weird you want to put big boobs on a cartoon character designed for children."

Here's the problem: you're saying that we're blowing it up, but the rest of the world is not acting like we're blowing it up. They're just going along with it.

sirhan sirhan truthers.... oh my goooooooodddd shut up

Awwww man come on we can't act like the PPP is on Trump. This is embarrassing man, we just have to get better at making sure that essential services are offered by the government and not a string of opaque NGO's.

I'm sorry, did somebody get driven off of this website over people wanking to the friendly dog in animal crossing? Are you sure you people don't have a porn addiction? You keep saying that it's not a real thing but then what's with all of these Behaviors

The problem with the Democrats isn't that they got two left-wing, it's that they got too online. Most of the online stuff doesn't actually make any sense from a left-wing perspective, it's just kind of incoherent mess bullshit.