Trump is like a human version of the One Ring. You cannot use him for good, or even really your own purpose. He's an inherently corrupting power that only ever serves his one master, himself. When you use him, you become bound to his will.

Wow, this is literally the first time ever that a scorpion has stung a frog. Someone should write a story about it.

This issue is a lot more complicated than people on this website are going to think it is because its edges are extremely poorly defined.

So THIS is how the Holocaust happened (easily, took virtually no convincing)

The book itself is about women's issues as they matter to women and then men come along and think we're doing it wrong because we're not doing it the way a man would.

This is insanely antisemitic. When did this "Track AIPAC" org start blowing up? What's the story here? I'm seeing it everywhere.

This is encouraging, because Warren has failed at literally every single thing she's ever tried to accomplish.

American leftists are generally fake hardos about all kinds of violent terrorist organizations because none of them know what it’s like to live in anything other than coddled suburban safety

He naturally wants them as low as the data allows! But he's a data man.

I'm not a huge deregulation person overall, but eg there's a necessary bridge between the states of Oregon and Washington that has been insufficient for at least 15 or 20 years, and they've just told us that now its improvement is expected to be finished in 2045. This is not tenable.

to take another London example, the Thames is a clean river! do you know how astonishing that would have seemed to our grandparents

Some of this is also still Covid hangover. 2021/2022 spending wasn't sustainable. But it's hard to roll back.

Lots of creatives want to work on their dream project and then when you see their stuff from their dream project, it totally sucks.

Everyone who is up in arms about that IL-09 accusation is responding to the Cesar Chavez news, if at all, with "so sad. truly a thing I learned is unfortunate for all involved"

Them being on an insane amount of drugs is really an understated part of this

I don't really worry about political or presidential ambitions because one time I ran a zine and someone submitted art of a guy fisting a centaur but it fit the guidelines for the zine, so anyway you know how it is

If he annexes Venezuela, Surinam, and Guyana he can have a land border with France which I think he'd like for fancyman reasons

its always so weird to me that the biggest single story on the planet earth in 2024 was the idea that Biden was in serious decline and totally unable to be President and yet, every public event he does since the end of his term is covered only by local press...

Alex Karp always reminds me of how in my youth "spaz" was considered a mild insult until the internet allowed us to learn from the Brits that it was considered seriously bad over there, like the opposite of the c-word

You can buy pig uterus at Asian markets on the cheap, I highly recommend filling the trap with something that will produce a pensive, thoughtful child

But in either case, those arguing that the status quo was an acceptable price to pay for the region and for the Iranian people are frankly just as full of shit as the clowns in the White House.

corrupt dog attempts to shake down traveller

It makes sense Trump is mad at European leaders since they pretty clearly like what he's doing but just don't want any personal exposure at all.

The Lindy west thing is weird because she thinks she has a dom, but she doesn't. She just has a bozo she doesn't stand up to. monogamy is really for low level scrubs anyway, it's inherently mish-mashy. doughy mormon men aren't Doms either

Can we do something about these fucking dipshits

You can't act like you care if Trump is a pedophile if you claim 26 year olds are pedophiles for making out with 20 year olds

Ah, reminds me of the famous Socrates line in Plato’s Apology: “An unexamined life is economically more efficient. Move forward.” As I wrote elsewhere, this is quite the cocktail of Randian nonsense and aggressive historical inaccuracy, served with a twist of psychopathy.

This is fucking lame the sneaker thing is so over.

One of the strangest surges of anger I've experienced was when I went to the Venetian Ghetto on my trip to Italy. Huge, magnificent churches had been a constant, and here was this squalid little nothing couple of city blocks with stained walls where they'd locked Jews in at night. I was furious.

I think some of these Silicon Valley nerd guys are gay and I think some of them are just Spartan warriors and they need a woman with her hair shaved off because they've never been close enough to one to realize they're not slathered in cooties

How often do you guys actually wash the outside of your car?

Haven't done any fanart in awhile. And hey, I do that too! Sometimes.

and while I'm at it !

Site owner "Lowtax" coined the phrase "the Internet makes you stupid", which is correct. Also, he eventually blew his brains out.

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

The Population Bomb is a bad book but it didn't drive most of these attitudes; trust me, the idea that there are too many of the "wrong" kind of people did not require a book to launder it.

Wow the taylor lorenz experience hurtled downhill huh

I love vampires more than anyone else on this website and I am here to tell you vampires are simply not this important

If women have a huge disruption in employment, they will start increasingly doing the jobs that men do and that will put downward pressure on wages in those fields.

and while I'm at it !

I liked both but like One Battle After Another clearly a much better movie than Sinners, imo. One was a very executed popcorn movie with a brain and great soundtrack, the other probably the best new movie I’ve seen in years.

I'm pretty sure that the way that Trump got talked into the war with Iran (and is highly amenable to its continuation) is the fact that they did sort of try to kill him personally

Haven't done any fanart in awhile. And hey, I do that too! Sometimes.

"Ugly Americans" was a show that on average was not particularly good, but occasionally was incredibly good. "Kill Mark... Kill!" Is probably the highest density of highly original and entertaining jokes of any episode of TV I've ever seen. For a show that was, on average, not that great.

Misogyny and racism have a lot of similarities, but they also have some huge differences. Among other things, men generally do want to have a woman around, and they want that woman to love them. Most racists just don't want that other group around and don't care for their regard.

Twitter and TikTok are convinced that Netanyahu is dead, and even the fact that he isn't has not apparently changed their minds. Wow, decentralized news has been great!

People like Abdulwaha are 1) not actually usually left-wing, they're Third Worldist bourgeois nationalists for the most part; and 2) they are constitutionally incapable of being part of a majoritarian coalition. You want them out before they wreck things from the inside.

My anti-"Onward" is now "Zootopia 2", which we watched tonight. Zootopia 2 doesn't break any barriers but it's wall-to-wall competent in a way a lot of other more recent Disney and Pixar films are not. Super solid, very few missteps. Kept it simple and somewhat cautious but didn't screw up anywhere.