Fondly remembering when Andrew Cuomo's hail Mary attempt to not lose the mayoral race was accidentally saying the N-word.

Well, well, well….

If we survive this moment—and I am still quite confident we will—what must emerge on the other side is a professional class of bloodthirsty warriors, effectively left-wing nationalists who serve society as a philosophical concept and with cold, calculant precision seek the destruction of an enemy.

Yeah I’m not going to read too far into this when these doofuses only ever know how to double down. This is just a sign they’re losing and they know it.

If all you know is astroturf, real grass feels conspicuously alien.

One of the main drivers of this is that between Koch, Wilkes, Saudi, and Qatari money, these guys genuinely can't imagine how any of this stuff gets done without throwing mountains of cash at it. What it gets you is think tanks and Tucker Carlson's dumbass podcast. It doesn't get you a movement.

A lot of things are about to happen at once and there's not much guessing that can be done about any of them from right here and now. My advice is, unless you're on the ground in the middle of it, cool your heels and wait until it's remotely obvious where the ground is moving.

this is wild because this is one of the largest sustained right-wing echo chambers that wasn't banned by Reddit itself. this is a place where con mods zero-tolerance ban anybody who "asks questions" or points out any inconsistencies with gop talking points.

But the biggest indication is the way the ICE thugs react after the shots. They don't try to arrest him or secure the gun, they either back away or run away. They immediately knew it was a crime and tried to distance themselves.

Someone with power should do something about this.

You thought Dems were pissed after Renée was murdered? Well now they're going to vote to fund ICE *TWICE* as much!

I look forward to the Democrats continuing to fail to stand up to this moment and utterly failing to do a single thing, getting wins in November with which they'll do nothing, only to shovel Gavin Newson (or Kamala again) onto us as their Chosen Candidate in 2028, then losing again.

One thing I will say, as a non-reactionary believer in gun rights, the idea you can be executed just for carrying a gun (with a permit no less) is the exact thing gun rights people have been railing on for years. There is a fomenting lurch largely missed by the kinds of people on here.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

As ever, my perspective on the outcome of the next few years remains positive. I have nothing but bad feelings about the shorter term.

It is perhaps an overly precise reason, but I do think the biggest reason AI tools make people stupid is the specific ability to have a single, narrow idea explained to you with no broader context is the exact opposite of what looking something up and learning about it does for you.

I think a solid 33.33% of the reason I don't use this site much is because it's mostly just people aggressively trying to make it "their" site, 33.33% because people here basically bully anybody that doesn't add alt text to their images, and 33.33% because nothing actually seems to happen here.

Using my telescope to watch Tau Ceti while me and @dianaestrella.bsky.social read Project Hail Mary! I think i can see Ryland and Rocky...

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

I never cease to be amazed at how Stephen Miller just always looks AND sounds like a pouting man-baby about to throw a crying tantrum, even when he's not upset about something. Just the whiniest guy I've ever seen

average person online: have you seen what the race scientist said about him average new yorker: omg its zohran mamdani

i love holding real news in my hands

The refusal among certain high profile elite Dems to endorse Mamdani now and basically preemptively cut attack ads for his independent/ conservative opponents is funny whenever u consider how mad they get when a progressive or Muslim voter won’t endorse a Dem because of the genocide thing

Not to sound like an asshole, but every time there's some massive story people claim isn't being covered, I open up the news and, with shocking regularity, sure enough there it is.

Today's front page.

THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

Speaking as an american, fuck us up canada

Chuck Schumer negotiating

At least they're finally admitting they don't know how to drive. Schumer and all establishment neoliberal politicians have no idea how to meet this moment. Their toolset are moderately worded speeches and donation emails. You can't defeat fascism with sound bytes

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

There wasn't one. It's been a slow creep of line-goes-up cunts brainwashing you for 50 years.

a heuristic that has never failed me once is anyone who uses the phrase “common sense” is most certainly dumb as a box of rocks and quite probably my enemy

Devastating, they'll never recover

We would welcome Canadian forces as liberators

Option 2 is Balkanization and I will be a loyal mercenary of the Pritzker Khanate. With the wealth gathered in the fury of war, I shall reforge Aurora into a new Urbino.

I can't even tell you how surreal this all is... it feels like if I looked out the window there would be a crashed airplane full of bearer bonds in my yard, and a small army of supermodels professing their eternal love for me on the front porch

On the one hand, accelerationism or whatever is bad etc etc. On the other hand... lol

The average creator on OnlyFans makes $108 a month. The owner of OnlyFans made $472 million in 2023. The entire sexist ecosystem of vilifying OF models is to distract you from the actual people who exploit you

I've rarely been as proud as the day I heard my daughter say "fuck Mr. Beast."

Terror won the war on terror so hard every American over 55 spends 23 hours a day watching Fox go Radio Rwanda against their own kids and neighbors and every American under 25 follows 875,973 political extremists on social media.

The Train Scene Gather 'round while I tell you about the only scene in Atlas Shrugged that is actually good PLEASE STAY WITH ME HERE this is NOT a pro-Rand post it is the OPPOSITE just trust me bro come with me on this journey 🧵