If only there was someone in the 2024 election who ran explicitly on the platform of providing 25k towards a down payment to help first time home buyers secure a mortgage.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

"humanities = socialist and good, STEM = capitalist and bad" is not only dumb as rocks but, quite ironically, completely ignorant of history like, do you think it was the semiotics majors who came up with every Five-Year Plan?

“TIME TO BE GAY” I shout as I smash through the window of the local games workshop. They all groan, because they have to. It’s the law now.

The even worse part is that if you try and apply this to any situation other than politics people will rightly laugh at you and call you a fool. "It's not the drunk driver's fault I lost my kids in that car accident, I blame the paramedics who couldn't save them at the scene!"

You people have got to stop saying this kind of thing. I’m sorry that 15 years ago a CS professor said something obnoxious in a faculty meeting but the idea that humanities degrees are “not tied to capitalism” while STEM degrees are is some of the purest bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Click through and read the assignment feedback, which was constructive, kind, and frankly very gentle. Suspending the instructor over this is a deranged overreaction in support of a clearly bad faith student, and the university choosing this action is once again another stain on higher education.

when we say that we want equal rights for trans people we mean that we don’t want to get placed on administrative leave for giving an university essay with no citations a bad grade

I finally got around to watching #KPopDemonHunters and it was pretty fun, but that ending was... weird? They make a point to cast the demons besides Big Bad as being misunderstood, and that they'll suffer eternally if they put the barrier back up, and then they... put the barrier back up...? Yay...?

to be fair, if you understand "biggest loser you've ever heard of", you have indeed come to understand the modern right.

I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly

When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health

it's giving thanks

you can frame the European-American differences in a lot of ways but 'Europeans are poorer than Americans but also more secure' is probably the fairest one. American life is richer in many, many ways, and also far more dependent on your job *and your family* than European life.

Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

(gender reassignment surgery, to clarify)

[2022] A while back I made modern AU edits of all the #FE3H girls, here are the Black Eagles 🦅

I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.

th-this is my hole! it was made for me!

The idea that a creative person would also be a person with whom we agree on every particular or they must be exiled to the borderland is a recent, quasi-religious ideal actually

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

He didn't want to be a team player. You wanna cluck your own way too, buddy? Maybe we'll see how well you fly too. No? You're gonna play ball?

splashes at you

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

It's 2025, nearly 2026, the era of "make up odious accusation about person you disagree with for unrelated reasons" doesn't work anymore and it's time to stop. In fact it never really worked, it just pissed off people who hadn't been enemies at all (while you're stranded by actual enemies).

i have agreed with stancil and i have disagreed with stancil. he has sharp elbows. but the accusation that he is a raging transphobe is not connected to reality. and the weaponization of "i'm listening to trans people" to smear someone because you disagree about fucking econ polling is disgusting

blocking people insane about Will remains one of the most consistent ways to make this website a more pleasant user experience; he draws the maddest fuckers.

Feel like “last loko party” is a very specific millennial micor-generational memory. One of my friends was in a fraternity where they climbed onto the roof and started grabbing bits of roof tile and throwing them into the street at one of these events.

people who are actually wrestling with the discomfort of uncertainty are not dumb or evil or corrupt or ignorant because they don't share your false clarity

Comey and James cases dismissed. Because Lindsey Halligan. No legitimate prosecutor would manufacture charges against Trump’s political enemies, and one willing to failed. Authoritarian abuses don’t work without capable personnel. Or much deeper corruption of the courts, which they don’t have.

Remember, if you're about to share something that confirms your biases, take a few seconds to check it's actually true

This will be a battle because there’s a lot of well meaning anthropologist types who really do believe it‘s racist to say that eg: traditional chinese medicine is mostly bullshit, but it’s a fight well worth having.

I honestly don't want this site to become "Kiwifarms but leftistly" where we find a new lolcow to gawk at and/or quote-dunk on. You cannot build a society on finding others to look down on.

And somewhere between this game and BG3 the industry realized that you can actually make *more* money by marketing to the ladies and the theydies/gentlethems as well rather than exclusively to the dudebros. It's a good thing.

White Cat 🤍 | Edelgard x Marianne #Fe3h #FE風花雪月

Never pass up the opportunity to share my favorite meme on that whole thing

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"And if t̶h̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶e̶y̶e̶ women minding their own business offend thee ̶p̶l̶u̶c̶k̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶e̶"̶ blast them on social media."

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

OnlyFans but it's just me putting the microphone against my cat while she purrs.

i find it pathetic how many people on the right are subservient to this guy who is basically a tyrant out of the classics

my Uber driver to the airport today (finally getting bottom surgery) was a super nice, chatty guy, and turns out his grandfather was the first black man to graduate from the Georgia Tech aerospace engineering program!

Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements

Biblically accurate edelgard, dimitri & rhea forming an alliance against twsitd 😇