Coffee, yes, beer...only in the last twenty years, but also yes.

“Gay chicken” was a humiliation ritual Graham Platner and his fellow marines engaged in. This included same sex sexual acts until someone “chickened out” Mocking and fetishing gay men simultaneously.

it turns out it is not really actually possible to reclaim most slurs

The irony is that Platner's entire campaign was summoned out of wholecloth by the most predictable of gaggles of elites.

Of course the DoorDash grandma isn't a 'paid actor' because everybody knows that once trump is involved no one is getting paid.

Aw, are they making safe spaces?

Then imagine a nest of angels distributing new cars to every Trump supporter. And beautiful women throwing themselves at every maga male. And Kid Rock becoming the number one singer in the world, maybe tied with Vanilla Ice. And Joe Rogan curing cancer! Let your imagination go wild!

@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social Graham Platner was in charge of soldiers and delegated who would “participate” in “Gay chicken” as he describes here. This is sexual assault. No consent. Humiliation. Mocking gay men. Fetishizing gay men. And laughing about it later and posting it publicly.

The odds that we'll someday hear that Platner's raping someone was an open secret are roughly 100%.

Wait until that guy finds out that all of modern language is constructed to some extent in ways that they simply weren't for most of human history.

My favorite take of his as a semi-professional Tolkienist (I have studied medieval and early modern literature as my English major, I literally pay to be a subscribed member of a Tolkienist community, etc.) is how this guy claims an elf tongue from LOTR is more real than Hebrew.

this is how any scientific field advances. new data that is not consistent with the paradigm requires you to reconcile the paradigm with the data, not discard it entirely

*but* they are not just going to concede that inflation is actually high when inflation is not in fact high as it has historically been defined

as far as I am aware, economists are in fact interested in why economic sentiment doesn't track economic fundamentals. they would also like an answer to this question

We always ask why she went to his room and never ask why he couldn't keep his pants zipped.

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Why are Democrats not getting massive donations from rich people? Truly, it is a mystery.

Look at that fall off the cliff for the RNC though, right before a mid-term. The DNC isn't the story here, but when has that ever stopped anyone?

It is, and also, people are comparing adulthood to childhood. It's very easy to go on vacation twice a year when your parents are paying for it; you didn't have to do the budgeting your parents did to make it happen. Also, when you're 25, you aren't making what your parents did when they were 45.

I admire their consistency to protest Democrats, its incredible their consistency

You have to be a consciously malicious liar to say this, considering Christian charities were begging them not to defund the agency and they did anyway. And now hundreds of thousands are dying from it. What an absolutely depraved man.

working out at the gym and “not like us” just came on and everyone is nodding their head to it and I am reminded once again that nobody has ever lost a rap beef as hard as Drake other than people who were actually shot and killed

I mean...yes, that's true, however it is not the natural habitat of humans, which is kind of important if you are a human.

Well, well, well....

See we can have monae as a representative of psychedelics rather than that morris guy who hangs with grimes and right wing libertarians

Hahaha okay holy shit, this stream of one-liners absolutely works for today's lack of attention span.

I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

yuck

Honestly, as a guy who's a single payer skeptic, I at least respect that Becerra is explaining the logistics of a change. That tells me that if he were to attempt it, he'd be doing so rationally. I still think a German system is better, but at least he's dealing in reality.

Depends on how you charge it, Scut.

This is not true.

So there's still no actual "Trump phone" or release date, all promises of this being "made in the U.S." are gone, and the device has already seen a steep price hike. Also the phone, should it ever be released, appears to be a lazy rebrand of the two-year old HTC U24 Pro. Very on brand.

I've given up explaining to people why inflation is better than a hard crash. I anticipate we will not lern from the COVID framework and forget channeling the economic harm through the inflation channel is least-worst and end up in another long protracted period of firm destruction and unemployment

i like the fact that these people are primarily mad that the Roman Catholic Church believes in its mission about making the world Catholic, instead of uh, being le based civilization defender

it's not very easy to describe the relationship between the Settlement and the Mandate but it wasn't................ warm

again, holding-babby's-hand stuff: if you read like one full wikipedia page you would have found that in those two years between '45 and '47 those-who-would-become-israelis spent Quite A Bit Of Time literally bombing british military institutions, because they were Not Friends

i like the idea that free childcare is a "girlboss" thing instead of something mothers would like so they can improve the socio-economic status of their family

Like I get aversion to the idea of people "cashing out" but also like...are political advisors just not supposed to have jobs after they stop being political advisors?

JD Vance is a Protestant.

People want to Live In Star Trek but don't want to do the thing that people In Star Trek do (being active members of civil society and the voluntary economy)

Have said before but a lot of people want an excuse not to participate in civil society and have created a way to intellectually justify what is just rank apathy and extreme individualism

Buddy, you are both behaving like white people typically do and embarrassing all white people. You live in a city. This is how cities work. Sometimes there will be someone doing something that you don't like. Deal. And the guy was playing guitar. The only one starting an "altercation" was you.

I'm going to keep talking about this race because someone needs to. Up 4, in this environment in your own internal is NOT where you want to be! I don't know how we do it but our choices are: get Duggan the fuck out of that MI Gov race or commit a ton of money to convince people he isn't an option!

As JD Vance's speech showed, MAGA thinks of itself as global. What would it look like if liberals and Dems laid out *their* vision of our shared international future more forcefully, and contrasted it with Vance's? Here's a start at what this might look like. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

This was Biden’s issue They didn’t credit him with raising real wages in the lower ends of the economic spectrum They did blame him for eggs exponsive

The idea that he didn't know what he was posting seems believable to me only if I start from the presumption that Donald Trump has no idea how Jesus is depicted. That second screenshot kills me. You can't call him a believer and say he didn't know. It's one or the other!

I am so sick of this performative shit against Democrats. Are people so stupid that they have no idea that the Republicans hold the White House, Senate and the House. Schumer and Gillibrand can't do shit because of the REPUBLICANS! Give them fire. But no, and that's why we have Trump. Great job.

I do unironically believe that if the automatic mopping machine were invented during the zeitgeist of today, people would be arguing about the nobility of manual mopping jobs and the need to keep them.

Republicans control the power of the purse. Republicans have controlled the power of the purse since October 7th 2023. If you can't protest against Republicans considering they control the power of the purse you're not doing anything effective whatsoever. There's no point to protesting then.