"You must accept this new technology that abuses you; there's no way to dispose of it; adapt or die." That's a rapist's threat

this is so fuckin funny man. the most powerful person in the world made a sweeping declaration of american policy and it was almost immediately obvious that it was completely at odds with reality. why is everyone fixated on that www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

This unmasks what MAGA really means by "anti-interventionist." It's all about hatred of international laws that limit the US from exercising its will to ultranationalist dominance. He says straight out that "shithole countries" don't have a right to their own resources so we can rightfully take them

What Jack said:

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

Is there some sort of universal constant whereby the emergence of a hitler will inevitably be followed by the emergence of a Neville Chamberlain as UK PM

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

"Why are straight women collectively making more noise than gay men" sounds like the kind of question you ask when you absolutely refuse to learn the demographic breakdown of society

The moral panic about rap lyrics was a manifestation of cognitive dissonance over the social reality that wealth confers immunity from the law being stated baldly and without euphemism

There's a really great interlude in Remains of the Day, where an American professional diplomat scornfully males this essential point in conversation with a dilettante English nobleman, and it's become exquisitely ironic, due to recent events

Amazing to think that the end of the world could have been avoided if only Chomsky had shown Trump a Gall-Peters projection just once, when they were hanging out on Epstein Island together

I've joked about this being the end of the post-war international system, but invaded Greenland would *actually* end the international system

JSOC abolition is as high a priority as ICE abolition

Everybody on here is putting more thought into this than a single person in the administration or pentagon has.

Time-shifting is one of the most recognizable symptoms of dementia

RETVRN to the Board of Directors holding the whip hand over the CEO. Abandon (and illegalize) cleverly engineered “Benevolent Dictator For Life” arrangements for any diffusely owned company with more employees than the population of a medium sized town.

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Amazingly, "shut up and clap" is not the position being described as weak

this is repulsive, but for those who didn't live through "shock and awe" in iraq: it's the norm with the bootlickers who largely make up the dc/nyc press

They like trump and want him to be king

They're all dressed exactly like trump

this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top

if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly

Based solely on this statement, would you say the author would disapprove of this action had congress been consulted?

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Trumps central insight about the world was summed up by him saying "when you're a star they let you do it," and as soon as you suck up to him you become part of the "them" that will just let him do whatever he wants

Save me Chi Osse

jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office

Emergency kitten- Retro Jimmie

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trump the type of messy bitch who could have the ideal internationally-accepted face for his wildly illegal imperial adventure and throw it away because she won the nobel prize and he didn't

The dismantling of DoS, USAID, and VOA surely won’t matter in the very near future.

Tbh, a lot of this goes back to obambi not prosecuting anyone for either the Iraq war or the financial crisis. Ppl would be a lot more circumspect if they didn't feel pretty assured that they'd never go to jail, regardless of what they do

They're fine with unjustified wars of choice as long as we don't do it for a gay and bad reason, like defending democracy, and instead do it for a based and manly reason like stealing natural resources and posing for cool photos for the 'gram

Dems didn't really want to impeach trump the first time around, but they felt like his behavior was so out of bounds that they had no choice. The boundaries have shifted, but we may yet see the same dynamic play out

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

I think this might be bad enough to get even the squishes on board with impeachment

Little Marco really pulling out ahead in the "dead-eyed, fascist twerp" sweepstakes for 2026

They're 100% prepared. They just like it and think it's good

Bay of Pigs II: Electric Boogaloo

So, it looks like the writers put tom Clancy on bath salts and outsourced the latest season to him

It's super cool how we've made our own little praetorian guard

18 USC 1201 Again, not joking, there's very clear language that makes it quite applicable to those involved in this, especially if the Admin fiddlefucks whatever kangaroo court charges they're going to try for with this

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

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