Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

The Saudi government does very bad things. If a person goes around saying, “every Islamophobic attack should be presumed a false flag to justify the US alliance with Saudi Arabia until proven otherwise,” people would justifiably understand that to be deeply Islamophobic.

ill be honest, mamdani is making me kinda hopeful. maybe the lib policy wonks and the anti-establishment leftists can get along after all

had the democrats had a majority at the beginning of 2025 of the same size that the Republicans did, they would have lost it by October of 2025 due to deaths

I understand the point being made here, and I don’t listen to hasan, but the chapo guys say shit that would have been widely condemned as antisemitic even four years ago

We have ceded the moral high ground on Nazism. Well done, everyone!

this is fundamentally their politics: sure your life sucks, and we will be making it worse for you specifically. and probably if we're being honest, a whole lot worse. we will, actually, probably kill you specifically. but other people who you don't know but also hate? they'll have it worse

elizabeth warren has been a united states senator for more than a decade, is the vice chair of the caucus, and ran a presidential campaign, this posturing about "the establishment" was embarrassing poseur horseshit when bernie sanders did it and it's embarrassing poseur horseshit now

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

This is an incredibly stupid idea that will principally function to defund the welfare state and public schools.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

this triple whammy of Dems coming out with big tax cut proposals is dangerously close to negatively polarizing me against "tax the rich" rhetoric EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PAY THEIR TAXES

Rather spoils the impact of the Spartans responding to “if I invade I will salt your fields, kill your children, and raise your city to the ground” with “if” once you learn that “if” eventually became “did”.

tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse

the people who continue to defend dem leadership are truly a mystery to me. sure you might ride thermostatic backlash to a majority in the house and maybe senate, but long term your party is dying. this is like a CEO running a company into the ground chasing quarterly earnings reports

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

Right. You're a spoiled brat. "earn my vote" bitch your vote is owed *to your fellow citizens and members of humanity*, not to any politician Your duty as a citizen is to vote for the best viable option who will do least harm and most good 99.9% of the time these days that's the Dem

shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad. we live in a society, act like it!

For the record my position is people saying "I should be allowed to steal/drive dangerously/litter/do xyz other antisocial things because the world is FUCKED UP" have a basically reactionary worldview and if that's the way you go through life you might as well go MAGA bc that's the way they think

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

posts u make when things r definitely going well

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

WELCOME TO THE BLUNDERDOME

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy: 1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden 2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough 3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

If Harris had won then there would be fewer human beings suffering and dying in the USA, in the middle east (including Palestinians), in the Caribbean, in South America, in Ukraine, in Africa - literally everywhere and if that wasn't enough for you then you're a piece of shit, sorry

also I’m pretty sure that “keeping the strait of hormuz closed is by orders of magnitude the most impactful thing Iran could do in this conflict” has occurred to a lot of people at this point chief among them Iran

I think “all the American voter cares about is gas prices” is overly simplistic and broadly incorrect but I sure as shit think they are going to care about them rising this much this fast

As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear: Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes. Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

Those pesky “rules of engagement” that Hegseth says he got rid of are designed to prevent, among other things, the bombing of elementary schools

“thank you sir for firing me like a dog, which seems distinctly preferable to other ways one might deal with an unwanted dog”

nobody seems to fucking get this!!!! "the enemy gets a vote" but moreover trump/israel deliberately killed all the people at the top controlling the enemy, which does not destroy the enemy but in fact turns them into a dozen new, smaller enemies!! I feel like i'm going fucking insane

What's especially wild about Target's anti-woke moment is that if they'd simply stuck to their own stated principles, and toughed it out through presidential disapproval for, like, three months, they'd look like heroes and would be more popular than ever

Frankly, we've seen enough: it's time to fire all the cowards who toadied to Trump and disgraced their institutions in the process. CEOs, lawyers, university presidents. Clear them all out, replace them with people who stood firm. Remake our society with leaders who have principles and courage.

yeah so the 2024 election was narrowly won by a guy running on a platform of cheaper prices and no new wars who then immediately decided to raise everybody's prices and start the biggest new war of the past twenty years

everyone is slowly realizing they got played by hardline fascist ultras into supporting a geriatric child toucher because he'd be some peacemaking technological republic statesman and not like, every single thing he was when he was in office 5 years ago

So, what do we know so far? 1. Guy had a Nazi tattoo. 2. Knew for certain at some point it was a Nazi tattoo yet, kept it. For 18 years! 3. Only removed the Nazi tattoo after it became a campaign issue. 4. Replaced it with Celtic symbolism, which Nazis LOVE. continued...

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Schumer backs Trump.

Matt's attempting to gin up a moral panic targeting a progressive nonprofit on a Nazi website. This is indistinguishable from Libs of TikTok.

art of the deal, baby

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

CHOP/CHAZ has been memoryholed because of how awkward it was for those initially enthusiastic about it

super telling that Waymo is relatively honest about its (world class) capabilities and limitations, and as a result is like 1 percent as valuable as its boastful liar competitor