No real point in singling out the west here, Yemen is the only country that's done anything substantial

liberals are so brave

The United Nations needs to relocate to a country that is subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Thank you McDonalds for honoring Assata Shakur

My guess is that you are a "tankie" now if you note the wildly disproportionate role the Soviet Union played in winning WWII instead of rightly crediting Tom Hanks

I am old enough to remember when even plenty of liberals talked about ICE and Homeland Security this way, how even the terms were creepily police state and surely the next Dem president would roll it back. Then the Obama administration expanded it, so they accepted it. And here we are.

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

any explanation for this is funny

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

"Never mind, I'll find/ someone who liiiikes food" -Weird Adele Yankovic

What a good movie that was. I wonder if they ever made a sequel.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

fun trivia! in the second French revolution, sensible liberal men listened to this complaint, and rather than kill conservatives in power reached out to them as partners in a new and more equal form of governance! the conservatives said "hey thanks for that" and immediately killed the lot of them

what are these people on about man

Sick to fucking death of “political violence“ being used as a catchall phrase. Shooting a transphobic bigoted piece of shit Nazi is not anywhere near the same thing as shooting unarmed shackled prisoners being held with no legal reason and the same bland phrase should not be applied to both.

I think perhaps the biggest indictment of "police reform," and maybe the biggest show of evidence that it simply doesn't work, is how cops can execute someone in broad daylight while wearing a bodycam and it does absolutely fucking nothing to enact or enforce meaningful consequences

This is especially funny if you're old enough to remember the days when the original Mortal Kombat, in all its pixelated glory, was considered a national moral crisis because your kids might see a guy get punched so hard that 500 femurs fly out of his torso at once

I rarely defend Americans, but we shouldn't forget that American GenZ started the student protests in 2023, were beaten to a pulp by police, got thrown out of school, lost scholarships, had their degrees revoked, etc. An Egyptian friend of mine joked "those kids were Arab Springed" Funny but true.

Even if you're on team "we need cops, we just need BETTER cops" then fundamentally you still have to support "Defund The Police" because that is the only way, literally the only fucking one, that is going to ever produce those results. Otherwise you might as well just beg god for a magic wand

Here's the problem: in order to have this kind of cop, you are functionally going to have to defund the police down to Zero Dollars and then start over from first principles, because the police infrastructure in the US is designed (on purpose) to create murderous racist rapists instead

They want their reichstag fire so bad. It's all they can think about at this point. They know their movement is rapidly crumbling and the guy at the center of it is dying so they're just desperately looking for whatever fake emergency they can use to justify the emergency powers coup

Alan Moore is a wounded, cynical comic book writer. Garth Ennis is a wounded, cynical comic book fan.

there are thankfully fewer of these over time, but i like the americans replying here about how it makes sense for the dems to run to the right like their party didn't just try that last election and totally faceplant against a ridiculously weak opponent. this isn't a hypothetical! you tried yours!

it's better to think of the useless centrist 'expand the tent but only rightwards' media people & politicians as blockers paid to occupy space that could otherwise be utilized productively by a serious person. their opinions are pre-approved by their donors and will never change

lmao you know your side is cooked when those are the biggest names you could get to sign your pro-genocide letter.

And before you go see this new DiCaprio movie, remember he's building a luxury hotel in Israel right now

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

meanwhile the real answer is "the Union had a functional monopoly on the industrial production of guns, trains, cloth, and boots, an existing logistics network, diplomatic recognition from European powers, better morale, and didn't have General Lee to fuck things up for them"

Being a member of Congress has to be the coolest job ever - sending strongly worded letters when your party’s out of power and rubber stamping everything the president does when your party’s in

one of the crazier things you see people say out loud is "you made me this way" -- really man? you're just going to admit to being that weak minded?

the israelis are the first to follow us in the folie a deux and are now 100% comfortable admitting the "peace process" was a lie and that ethnic cleansing is now openly the plan. im sympathetic to an argument that this honesty is an improvement, but scumbags can see that this is the time of scumbags

we used to make (nice) things in this country

podcaster occupied government

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

I think "The gamemaster is the person upon whom a majority of the responsibility for the game's enjoyment rests" is more telling.

Back in the Forge days, and I still see it occasionally, there was a story that in our games we were disempowering the GM because we'd had bad experiences with viking hat GMs in our pasts. It's not at all true! Our bad experiences were AS GMs.

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

"The Democratic Party knows how to greatly reduce economic hardship but doesn’t appear interested in doing it again." damn you don't say

nearly every one of these boils down to "i am afraid that i will being seen while seeing this", like motherfucker you're not mad at sex you're mad at surveillance

"autism" quite likely doesn't exist as a stable category you can identify through genetics or neurochemistry without capturing various types of schizophrenia, ADHD, epilepsy, and other sensory processing disorders in the same net and vice-versa. at best it's a description of symptoms/characteristics

lyft driver is a young kid listening to an AI generated track with no clear end that is just an old weary man saying grind mindset bromides nonstop. deeply poisoned country. which should be in charge of the world btw

this is the funniest possible way to describe GWAR

Benny Gantz with an op-ed in the New York Times today in which he openly states that opposition to Palestinian statehood is at the heart of the national consensus of the Israeli body politic, something that virtually all Israeli Jews agree with Netanyahu on.

This was extremely obvious from the increased inequality and concentration of wealth stats. People who refused to see this are stupid.

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally