It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

"oops I spent 75 years athwart history yelling 'STOP' & now my country has left me behind"

no eres mis casa bonita no eres mis esposa bonita

Those ads were spiritually deadening, but I am glad that at least 120 million people got to see some beautiful Latinas and the New England Patriots be obliterated

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

They are currently hot Latinas on my television, I was told Mr. Trump would stop this

*John Wick voice* Yeah, I’m thinking woke is back

Getting a white lady to sing merengue is going to make them more mad

Another gem from this: "Voigt pointed to previous surveys which indicate consumers believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows, as another example."

i think my main takeaway from the commercials is that the last year has destroyed everyone’s brains

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

every commercial is an excuse for a celebrity to make a cringe, but very handsome check

Maybe the most boring Super Bowl game in awhile. Patriots appear to be in a coma

I completely forgot that David Fincher is making a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and its going to be as unpleasant for me as I imagined

Wallace Stevens (died in 55 so just made it), Marianne Moore, Cormac McCarthy, or Éric Rohmer

Cuban government has informed airlines that they only have about 24 hours worth of fuel left for planes. Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines efe.com/economia/202...

Untitled, 1936 #surrealism #picasso

75 is too broad a time period, I think. But probably Morrissey or Clint Eastwood

It is very funny to see conservatives be like ”wow San Francisco is actually nice“. Like yeah, man. The entire place is not the 20 second clip of the Tenderloin posted by your Klan uncle on Facebook

Brits at some point are going to have to acknowledge that their politics have gotten astoundingly more stupid than even America’s

Something I actually find interesting about Takaichi and her youth support is it sounds pretty much the same as what you hear everywhere else that is almost anti-ideological, “that she gets stuff done“, in contrast to ossified intuitions. Trump had the same appeal, until he didn’t

An important note that Donald Trump has believed, for years, going back to college, that the amounts Americans pay for imported products are actually one-direction transfers of value from America to some other country, which is not true in any sense, but its why hes tariff otaku

good of example of the way that Gen Ai harms art is not through really replacing capital a Art but by replacing human slop with robo slop, and the dirty secret is that slop pays the bills and subsidizes actually good art.

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

i feel that if you care about a lot of things worth preserving about contemporary civilization right now, you have to think like monks preserving illuminated manuscripts after fall of Rome

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

Re-upping this in light of a person named Martinez winning 20+pts in rural Louisiana

It simultaneously is and isn’t surprising how many conservatives I interact with daily who seem to refuse understanding that Bad Bunny is actually popular—beyond the normal old person “I don’t get the kids music“ kind of response

I think car door handles should still work when the car is on fire

Being resentful is the worst fragrance. Like a full half of the bad posts and bad writing in our world are people who think they’re successfully disguising their resentment and anger with style or wit.

I’m not going to bet money on it yet, but Democrats retaining their gains with whites or gaining more, plus a snap back among minority communities back to 2016 numbers, would be cataclysmic for the Republicans

SF is the most beautiful major American city. Very funny/good to see people who thought it is hell discover this objectively true fact and other amazing things the city has (burritos).

RIP Fred Smith. Overshadowed, as bassists so often are, but he was as essential to the sound of Television as everyone else. And, of course, he had a role in getting Blondie on the road to everything they would be m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4s5...

Republicans getting bogged down in trench warfare to save one seat in Utah while Dems successfully gerrymander California, Maryland, and Virginia seems to me like Dems conclusively won the redistricting battle this round

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Every dictator or dictator aspirant being hopelessly addicted to their feeds is just so funny

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

Republicans crying about this is very funny. ”What goes around, comes around“ - Justice Brett Kavanaugh

I’m not really a fan of any politician, but Louise Lucas is the closest I get

Mel Gibson, but I would definitely watch it

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Whether moderate, progressive, or tankie, you can be guaranteed that an AOC run for higher office would produce some very stupid opinions on here

Wow. This is actually kind of a surprise. This district holds Reno/Washoe County which has been trending blue, but the rest is very red. I’d be surprised if Ds flipped this district, but if there was any year they may…

Getting kicked out of Bottled Blonde is a decent finger in the wind of what direction the kinds of higher income, suburban chuds who voted for Trump at least twice might be blowing in the valley

this has always been the case with evangelicals and what we now call the tradlife. it attracts people with severe personal problems looking for control and absolution through submission to a patriarchal deity. it's why these communities are a breeding ground for authoritarianism.

Something to keep in mind as we talk about how they may or may not react to election results is that this whole staff, and the staffers of elected Rs, spend an inordinate amount of time on X and that’s warped their baseline understanding of public opinion

My takeaway from #NJ11 is we’re may see more Hispanic candidates run and win for public office, and a part of that will be primarying out blue incumbents

Our opponents’ biggest weakness is that they have no impulse control and will double down forever, no matter how bad of an idea it is. Every mistake becomes a Vietnam War-level unpopular quagmire. They can’t help themselves.