The irony of following "extremists can't recognize their own extremist-ness" with "it should literally be illegal to be mean to anyone" is almost too much to bear.

Alejandra doomposts & makes enemies out of people who actually support her cause because her relevance depends on others being mad and scared. It does her no good to tell followers that they're resilient/strong, or coalition build. In any other context people would rightly call this manipulative.

Half-Elves are persecuted in most fantasy settings because the truth is they're functionally just better humans. A significantly longer lifespan but none of the drawbacks that would come from being a full blooded elf. If they weren't persecuted they'd take over society.

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

There's a kind of history alteration around social movements that stsrted out unpopular but were later vindicated/successful. They get misremembered as being more popular than they were because people who participated interpret their inventual victory as having been inevitable, and because-

The Iraq War was in fact very popular for just long enough to get Bush re-elected. People turned against the war in late 2004/early 2005.

This one was amusing - back when I was active on The Bad Place I clashed with Roman Helmet Guy & his poor (and fashy) grasp of Roman history repeatedly. And Senpai finally Notices Him only the say he isn't fashy enough. Hilarious. (hat tip @lefaucheux.bsky.social and @freydalpishti.bsky.social )

Kantians when faced with the fact that their actions have consequences outside of their purely theoretical moral framework:

The definition of audacity: ICE asking WA tribes to host detention centers. They got a very polite “fuck off.” “The Nisqually people are not in favor of, nor will the tribal council allow, the detention of individuals by ICE on our reservation or in our facilities.” - Tribal Chair E.K. Choke

Tag yourself I'm both actually.

"You know how in every other western democracy a party that wins a majority of the seats in the legislature is able to pass laws? Yeah fuck that why would anyone want that? It's dangerous."

If Omelas existed it would be our moral duty to destroy it.

Just checked and "I hate mice please let me live in Edmonton" is not a valid reason to immigrate according to the Canadian government.

People who receive SNAP can't eat democratic party political momentum.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The one advantage of twitter neutering blocks is that people can't reply-block you to forcibly get the last word like they can here.

I have taken a 4-3 lead over the mice.

Hussites are built different. The Lutherans could never have conquered Rome.

Adult Tiki ( ´ ᵕ ` ˶) #FireEmblem #FEHeroes #チキ #ファイアーエムブレム

Are you a liberal Stalinist(human rights in one country), a liberal Trotskyist(permanent global revolution against despotism) or a liberal Titoist(national interest first, support for liberalism when no national interest is implicated)?

His name is Alexander and he's never lost. (Pic unrelated) #GreyCup

Canadian Football...

people made at recon haven't read enough books to understand that intentionally and publicly cutting off the food supply—especially primarily for the sake of some kind of political gain—to the working poor has never happened before and is easily the most baffling move in the history of civilization

The most annoying type of activist is the one who literally cannot believe their opponents are acting in good faith and therefore everything must be a conspiracy theory. This form of activist, however, is slowly becoming synonymous with being an activist.

This is so unhinged.

Being a feckless government thug isn't a protected class. Every business owner in the Chicago area should be refusing to serve or sell things to federal agents, and residents should boycott any establishment that doesn't. Let them go to Indiana if they want food.

I'm really enjoying Dispatch. Calling it now that Blonde Blazer is secretly evil.

Sonar is significantly better than Coupe because he covers two stats your team is really bad at(charisma and intelligence). The things Coupe is good at can be covered by other team members, especially if you choose to add Phenomeman.

Not so fast, Christmascels.

They're calling him the most French man in history

This admin is gonna end up bombing Kevin Bacon

AAHHHHH!!!!

why would he come for online trads like this

The problem with Democrats in the Biden era wasn’t the content of the domestic policies, it was the total failure to sell them and to understand, manage, and master the media environment, especially social media.

It's actually illegal to run a European-style political party in the US.

HappyHalloween 🩸 #忍野忍

This has been known since at least the mid-1990s, if not earlier.

"Can we have 🇨🇱 ?" "We have 🇨🇱 at home." The 🇨🇱 at home:

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app? What?

It says Cuomo went to a senior center but apparently they don’t know how many casualties there were yet

Absolutely true. It turns out when you break a bunch of laws, simply ignore the black letter law granting a right to seek asylum, bully a bunch of smaller countries into giving you what you want, and act like a psychopath, people are going to react rationally and halt efforts to enter — for now.

My question to the author, whenever I see one of these op-eds, is to ask the authors what, specifically, they believe the Biden administration's policies were, and why they believe those policies failed.

One could argue anything, but not everything can be argued in a way that makes sense

Americans weirdly believe in sports being a meritocracy even thought success in sports is like 75% genetics.

OK I figured it out. My ISP installed a new modem in my apartment yesterday and it didn't have a battery in it because the battery is only to maintain landline phone service during a power outage and I don't have a phone. The beeping was the dead battery alarm and I was able to turn it off.