BORN IN THE USA HELL YEAH GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD NO IF YOU TRY TO MAKE ME LISTEN TO THE LYRICS I WILL SHOOT YOU WITH EVERY GUN I OWN AND THAT IS HAHAHA BELIEVE YOU ME SO MANY GUNS

Nah nah nah, it's not a Lord of the Rings issue, you'll see the right wing deeply misunderstand Star Trek, Star Wars, the Expanse, a Song of Ice and Fire, the entire bibliography of Philip K Dick, and any writing that involves satire and subtlety as well.

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

Every criticism of U.S. actions in Venezuela that were prefaced by a criticism of Maduro was a tacit endorsement of this administration's saber rattling over Greenland, Mexico, and Canada.

Student loan FAFSA forms now require ppl to select which kind of "White" they are. Ameribrained white supremacists think they'll be safe under a fascist government but the truth is no one is safe except the ultrawealthy in control. Everyone else is poor meat for the block because this is a class war

Please help out!

You ass he's the goddamn president right now

I was so hoping it wouldn’t be his Beer Hall Putsch, but I mean Hitler did at least serve some (small amount of relatively easy) jail time over that before gaining power.

Jesus warned me about letting this happen to my toilet while I judged others’ shitters

Basically, yeah, this is true. Same thing where if you pay a musician $10 on cashapp and then pirate their entire discography, you're still paying them more than Spotify would for the same amount of music.

At least a major news outlet is finally reporting on the fact that the farmwork exception to child labor laws exists, because basically no one knows it's even a thing, and you can't end something nobody knows exists.

I just realized it’s hilarious how much Aurora looks like elderly Lloyd Bridges when her eyes are closed, because to paraphrase one of Gary Trudeau’s characters describing Liz Taylor, her normal elegant, slightly bitchy look is “a tad overweight, but with yellow-green eyes to die for.”

So do I damn. Tangential story in the next skeet, thinking about the coffee shop example.

Every other week it's like, "Here's a weird little racist who is friends with the most powerful people on earth and he hosts dinner parties where he discusses the best way to kill you specifically."

they got that Street Fighter branded cough syrup now

Once again I’m catching strays because of my dipshit peers, but at least they’re funny ones.

“We saw you from across the bar and thought ‘their vibe sucks, let’s take a nap.’”

before anyone gets to typing defenses of why, specifically, they have to do things online or can't do things in person: i don't care. i'm not talking about you, then. i trust you when you say you "have to." trust that I'm not talking about you and stop explaining yourself to me

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

This one might be my favorite

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

They had been an executive on one (1) animated show before mine and thought the pipeline they learned there applied to all animated shows. It was very much the embodiment of this graph:

i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things

"don't call ICE the gestapo" excuse me, i will double down & continue to call them the gestapo as we see more evidence of them being literal nazis

A lot of people, mainly the ones who are marginalized and bear the consequences of this, already knew and have been begging people to wake up. I hope more people finally do.

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse

The capitalist ruling classes, who run western liberal democracies, need the police to be their very own personal (and uniformed) thugs. They need the police to enforce anti working class laws, punish the poor for "stealing" bread, and snuff out any sparks or catalysts for working class revolution.

"Reducing the political power of law enforcement" isn't how you solve the police issue. You've gotta TOTALLY abolish the police, and then in their place, set up something that actually serves the people. But that ain't happening in western liberal democracies, cos capitalism needs the racist police.

Celebrated simultaneously with St “lol that’s the Iced Earth guy” Day

Happy “Jay Johnston Did What?” Day, everybody

Let's see Miller take a Waffle House by force before he continues to talk about taking Greenland etc. by force.

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

Graeme Hart, 31, who claims to know “literally hundreds of people with autism” has observed that “literally all of them” have no idea when someone’s taking the piss.

The Jan 6 riot was successful. Maybe this will put to bed the constant admonition that "riots don't work."

Joking aside, I genuinely believe if you were to discover animal life on another planet, unless the geography, atmosphere, and climate were vastly different, the apex land predators would probably be reasonably cat-shaped.

hmmmmmm

“We have had people from Sweden who were killed that were in the military,” State Sen. Mike Young, R-Indianapolis, said." Oh. Okay. Sure. That sounds like a valid reason to a fairly extreme amount of overt fascism in putting the state in charge of the streets of Indianapolis

It seems deranged to put these two grafs - essentially a shrug - before the information that she was doxxed and harassed last spring by an anti-trans hate group while that same hatred was espoused by the paper of record and the president.

"But Lia’s father and friends say she was a casualty, in part, of the argument over transgender women competing in women’s sports, and a broader national climate that has been unwelcoming, and often vicious, to all trans people." Wow NYT where did that argument come from? Who created that climate?

I couldn't get past the graf where the Times exonerates itself for this woman's death. She "struggled to feel comfortable in her body and in the world ... The reasons for suicide are complex... multiple factors — including mental disorders, brain chemistry and destabilizing life events"

Because you’re fucking right. Sorry to swear this early , but it’s just true Everything we know about society, psychology, bullying , cults and just general well being shows that enablers and “ public social disassembling is WORSE than direct attacks . They should hear it

One of the rare times St. Nicholas of Myra interacts with Goths without the urge to call them out on their Arianism.

it seems very much as if the post-millennial Star Wars have tried to close this - well, loophole that isn’t really a loophole, by going out of their way to emphasize: no, the people working for Empire know what they’re involved in. Kevin Smith laid it all out with the roofer’s speech in 1994.

remarkable how the conversation about contractors on the 2nd Death Star anticipates so much about the next three decades of Discourse and Star Wars both

the hardest thing to explain in hindsight is just how shitty the past looked, how shitty the past always looks, but this movie just slaps you in the face with how fucking awful a time to be alive 1993 was doesn’t take any time to get going, hits you right out of the gate with “CANCER MERCHANT!”

And if you did: no you didn’t.

The main difference between me and Arlo Guthrie is that I would prefer to have a pickle myself.

I absolutely accomplish more good to the world in a day hanging out with my kids simply being available than this guy does in a year, mark my words