So hey you want an actual war on Christmas? Because this is it.

idk whatever. something like this.

I think that an underrated reason why people are going to the movies less is the reason why I like doing it - you can't use your phone in there

what's especially striking is that the document valorizes "national sovereignty" and the primacy of the nation state, even as it *also* declares its intention to intervene in the politics of europe to push them in a more white nationalist direction

Not true! They also want to fuck teenagers

And on top of the obvious racism and sexism, Michelle Obama was coming from a place of addition rather than subtraction. She wanted to bolster funding to schools so they could get kids nutritious meals. RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz's stance is one of literally slapping the food out of kid's mouths.

Hey, instead of yelling at people about not using Alt text, if it's really important with you, post the alt text in comments. Accessibility is important, yes, but let's not forget that people have different levels of energy to provide them. It is not always malicious intent.

"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.

Which is something that these disrupter Silicon Valley people never seem to consider. You can fuck up reforming a military force horribly. You can add new technology, doctrine, and equipment and if you systematically do it wrong you’ll get the dogshit kicked out of you.

Plus If all "official" content is signed, then any real leaked footage of state violence or corruption that isn't signed (because it was taken by a brave bystander on a burner phone) will be automatically flagged as "unverified" or "fake" by the system.

The NYT thinks "illegal immigration" and "immigration" are the same thing, and that's how they frame the debate.

My previous Gundam Knowledge comes from half-remembered Toonami spots for Gundam Wing and a recent viewing of GQuuuuuuX, which is a bit like getting into Hamlet by watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead while snorting Adderall

if you're going to have these rat bastards on the air, you have to have follow up questions ready. tom cotton is the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, "i dunno, haven't asked" is, if true, a deliberate dereliction of his duties both as a senator and in his current role as a senator.

Really dumb move—it only solidifies the inferior second-rate status of the new award. If you really want to co-opt an institution you need to keep as much outwardly the same as possible. These losers will forever be known as the Trump honorees that got those Trump medals for a few years in the 2020s

Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."

Polio and measles killed about 700k people annually before vaccines. Vaccines kill <5 But yeah, polarization.

Hmmm. Hmm.

I just watched the entire original Neon Genesis Evangelion show over two days and I couldn’t get this thought out of my head

Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"

so what you're saying is, we need a new gender synthesis--

I need the hands photoshopped onto the Ronaldo bust

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

in the end, the future of cinema is Hundreds of Beavers

Not to mention the galaxy brains insisting a middle class family just “move somewhere cheaper” is refusing to acknowledge what that’s actually saying: Displace another family that has even less money. Where do they go? Displace another family in an even cheaper apartment. God forbid we just fix it

Democracy is a group project & a lot of you motherfuckers let everybody else do the work & then complain about the fucking grade.

one day we'll have to study the brain worms that cause you to react to Republican crimes by becoming mad at ..... Democrats.... for reason?

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

dating advice for men by people who have never dated as a man and don't care whether they succeed is never good

men need organic bro-llectuals

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

it operates at a loss because Republicans in Congress have sabotaged it. ips-dc.org/how-congress...

incredible work in the Manhattan Institute poll where to be an "anti-Jewish Republican" you have to be *both* a Holocaust denier and anti-Israeli. One isn't enough.

When we pitch these stories to state- or nat'l-level media, they ask "Are local journalists covering it?" And we have to say "Well, no, because-" And that's it! Convo over! It's like being trapped in a closet. And the local bosses & national-level do-gooders are BOTH holding the door shut.

It's hard to pick from the rogues gallery of murderous ideas, but sometimes I feel the most dangerous thing about modern conservatism is its transparent desire to destroy the fabric of truth in daily life.

It’s never been more important to be able to figure out who your actual allies are instead of the people who can make content you’re willing to hit the like button on. Your enemies will try to present themselves as your friends and tell you your friends are your enemies.

Wait a minute...

As a reminder: The USIP building was raided and taken over by DOGE (with assistance from federal and local law enforcement) despite being an independent agency and owner of the building. Litigation is ongoing, but Trump does not own this building.

Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.

Miss Piggy and Rouge the Bat are clearly kindred spirits, but I can't tell if it'd be the friend kind or the rival kind.

legal standards are not necessarily aligned with moral or extralegal evidentiary standards. this is something that I would assume a bunch of people who think they're leftists shouldn't have to be told

This year has made it so blindingly obvious that news medias "the presidency is too important to be left in the hands of an elderly elected official" crusade wasnt about any sort of actual merits and was instead entirely about aesthetics and furthering personal vendettas

If Ukraine ever falls none of you fuckers will ever rediscover the technology behind kickass coffee shops, top tier humane service and small business that can survive crisis, war and even Гетьманцев. Help Ukraine win to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.

Honestly? I’ve never understood why anyone cares about that. It baffles me.

Achieving robust AI alignment by making sure it never gets smarter than a golden retriever AGI Bud

Cattle Mutilation // Onion Software // PC-98

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

I feel I need to highlight this, in the off chance someone younger than forty is reading this: The media was terrible in the run up to Afghanistan and Iraq, they were a magnitude better at covering the run up to both than they are with Venezuela. The Bush admin put effort into selling the wars too.