The overwhelming inability of people to understand what nostalgia means is the omnicause behind boomers filling their diapers about cities, groypers posting “this is what they took from you” about the N64, and like half of Bluesky left on left arguments about the economy.

Correct.

Curiously, I hear nothing from the "Ukraine is destroying our ability to defend Taiwan" crowd these days.

When you think about it, there really can be no more perfect representative of today's GOP: * wildly entitled, yet ... * utterly dependent on & enriched by gov't policy that protects ... * their shitty, misery-producing, anti-social business model, and yet ... * endlessly whiny & resentful. 🎯

hegseth pledged "no quarter." earlier this year a US sub sank a boat of iranians coming back from a fleet regatta. those we didn't kill we abandoned to drown. this week the iranians shot down and captured US pilots who were bombing them and it's being called a "hostage taking."

In this thread: a bunch of people who didn't read the article being discussed

The obsession on the Left with betrayal and trickery is so funny, because most of the time nobody cares enough about what we think to bother trying to lie to gain our support.

Yaoi hole logic

bottom right too well timed 😭

honestly for all the discourse about a "Joe Rogan of the left", there's a pretty good case to be made that such a figure would have ~the politics of Weir

That's right

After the JK discourse, this is a refreshing example of separating art from the artist. I don't mind loving art by and giving money to someone who is, fundamentally, just a dumb dumb

given how insanely volatile things are right now, I would be very surprised if there weren't huge arbitrage opportunities between "us troops in Iran" betting markets, crude futures, and the DOW/S&P

Mars-cels seething while their bones decay and tumors grow as the Venus-Chad enjoys a mojito outdoors (with a breather mask) on the observation deck of the aerostat habitat.

"I'm the last person who deserved x" is just the main motivating force behind all of American politics. Ladder pulling at every level.

The push for sex verification tests is rooted in racism and they're explicit about it. Not a surprise they want to eliminate the 3 Black women in this photo.

FBI reported 1700 arrested "child predators" in 2025. That's around 1/200k. There have been now 7 pardoned J6ers arrested for sex crimes against kids, out of 1600 J6ers total, around 1 in 230. You can play w the denominator a bit (135M adult males) but it's still around 350x the rate

Mamdani really is just this meme but for left-influencers

Best money I spend every month

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Few even on here are brave enough to adopt my anti-homeowning position. You *should* be renting your house from the government, actually

For the people who try to insist every 4 years that the Green Party presidential candidate could somehow build left wing power - their California gubernatorial candidate was kicked off the ballot because he didn't put his phone number on the filing forms

I am pro property tax, I have no other politics at this point.

MattY pretends to be a spreadsheet lib but then he ignores the spreadsheet when they don’t say what he wants them to

HOWLING

when I see a bad take: [this person follows me]: oh man, they must be having a rough time, best to give grace. [this person doesn’t follow me]: what a credulous dipshit, a stupid loser who believes idiotic things

This will be the sixth time that we have created woke and the sixth time that we have destroyed it. We have become exceedingly efficient at it.

as someone who read the book with no info going in I am actually so upset with how much the Project Hail Mary trailers give away about the plot not to mention my screening had a fucking "hey heres why Dolby is so great" vid with more spoilers directly before the movie?? why?? we are already here?

Anyway, I highly recommend going into it knowing as little about the plot as possible.

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

one thing i appreciate about Apple's commitment to privacy is the absolute ironclad secrecy with which they treat the questions "what shows are on AppleTV" and "when do the seasons start"

the ironic thing about California’s insanely strict fire codes is that they make it significantly harder to build multifamily housing, resulting in more exurban sprawl into fire zones. on net, the overly strict fire codes result in more fire deaths

with jet fuel prices about do double there has literally never been a better time to actually take a stand on this issue. People are gonna be way more willing to put up with TSA shutdowns when nobody can afford to fly anyway

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

Okay I am not a master of military strategy. But in addition to almost certainly getting a bunch of Americans killed, can someone please explain to me how taking this island would open the Strait of Hormuz

apt as ever

This is a total non-starter and every Democrat should fiercely oppose it. Authorizing a single dollar more for this illegal war would be unconscionable (much less $200B more!). If your congressmember isn’t raising all sorts of hell to stop this, then it’s time to replace them.

When they said punch Nazis, they were interested in the punching, not the Nazis

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

Basically, if you’re not willing to accept that Zionism is an inevitable response to things like this, then you can’t claim things like this is an inevitable response to Zionism.

"If you can't afford the taxes, you probably can't afford the property," is my relatively-poor-person opinion on the estate tax's impact on property. "Can I afford the taxes on my pretty nice inheritance?" is like asking if I can afford the taxes after winning the lottery.

“Sixty-eight suburban metro stations are opening from 2024 through 2031.” 68!!!

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

If you dunk on the lows of the ro khanna cycle, you must also appreciate the highs of the ro khanna cycle. It's literally balance

at a 5:1 income rule you could buy a 1br in my city at $100k, and I'm pretty sure I live in a top 10 expensive metro area

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”