What terrifies me isn’t the man himself so much as going through the rest of my life with the knowledge of what this country will tolerate and what millions actively support.

I got into online politics nearly 15 years ago because I hated his dad and every year vindicates me more than the last

The more jacked me and rain get the more looks we get from women and the fewer from men Sometimes the obvious answer is obvious for a reason

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

i believe in astrology now www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

He was cooking with this one though

2 weeks into my cut, I'm miserable but at least my hips are coming in

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Portland is a pretty nice place, is the thing

My theory is this is less about sexuality than swiping and ELO algorithms OKCupid stuck around years longer than Tinder as a place to actually get laid but once it became swipe only it steadily dropped off

Their brains are cooked bc coolness is the one thing they value that can't be straightforwardly purchased with money or power, they're basically at odds When the rich and powerful took over Burning Man it went from a cool thing to a punchline about how no amount of sex and drugs will make you cool!

Oh fuck off BBC, stop doing paramilitary thugs' PR for them. The UDA barely touched Republican paramilitaries during The Troubles - they killed a grant total of 11 of them in 25 years. They killed three times as many *other Loyalist* paramilitaries, and *twenty* times as many random civilians.

say what you will about the state of US politics, it's sort of bleak that centrist liberals in the US are more capable of standing up for trans people than what is supposed to be a left-socialist/populist party

Erin Reed has no legal training and uses “qualitative methodology” (aka vibes) to produce this map. Relying solely on her reporting for any kind of serious decisionmaking regarding you or your child’s healthcare is a bad idea. bsky.app/profile/achi...

there is not enough money to keep all the hospitals open, it doesn't exist anymore the question that state governments have to answer now is which ones get whatever money is left and "the ones that serve those who voted to keep them open" is a perfectly fair answer

Much of the "left" have no real theory of politics beyond insisting the Dems should zig whenever they zag and the more seriously the Dems take the GOP threat the more they're going to beclown themselves opposing it

Make the next James Bond a straight white man

Feels like the bigger story is that accurately pricing in the cost of maintaining many rural areas is indistinguishable from trying to depopulate them

The more muscular I get the more women look at me and the less men do Use that info how you see fit

Tbh the lesson of this story is that Treats For The Olds are more popular than most welfare state policies in most increasingly multiethnic democracies because old people are whiter than the general population

Cool use of AI: disguising the voice of an ex IRA informant by feeding the interview into a program and generating new audio in a different voice with the same words and delivery

Really kinda think the GOP is really not properly weighing the danger of Trump pardoning Maxwell.

That's the news from Lake Bluesky, where all the women are transfemme, all the men are wife guys, and all the children refuse to read.

Everyone talking about how trump isn’t going to leave office or whatever but I straight up think he doesn’t have that dawg in him

We should govern cities more like Singapore

still wild to me that UBI isn’t like the default left of center position

We just live in this world where it's clear things are broken but noone really wants to bother with figuring out what will fix things because it's boring or involves things they don't want. So we resort to just opening a window and shouting "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore"

Went on a kayaking trip up the Connecticut river with two of the kind of lesbians who are really into bird watching. They pointed out various kinds of egrets and plovers to me and my wife. There were cormorants; at one point we saw a bald eagle. We all used to do drugs together.

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

BTW here's a *terrifying* firsthand account of how abusing testosterone affects your judgement I'm sure the deeply insecure people who run our lives are handling it just fine though

Why are all these guys pathetically small for how much TRT they're on Most men could get Hegseths build natty in a couple years

Both of their pull-ups look so bad omg

/Personal/ ownership of capital seems to be the aspect of private ownership of capital that is most *politically* deleterious. Similar to automobiles.

once again, Mamdani’s greatest strength is that he has the exact opposite demeanor of the modal Left Politics Guy while not actually being super different ideologically

can't wait to find out how much donor money is getting fed back to the ad agency her boyfriend runs to make AI slop for the campaign

iirc at about this time in 2017 people were getting hot and bothered for Avenatti 2020

The sheer inhumane cruelty in the UK towards trans people is horrifying to bear witness to, especially with how the people inflicting the cruelty smile while they make people suffer Transphobia is bad in the US (& europe) is bad too, but transphobia in the UK has a markedly more sadistic character

Social media drives people insane by constantly showing people in your outgroup getting away with stuff scot-free and people in your in-group being socially punished for minor transgressions. I don't think social justice activists went too far but it's easy to feel that way in the online panopticon.

Last night I watched a gay male bartender and an attractive female bartender do an extended bit about fingering each other behind the bar in this 100% unironic golly-gee-shucks affect like they were on Lawrence Welk, light comedy to entertain the crowd of Florida retirees here for an Alaskan cruise

I’m getting real sick of people who insist every left wing policy is only held back by some small powerful group of bad guys. If you want to change car culture, you have to start by recognizing that Americans love cars. They do. It’s gonna take some work to change their minds.

Honestly it shows just how much you can change your political futures by being seen as a fighter who loathes Republicans.

A bunch of queer folks on here were self-congratulating when corporations began pulling DEI initiatives b/c see, they knew corps weren't "real" supporters. I'm like: holy crap ofc corps blow whichever way the wind blows. The wind was finally blowing the right way and you're happy that's changed?

Extremely weird phenomenon where people act like religion serves an important function in promoting social trust when (1) every wealthy high social trust society is pretty irreligious (2) even within the US, the low social trust communities causing tensions via bigotry etc are more religious

Text I just got from my sister:

i don’t *blame* him for trump or anything, but stewart’s cynical indifference about partisan politics is a contributing factor to the apathy and indifference that has helped enable trump

Personally I don’t have any problem with men, but I wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one.