for all that I love Alaska, it has a *very* high murder rate (and domestic violence rate).

this is the actual and IMO very good reason why social media platforms usually avoid edit buttons

Remember that time Bezos went to the very edge of actually going to space, and didn't feel a single goddamn thing? William Shatner was on the edge of tears describing the profound grief he'd felt on seeing all of Earth below him, and Bezos cuts him off to spray champagne on other rich people

… the anti-Palestinian propagandists were conducting themselves. It’s like wondering why a once popular kid is no longer invited to the party after killing another kid at the last one

Sure, there are brazen anti-Semites in american life. It’s a horrifying problem and has been for a long time. There are not enough of them, though, explain the sheer scale of the bleeding of support in every reputable poll in recent years, and anyone who didn’t see this coming wasn’t watching how …

It is wild to me that “pro-Israel” figures and the government in that country will just never grapple with the obvious reality that the scale of collapsing popular support for them in the US is solely their fault

i was a teenager in a town of around 35K people in the 90s, and any teenager with any ambition or creativity at all wanted nothing more than to move to The City, so i have a particular contempt for people from The City who wants to keep new people out. these are the people who built The City.

Man we gotta fire Filoni

I do think it’s very funny to convert to Catholicism as an ordinary if mildly famous person at the time only to have the Pope eventually become one of your biggest haters

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"

So I asked a few normie friends what they paid for gas this week: Ventura County off-brand guy: $5.59 Bay Area guy: $5.29 Downtown Atlanta guy (me): $3.89 NE Ohio guy: $3.49 NoVa Costco guy: $4.00 Suburban Detroit guy: $3.89 We will repeat this exercise as the Iran War wages on.

one of the videos from the occupation that i find most haunting is the one from the woman in west stp who had a doordasher run into her home & refused to give her up. specifically, when an ICE thug says "you don't even know her" in tones of baffled indignation. they straight up do not get it.

Most mainstream discussion of trans rights boils down to cis people being angry trans people are continuing to call attention to all the increasingly harsh, discriminatory measures targeting us. "Don't you people understand we've already decided your lives don't matter?" is the subtext.

Getting their heart took by UConn got my feed celebrating like It Happened so I can safely say the NYT is wrong, again.

The U.S. has yet to put in place a competitive economic pillar in what has become an increasingly one-dimensional, military-centric Asia-Pacific policy.

for most people "law-abiding citizen" is an ontological category designated at birth that has basically nothing to do with actual criminal activity

There is a a particularly fucked up kind of thinking in America wherein your morality, your ideology, your identity, etc, have nothing to do with the things you say and do. So in this case, "sinner" has nothing to do with the action of sinning, but is rather a distinct personality trait.

National service proposals are always, always, ALWAYS just a way of flag-wrapping the most tired "kids today don't know how good they have it" bullshit talking points. There is rarely even any attempt to explain the mechanism by which it would fix any actually existing social problem. STOP IT.

every 18 months somebody thinks the cure for the moral rot that lies at the center of American society is "involuntary labor for 18-year-olds"

oh my fucking GOD why won't this idea just DIE

Before one single consequence is felt: turns out you can just do things

Mercer Island: What if Connecticut had even less societal value?

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A car driver is orders of magnitude more likely to kill a pedestrian than an e-bike rider

like the thing here is that this is irrelvant, the iranian regime is not weaker today than they were a few months ago when they were on the verge of internal collapse. meanwhile, there is almost zero interest in absorbing costs from the US perspective to sustain this war. bsky.app/profile/aphc...

i do not think the iranians are delusional about their position

It can probably be best explained with this video

well, y’know, maybe i was wrong

A) it's blatant waste, there's no coherent argument towards a valid military training purpose for "fly over to Nashville with no ToT, buzz a protest, and hover outside some chode's house" B) the "this is fucking dumb and I have self respect so I'm not doing it, fire me if you want" principle

I like national service proposals not because they are a good idea (they are not) but because it's a good memento mori for all the other more socially acceptable One Weird Trick To Make Society High Trust And Progressive ideas that periodically float around

Every leader above O-3 in the 101st should be sent to be a gate guard at Kwajalein. Shameful shit. You need to get comfortable hating The Troops. A necessary step to reducing the rot.

Sorry to make people further upset but like this is 25% Nashville and 75% the cultural footprint of Orange County as an ideal. Modern evangelicalism as an unholy love child of Christianity and consumerism leads to publishing/media points that send this stuff to one of two poles.

Florida having a cost of living crisis is so embarrassing. Like that's supposed to be your whole pitch to old people, stupid!

who remembers the Armenians, after all

Yeah no shit if you accept segregation in the sphere of sports you're going to be forced to accept it everywhere else do you understand the extent to which American politics winds up being downstream of sports for vast portions of the country? That's how we got here! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

it is the lens through which Americans understand everything from class to race to religion. The NFL took Sunday from the church they own a fucking day of the week if you're writing off sports you are writing of indescribably large portions of American life. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sports are a structural element of the American economy, it's an industry worth billions and billions of dollars that basically single handedly keeps broadcast television on the air, it structures our entire education system from elementary school through university Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Madness!! American Truckbrain is a public health emergency

“I’m just a caveman”

Would love a breakdown of how the Abraham Accords have basically done nothing to make the region more secure

'why can't you just expel the campists' well because the thing was if my faction could do that, so could the campists

the thing about boy kibble is the fellas are so close to an instagram worthy stuffed pepper and they just dont realize it

This piece describes how he manfully rips open a plastic salad container with both hands and shakes it because he is a disrupter i guess

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

I'm used to pretty gruesome framing but this image actually took my breath away.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The best part about 1917 is SD leaders told women not to turn out for International Women's Day protests in March because it was a lib-coded distraction and they wanted to save their juice for May Day. Instead the women turned out anyway and those protests literally sparked the revolution

Just a normal Sunday here researching Jane Button (nee Byers), a popular "lady wrestler" from the 1950s who opposed fluoride, ran an alternative health food store in Salem, was accused of owning a Nazi trailer park in St. Helens in the 70s, & organized the Constitution Party w/ Posse Comitatus guys.

Shoutout to all the folks who waved their membership cards at me