It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

Alongside the theory that this book is Hillbilly Elegy-esque chiding meant to make liberals self-flagellate for being ELitiST it’s also a neat window into the minds of a populist elite who do not believe that anyone should feel any sort of responsibility to those around them

It’s basically burned into my phone screen at this point

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

DHS needs to get nuked from orbit

the triumph of channer culture is nowhere more evident than the reaction to Will Stancil do not reply to me with "well Stancil could behave differently," that is *exactly what a channer would say*

Will Stancil stapled printouts of real wage growth data to my face and made me dance

will stancil fed my family to a large language model

If the regime actually meant this even a little bit, the way they would go about exercising jt would be the same way every president since Truman has done so—“hey, Madam Prime Minister, mind if we move a couple fighter squadrons to Pittufik? Ah, great, thank you. Anyway, how’s the kids?”

Y'know, if a member of Washington's Cabinet had said this to one of the signers of the Constitution, the response would be "cash me outside, how bout dat?"

Having just woken from a coma that I fell into shortly after my birth I know for certain that Donald Trump, a man with a perfectly savory sexual history, would never have someone murdered at sea for no reason

This is more a war on Christmas than saying “Happy Holidays” to a customer or colleague on the off chance they aren’t Christian.

A thought experiment (god forbid this actually happened): someone shoots up a Chinese Restaurant on Chinese New Year. After the fact the shooter claims that they were targeting the CCP because of its genocide against the Uighyurs. Would anyone find that credible?

The two dumbest schools of pop-military commentary have collided and they are proposing an Operatorfied battleship

Add 2020–21 to the list of time periods some are going to spend the rest of their lives mentally stuck in or attempting to bring back by brute force, joining the likes of 2009–12, 2001–04, 1989–97, 1979–84, 1967–74, 1961–63, and 1950–54.

Tennessee Holler reposting Zerohedge is why we suffer not the doomer

cartoonishly evil, completely corrupt and bumbling incompetence are, like, *the* defining traits *and trifecta* of this entire stupid era

What the Trump Era has largely revealed is that most of the people saying this, or insisting they'd happily pay higher prices for burrito taxis, were lying - perhaps not consciously, in all likelihood - because they expected no one would ever expect them to do so.

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins. It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia. The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

Its cool how the trade unions are increasingly chasing their own diminishment and irrelevance bc they think Republicans will let them chase their niche grievances but not try to destroy them while that Democrats will just eat shit from them forever no matter what

Realizing that the vast majority of interest groups trying to represent their conventional selfish interests were lying about looking out for everyone in solidarity. Which, the first part is fine! Interest groups do their thing. Of course farmers want higher produce prices etc. but don’t lie

somebody ask Sean O'Brien his opinions about Lia Thomas, I double-dog-dare you

the same people trying to unidimensionalize all of American politics into the frame that made sense 85 years ago because they like Woody Guthrie songs hate the living guts of the President who oversaw the fastest increase of working- and middle-class wages in half a century

not only that, but many (most?) labor unions appear to be neutral-to-positive on the "armed goons snatching people off the street for looking like they might speak Spanish at home" thing

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

Like it's just so profoundly petty. We could be the most ethically and economically comfortable polity in the history of time and it literally wouldn't even be hard. We just keep failing all the time because roughly half the country is by some means scared of growth and change.

I hate to be an American and talk like we're just the center of the universe, but it's wild how we've inducted most of the world into our cold civil war between Dems who want to honor the promises of liberalism, and Republicans who want to do Armageddon on purpose in order to make Black people upset

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Bari Weiss is incompetently debasing herself for her evil boss, and ironically enough so is Kat Rosenfield, the FP's "culture writer"

i don't know if we're gonna get a real farm crisis but does seem like we're getting a meatpacking crisis

my name is pisscunt69 i am 19 years old this is my profile picture and i have no personality outside of beer and sending death threats to ukrainians online

And CECOT is a key component of Bukele’s capability to imprison more than 2% of the entire Salvadoran population in less than three years without legal justification.

There's a lot of Americans who think prison rape is part of the punishment, and should be.

1/ Unfortunately, many Americans have come to both accept & crave torturous treatment of people in prisons. The Dept of “Corrections” has become the dept of torture even in the US. Prison should 1st be about segregating dangerous people from society & when possible to help some become law abiding.

And ultimately, none of these are compatible with universalism, whether it is because all are alike unto God or we hold these truths to be self-evident. "Am I not a man and a brother?" is still a damning question to this day.

Which makes class-based politics little different from any other identity based politics, whether race, nation, gender, or religion. There is a group who is elevated. When it commits sin, it's uniquely justified. Or guilt is transferred to another. We have no monsters, but if we did, it's okay.

America needs technocratic vanguard Liberalism and i hate it

This cartoon will always be, for me, in top 5 about war.

The thing is that I just don’t believe class politics of any kind is The Key To The Happenings Capital genuinely are money-hoarding dragons and labor genuinely are backwards provincial bigots Every class holds monsters of their own unique variety because it is within their own agency to be such

mostly when people talk about gwot blowback they're imagining some kind of paramilitary insurgency and not cancelling wind turbine projects. so that's a bit lmao

trump is really just running with the idea that as long as you say the words "national security" you can do whatever you want the legacy of the war on terror coming home to roost--we chipped away at the rule of law for years, years, years. now here we are. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Dear Media, When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom? Thanks, Anti-bigotry Americans

The banner of American populism

Trump won this county by 50 points. They crawled over broken glass to make sure this happened to themselves.

If this is populism you may call me an unrepentant elitist