I mean this is the Fox News version of each policy, where Medicare For All means dying on waitlists for lifesaving procedures, free college means everyone gets a gender studies degree and a gender change operation, housing for all means you personally sponser some bum's crack den, etc, etc, etc

tbh the funniest version of this is that even the biggest AI boosters were like "TOKENIZERS!!! TOKENIZERS!!!" about how chatgpt couldn't count the number of r's in strawberry, and yet,

It is funny that the 2 plastic surgery options are “look your age but fantastic” and “look like 35 year old whose gotten *a lot* of work done” and most people go for the latter

One of the many exhausting things about the total context-collapse of the entire world into the same three internecine arguments is that nobody is capable of understanding a theological schism in a 2,000 year-old religious body except as, like, a controversy over a cancellation in a CoOp.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

Modern conservatism is just this, but also having contempt for any of the actual policy choices that might uphold it. It's not even bread and circuses, it's the insistence that all of the benefits of industrialized civilization exist by right, and any attempt to protect or expand them is gay.

It's very frustrating that soy has been so marginalized in wellness culture because it's lowkirkenuinely the best crop humans came up with

ngl I think of MAGAism kind of like taking left wing ideas about systematic bias and oppression but for that one friend who never moved out of his hometown and insisted that if it wasn't for The Injury he'd be in the NFL

World's first trillionaire who would trade it all to be a 4chan janitor

The saddest thing about Elon Musk is that he would trade in his near-trillion dollar wealth just to be truly beloved by 24 year old Indian med students pretending to be 17 year old American Nazis

tbh the problem with healthcare policy is just that healthcare is expensive to provide, and will only get more expensive to provide in the future as better therapies come out, the population ages, and the number of people who can pay into the system decreases.

tbh people describe social security as being popular and persistent because it's "universal" (i.e., programs for the poor often become poor programs) but I think more of it is just we short-circuited America's anti-government sentiments by just pretending it was a bank account.

not to go full cinemasins but why did Qui-Gon use jedi mind tricks to convince Watto to take worthless Republic Credits but didn't use it to just give them the part they needed

tbh it's funny that Republicans still bash communism for being good in theory but bad in reality but are now the party of tax cuts, mass deportations *AND* protecting social security

HABEMUS SCHISM

I mean, it's not like there's a great paper showing that The Apprentice significantly increased Trump's political popularity because he was portrayed as really good at "moneymaking" ungated: static1.squarespace.com/static/59485...

The Minions deny taking part in the occupation of Manchuria

me rn

The difference is that for the right there's hay to be made but for the left it's this weird form of gender-affirming care

Conservatives seeing a purple haired woman in Star Wars and going full fash reminds me of how Sayyid Qutb saw Americans doing the Charleston to Baby It's Cold Outside and was so appalled that he invented Islamism

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I think this is the reason for the weird obsession with turning everything into a "community center." To be human is to have an aching loneliness inside you, but also converting a data center into a place for 55 year olds to play pickup basketball and learn Spanish won't fix it.

honestly a lot of problems with socialism is to no fault of its own, just a lot of its adherents think that the human condition can be solved with politics and ideology, which, lol

It's bleak how the expanded CTC, which basically cut child poverty in half, polled like 40 points behind "no tax on tips"

lmao

It's kinda funny that moderate dems keep on talking about "elites don't understand people who work for a living" the idle elite has not been meaningfully part of the American class system for like 30 years lmao

My “What do we want? Greater transparency about the sources of inter coalition decision making and a mildly more representative slew of elected officials! When do we want it? After several years pending extensive consultation” slogan sadly yet to get going

it's a big country with a lot of political views and there is no political system which *isn't* going to force you to make enormous compromises to get to 50% +1. It's fine to prefer a system which changes the mechanism for that - I do too! - but the endless temper tantrums about it...

I get this sort of thought but also who do you think makes up the entire construction industry's workforce. It's not native-born I'll tell you that.

Starting a theory that GWB started the Great Recession in order to respond to real concerns among the US electorate about immigration. The most effective anti-immigration policy of all time. If only Trump has the courage….

Tbh a problem with “just moderate lol” is that there’s a bit of prisoners dilemma where marginal politicians get the most centrist cred out of coming down on the “wrong” side of wedge issues but by doing so they raise its salience

The Overton window keeps sliding.

Tbh I find Ezra Klein’s schtick exhausting less because there’s people with Naughty Opinions who should never be interacted with but more because those people don’t make very interesting content

My brother threatened me with a kitchen knife as a kid and my parents always said “we were blindsided, if we knew he was as like that we would have stopped him” but recently learned they were fully aware of his violent tendencies and were outright lying to me about it for a decade

they won't let you say this because of woke but Koreans are latino

the problem is the people who think tautologically that all politicians are corrupt used to vote randomly but now they vote for the same guy

underrated sister tweet to this one

I’m sorry, is JD Vance under the impression that the Nicene Creed is like… the only creedal statement in history??

Probably an unpopular take from me, but automatic fare increases to match inflation are how we prevent the transit agency becoming gradually defunded (which tends to lead to bigger fare increases in one big ungainly jump)

ngl it was funny when Biden did all his lame duck pardons and a bunch of big criminal justice reform poasters were shocked to discover that federal prison is mostly criminals who did bad things, rather than stealing bread to feed starving disabled orphans

It is kinda funny that all the way up to the professional level "just master the basics of the sport and have good teamwork, no fancy shit" is something you still gotta bang into people's heads.

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

Nothing lives more rent free in my head like the take that AFAB queerness is about problematizing things like you’re collecting pokemon and AMAB queerness is about doing as much sex and substances as possible

I mean basically she was one of the “good guys” who was above criticism because she liked Bernie and had some left-slopulist takes on FP and the DNC, so you get lots of leeway from the chattering class.

The problem with our current political moment is that people who think that if you don't file an insurance claim you should get your premium back used to vote randomly but now they vote for one guy

tortilla de patatas is lowkirkenuinely one of the best dishes in terms of taste AND nutrition AND cost

I am well aware of this, I am a power user of bluesky dot app

Yeah, there's some pretty steep tradeoffs either way. I think a lot of the current moment of misogyny is that "women as friends/coworkers" and "women as romantic conquest" have been completely separated. So you have a lot of men who only ever understand women as the latter.