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

all time typo here

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.

also yeah, straitlaced people can be queer, it's allowed

tbh the big problem with dating apps is that they separated out "dating" as this other thing you do in your life. Historically dating still sucked but you would typically just date friends of friends, church group girls, corporate softball team, etc. Now it's this hobby you have to have.

NGL saying that The Founders wanted a jupiterian presidency except for the highest respect for central bank independence is really fucking hilarious, kind of as a position

tbh libs pretending like the conservative supreme court justices have their views because of their financial relationships with various ultra-wealthy people is really annoying to me. It just comes from this narrative that noone sincerely holds conservative views, which is obviously laughable.

the plan? we give epstein's friends a list of every child in america

tbh the really frustrating thing about the whole gerrymandering fight is that it directly distorts elections, but more practically reducing the number of marginal seats is only gonna empower primary voters more and make candidates less competitive in general elections.

You know millennials are becoming boomers when millennial publications in countries not under direct existential military threat call for national service to instill good values in young people.

Oh, well, glad that we spent so long discussing how Weiner does have legitimate skeletons in his closet on I/P

there is a war on men. they want to take your money, turn your female relatives into slaves, and poison you. its just the “they” are conservatives

Putting aside the idea that Shell is just digging up oil for shits and giggles, this chart makes no sense. Shell produces ~2.8m barrels per day, while Saudi Aramco produces more than 12m?

The greatest sin is not being an appropriator, but doing lackluster appropriation.

It's really bleak how the popularity of bodybuilding has produced an image of athleticism that is anything but.

One of the underrated advantages of parliamentarianism is it separates the guy who is expected to form a cabinet and attempt to enact a partisan agenda from the guy whose job is to cut ribbons and wave at people in parades

I like how Rosalia blatantly and openly is one of the biggest cultural appropriators out there (especially by the formal academic definition) but nobody cares because she's an extremely talented artist. Makes me think most "critiques" are just an over-intellectualized accusation of cringe

This is just the Price Center

I actually looked up the figures and it's kinda shocking lmao. Apple is famously secretive, but industry types think they're spending about ~$200m/year on marketing, which is enough to pay for: 14 episodes of Pluribus or Pachinko, or just 10 episodes of Severance.