Like feeling a great disturbance in the Force, except it's millions of souls crying out in joy and then suddenly getting even louder

i like to imagine that the day it happens, i will somehow instinctually *know* before even checking the news. the evil will disperse from our collective lifeforce and the world will instantaneously notice its absence 🙏

People talk about the Neverending 2016 but 2016 itself was only The Long 2014 Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The year has repeated and rebooted itself for a solid decade plus by now. There are days I despair of ever escaping its shadow

one day Steve Bannon will pass away there is no punchline, i just like reminding myself of that as a pep talk

reactionary apocalypse happened in august 2014 and it was all downhill from there

In The Sims 3: Into The Future (2013) there are three separate timelines: Dystopian, Neutral and Utopian. To trigger the dystopia future, there's an event chain where you run a misinformation campaign and brute-force popular opinion towards a darker, crueler world. this is a reference to-

We stopped apologizing for party rocking

sometimes i worry that someone's scrolling my dumbass account as a source of Serious Political Information. it is not. that is not a smol bean defense, i *try* to be responsible given my lack of expertise. ....then i look at the average nyt article amd honestly man you could do worse than me

it’s incredible to watch israel and the gulf states only now beginning to worry about what trump does to you when you make deals with donald trump, when the average midwit commenter (me) has been making jokes about this for over a decade

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Britney Spears released Till The World Ends in 2011, a high water mark and ill omen of the travails yet to come. We danced. Until the world ended. We are no longer dancing.

then Sorry For Party Rocking dropped and we falsely believed, like Icarus, we could still reach new heights yet. there has been no party rocking since

we shoulda just launched the nukes after Party Rock Anthem dropped and called it a day honestly, that was our peak and it was only downhill from there

2012 may not have been the end of the world, but can you really say that life was quite as satisfying after Gangnam Style?

this is why i romanticize 2014 as a lost pinnacle of civilization instead, completely different

And I know you’re all sitting in the cool trans discords being like “lol, she’s so close, pretty soon she’ll wake up and realize that we’re right about everything” And like - no! Sarah McBride is not less genuinely trans than Italian sex workers! The Dems aren’t aching to bus throw us!

Like, I think the NYT has bigots with an active agenda against us and they actively engage in gaslighting I never bring this up because when I hear myself speak, I hear myself as less credible. I start to realize I sound like yall, screaming about made up things that aren’t real

I end up having nowhere to discuss the rage and offense I feel at the way the NYT - and I want to be really clear I mean their reporting staff who cover trans issues + criticism thereof, not op ed columnists who have no part in that-manipulate public opinion against us bc I don’t want to sound like>

What I really hate about the trans community-which I belong to and which is part of my life, despite everything -is how much crying wolf people do. There are real centrist oppressors who cloak their bigotry against us in respectability, like the NYT, which is despicable. But yall get hung up on Dems

I know I bring this up a lot, but I am so annoyed at the romanticizing of the 1990s. "I'm raising my kids like it's the 90s, so that means no screens, no shuttling them around to a million extra curriculars, and no artificial ingredients." Bitch do you mean the 1790s

acceptable romanticizing of the 90s: -- we're all glad our AIM chats didn't happen on a social media platform that adults all built discourse around -- all of our movie viewing habits weren't known by the studios in as exquisite detail -- steroids baseball was cool -- Gatorade in a can/glass bottle

we can watch the new digital circus episode on discord call later, kitten, daddy has a clinically worrying dependence

not now kitten, mxster's intentionally overdosing on caffeine for depression relief

I Was Killed By My Best Friend Donald And Am Now Banned From Every Kingdom

i tried to think of a title for a second and instantly realized how bad this would be

jeffrey epstein isekai

AOC was very famously a bartender, markwayne mullin inherited and sold a family plumbing business for millions, which of these two does the median american think to be more blue collar-coded?

you can go down the line with this, compare tammy duckworth to tom cotton, or elizabeth warren to ted cruz, or whoever, their actual backgrounds don’t matter because having been working class doesn’t matter, it’s all class and gender cosplay, men are blue collar, women are not

...i would commit unspeakable atrocities to have the minty gamecube

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

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So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🧊 🎣

the ads i see as i drive around in cyberpunk 2077 to help kerry eurodyne harass japanese pop idols:

i've seen more pizzagate but leftishly in the last 2 months than in the rest of my life combined

Also, guys, I’m not talking about any interactions I’ve had personally, I’m talking about stuff I’m reading elsewhere on the internet. It feels like there’s less and less willingness to adhere to basic standards for good behavior, or insist that one’s ideological compatriots have them either.

I feel like the amount of brain-poisoning among people on the left has sharply increased recently for no clear reason, including a lot of folks who I respect

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

still doing "the democrats are DOOMED and half to CHANGE" is just weird given literally every special election since then they'd still be wrong morally either way but it's wrong factually too

i think the healthcare answer was actually pretty decent FWIW there's this weird dance between what i think he actually *wants* to say and what he's been told he has to

bro they fuckin mk ultra'd him

It’s especially disheartening for someone who previously took a stand for trans rights in a conservative state by saying we’re all God’s children

Exactly. One of the things I liked about him was that he's a red state Democratic governor who didn't feel compelled to throw trans people under a bus. Seemed like principle. This feels like consultants advising him that he needs to start stockpiling buses to throw disfavored constituencies under.

Yeah tbh this feels like he’s been coached by consultants to just avoid saying anything about Gaza at all. His whole thing about empathy and decency is what makes him compelling. He should get back to that or he’ll be dead in the water.

look

how cooked would i be if i were to hypothetically catch a train halfway across the country with no job/money/experience/education/generally being a giganeet

ough

im yearning for silken heights again