That made me chuckle.
What is happening in the US is the same that has happened in every fascist state in history: oligarchs exploiting hate to increase their wealth and power. We thought it couldn't happen here, but we were wrong.
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That made me chuckle.
Sure.
Imagine if we had umpires officiating games wearing the jersey of one of the teams. That's it.
I don't know anything about these shows. I mentioned The View because that's the one I know. Have a good day.
Not so fast, my friend. Let's see if the old Kimmel comes back first.
Sadly, there will never be another JFK or MLK. The country is too divided for that, and all of this began when an Australian right-winger started Fox News in the 90's.
The news today that ABC is bringing back Kimmel agrees with my guess that The View got the blessing today to mention it.
Their explanation that they didn't say anything for two days while waiting for Kimmel's reaction just doesn't hold water.
I am calling bollocks on The View hosts. "We waited for Kimmel to say something first" doesn't begin to be believable as an explanation for their silence. They didn't say anything until they were cleared by ABC.
Interesting. This could be a street in Europe, easily. It's not your typical American neighborhood street.
I will never understand why QBs throw the ball away or take a sack on fourth down. Maybe they aren't very smart.
Are we free to make Harrison Butker jokes without getting doxxed and fired?
Agreed 100%. If the roles were reversed, right-wing media heads wouldn't have said that, though.
They think they are fighting for the righteous cause of keeping the USA a majority-white country. They saw the demographic projections that Whites would be a majority-minority by the 2040's. This is what this is all about. And yes, they will fight for it with any means necessary.
Maybe Dabo Swynney isn't talking to Jesus enough?
New Epistle of St. Paul, according to Cardinal Dolan.
I hate that Brigitte Macron feels compelled to prove she’s a woman, but I get it: shut that lie down. The right thrives on ruining lives with made-up trash. Maybe Candace Owens should have to prove she’s human.
The point of the joke on SNL is that the character (Stuart Smalley) was none of those things.
Why did he ever register as a Democrat? He was never one.
This is ridiculous and pathetic. St. Paul? Really, Cardinal? You want to discredit the Catholic Church even more that it already is?
I see that it's already cold up there.
I got it.
Look up what Brazil is doing to their out-of-power fascists. Everything is within the letter of the law, amidst strident accusations of abuse and demands of amnesty from the fascists. We will see if American democracy will have the nerve.
In retrospect, it would have been better to let the South go (if there wasn't the issue of slavery).
Be ready for insistent, shaming demands of amnesty in the name of "national unity". This is what fascists do everywhere when they lose power.
They are working their way up to gays, women, and people of color. It's just a question of time.
But his popularity with the base just went up with this post. Open your eyes. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
It's because Brazil had a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985 and already knows what suppression of rights, censorship, and torture looks like. What the USA is about to find out now.
The conundrum is, if Democracy cannot defend itself, it ceases to exist. Plato knew this.
The first two messages were the clincher. Well done.
This is right on target... This country should be at a stand still with the streets full of people. But Americans are too lazy, too cynical, and too self-absorbed.
They should, but unfortunately someone like Merrick Garland will be running the investigations and it will never be finished before the next wave of fascism arrives.
It's hard to imagine that they will allow fair elections or accept their results. Very hard indeed.
Virtually all corporations in this country are lining up to render gifts and appease Trump. One day, the right will be out of power, and they will be asking for forgiveness. Do not give it to them.
I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates. The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
Thanks for finally speaking out!
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
They have no shame whatsoever. It's all about power. Democrats need to get power back, and use it this time.
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Another troll blocked. I'm increasing my count!
There will be one, a sham one.
Don't feed the bots and trolls. Just block them.
Any "undesirable" will be labeled Antifa and dealt with.
This is the Reichstag Fire moment. Things will happen quickly now.
The Rich: "Keep them busy hating each other."
No, it's a delta impulse.
They are hooked on angry. Fox News has to keep giving them angry or they won't watch. And X bots need to keep giving them angry or they won't click.
Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.
It will never reach that stage, of course. This is just another intimidation move and, if the NY Times don't cave, he will quietly drop the suit in a couple of months (Fox News won't report it). I think the named reporters should countersue, however.
A countersuit in the same amount seems to be in order.
Education is the enemy of fascism.
For context: I say this as someone who doesn't live at home and has been in near constant employment for the past 15 years of my life I just recognise that others lives are different, and there are hurdles mentally and financially that lead to people still living at home/not being in employment
I used to come home and turn on CNN to watch his coverage of Trump's attempts to steal the election. He had me fooled pretty good.
They have been over the hill since about 2005. They have sucked since and more so now.
This is actually a commentary on the unhealthy American obsession with celebrity. People only care if you are either famous or infamous, it doesn't matter which one.
A bit more descriptively: "Democracy Dies in Threatened Whiteness".
We did what the US Supreme Court, US Congress and Senate (run by Democrats) were incompetent to do Who's the Banana Republic now? youtu.be/8AmoW_XCKYQ?...
Like I said, it's just my personal opinion.
I just meant if this is becoming a problem for your well-being, disconnect.
Personally, I think it's bad form to knock on someone who has just been assassinated. Wait a couple of weeks. But I don't think anyone should be fired for that either. And if the roles were reversed, Fox News wouldn't be firing anyone.
War is peace.
Disconnect from social media and it will get better instantly.
This is what you get with crony capitalism = socialism for the rich.
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
Mahomes has perfected the roughing the passer call. He sees a rusher coming and waits until the perfect moment to throw the ball to an empty spot (so there's no danger of INT) and gets hit. He did this a couple of times today when they were losing. He has been doing this for some time now.
24 should be ashamed he let 71 catch him.
Fox News employs some of the worst people on the planet. But MSNBC is forced to fire their journalist for criticizing Charlie Kirk.
Free speech for me, but not for thee.
The second seemed to be forward.
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Just block them.
That's actually not true. Texas A&M has been able to bring many famous scholars, scientists, and engineers since the 60's. It transformed itself from a local college to a top research university in the world. Now, all this effort is endangered.
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Trump is the spearhead. He has a lot of help. But he is the "leader", he says exactly what his followers want him to say. The current Trump era cannot be compared to the 2000s. It's not close. George Bush wasn't on TV calling for civil war.
I hear you, but they still have an effect on real life. The killer was radicalized online by Fuentes and crew. Social media may be a bigger problem now than even guns. It needs to be regulated.
Yes, I didn't mean honest in the positive sense. I probably should have chosen a different word.
What is false here is that this young man was "left on everything". Clearly false.
Because of money. There's a lot of it in the USA. There's not a whole lot of compassion, solidarity, or affection.
Well, at least he's honest. We know who we are dealing with.
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I didn't know that Dracula believed in God.
I wonder if the anonymous "high school friend" has a job at the RNC?
She will become very rich after she sues them.
The copium will be in short supply for MAGA.
The culture is anti-math and anti-intellect, and kids find themselves in a rat race to graduate from college as quickly as possible and get a job to pay for student loans (no free universities) and start saving for retirement (no adequate social security).
The US model of science and technology is to import the best people that come from other societies. American society cannot produce scientists and engineers at the level that is required for our economy and well-being.
The frequency has increased, which means that the problem is getting worse. But random mass shootings is an American phenomenon. It almost never happens anywhere else in the world.
American culture is uncaring and cruel. Not everyone in it, of course. But there's too much isolation, too many neglected kids, too many guns. And this can lead to random violence.
This is a preview of what's going to happen when Trump dies, only it will be much worse.
I didn't meet him personally, did not know him, but he certainly made a living out of spreading hate and misinformation. Hence, at the end, it doesn't matter who he really was.
One of the things that fascinates me over the past 10 years is how racism, homophobia, xenophobia, in sum, bigotry of all kinds, has been rebranded "conservative", to give it a luster of respectability. You can't criticize it because it's just a different, valid worldview.
Let's recall that this sort of thing predates the domestic internet and social media. So, on second thought, yours is not such a good theory. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
This is a very good theory. Another theory is just that American society is sick. Not everyone in it, of course. The theory is that American culture is uncaring and cruel. There's too much isolation, too many neglected kids. And this can lead to random violence.
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
Hannity is basically a member of Trump's cabinet. He knew last night.
I can totally picture Nancy Mace saying that if the shooter was an immigrant of color. Totally.
guys, we have a tone shift
