USA going through a hard time but once we figure out a way to turn being a moron into a renewable energy source its over for you bitches
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USA going through a hard time but once we figure out a way to turn being a moron into a renewable energy source its over for you bitches
one major drawback of platner is the national attention he is getting means i will be subjected to takes about maine politics so dumb that steve collins would blush
bluesky has plenty of flaws but lbr at this point the nazitwitter userbase is 1% large/useful accounts with SM addiction and 99% the most off-putting 30% of people alive going "wow so true" to one another
Like it is 2025 and there are still millions of adults clinging on to an entirely fabricated, imaginary *idea* of the republican party and will be arguing with you as the gas fills their lungs about the importance of bipartisanship and a strong GOP
I used to find it somewhat easy to be patient and understanding of people who had spent their lives immersed in cable news taking a while to catch on to what's actually happening around them but mam that patience has just evaporated the past few years.
i am telling u there is no "solving this problem" or "moving past this as a country" without at the very least regulating out of existence a lot of what currently passes as news and outright banning a lot of news media execs and hosts. you cant just keep the "does fascist prop for free" people
"Whats making that smell" is one of the oldest games created that has no winners
Happy fake labor day
im just not sure theres any other sport that so consistently looks cool as fuck in slowmo
no, jesus was a revolutionary. he would have preached the gospel of putting fans into regular sized ovens and giving all of them air fryer modes as standard practice
kinda fucked up you didnt comprehensively detail every contributing factor leading to the fall of the worlds first true global superpower in 300 characters or less, michael.
oh 100%. i think the "reactionary centrist" takeover of the party has been devastating not just to the dems but the country and world at large. it is maybe the worst possible political framework to take up in opposition to creeping fascism, as all of its weaknesses are things fascism exploits
unfortunately because a lot of centrists like yglesias or even newsome just are themselves casually transphobic/apathetic at best. they dont want people to remember that transphobia was a losing issue for the GOP through the 2022 midterms and all thats changed is the dem level of cowardice on it
i would like to feel like someone at any echelon of political power has the pattern recognition to see that this is the strategy. that this is governing for child abusers by child abusers. and i would like them to give a shit about actual children above hypothetical ones. they won't.
That anyone is willing to say trans kids shouldn't be allowed to play sports with their friends in their public schools should alarm even the most radical centrist that Democrats care so little about public education when public education is under constant incredible fascist attack on all fronts
I am really hoping so! I worry that a lot of people seem to think golden ran as the guy he is now but he didn't! His 2018 run started almost identically to this, in some ways word for word identical - a lot of people i trust have vouched for Platner so far though, which is really heartening
I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer
"Scolds" is a term rooted in misogyny and patriarchal exclusion of women who dared have values and is also kind of ableist, sweaty. Saying this while Drumpf is in office threatening all of us? Wow.
Give me a minute Im working on one for this
"You can't just expect NG troops to refuse illegal orders or resign" Yes actually I can because that is something they are explicitly required to do. A lot of people revealing their role in 1933 would've been "letting everything happen if there was any inconvenience at all in stopping it"
Nah there are plenty of jobs that dont require one to take an oath regarding certain values. No one was forced into the NG, "its just a job so I dont have to follow the oath" is cowardly nonsense, but back to the nazis and long before them, militaries do tend to prove cowards on matters of integrity
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
"If you dont pledge 3 years early to vote for this dogshit hypothetical candidate loved only by people who think Morning Joe is hard hitting analysis you must hate democracy" is a take people apparently have and think is very compelling
So here's the cool thing about the "if necessary" addendum. 1) It isn't 2) It is a loser strategy. yelling at everyone to vote for a dogshit candidate is dumb as fuck when you could support a candidate with Good positions instead.
"Do your regular errands require you to drive to another town/20+ minute drive each way"
You will not convince me that this judges name is Sparkle
Wired once did a profile on me and the fact checking took 5x as long as the interviews and was conducted by a team of people. I don't care what you think about Taylor Lorenz, but you don't get to pretend Wired is the New York Post. These influencers took money to ignore genocide & the Dems paid 4 it
First family kicked off their health insurance plan for domicile recklessness
Its not unique or out of the ordinary for someone to develop arthritis, or high blood pressure, or lose close-up vision, etc as they age - most people have some chronic something - and I think if we viewed mental illness the same way there'd be less people treating theirs via politics
a sad and perverse thing about SM is when someone is in a self-inflicted spiral of declining sanity and cognitive ability they are able to weaponize that brainrot and make it something we all have to deal with like a drunk driver on the freeway during rush-hour
we have plenty of veterans in congress. its pretty clear they have not turned them into a courageous deliberative body with integrity that respects the constitution. "i will follow orders to carry out a war widely known to be based on false premises" doesnt tell me something positive about someone!
i wish US politics were adult enough that we could abandon having a combat veteran be a big selling point for candidates. we can see there is nothing especially brave about killing people; people do that every day, always have. those same people are rarely brave enough to stand up to actual power
this is part of why i have so much trepidation about @grahamformaine.bsky.social - i want to believe in him, but Golden ran on M4A in 2018 and was sold with many of the same descriptors as Graham. we need people with spines, not cowards like Golden. what will you do on this issue, mr Platner?
we are coming up on two years since nearly 2 dozen residents of @golden.house.gov district were slaughtered in maines worst mass shooting ever, two years since Golden said he was wrong on guns. Two years of Golden doing nothing, proposing no helpful legislation, no town halls.
if we improved and changed absolutely nothing else about our society that contributes to our suicide rates and simply did gun control our suicide totals would likely be half or less of what they are now.
"why wont the left address the male loneliness and suicide epidemic? woke is so anti-men" okay so there are nets on some bridges that have saved a lot of lives, how about we similarly make it harder to get a gun? "no"
more americans have died domestically due to guns in the last half century than americans killed in every war america has ever been in, combined. there were over 220,000 just from 2019-2023. hitler level numbers and we still just let our kids get slaughtered day after day
Americans are many decades away from being ready for this conversation but objectively, in basically any normal system of morals and values, the americans who have relentlessly fought and eroded gun control over the past 40 years are horrendous monsters with blood on their hands, heinous villains
more like Olivia Giuliani right is this anything
its wild that its 2025 and still so many grown ass adults are acting out a fantasy where there are 10 million reasons every surrender theyve made so far was justified and good actually but JUST YOU WAIT when the time comes theyre going to be so brave and so reliable!! no you wont, grow up!
an addition to this groundbreaking concept that we certainly werent all universally taught as children and have seen demonstrated endlessly day after day, theres also "someone *unwilling* to do the easiest parts of a hard thing will not suddenly have the courage to do all the hard parts"
im gonna propose a really radical idea that some of you may have heard of before, but its quite revolutionary and i dont know if anyone has thought of it. its this idea that, wait for it this is BIG.... actions are more important than words or claims about future actions!! i know crazy
i will yell about republicans being pedos and demand public transit and removing parking minimums and stepback requirements for much less than 8k per month
and thats when we all pretend we cant see him
omg we are totally going to get like a bret weinstein article decrying the rudeness of the left about this arent we
we are such a joke country lol
since you seem to be rewatching all of it i have a genuine lore question thats gotten muddied in my memory: was it that the saiyans had genuinely never figured out the concept of training to get stronger, or was it that being able to get stronger doing that was so rare/hard no one bothered?
that took me approximately 30 seconds to think of and was much easier than having reputable journos like Burbank spread outright lies, have creators release dozens of identical CYA statements, and generally respond in a very MAGA "attack the reporter and outlet but not the claims" way
a response as simple as "being a group that want to promote democratic values, we see the concern with some common clauses in our contracts. we dont believe in dark money, tenet media style operations and dont enforce these clauses, and will be removing them going forward"
there is a struggle with accepting that being the "integrity wing" means we have to do the whole integrity thing. but also like you say, the response is what made this into A Big Discourse! id bet all my money if the article was ignored for 4 days the discourse wouldve disappeared!!
i hope its due to something from the orange skin
if the dems are heading towards their own Tenet Media moment the most annoying part will not be the moral bankruptcy but the incompetence. millions thrown at online messaging so bad the party is less popular than the guy building concentration camps
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
stop saying hes dead we dont get nice things like that in this timeline
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she did not "target her" - burbank is literally quoting part of taylors response to *burbank trying to discredit taylor by lying about a payment* idk why you scummy people knowingly lie like this and pretend to be any better than the maga chuds you claim to hate
seems weird that you left out that these replies are in response to a longer thread where burbank tried to present a refund from 1630 to an org for an event said org paid for as a direct payment from 1630 to taylor lorenz and then immediately weaponized her own trauma to deflect criticism for that
Not a great look that all at once a bunch of people associated with Chorus are all releasing similar statements that attack the journalists who wrote the Wired article and not the content of the article itself. It's eroding the trust a lot of people place in the concept of "independent" media
dawg it is 2025 and thousands and thousands and thousands of people make a living as content creators. its just what the profession is called! my dead grandma read this and went "damn bitch you OLD"
no one has ever made me ask "is (insert current fuckup) dishonesty or incompetence" more frequently than susan collins
when the northeast balkanizes we are going to be so powerful but we still gotta figure out what the fuck to do with those freaks in new hampshire
the week where newsome got back to his anti-homeless habits, torres displayed the craven soullessness of the AIPAC caucus, and a bunch of dems in media endorsed dark money corruption will hopefully not be remembered as the week the dem party decided to be as relevant as the Green party by 2035
Last few months made me realize I have underestimated the literacy crisis in USA. I knew stuff was bad but the avg liberal degree haver knew what words like "debunk" meant in 2005 and in 2025 "i am functionally illiterate and words mean whatever I want them to" seems a bipartisan standard
They've been caught doing this multiple times now, as well as lying about FSD statistics by including non-FSD collision detection stats in along with FSD, and the NHTSA had these cases ready to go against Elon, but then Biden made a 2028 Dem hopeful his DOT Sec who wanted Elon's money for his run.
It actually is transphobic! It makes an assumption that they're sexual delinquents and implies assault as a genetic trait. No one would have trouble understanding this if straight men said Gays shouldn't be allowed in men's public bathrooms.
Please do your research before you post. I've read multiple websites and there's zero evidence of a "dick sucking factory"
Its a great interview for a lot of reasons but a big one is that Friedland breaking character is a demonstrative and jarring example of how to still be defending Israel at this point requires a totally dead-eyed abandonment of all morals and humanity.
the thing being portrayed as lorenz receiving payment from 1630 is perhaps unsurprisingly not that at all but is a refund to Omidyar from 1630 for an event Omidyar funded. cultish defense of corrupt bribery scheme + fabricating stories about reporter - which party are you guys in again?
There is a poetic aspect to this bc a nonzero amount of libs are going to follow their Taylor Lorenz hateboner right into standing alongside people like Klein and sexpestiny, who are also weird liberals that hate her and also happen to be pedophiles, so that's nifty.
If it would disprove the claims, Brian Tyler Cohen could just straight up post a copy of the generic contract offered and the reason he won't is the same reason the people maddest about Lorenz won't actually acknowledge or address anything in the article.
there are as many if not more lawyers fighting the admin every day with every tool in their profession, but a vast majority of the news/journo industry became enamored by their own mythos and normalized fascism in ways that will take a lifetime to undo a trump cant exist w/o 1mil steve collins
for many years the cultural depictions of journalists has been "sometimes bad but mostly plucky, high minded individuals in seek of the truth for the greater good" while lawyers are shown pretty 50/50 as being good or outright villains.
a lawyer ran for congress here a few years ago and is pretty online and ive never ever seen her present her profession as inherently virtuous and she remains based, but worst journo area has had in years loves reminding everyone his job is "what makes democracy work"
Much more than one thing goes into it, but I wonder how much of the journalism functionally falling to fascist propaganda over the years was downstream of the endless heroic myths we make about journalists compared to, like, lawyers.
a big faction of "vote blue no matter who" will, in fact, vote blue no matter who and therefore we dont actually have to listen any of the totally idiotic ideas they have. we can just smile and nod and then do actually good politics and policy and they will still vote dem no matter what
like 25-30% of dem voters are in this crossover where they both believe that NYT normalizing trump has been essential to fostering fascisms growth and also that there are no bad outcomes from political parties making bribing people in the media SOP and i promise we can just ignore those idiots
i geuinely do not get how in 2025 you morons are still trying to do 2006 gamer forum Intentionally Obtuse Dipshit performances. The dem establishment agrees with idiots like you fully so you go ahead and tell me how well your way of "fighting fascism" is going
telling my enemies i can tell they have mitochondrial challenges as a new and devastating own
its strange how much of the "we need to immediately address dems losing ground with normies and young men crowd" is also the "we need to psychotically defend the 'give money to olivia julianna' consultant project" crowd
it is admittedly kind of endearing and cute that well into their 60s, if you can slip past their defenses and introduce a lib to the concepts "systems exists and some things have effects on other things" they react like a little kid learning a new magic trick
so argument is that people dislike lorenz for reasons that have nothing to do with this and that influential democratic donors and consultants doing what you describe as stuff "actual nazis do all the time" doesnt matter bc concentration camps and youre unable to cognitively grasp the throughline
"we arent like maga. we are intellectual and curious and dont engage in cult behavior" (asked to in any way at all defend assertion that "kamala harris is the lord incarnate, born from the ashes of our sins to save our immortal souls") "blocked nazi enabler"
i am still waiting for a lib angry at the lorenz article to actually even attempt to acknowledge or defend any of the actions reported in the lorenz article
damn thats ass, though admittedly the only source ive seen for that so far is an instagram reel. so anyway if you think thats bad it means you agree with the premise of her article, and if you think its good i invite you to be the first person to actually defend this www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
defend this on a moral and/or ethical and/or "compatible in any way with the values the democratic party claims to espouse" level im sick of the relentless and notable avoidance of the actual topic in the lorenz hateboner www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
defend this on a moral and/or ethical and/or "compatible in any way with the values the democratic party claims to espouse" level im sick of the relentless and notable avoidance of the actual topic in the lorenz hateboner www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
a genuinely unnerving man in his ability to remain consistently vapid and dishonest
adam friedland breaking kayfabe is a recession indicator
you gotta admit its funny as hell that the second torres was pressed he accused a jewish man of antisemitism
thats her hand now
i was gonna say feed her to the stray cats but that was really insensitive and cruel of me towards stray cats
i think its underrated sometimes how much money and effort is earnestly spent to end up determining and saying nothing at all
"we're very different from most americans" trump + harris 2024 voters = <45% of americans trump (14%) and Harris (15%) have identical margins from the theoretical "norm" (All Respondents) so this determined on this topic most people fall between avg harris and avg trump voter. great job everyone
shes come a long way but my first brush with how irrational and dangerous reducing everything to identity can be was how from like 2008-2014 my lifelong progressive dem voter and elected mom confidently asserted she would have voted for palin in 08 if she was the head of the ticket bc glass ceiling
listen brother the only places american exceptionalism really exist are # of people we incarcerate, mass shootings, and bootlicking peasant-brain. ONLY A-B-C'S THAT I NEED ARE G-O-D BRUDDER HOORAH
mostly what the friedland interview did was demonstrate that ritchie torres is one of the most delusional, cowardly, and intentionally dishonest human beings ive ever seen
grown ass men and women proudly declaring they have not and will not read her article while shitting themselves and screeching how reporting on consultants trying to bribe creators to self censor and lie about why theyre doing it is Actually Nazi Behavior
the taylor lorenz reporting is a fantastic example of how the dem party has its own problem with anti-intellectual cultish behavior. lady was designed by god to appeal to white suburban liberals but she had the audacity to Do Journalism on shady dem consultant group behavior and the shitlibs LOST IT
Two most accurate predictors of someone being a sexpest: 1. A conservative obsessed with gender/sexuality/"protecting the kids" 2. A person who talks about hasan piker like a scorned and bitter ex