Idaho will wear "Fightin' Taters" helmets in its home opener this week. #CFB
32/M/VA, but lived a bunch of other places. Montana Grizzly geoscientist. Disaffected social democrat. Sportsball enjoyer, road trip enthusiast. Visited 49 states. Being alone in the mountains is a religious experience. Pfp by Zakamuro. ¡No pasarán!
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Idaho will wear "Fightin' Taters" helmets in its home opener this week. #CFB
they always do, and it always rocks
Me and the boys gathering for El Assico
That's a good sign.
quit whining that yiur enemies are your enemies, then. It's pathetic.
no, not to me. To other people is fine though.
all this time litigating blueskyism meanwhile linkedinism is rapidly accelerating into infinite power mode
Since for some reason the discourse seems to be once again how everything today is the fault of people who were against the spread of covid... let me remind you that the official USA data that 1.2M people died of covid is almost certainly bogus because coroners in red states under-reported:
#MSH45 | May 17, 1980 ┳┻| ┻┳| ┳┻| _ ┻┳| •.•) Got some USGS photos from the day before the blast. ┳┻|⊂ﾉ ┻┳|
would trans people in Britain be worse off in the long term right now under another Sunak government, with a Labour party that didn't associate transphobia with winning? I think the answer is clearly yes
Here's my offer: I'll vote for Newsom if he executes you, specifically, live on camera, and drops the transphobia thing. I think a lot of trans people would do the same, so really, this is the smart political move. You in for that?
they care about defeating Mamdani first and foremost
If that's the case, I will take glee in trying to shatter what you think is decent.
But the "right" Dens have done this constantly, with Bernie back in the day, with Mamdani now.
I'm not doing a strategy, I'm seriously telling you all that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom against anybody. Nobody ever cared to tell the Never Bernie centrists they were turning people off.
You live in a world where the Democrats don't think embracing transphobic policy is an important path to victory. Once that's no longer the case, your kid will be afraid in every state.
If Ive voted for every D nominee since Obama and one is doing something so vile I would consider not voting for them in the general, that's not a ME problem
Well I was close
as someone who takes a 7-hour bus *frequently*, and very often hates the experience profoundly, I am in a good position to say that I am confident that there is no *crime* being done on those buses, but there is *human engagement with people Lakshya Jain would rather forget exists*
it's actually not, but alright
Zack Polanski in his first speech as Green Party leader: "My message to Labour is very clear. We are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We're here to replace you."
While I think the concept actually has some merit, the left needing to invent "non-reformist reforms" to make pursuing incremental reform over revolutionary upheaval is very funny
ooh hell yeah
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
temperance movement but for gambling
"2024 voters love seeing a candidate get torched for their principles, it reassures them the candidate is genuine" is an underrated position imho
some of them do, actually
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Great day for this story to drop
yeah, I was a right-winger in the post-Bush pre-Trump era and that was obvious, and we'd have told you as much if you asked us
The median elected Republican is Ron Johnson, who believes the Republican Party did 9/11. This is basically the level of intellectualism you have to assume.
works for me!
NJ being the closest thing to a swing state that Gavin wouldn't be radioactively unelectable in
as opposed to defending a candidate who will *probably* be able to hold New Jersey
dude, just vote to nominate Pritzker, you don't have to pick the walking embodiment of as many negative Dem stereotypes as possible just because you've somehow brainwormed your way into believing he has moderate bona fides. He doesn't.
do you believe there is any Democrat they would vote for at this point
Well
wasn't asking you for advice, thanks
do you know any Republicans at all
you'd also be dunking on me if I had.
when would you guess was the most recent election where I did not vote Democratic?
We are like a decade away from a Labour government blowing up the Channel Tunnel in an effort to outflank the Far Right.
is "you wouldn't have voted anyway" a bluff you want to call?
hell
and it's noteworthy how uncomfortable he is about that fact
there's a powerful moment of human connection I feel when I learn about a big mountain and I find out the name translates to "big mountain"
Sure, but Actually Existing Newsom sure won't
If he decided to stop doing things I hate, yes, I would stop hating him.
now I'm not saying the russians poisoned trump, maybe with say some radiation, at the alaska summit, but it's kind of their thing and he's stupid enough to fall for it and it's been 2 weeks
inshallah
I am tired of these children and their mitochondrial inflammations
saw an article asking why so many millennials have gone no-contact with their parents and my answer to that is thank fuck james dobson is finally dead
Working on it #TheKhanRides
I understand that, and I respect it. I don't respect Gavin Newsom.
I'm aware. Would "everyone suffers, including billionaires" be morally worse, if it reduces harm to some people? I think harm reduction by cutting the coalition isn't as universalizable as you present it.
50 years ago is not today, and Republicans are not Democrats
is this directed at me for being anti-bus-throwing?
for an extreme counter-example, I'd push an "everyone suffers" button if the only other button was "everyone except billionaires suffers". I can't ask the group being sacrificed to be fine with that.
sure, and this is about the primary ultimately.
I agree. Harris was also massively better than Newsom. But this is all moot because the most Californian politician alive cannot win a general election.
the impulse to say "all of us or none of us" is completely understandable to me
I'm not trans, although I know plenty of them. And yeah, they're not doing great.
deranged
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
"if you plan to win by sacrificing us, we will take you down with us". So, spite. But it's getting harder to say spite is unwarranted.
I do understand that, and it's definitely not a way to win friends and influence people. But there is some strategy there.
"Newsom can never earn my vote" *is* a valid argument for why other Democrats shouldn't vote for him, though.
Reject Policing, return to tradition (extensive blood feuds, ostracism, or appealing to the local Big Man for arbitration.)
The peanut gallery has a lot of opinions on this, but notice that none of you said good night back? Rude.
foda que eu vi o topo da imagem e automaticamente pensei nessa aqui sem ter percebido quem postou
Just to be on the safe side, I moved a bottle of champagne to a colder fridge
I was like “fuck he’s fine” yesterday morning but subsequent lack of evidence has me wondering. like he’d make a point of saying something shitty to the press pool, no? that’s kind of his thing
Short 🧵 When I taught South African history a couple of years ago, I spent a week talking about mining and labor struggles. One of the main features of the initial stages of both gold and diamond mining there (this is pre-Rhodes) was that anyone could own a claim, regardless of race.
the story is not just "Jon Gruden wrote emails about how Black people are stupid," it's "Jon Gruden wrote emails about how Black people are stupid, a belief he backed up by refusing to play Black QBs/hire Black coordinators for 15 years"
Look it’s a good story so the question now becomes is it immoral to use this cropped version of the post as a reaction reply
ah it’s that time of year when i’m reminded me of this
weimar germany was actually a bit of a globally renowned intellectual and scientific powerhouse until it got taken over by people who thought the theory of relativity was a piece of jewish trickery meant to deceive them
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
Incredible level of starting something you have zero intention of finishing
It’s not rooting for, it’s rooting against the other guys. The ability to do this is also key to understanding politics.
College football isn’t for being a fan of a team, it’s for hating several teams for inscrutable reasons
The near total disinterest in Trumps v obviously deteriorating physical health & mental acuity from the same press that went into a feed frenzy over speculations about Bidens health--to the point of inventing conspiracy theories--has been one of the most cynical things I think I've ever witnessed.
🍌 Donkey Kong Barrel 🍌 #DonkeyKong #nintendo
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
because above all, It's Okay When We Do It
Tweets are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Puritanism
Babbitt getting killed possibly turned the tide of January 6th, as I think it somehow came as a genuine shock to those monsters that you could be shot for the crime of trying to lynch all of your fuhrer's opponents
say what you will about the ethos of responding to postwar modernity by trying to bring back empire through violent coup and then punctuating failure with ritual suicide, it puts the sexy, murder, and poetry into sexy murder poet.
it's possible to be angry at multiple things, to multiple degrees, at once
JD Vance 2016: Trump could be the next Hitler! JD Vance 2024: I could be the next Hitler!
I mostly write for me tbh, that’s how I figure out what I think
you can't throw a rock in america without hitting some troglodytic religious weirdo trying to control other people's bodies and that's why we should throw a lot more rocks
I need my cis friends to read, understand, and share this thread. This is what we woke up to today. The talking heads are now calling for the immediate detainment of trans people. We need you. I need you. Now. To stand up. Or we start dying. 🧵