A devastating typo
A devastating typo
Controlled opposition in the most literal sense
Free Camryn Gisele Booker
Its only violence when it opposes the rich and powerful
So many kids movies of the 80s and 90s had CONTRAPTIONS not as a plot point but as a way to fill 90 seconds of script with interesting visuals/signify 'this character is a NERD'
Basic anonymity procedures have become a necessity on the internet today for people living in the US. Free speech is dead dead dead. All those high ideals we were told were so critical are gone because one side gets very upset when you rightly point out they act like vicious thugs at every chance.
if i dont before i die see a god damn king kongs penis ever slapping a miltary helicopter out of mid air, including a reaction shot of it flying toward the windscreen of a screaming pilot, the entire history of cinema has been a wasted enterprise
If a Muslim read an objectionable religious law out of the Qur’an and said it was “God’s perfect law”, nobody would question whether the speaker supported that objectionable religious law Yet we are expected to believe that Charlie Kirk didn’t mean it when he said that about murdering gay people
An extra special “what the fuck is wrong with you” to all the theoretical Democrats who decided they needed to put on a holy performance grieving their good friend the KKK-level racist. You can express sympathy and/or disgust at the violence without groveling! Flags at half-staff, good god.
I know a lot of the useful narrative you were hoping for depended on it providing you some kind of left-wing assassin. Oops! You fucked up. Terrible how the guy died, truly. But his message and organization was vicious fascism at its core and full of lies. He won’t be a folk hero, sorry.
Special thanks to all the worms in politics and media who tried to sell us “universally beloved saint Charlie Kirk” over the last few days. Sorry you failed but 1) not nearly as many people know him as you thought / hoped 2) he was deeply racist, like on a KKK level, and that’s kinda off-putting
Is Stephen Miller like, Groyper number 1 here?
You're way behind. Groyper for sure
every fuckin time lmao
all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.
They smell a championship game. They know they've got a roster that can compete with anyone in the league.
sounds planted to me
I will say that it is CONVENIENT that all these Dem politicians are giving us written statements explicitly stating their respect for a Nazi who has said explicit Nazi things. If we ever get to the other side of this regime, it will be nice to have these voluntary confessions in hand
It’s funny seeing all the right wing talking heads try and condemn violence, only to be reposted with screenshots of their own calls to violence. Your ethos means nothing if your praxis contradicts it.
One of the major problems of our age is that Ezra Klein ascribes to Charlie Kirk a shared commitment to a free exchange of ideas which Charlie Kirk manifestly and expressly did not hold.
He wasn't a puppetmaster, he didn't execute plans. He just ran his smirking little mouth for cash
BREAKING The killer of Charlie Kirk remains at large. FBI Director Kash Patel just now: “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.”
I wonder if his last words would have been down-playing the devastation of gun violence if he knew he was about to be a statistic?
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
I think political violence is bad. Democracy is so important because it allows us to settle political differences without killing each other. The people who are currently ending American democracy should probably think about that more seriously.
I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.
One day this'll be accurate and it will be the funniest bit you ever pull off.
Website is undefeated at finding weirdos
Tapping the sign
Getting good sleep at night helped me not go insane. It required isolation, a sleeping wedge, and a fuckload of good cough syrup, but it helped my days not suck as bad.
Excuse for what? Paying people to do labor?
I think you also gotta point to the decade-long enshittification of search results as to why ChatGPT is embraced at all.
You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.
No, no, you see, we like being humiliated on a prime time broadcast. It's our kink, apparently. We are, after all, publicly owned.
It was, from an outside perspective, extremely funny. From an inside perspective, it made me realize UNC will never be any good at football and following them is the equivalent of slapping yourself in the nuts on purpose.
Still an improvement for the franchise. UNC has never had any hype at all.
Biggest moobs I've ever seen
And the football program at a major university like UNC is essentially self-funding. It's not a choice between another PhD and a weight lifting room. That weight lifting room is already paid for. Keeping that PhD around requires students paying tuition.
I fundamentally disagree. The football program is essentially advertising for the school. At a time where smaller universities are closing and international students - who bring in major dollars to the university - are not coming to the US, appealing to new students is a critical mission.
As a UNC alum, I agree. We're bad at football and should remain so! /s
There is no ideology so obviously perfect that people will join it as soon as you explain it. A certain level of evangelism and social-building is necessary to any political movement.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Just say 'fuck him and his whole group,' you don't need technocratic messaging, you need to look like you can fight
The only good thing involving Mark Wahlberg is Andy Samberg's dead on impersonation of the bullshit he calls acting
Now's a great time to issue an apology for a drunk driving charge, folks
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged.
Actually even better. 128 teams is only a 7 round tourney. You could play 5 games as seeding rounds and still do a full 12 game season for everyone.
No you could do this. If you lose you just play normal football for the rest of the season. End with one glorious undefeated champion
while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
another massive failure of the national democratic leadership to flood the zone with actual, structural opposition is that if trump is declining (as much as seems to be) then we are losing on even more opportunities of forcing him to meet the consequences of his own policies in the public
Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.
The msm loves white supremacy but hates the n word. That's all there is behind the silence and the complicity. They're perfectly fine with the outcomes, but only if nobody uses a slur while they destroy communities and families and history and culture.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
No. We are not doing this anymore. It is 2025. Usha Vance stays with her husband because she agrees with him. There is no evidence that she loathes him at all. Yale-educated women can be fascist too.
They had to change mascots because of too much porn, the cowards
Everything I’ve learned about Sydney Sweeney has been against my will.
The Machine spirits are not in concord, Magos.
A hot take I strongly agree with
85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
You aren't wrong but the continued attempts strike me as something pathological. I have no sympathy for him, but I can't help but think it's a little interesting that he just keeps doing it.
To know you have no particular talent but desperately want to be seen as talented must be exhausting.
It's a very oblique threat. "Publish or perish."
What about the investment babies of 12 years ago
You weren't kidding about the hotness of this take.
Terry Bolea, who played Hulk Hogan on TV, was a real asshole. Hulk Hogan, a character in wrestling, was a hero to a lot of 80s kids. Dean Cain played Superman on TV but is a notorious asshole, etc
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
Wait is their cinnamon in pepsi
The West Wing did so much damage to the Democratic party.
If you catch it early, it's honestly not too bad. If you don't catch it, you get mold. Then the nightmares start.
too hornt to spell
The big pubs are scared of Trump and Elon and more generally Megan McArdle type tsk-tsking. You've got like a hundred fatalities in catastrophic flooding in Texas. The position in charge of liaising/communicating emergencies to locals was vacant because of DOGE. And I'm seeing stories about ...
Me, a year and a half ago, on the New York Times-Chris Rufo alliance: “The Times isn’t being manipulated; it’s using Rufo as an excuse to do what it wants to do.” Holds up pretty well, IMO. www.findinggravity.net/p/christophe...
Less than a year ago @nytimes.com was sent hacked data about Trump's vetting of JD Vance, which they refused to publish. But Mamdami's hacked college application gets an exception because of interest from random online Nazis and Chris Rufo, the NYTimes' de facto executive editor.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
6 people. im a patreon contributor, my vote counts 10x
Classic SNES or Switch Remake?
That's when the game says 'vibe check'
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
More useful, I think, to regard this as an attempt to make ICE a branch of the military by giving it a bigger budget than the Marines or the Coast Guard. Its role has not been and will not be “law enforcement.” It’s the new domestic military.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
They want us dead basically. They want us dead and / or desperate. This doesn't make sense politically it makes sense if you follow like Curtis Yarvin and the goal is to collapse the government.
it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
Fascists lie
Gripping the star like that is an excellent punchline
A.I. supplanting human labor + the dismantling of the social safety net + the growing "precariat" working class + aggressive prison funding + the threat of deporting U.S. citizens and arresting election officials + total information collapse and the imminent end of all consensus reality = not good
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
All 212 Ds have now voted no. 3 Ds remain dead.
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
It's sad but not surprising to watch them find out in real time just how many people they thought were just like them on the conservative side really truly are not like them.
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
Please either spin off this game or do a game-samer! There's so much potential here to get buck wild.