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I can count on one hand the people who work as opinion columnists at national broadsheets, which are positions of frankly insane power over the public perception of any given issue, and do the job with anything like the kind of rigor and humility it demands
“Google is your friend [links Elise Stefanik’s Facebook page]”
Just saw the episode of Always Sunny where Dee and Dennis meet their real dad and are like “gosh I hope he’s not an asshole” and then Stephen Collins walks in
aaaaahhh yeah I get that.
Mods! mods! He can’t do this can he!!!?
Have you seen it? It’s pretty great
not beating the “seems like a decent guy” allegations
the true 19th Hole
I was unhappy about it!
it was a Whole Thing
Incalculable
not me. I waved and nodded in solemn approval to the crowd like Julius Caesar
Oh did you weep during your 15-minute Venice standing ovation, that’s cute
Better for Nadler’s soul, I guess. Which is not nothing.
I’d say better late than never but I’m not convinced that’s true
I love Nabokov
oh sure, being egalitarian can seem cool, but you know what's REALLY cool? being a reactionary
Heroes for Hierarchy
I got a fever and the only medicine is tylenol PM
I think a LOT about this. Somebody said to me the other day that he'd counted and found that there are more stories about Batman than about any other fictional character.
I bought the GOTY on sale a few weeks ago so I’m not there yet, but I’m glad to hear it
She’s fine. A couple of the characters are fine. It’s fun to see Keanu. The gameplay is incredible.
I sighted the gangster, who I remembered from Mrs Hamilton’s English class, down the barrel of my S3XM0TRoN-420. I thought back to my what my dead partner Jackie always told me. “Ese,” he would say, “put a splash of love in your tequila.”
The characters all talk like middle schoolers who just saw Pulp Fiction for the first time
the tragedy of Cyberpunk 2077 is that it is a fantastic game written by idiots
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
or like a decade of memes about Hillary having Parkinson's!
judging by the name, the pre-depression era was immediately followed by a period of uninterrupted prosperity!
awful conspiracy shit aided by AI garbage machines: it's not just for conservatives!
Do you see what I mean, when I say the great successes of the super-online far right are not radicalising the public and forcing the average punter to listen, but radicalising an elite that is begging to have their brains roasted
when I said I was going to scale back my usage of this site what I meant was I will never, under any circumstances, log off
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
I didn’t want to blow him up but yes
money can’t buy self-respect I guess
You want to just forward me the oppo email?
Are you serious with this shit?
lol my bad, I thought you literally didn’t understand
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Being on Ghost is like having an email account. Substack directly hired a bunch of reactionaries and used them to promote the work of other reactionaries through their recommendation engine. The platform itself has an editorial slant.
Vietnam had this effect, too
I’m not upset with you, I’m sure you were fine
Lots of people on this website seem to be praying for the health of all three men right now. It’s great to see so many people putting politics aside to recognize these cherished elder statesmen.
New York actually is extremely dangerous. Was walking down the street with my son this morning and this person accosted us and started yelling. If you see them please be careful
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children should be back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement by 10:30 p.m. ET. It counts 76 children who had been boarded onto planes at the time the court blocked their removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It’s kind of funny to see people responding to posts about trolls with “these are bots/llm accounts.” I used to open the mail for a daily newspaper. I assure you, they are real.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Thank god
feels foolish to get my hopes up again
Gonna be on here less I think.
Just don’t write essays under other people’s posts? It’s actually not an especially eccentric request?
I also block for this dumb shit
That is what makes it especially Kantian
I was always already past the stoplight, officer
can’t believe they’re doing eugenics, that’s not what fascism is supposed to be about
who will cook a better meal, though, answer me that
The Marlon Wayans quote is apparently fake, but this is nice
We’re glad you’re here.
I suspected you would. I think we also agree that the spread of the “leftists think”=“Republicans say leftists think” phenomenon is just the capture of the press by the far right.
IMO these votes were never gettable. Harris lost IN PART bc she didn’t say “it would be fine to give gender-affirming care to any person who needs it including undocumented people.” These “attacks” are signaling to ignorant bigots, not some brilliant tactical acquisition of people with no politics
there’s just a lot of horrible stuff about America tied up in our relationships with our employers and this is a great example
you can tell it's not healthy by looking at it
One of the less discussed but more important reasons to be against fascism is that it’s fucking stupid and informed self-interest rules it out
Nobody ever got mad when they gave us Light-skinneded Lex Luthor. Because we were more serious as Cartoon Enjoyers back then.
What? Historically speaking I don't think you'll find any greater instances of criminal madness than those cooked up by fascist movements. Volkisch medicine and science is perfectly in line with fascism.
Oh that game was super
word
Dude must have thighs like Christmas hams
It ruled
Bay Ridge
cats love to nibble sweet oats
That’s actually Oupenmar
Whole family is laughing about this. We look like they couldn’t get the actors they hired for the pilot when they got picked up to series
dad tried to chatgpt together a family photo from two where different people were holding the camera. I think it came out great
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
I can
Right but he was in the Beatles when he was 15!
cmon bud
drat
Also they had the help of an elder statesman entertainer who had more money than God from being in the Beatles and hadn’t curdled into a contemptible reactionary for some reason. We don’t have those anymore
People are complaining about this but it’s true. You couldn’t make Life of Brian today. They already made it in 1979. If you tried you’d just get weird stares
I sort of want it for Colbert
You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. I’d come to your set and ruin it
This is why "civility" has such a bad name. It has become a euphemism for obtuse and cruel.
I assume Jake Tapper is camped out in the front of the White House demanding answers.
David Bowie as Andy Warhol in Basquiat
gritty realism
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
one thing I love about Earthsea is that Ged spends like two chapters in magic school and the main thing it does is ruin his life
I'm writing a self-help book about how the proper use of semaglutide and tirzepatide can lead to overwhelming happinesses, not just due to physical wellbeing but also in one's emotional and artistic lives. I'm calling it THE AGONISTS AND THE ECSTASIES.
