This. They’re “ironic,” but the joke is always punching down. They “don’t care,” but only because the system benefits them in ways they don’t see. They don’t want “politics,” they just want the world to cater to their every whim. I could’ve very easily been this person. We can choose differently
If I lived in his district, I would vote for Chris Rabb. Maybe you live there? Then you could volunteer, donate, and/or vote for him!
someday a historian will begin their history of the Trump era with the Trump Tower escalator descent and finish it with the stalled UN escalator ascent and they will be so pleased with that neat little bookended narrative encapsulation and anyway release the Epstein files
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Same
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Wish I could vote for you. You. Get. It.
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A lot bigger than the CK memorial on YT, that's what matters
Hey Epic Games, can you make a Fortnite skin that is just your most popular skin wearing a t-shirt that says Release the Epstein Files? You made a Skibidi Toilet skin, I don’t think it’s an unreasonable request.
One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.
HOLY SHIT THE M'S ARE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS! 🔱💙
The Rockies are now losing.
It’s not the jokes that Trump can’t take, it’s the truth that he can’t take
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Why does he look like a twink
Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen
I'm going to keep at this: the Democrats would do themselves a huge favor by planning post-Trump retribution now, and communicating those plans to the nation. 1/
They built this technology with this use case in mind.
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100%. He is still the same slumlord, and their only strategy is to turn America into one giant slum.
listen it cant just be me that hears people say we have open borders and immediately jumps to ok then how many years have we paid border patrol for a job they are not doing and how do we get that back because we have open borders right
best meme i ever made
He's like one shade from his base turning on him.
I saw Goody Proctor manufacturing Tylenol
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Now we know what his floor is
For the Epsteinth time, Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.
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Has she never heard of ALEC?
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Did she actually call the shooting "what Christ did"??
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How long until polling is banned? Jc
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As a lay person, I'd expect Textualism to make the SC even more deferential to precedents, but what do I know
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Transphobia too. If women can become men, that's a cheat code and a threat to cis masculinity. And if men can become women, and they were to take one home from a bar? Whoo boy.
The first time Trump made the national news was 1973 when Richard Nixon's, (Richard Nixon's), justice department said he and his dad violated fair housing by having managers write C for colored on rental apps, so they would know not to rent to blacks or Latinos.
They're killing these people for the content. Trump is using the US military to shoot snuff film to do numbers on social media.
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Subtly downgrade a band. Exodus
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Similarly loved The Famous Teddy Z with him and Alex Rocco but alas...
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They sure are trying, though! Good work, boys.
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage
Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches
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So much of our world is just running on vibes now. Feels like the so-called Information Age is ending
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™️
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The American Dream
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Can't wait to see how creatively that statue gets vandalized
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I feel like we haven't even talked about the inevitable but invisible lack of productivity that's going to occur by resentful workers forced to use AI. For decades, managers did not tolerate mistakes by human employees. Now they're suddenly tolerable as long as they're made by machines? Wtf?
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Pretty sure this was the thinking post-Civil War and is exactly how we got right back to here?
Cal has hit more home runs in a season—as a full time catcher, playing in T-Mobile park—than Ken Griffey Jr. ever hit as a center fielder playing in the Kingdome. I‘m sorry, but that’s so hard to wrap my head around. Like, holy shit, you guys!
“The leader of the free world” wanted to send a DM to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Instead he posted it to everyone on Truth Social. It’s now been deleted. Medical intervention required.
In my field of work against violent extremism and terrorism one of the most dangerous things we fight is the slippery slope of ever-expanding definitions driven by political will rather than being rooted in principles and the facts that keep people safe.
ah hell yeah, Free Shoes Day
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
Massive consolidation of entertainment conglomerates has an unexpected downside for them: when one of their subsidiaries capitulates to fascism, it threatens their entire portfolio. ABC, Disney, Star Wars, theme parks, cruises, Hulu, Marvel, Pixar, ESPN, etc. are all now fair boycott targets.
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At this rate, either James Austin Johnson will be out of a job or SNL will be canceled by 11:45 Saturday night.
now would be a great time for everyone of the marvel disney millionaire celebrities to maybe speak up against their employer and even jeopardize their shows by refusing to work for disney
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Nate Bargatze could do the funniest thing right about now
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Please. The president was asked on camera how he was doing after CK and he said "I'm doing great, look at my beautiful ballroom." Kimmel honestly cared more in calling him out. You're lap dogs to a cruel loser.
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
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Man persecutes the woman that got him convicted of insurance fraud for mortgage fraud. Law and Order wouldn't even write this.
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These are the same people that couldn't handle temporary bans by pre-Elon Twitter. Trump built his own gd social network off of that! And now we'll have to keep doing the same, over and over...
free speech costs more than a buck o five
More of this, please.
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YES
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We grow our own Visigoths here
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Also a lot of bullies that for years said "It's just a joke! Can't you take a joke?" suddenly Can't take a joke
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
Meanwhile Hakeem Jeffries is in a grocery store logging the price of pumpkin pie filling to cite in his next speech
They are literally canceling culture
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
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Remember Bill fucking Clinton's role in all this.
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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The Late Night Massacre
It's so funny to me how they call themselves anti antifa. Like dude, there is a shorter word for this.
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"Love, Dad"
very much this we need to continue building the media we want ourselves, and (because you've now seen what happens when it's tethered to ads and consolidated corporate power) it largely has to be crowdfunded
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
I tell you it is deeply infuriating to raise small children and try to instill in them that throwing tantrums to get what you want is unacceptable behavior and then you look at the news and all you see everywhere is tantrums being rewarded government by petulant five year olds
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Man, Bill Clinton was the perfect Republican president for them, but that wasn't good enough.
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Or maybe it just means friendship just looks different now. would hardly be shocking
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This also implies a drastic falloff in friendships which is perhaps even more concerning
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Dark City Groundhog Day Jacob's Ladder
Patience thinner than Paulie’s garlic slices in Goodfellas
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
The fuken audacity to call the dignity and safety of black, brown, Trans, able bodied, first nation, women and LGBTQ+ people a mere subject of debate. Fuck you
The only way to stop a bad guy with a grease fire is a good guy with a bigger grease fire
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But Mike Brown was "a monster"
#WheresKristi?
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Compare the bar you're setting for him to the bar that the media sets for "woke" leftists or minorities. See the problem? You're giving him the benefit of the doubt because his words didn't line up exactly with your concept of what a racist looks or sounds like. Which is itself textbook racism.
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Agreed, with a dash of Charlie Sheen. Remember when he went on tour and sold out theaters on the back of his public dogwhistle ragebait amplified grievances? Against a Jewish media figure? Does no one remember this?
You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
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The family Christmas cards...
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Mariners brilliantly toeing the Dipoto Line rn #54
I’m saving my suspension-worthy stuff for the big one
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What did I miss
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If he weren't and it were a setup, wouldn't they frame a black or brown or trans person?
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)
The absolute best part is going to be when they get the guy and he's a blood red MAGA and Trump et al can't make hay of the shooting so they never mention Charlie Kirk again. Bro you literally died for them and they've already forgotten you