These ghouls always try to eliminate two categories of gun deaths from the argument: 1. Suicide 2. Gang violence So the idea is people who die in those categories don't count, apparently. And once you eliminate them, gun deaths aren't all THAT bad. The mind reels.
I was the editor of that film.
The weirdest thing about this statement is that is uses the word "Mayor" five times, yet doesn't actually mention anybody who is a mayor.
They're not cowards. That implies they don't want this, but they're too scared to speak up against it. They're framing it this way because they themselves are fascists, who want fascism. That goes for the billionaires who own the media, and for the Republican Party themselves.
'90s hip-hop was - and I say this without an ounce of hyperbole - the gayest genre of music ever. Snoop has written more lyrics about having sex with men than just about anyone else.
I liked how every election post-mortem was "Democrats need to do more of [X]," and it turned out [X] was precisely what the person saying it wanted them to do. Hate trans people? "Democrats need to throw trans people under the bus." Bernie fan? "Democrats need to listen to progressives more."
If you win: "See, this is the kind of messaging Democrats need to engage people!" If you lose: "Why was this dork talking about scavenger hunts instead of the actual issues? This is exactly why Democrats can't win!" No offense, but I just want to be sure I can be smug no matter the outcome.
No. This narrative needs to die. Closeted homosexuality is not the cause of homophobia. Some people are just shitty. Stop blaming gay people.
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"It's clear you don't know what journalism is" False "the headline would not be .the nfl has a share of ESPN'" True "If you had read the article" I believe a social media post should mention a conflict like this. "Lee and Kaepernick were not seeing eye to eye" Not relevant to the need for disclaimer
Not here, where people who don't have a subscription will see it.
Just an FYI: penultimate means "second to last."
If only they'd taken a liberal arts class or two, to help them understand literally anything about their fellow humans.
Journalistic integrity would mandate that you report ESPN is partially owned by the NFL.
"Superstorm" was actually an unofficial nickname. Hurricane is the accurate nomenclature.
Breaking: Putin told his employee that he would halt his war of conquest if he's given the thing he's trying to conquer.
I think that's what most of us call "being shot." And yeah, I hope he comes down with a bad case of it.
"These guys are being stupid assholes. Don't be a stupid asshole like them." But I'm not a parent, so take any advice I give with a big old shaker full of salt.
Two wrongs, very famously, make a right.
Zapp Brannigan-ass speech.
"Despite my objective failure as a parent, my child turned out all right, on the surface at least. This justifies my shittiness."
I hate to admit I went in and read this. I had no idea if the 6 PM dinner was a good thing or a bad thing, and why in the world it's a thing at all. I read it, and I recognize the writer thinks 6 pm is too early, but I still don't know why.
These are all words I understand, but I feel like I'm having a stroke when I try to understand what they mean all together.
Did it cross the plate in the strike zone? Then it should be called a strike.
Has anyone told David that there's a mayoral candidate whose platform would completely eliminate fare evasion on the bus? I'm sure he'd be ecstatic to hear that.
So what I propose is a taxi, but the driver is a robot. But instead of a robot, the driver is a person! Give me a billion dollars please.
To be charitable, this year had a pretty stacked ballot. It's quite possible the writer had 11 names he wanted to choose, but had to leave off one because of the 10-vote limit. So he chose the most likely to make it without his vote.
This is the start of her "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" pivot, and she should be reminded every day how she called anti-genocide protestors "ignorant." But the responses to this include the words "babe," "cow," and "bitch," which, well, yikes. Americans really hate women.
Athletes should be paid commensurate with the amount they earn, just like any worker. To fund cancer research and teachers, we would increase the tax rate on the highest earners - a category that includes many top athletes and especially owners. I don't think you'd get any argument about that.
How has Donald Trump, who raped children, been able to avoid federal prosecution for so long?
Being charitable, he could have seen the original reply ("I am getting very turned off by pro sports.") as being anti-Francona. It was clearly anti-a-system-where-Francona-is-the-exception, of course, so the person jumped to an incorrect conclusion and then was a dick about it.
Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.
That's an Otamoatone! And the only reason I know that is because of this cover of Evanescence's Bring Me To Life done with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxL...
Oh sure. Admit students -> Students graduate -> Alumni use Harvard's cachet to get lucrative jobs -> Alumni make donations -> Endowment grows Growing the endowment is the one and only purpose of this institution. Everything they do is in service of that goal.
Fighting the battle of understanding and embracing your true self in a world that imposes a self upon you takes a warrior's courage.
We gotta stop with this idea that Republicans want to stop this, but are just too afraid. They're complicit. They want this. There's no "standing up to" this, because they're PART of this. This is who Republicans are.
His name was Jaime Garcia.
I’m starting to think that some of the people saying “stop antisemitism” mean it with the same inflection as: “Stop…Hammer Time!” Like, take a little break from what you’re doing and enjoy some antisemitism.
Pretty much every piece of evidence in existence shows that diversity improves business outcomes, both performance and financially. When businessmen complain about DEI, what they're saying is "I'm happy to do worse if it will punish people I hate." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A. Irrelevant to this class discussion B. I roughly agree with you there, although i.) the 2-party duopoly is the system we have and we must work with that; and ii.) one side cut Medicaid and SCHIP and the other would have kept them. Class consciousness demands understanding the difference.
If I'm interpreting it correctly, you're saying that in order to blame voters for doing something that harms the lower class, one has to have no class consciousness. Work me through your logic here.
Anytime a candidate isn't as far left as I am, it's annoying. That might sound like sarcasm, but it's truly not. I've spent my whole life being annoyed by political candidates. Yet that doesn't stop me from choosing the better option.
OK, I've said my piece. Essay over.
Or they get so goddamn short-sighted that they completely lose the plot. You know what you could do to help the people of Gaza vis-a-vis the Presidential election? NOTHING. Staying home did nothing to help them, but it did a lot to hurt others. And that's why I'm so worked up about all this.
"I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I voted for X." Good for you, I guess, but you're not the main character of the election. Our side are supposed to be the moral ones, who care about other people and our impact on the world. But when it comes to elections so many people forget that.
If you're not looking at an election as an opportunity to do the most good (and yes, sometimes that means choosing less evil, which... who the hell doesn't want less evil? It's less evil!) you're looking at it wrong. ESPECIALLY so if you're looking at an election as how you feel about yourself.
We got to choose whether trans people are considered human. We got to choose whether an armed force larger than the Marines gets turned on the American people. This is not abstract. This is not a fucking game. This is not "your candidate" or "my candidate." This has real impact on real people.
Reality is that We The People got to make a choice between USAid existing or not. We got to choose between NOAA and the National Weather Service existing or not. We got to choose whether the federal government recognizes climate change is real. We got to choose whether children get vaccinations.
What I'm seeing in this whole pointless discussion is how much people want to make elections abstract. Oh, either the DNC wins or the RNC wins. They're both awful, and so I don't want either to win! Oh, you picked a team? You're terrible and so is your team! But that's not reality.
I'll tell it to Johnny Noviello and Jesus Molina-Veya. No wait, I can't do that. They're dead. They wouldn't be dead if Harris were the President. But to you, their lives didn't matter.
I did, because I wanted to save the lives of trans people, immigrants, and underprivileged people worldwide. You, apparently, didn't want that. You seem to be equating choosing a candidate with ownership, as opposed to making the choice which is better for the most people. A strange worldview.
Voters didn't fail a political party. Voters failed America, Americans, immigrants, and people worldwide. Each individual got to make a choice. There was a better choice and a worse choice. There was a choice that would save 14 million lives, and a choice that would lead to 14 million deaths.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "your candidate." I do not have possession nor ownership of any politician or political candidate.
Well, the voters get to evaluate which candidate is better, and then choose the one they prefer. Some people wanted to save 14 million lives worldwide, some wanted those people to die, and some people thought both of those options were exactly the same.
It's true, and it's really awesome that not voting for her fixed the problem entirely! Otherwise, the people who didn't vote for her because of that would look pretty silly right now.
Yeah, no, it's good that people chose to let 14 million people die worldwide due to USAid cuts in order to do (checks how things are going) absolutely nothing to help Gaza. This was the intelligent and moral choice, and it's going to continue working out perfectly.
You've got to understand - everybody was just so passionate about ending the genocide in Gaza that they couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris. And as you can see, that's worked out exceptionally well for the Palestinians!
Yeah, but Columbus was a racist genocidal monster. Fuck him and fuck anyone who goes to bat for him.
I imagine this would go directly into that presentation. Huge selling point for corruption and retaliation aficionados.
Although in this case it's more like "Getting all of the people to tell me I'm wrong just shows how right I am."
What, then, is the meaning behind a man from Africa, of Asian descent, truthfully reporting those things on a college application?
Benjamin Ryan also regularly writes (and the NYT publishes) harmful lies about trans people. Just an absolute failure of a person in every way.
If you too want to be blocked, give him a piece of your mind at @benryanwriter.bsky.social ‬
The writer, Benjamin Ryan, has blocked me. To repeat: a writer for the NYT, who wrote and used Bsky to market a misleading (at best) hit piece which used a eugenicist crank as its source, has blocked someone who called him out on it. The Times is a fascist propaganda rag.
SCOOP: Guy who was born to Indian parents in Africa (and spent the first 7 years of his life there) identified himself accurately on College Application. Source is not named, but is a well-known eugenicist fraudster. I'd say the New York Times is a joke, but jokes are usually funny.
You are right - opinions that are right-of-center that aren't given by Republicans are exempt from your premise. In this case, such opinions would be evaluated on their own merits, rather than just being dismissed as lies.
"Let’s accept your premise that the GOP is lies and liars top to bottom." You wrote that. My comment was accepting that premise, as you suggested. Instead of putting words into my mouth (words that you yourself said), would you like to point out any inconsistency in my statement?
Let me reframe that question, using the premise you are accepting here: Is it justified to banish all patently and demonstrably untrue perspectives from the newspaper? Doesn't that answer itself? In fact, if we framed it the other way (is it justified to publish lies?) it'd seem absurd.
Try to avoid getting sued.
I hope you will have broken a leg!
Which is over now because they didn't vote, so good job by them!
@gork.bluesky.bot Is this true?
The last time the draft was seriously considered was when a very stupid President started a war of choice against a Middle Eastern nation based on non-existent WMDs. Maybe if something like that were ever to happen again you might have to worry, but, come on. Like that could ever happen again.
His follow-up that essentially said, "You idiots, the only time the draft has been seriously considered in the 21st century was the LAST time a very stupid President started a war against a middle eastern country because of their non-existent WMDs!" was kind of beautiful.
You mean this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arby%27...
Are you ever missing out. The first CC season has about 5 classics, and the second has 2 (Game of Tones and Meanwhile, which is almost as good a finale as Devil's Hands). The finale of the first Hulu season was great, too.
I said "Australia used to be a penal colony" in the presence of a social studies teacher (in 8th grade or so). She angrily "corrected" me: "I think you mean PENILE." Thrown, but not showing it, I said "No, I definitely meant penal." She threatened detention if I said it again.
You should not be a stenographer for your owner. It's irresponsible and unethical. I hope that makes total sense.
The Globe trashing a beloved member of the Sox as bumbling ownership gets rid of him: a tradition like no other.
Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...
Us: Use Bluesky! No more Nazis! You: Use Bluesky? No, more Nazis!
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
Right you are, Ken.
That's because they're both incredibly stupid.
It has. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Because they keep winning! If you are an evil person, and you learn that the more evil you are the better the world treats you, why wouldn't you just go all-in on evil?
Then they'll have "reason" to start shooting. The regime will drum up "People are attacking cops in the street, folks" excuses, and things will get worse. I'm not saying this shouldn't happen, because fuck the Gestapo. I'm just saying it's not going to improve things.
The Smith family is about to make some calls.
big ass chairs
Sometimes you see things in movies that you know can't be real. I was watching one the other night and I was like wait, there is no such thing as a RoboCop, or Detroit. Pure fiction.
Everything is absurd nonsense that means nothing. That’s what we survive and call “living”. But if you live where people work toward making that absurd nonsense actively evil for everyone else, it’s fine to fantasize about putting those people into a woodchipper. Thanks for enjoying arbys
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
I'm sorry to say, but we've seen the last Democratic Senate majority of our lifetimes.
I think it'll be a fun thing if I just reply to this thread a bunch at arbitrary times.
Maybe it's gauche to quote a guy at himself, but I think of this little pithy quote from 12 years ago a lot. It makes me laugh, and I thank him for writing it.
Quoth Jon: "lol u got binged in the ding"
And yeah, I know that's splitting hairs a little bit. But if you click on "Posts," you won't see a single original post except the post saying I won't post again, and (as promised) some reposts. So I dunno. I reply sometimes.
lol this is patently ridiculous, almost Inception levels of not giving an independent journalist credit. Subscribe to The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co
