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The political culture of the contemporary GOP is indistinguishable from that of the school shooter community

Happy 6th anniversary to the time Sarah Palin sang Baby Got Back on the Masked Singer and then the show changed to Trump's address to the nation about COVID.

Best partial victory out of western Maryland since Antietam

I don't think any political ideology is completely inoculated from antisemitism, but c'mon the person described here is not a progressive/leftist/liberal or whatever. they're that weirdly common kind of swing voter who just likes maverick types of literally any ideology.

The issue is not that “progressives are antisemitic” it’s that increasingly politicians can perform a little light antisemitism as part of building a populist coalition that both leftists and antisemites are happy with.

This is, as they say, bad for the Jews (it’s also bad for leftists).

“Democrats only win if they do what I say. They won’t so they lose. If they don’t and they win, it’s because conditions mean they couldn’t lose, but they could have won more if they’d have done what I said, so that win is really a loss.” All of left social media, from center to fringe.

owillis.bsky.social 18 hours ago Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now - but it's because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

This world weary cynicism poses as knowledge but it’s actually just the mirror image evil twin of Murc’s Law. Only Democrats have agency *when they lose*, but when they win it’s only by default and because of Republicans’ agency.

I read the first two stories in Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’s “Are We Ever Our Own” and they were excellent. Can’t wait to read the rest.

Their problem is primarily manpower. Drones are pretty easy and cheap to make lots of.

Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.

*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP

I'm getting questions about why there are trans characters in my Fantasy novel.

There's a simple answer: trans people don't need to justify existing.

Glad to clear that up!

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

All I know is when you got to WDW you got to do whatever it takes to kill, for a few days, the part of you that cringes

Walt Disney World is not primarily aimed at you, the 38 year olds on Bluesky

It’s aimed at either your 8 year old kid, or the 8 year old kid inside you

And that’s as it should be

wish she’d just said “I wanted people to like me” or “I hated myself” or “I hated myself and I wanted people to like me and the desperation to be liked, in its nihilistic totality, is the purest expression of self-loathing there is, dissolving the notion that human life might have worth or dignity”

Oh I love that. Will have to check it out

A red dip made to look like Darth Maul's face, complete with Bugle "horns"

Disney's Chips and Sith (2015-2015): In anticipation of the "Galaxy's Edge" attraction, both Disneyland and Disney World released this dish: Chickpea and lemon hummus, topped with roasted red pepper coulis, Bugles, and black sesame dust, to replicate the face of Darth Maul.

Canadian baseball fans absolutely crushing canned beers at the Canada-Cuba WBC game

Hell yeah

"Oh but the signs are performative, it's just virtue-signalling, it's cringe" maybe, but I'd rather be walking around a neighborhood with In This House signs than trump signs. The jargon doesn't do anything for anyone though

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see

lmao, in fact

Sharing this you know what I mean

Block the people threading this shit

They replied stating they don’t care it’s from the past with some “we’ve always been like this” bullshit. Fuck em

Embodying a multiracial working class by wishing he’d fought in wars against every race

it's worth thinking about this as a kind of Nazi ideology: a belief that the country's military failures are a result of insufficient brutality rather than poor political decision-making

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on