Ben Fowler

A whole thread of lil guys! 😍

there's a famous Umberto Eco quote about how fascists alternately portray their opponents as immensely strong and pathetically weak, but Trump likes to go the extra mile and put both portrayals in the same post

"Iran is the third-largest urea exporter on the planet. The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 25% of all globally traded nitrogen fertilizer. The attack came in late February, weeks before spring planting — the narrow window when fertilizer has to be on vessels, at ports, or already in the ground."

Crab insurance, insurance for crabs

I am just saying!

it's interesting when the first and last sentences of a paragraph contradict each other

They might've kept his onions behind the counter. They're kept in about 1/4 cup containers now instead of the usual big onion crank.

Yeah... They're getting into it... I was SO annoyed but...i think i can let it go if they stick the landing.

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

....well that's vile and complete garbage and not a good sign.

seeing this in the guardian, not a us media outfit, isn't surprising, but you just know there won't be much made of this over here.

reality is now an underground movement.

I feel like writers who write kids as assholes are just... Lazy and not as smart as they think they are. If all the kids you meet are mean to you, maybe you're a bad person.

Watching Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and i want it to be good but it's already done two annoying pet peeves of mine. First, it starts off great but then almost immediately does a "two days ago" flashback. I hate that. Second it portrays kids as all extremely sarcastic Dennis Miller types.

A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:

The special agents are here to enforce policy. Go about your own business.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

Ostensibly "liberal" wealthy people have made it abundantly clear they don't want to solve this problem in any way that matters.

I'm going to NYC in a few months and am looking for food recommendations.

THOUGHT CATALOG INSIDE THE MANOSPHERE Why not try to be a good person? In what respect? What do you mean? Just uplift people, don't pander to their worst impulses. Actually encourage them to do the right, make the right choices. It's a good question. If I'd just done good things, I would never have really blown up on social media in the first place [...] I wouldn't have been where I'm at now, and I'm not living for other people, I'm living for myself

Capitalism and more specifically "algorithms" have enabled the worst kinds of hate and vitriol by rewarding brainstem level confirmation biases and quick dopamine hits that different flavors of fascism. I don't quite know how to regulate our way out of this but just letting it happen is not working.

What I find interesting about this line is that it’s an admission in order for this to happen, they need you to lose your ordinary intelligence that you already have.

This is why they want to get into schools. They want kids to lose basic capacity so that they have to rent it forever.

Try creamy peanut butter in instant ramen chicken flavor. It tastes like thai chicken satay.

hey it's supposedly doing this exact thing the whole reason that we needed to regime change iran? or had everyone decided to just pretend they never made that claim with no evidence a few weeks ago?

You can't claim that everyone is offended these days and then, with War On Terror 2.0 The Enchanted Christmas in full-swing, start kicking off about a dead guy being replaced by a nice picture of a badger on some banknotes.

I'm not just against AI to be some contrarian Luddite. It's because the guys pushing this shit are always, always, ALWAYS weird technofascists.

the state of israel, like apartheid south africa, like the jim crow south, like nazi germany, has determined that crimes against a certain type of person, no matter how heinous, aren't crimes because the victims are not people. there is no "but them first" defense of israel that can stand up to it

doing a "where are the college protestors now??" thread while accusing kids of being bad faith actors for being against a genocide that you have admitted to being a genocide (3 days earlier!) is really something

THE US GOVERNMENT HAS ARRESTED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, AND ATTEMPTED TO DEPORT SOME, WHO WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO PROTEST THIS GENOCIDE WHILE YOU SAT AT HOME SUCKING YOUR OWN DICK.

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?

Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.

Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?

Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

So much for a big Democratic tent. NEW @J _Insider via @GSDeutch: "Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Dems who support Iran war"" HE WHITE HOUSE SASHUNGTON Ben Rhodes calls for primaries against Democrats who suppo...

Yeah well I mean, >85% of Democratic voters think this is a stupid fucking idea, >75% think negatively of Israel, and even >80% of Democratic members of Congress weren't stupid enough to vote against the WPR.

Sorry but you're a sucker if you think you can just cry and appeal to "the big tent".

Almost half the shows are copaganda FYI. Tracker technically isn't, "he's a lone wolf survivalist" but it's adjacent IMHO. If you remove the news shows it's fully half.

It's a fantastic first episode and really delivers on the concept. I did not expect to hear for example that Levar knew Steve McQueen. Good stuff.

I was in love with being an edgelord you see. We used to call them bullies and assholes but now we've evolved past such crude terminology.