I hate that a lot of people I know think I'm a sucker and a rube for not trying to cheat and rip off my fellow members of society at every turn and I hate even more that, in the United States of America as presently constituted, in strictly material terms, they're right.
The broader left has an antisemitism problem. The leftist/tankie lane has a massive and alarming antisemitism problem that grows more ugly every day, and no one in that lane says anything about it.
the middle class will be taxed.
you will pay the transit fares.
shoplifting is bad.
you will live as a civilized person in a mutually co-operative society or you can live in the woods like the animal you are.
Sorry about your business, but at least you can find comfort knowing that because of your vote, there is some young confused trans kid crying in the backroom bedroom of a double wide in rural louisiana, having suicidal ideations and miserable because everyone hates them and they hate themselves.
Reality show where posters who romanticize back-breaking labor do it full-time for a year.
the most dead-eyed soulless capitalists can read fossil fuels’ writing on the wall and are investing in clean energy. the problem is there are more people exist who romanticize fossil fuels because coal miners and roughnecks are men
The citizens of a democracy absolutely 100% do hold moral responsibility for the leaders they put into power because that's how a fucking democracy works.
if you replace farm workers with robots jimbob won't have anyone to threaten to call immigration on
he didn't inherit his farm for this
“He doesn’t require a lot of sleep” is gonna go so hard when we learned what cocktail they had him on
Markets love this shit!
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Spending is only a problem when it’s a democrat in office, you see?
it’s American folk enlightenment. utterly unserious, but in some circles gives you the aura of a sage.
Never forget that that the modern brand of fascism is built on the conspiracy theory that a woman had sex with a guy in order to get a good review for her free browser game
market people are fucking hilarious you could tell them the moon was discovered to be made out of rare pokemon cards and they'd boost trading cards stock 90000%
This is 14-year-old-girl stealing from Sephora to rebel against mom coded. The fact that it’s adults doing it is fucking embarrassing
The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm
I firmly believe that the American electorate's inability to hold the Republican Party accountable for its many crimes is the effect of the populist conventional cynicism of "oh, well, every politicians is corrupt, what are you going to do" posing as truth.
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
The world is run by Nazi pedophiles who bomb children while running torture camps at home and abroad. They only have money for weapons and death while their nation crumbles. They have TV’s for brains. Their lives are reproduced as content for the miserable and soulless. They have nukes.
Among the many infuriating things about these guys is their endless obscene macho posturing—to the point of admitting war crimes because it sounds tough—then instantly cowering at a select few dictators like Putin instead of remaining macho with something like "we're giving Ukraine nukes."
It is legitimately so insulting to the generations who fought for the right to vote that people act the way about it.
I’m so fucking sick of it.
Every other Bari Weiss Review article is basically "why this toxic cultural practice that was common during the era of highest violent crime and serial killing was Great Actually and we need to Bring It Back"
the problem, fundamentally, is that rural voters don't want the economy to be "good" in the typical sense of being efficient or productive, they want it to be "good" in a moral sense where it rewards the people and industries they like
“average politician is completely at fault for election loss" factoid actualy just statistical error. average politician is at the mercy of the political environment. Bad Candidate Roy, who literally groomed children at local shopping mall, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.
how it feels taking public transit rn
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
