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I make pizza in China, play MTG, am obsessed with interior design, ride a fixie, parents owned a bookstore, that sort of thing
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This isn't even true as a matter of a dictionary definition. Bribery requires a quid pro quo, but corruption does not!

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

Saying the problem with the US is Trump is not “individualizing systemic problems.” Sometimes leaders and the infrastructure of power around them become equivalent to a systemic problem. That’s especially true in authoritarian movements where loyalty to a specific leader is a core principle

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Yeah, literally no one else would get away with immiserating the economy through an incredibly stupid trade war like Trump is doing. It would simply be unthinkable. It really can't be separated from his personality cult.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

"Blame the system" is a far-left dog whistle for "don't vote for democrats". I've never seen them doing anything to design, let alone build, a new system.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Oft remarked that two wrongs don't make a right, but never seen anytime establish in general that if you've done n wrongs then n+1 won't fix it. Keep going, dig deeper, there's still hope.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

This fuckin kid is out here claiming there’s $20M line items in federal payment systems that *no one knows* what they’re for, getting boosted by Fox News, and goddammit I have rarely heard a bigger, more obvious bald faced lie.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Simultaneously arguing that the most fundamental and important characteristic of what makes a woman is the presence or absence of an invisible structure in some of your cells, but also that chat bots are real women because they make you cum

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

I might be the first gaijin (foreigner) to have ever realised that Japan actually has a unique and interesting culture with a lot of quirky elements.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.

submitted 13 days ago • 424 comments

If you repost Caitlin Johnstone, we don't need to discuss anything. I already know all I need to know about what you're willing to believe.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

had such a wonderful time on netflix EVERYBODY’S LIVE WITH JOHN MULANEY last night talking to john and AYO EDEBIRI and CONAN O'BRIEN thank you so much for having me. THIS PROVES THAT LOVE IS REAL

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

JFK wrinkling his nose as he fucks Marilyn Monroe. With every slam of his fat catholic hog she queefs out a burst of thick hot subway air, air that’s been up there since the skirt photo. Room smells like a bad summer in New York. He signals “shoot me in car tomorrow” rather than do this again

submitted 21 days ago • 70 comments

i think it is good that the military is disloyal to the guy who was installed primarily because his low moral character was an indication of his willingness to shoot protestors

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

this is just straightforward state terrorism against its people; this isn’t about enforcing laws or public order, the fact of the innocent and harmless people being swept up isn’t incidental, it’s the point

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody's mad at this dude for this post, but are we not in *exactly* the kind of situation Jefferson described in the Declaration of Independence? That passage that dumbass right-wingers are always quoting?

submitted 23 days ago • 56 comments

Brutal parody of Bill Maher's White House visit by Larry David www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The conservative commentator to Woke Resister pipeline is hilarious right now

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Where we are as a country. What Trump is doing to us.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

submitted 32 days ago • 1317 comments