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If Walmart’s eating the tariffs, then what is the alleged purpose of the tariffs? To lower our national trade deficit with…Walmart?

submitted 12 days ago • 155 comments

Still the best example I have of someone who actually made their seemingly unreasonable childhood dream come true.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

One thing I think we're missing in discussion of Commander deck power is speed. A deck that can pull off massive swings, but not until the player has eleven mana open, is very different than a turn three winner. Even if they're supposedly the same power level.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

King: hey clive i read online that you were pro trans rights Clive Barker: what an odd thing to say Barker: why ever would you feel the need to remark on that Barker: when it's the obvious opinion held by all right-thinking people Barker: but yes

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

submitted 50 days ago • 146 comments

A quick post-cruise refresher from me before I do any serious delving into any particular current events: Fuck fascists Fuck -phobes Fuck wealthy sociopaths Fuck immigrant-haters Fuck sexists Fuck anyone who wants to invade Canada and/or Mexico Fuck vaccine deniers Fuck this administration Etc, etc

submitted 80 days ago • 291 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 84 days ago • 1571 comments

"Our main principle will be personal liberties and freedom, and if you don't agree with me you're fired."

submitted 92 days ago • 48 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 92 days ago • 155 comments

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

submitted 92 days ago • 29 comments

Sure. AND ALSO, they're not the only people who can be politicians. Virtually everyone screaming that Democratic MoCs should be better politicians (some should, some are not getting credit) have a better platform to do politics themselves, including @brandonfriedman.bsky.social.

submitted 95 days ago • 13 comments

“Have you tried not being autistic? Or just pretending you’re not? Just do that.”

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 96 days ago • 664 comments

CNN: So you can guarantee to folks in your district that they're not gonna see higher prices the likes of which Mitch McConnell is sounding the alarm about in Kentucky? REP. WARREN DAVIDSON: Well, I can't guarantee that

submitted 105 days ago • 191 comments

"What are we supposed to do, we don't control Congress" "What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority" "What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"

submitted 108 days ago • 142 comments

It’s natural to feel scared or guilty or ashamed, that’s your soul telling you to stay alive and do the right thing. Trump and Musk are moving fast and life will get harder that’s a fact. However, through difficult and terrifying times the best in all of us can shine. Do what you can, don’t give up.