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Search engines are not a form of generative AI and it’s ok for you to admit you don’t know something about a topic Pete

Between this and Big Balls getting the ax awful lot of genitals having a rough day

There were whole ass states in 2024 where like 20% of people explicitly voted to protect abortion rights AND for every Republican on the ballot this is just how people are

Curtains for Zoosha??

Susan Collins’ entire career is saying “I’m very concerned about [Republican nominee/policy]” and then immediately voting yes

They don’t want the government doing good and useful things and they’re convinced they’ll be insulated from the worst of it when the fallout hits

It’s Magic, Dr J, then everyone else

Every prepper who wants to buy some property in Wyoming and become a homesteader badly, badly underestimates just how much work subsistence farming is

The climate friendly model is to spend the winter in Florida and summer in the Hamptons

This is something like 7% of the entire population of the US, roughly 1 in every 14 people. A standard US elementary school classroom would contain 2 people who lost their healthcare because of this bill (likely more bc kids are more likely to be on Medicaid)

It bears remembering that Norman Vincent Peale was Donald Trump's childhood pastor and officiated his first wedding. He absolutely believes in new thought and thinks that he can simply manifest his desires into existence.

Reminds me of the “I got so tired of all these doctors and nutritionists telling me that if I ate right, exercised, and got 8 hours of sleep a night I’d feel better and get in shape so I did it for 6 weeks to prove it’s bullshit and I regret to inform you…”

What’s really cool is that the most powerful conservatives in the world also adhere to this approach, which is how you get a policy platform that easily boils down to “own the libs”

Maybe an option to opt out of the discover feed? Like, is there any reason someone shouldn’t be able to opt out of a feed they’ve been added to?

We legitimately don’t talk enough about how goddamn stupid he is

I’ve had a couple physicals in the last decade and they never had me take a cognitive test, does he think the fact that his doctors keep making him take them is something that happens when they aren’t worried about your cognitive aptitude?

It is *wild* how much better it is living in an urban or suburban area with a lot of mature trees vs very few or none. To add to the quoted list, trees also dampen noise pollution

I’ve seen this pop up a few times but it looks like the sourcing on this is solely “a guy made a TikTok”? Has anyone actually tracked this down?

Ma’am you are wearing glasses

Gonna be amazing in 3 years when we’ve literally just watched a Republican take an unbelievably good economy and turn it into 1970s high unemployment/stagflation in months by enacting all the policies they promised and CNN is gonna talk about how good Republicans are for the economy

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

I think it’s really worth emphasizing that it is one specific (though unfortunately still dominant) faction in the party that does this, and they are doing it largely to preserve their own factional power very much to the detriment of the larger party. They must be destroyed

They want to invade so fucking bad

They’re doing the FEMA concentration camps conspiracy theory just like they did the FEMA is denying claims to disaster victims conspiracy theory because all of their conspiracy theories are just things they would do if they had power

Running for president on a platform of making it easy to legally watch your local sports teams again

They’re all liars, it’s a prerequisite of being a conservative

When reactionaries rail about “crime” or especially “urban crime” what they actually mean is visible poverty (unhoused people) and neoliberal rot (vacant storefronts). Actual crime might literally be at its lowest point, ever.