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Literally trillion dollar bills sitting on the sidewalk and we're refusing to pick them up

Openly negotiating the price of the bribe being paid to the President to grant approval to a regulatory merger. Happening right in front of us.

The most important achievement of the right in the C21st has been the invention of an all-powerful "establishment" that does not include the editor of the Sunday Telegraph, the world's richest media moguls, the party that was in govt for 14 years, Boris Johnson or the billionaire president of the US

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

Republicans’ budget bill earmarks a staggering $45 billion for immigrant detention centers. The biggest beneficiaries? Private prison companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group – who both donated hefty sums to Trump’s inauguration. Always follow the money.

A majority of UCP voters, having separated themselves from reality on many key fronts, would prefer to also separate from Canada.

I have to keep restating this but I don’t care about convincing conservatives. They’re lost. I want liberals, progressives, and people who don’t yet understand they are liberals. We spend too much time trying to flip conservatives

Somewhat amazed at the amount of vitriol Will is getting here. He has a valid point about automated surveillance, and people getting on his case aren't going to help shake the notion that too many people live to be the hall monitors of society.

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my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

Most political commentators are too polite to say this, but Trump won because of his appeal to the most important voting bloc: morons. If the Democrats want to win again the answer isn’t becoming more left or more right, it’s coming up with dumb policies that morons like

this is like 65% of the way to infowars shit

Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

NEW: Alberta’s government has appointed itself the arbiter of who can reach which books at which age. Make no mistake about it, this will only lead to more censorship. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

That actually kind of raises more concerns, in my book.

there. is. nothing. wrong. with. two. 10pm. grilled. cheeses,

The central lie of the Trump regime is that they’re doing all this on behalf of working people—rather than the corrupt billionaires who are lining their pockets.

In anti-authoritarian struggles, criticizing the regime for their blatant corruption is often one of the most important ways to mobilize the public and break through to regime supporters. The Trump regime is the most corrupt in US history—it’s worth repeating ad nauseam

Just loving all these unintended consequences

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

So a respected journalist warned the nation that the Trump administration is a threat to free speech and, true to form, its state media outlet warns that there will now surely be retribution by the administration against that same journalist and his network for his act of free speech.

If the left was actively hating young white men, I feel like that's something I would have picked up on in the last twenty years or so. What I have seen though is a lot of (non-left) people telling young white men that the left hates them

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

you guys that is 12.5% of the electorate of the united states lmao this is "grind him into the fucking dirt with no mercy" shit

I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

Never forget

#TeslaTakedown 🇨🇦

6 year-old child: can i have cake? Jordan Peterson: I never said there was cake. You leapt to that conclusion. Your argument is fallacious at best and obscene at worst. You're being circular. It's beneath you. it's pathetic. 6 year-old: ... Jordan Peterson: Happy birthday I suppose

Sousa, John Philip. “The Menace of Mechanical Music.” Appleton’s Magazine, vol. 8, 1906, pp. 278–84.

Watch this. And share this.

Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,

This is a VERY big step for Germany — a recognition that the existential and foundational German obligation to Israel is not an obligation to an authoritarian-minded leader who has captured Israel and defied its people and basic humanitarian values

Should I start a podcast and just talk about what it means to be a regular, responsible, decent dude who likes sports and owns three chainsaws and thinks cars and boats are cool and cares about other people

I remain fascinated with the view that what's happening in the United States is going to "die down." thehub.ca/2025/05/26/a...

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

A thing about growing up poor, or even middle class in America, is that there comes a time when you look back on bad memories or traumatic experiences you saw and realize how many of them had something to do with a lack of money

“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said. “And by the way if you did it in Britain and no one else did it, you would basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”

putin is a lot of things, but he’s not a moron. he recognizes trump as the malleable merkin-topped dope he is.

Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' is the most dangerous legislation in U.S. history. Here's why...

“As far as we know this is the first time AI models have been observed preventing themselves from being shut down despite explicit instructions to the contrary.”

Jordan Peterson was humiliated when he left his safe space, the same thing happened to Charlie Kirk. The more these people are challenged, the more they are exposed. This is why they rarely venture out of the right-wing bubble.

This kid turns Peterson into a pillar of salt and illustrates how helpless so many conservatives are when they leave their own protective bubbles

one of the weirdest thing about jordan peterson since he made his journey to where he is now is clearly becoming a christian but not having the balls to admit that he is or that he shifted in all of his beliefs

It’s been the kind of weekend that fools Vancouverites into thinking summer is around the corner May is actually a trick hiding Junuary and we fall for it every time 😑

randomly saw this brief clip of the TV show Cheers recently, they asked him what war he's a veteran from and he said world war 1, I thought the math couldn't possibly work out but checked and the episode was made in 1982, not only does the math work, that actor Ian Wolfe was literally a medic in WW1

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

You will not be able to afford an iPhone. You will own 2 dolls. You will work in a factory. And you will be happy about it. That is actually the MAGA platform right now. What a wild time to be alive.

JK Rowling now has an online form for TERFs who want to sue trans people. Everyone keep a careful eye out to make sure nobody accidentally pastes the Bee Movie script in there. jkrwf.org/check-eligib...