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You voted once, the presidential candidate you voted for won, the presidential candidate you voted against got removed from power, and now, four years later, you have to, like, vote again? So unfair. Voting is supposed to be something you do once, after which you get your way on everything forever.

submitted 441 days ago • 9 comments

Republicans and Fox News have made up stories about Hunter Biden so they can impeach Joe Biden. They are hoping the news media runs headlines that say "House votes to formalize impeachment inquiry" without saying there's no evidence. They are hoping for headlines exactly like this:

submitted 444 days ago • 11 comments

Texas using the power of the state to force a pregnant woman to take on considerable health risks—hospitalized multiple times, may have more trouble getting pregnant again—to bring a nonviable fetus to term is incredibly cruel, and shows the effort to be about control, not life.

submitted 448 days ago • 19 comments

Me buying the crime simulator: “Hope there’s no crimes in here”

submitted 453 days ago • 2 comments

It is amazing how much critical self-analysis the media did after 2016, and in the end, given a chance to do it all over again, they’re doing it all over again.

submitted 454 days ago • 34 comments

What happens when a media that makes its living trivializing the day's news and pursuing every empty contrarianism finds itself in a polity with an emboldened authoritarian movement:

submitted 455 days ago • 0 comments

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

submitted 456 days ago • 124 comments

If he wasn't a powerful and litigious white supremacist, what Elon's going through would be deeply sad. He clearly has a bottomless need for approval, has been used to getting it for years and is now destroying his life to seek it out from the dwindling number of losers willing to give it to him.

submitted 457 days ago • 110 comments

X, which is helped by advertisers such as the @washingtonpost.com, is owned by a guy who boosts Pizzagate, the pre-QAnon conspiracy theory that motivated a gunman to fire a rifle inside a D.C. pizzeria. Every post, minute and dollar spent there supports that www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 460 days ago • 3 comments

NEW STUDY: Broadcast, cable, and print outlets have given Donald Trump calling his enemies "vermin" a tiny fraction of the coverage they gave Hillary Clinton's 2016 remark calling some Trump supporters "deplorables" www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

submitted 460 days ago • 27 comments

Joe Biden has cancelled $127 billion in student loan debt for over 3.5 million Americans, & he is not, in fact, “doing genocide.” The people you’re angry at are Mitt Romney & the rest of the supposedly “moderate” GOP Senators, John Roberts & 5 other wizards in robes, & also Hamas, Netanyahu, etc.

submitted 461 days ago • 1 comment

Hitler hints at expanded role for showers

submitted 461 days ago • 12 comments

In 2005, a Jewish family was forced to flee their home after challenging their local school's policy of requiring Christian prayer. A young conservative lawyer named Mike Johnson decried the family as working for "the enemy" attempting to "silence the gospel" through "spiritual warfare"

submitted 461 days ago • 45 comments

Once again, the greatest threat to the security & prosperity of the transatlantic community is the authoritarian calls coming from inside the house

submitted 462 days ago • 0 comments

It’s pretty fun how we heard a lot about RFK jr and then those numbers came out showing he hurt Trump more than Biden and then suddenly we didn’t hear about RFK jr anymore

submitted 463 days ago • 39 comments

A Chinese hacker group had undetected access to Dutch chip manufacturer NXP's computer network for more than two years, targeting the company’s chip designs innovationorigins.com/en/chinese-c...

submitted 464 days ago • 3 comments

Your post was very general. Here's my reply that tries to make it exclusively about something very specific to me.

submitted 464 days ago • 10 comments