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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 14 days ago • 2639 comments

The Republican Party despises DEI policies that put unqualified people in positions of power, and that's why Trump has nominated a weekend Fox News host who's never managed anything to be in charge of the Pentagon.

submitted 48 days ago • 83 comments

Gofundme should not be our national safety net

submitted 52 days ago • 67 comments

[seeing the oceans overheat, wildfires destroy entire cities, global pandemics, unprecedented income inequality, etc.] "the real problem is trans people"

submitted 51 days ago • 13 comments

So many people and organizations here in LA need help. When I can, I try to give locally, especially to groups that serve under-supported populations. If you can give, please do! www.inclusiveaction.org/workeraid

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Agree with this. One of my former employers talked about the concept of "F- You!" money. Enough that you could do or say whatever you wanted, and not put up with intolerable or morally compromising situations. The likes of Bezos, Musk, Thiel, Zuck have 1000x that much money. And yet...

submitted 52 days ago • 48 comments

they laugh at us while our city burns. but somehow its the liberals who are always told they need to reach out and show more empathy to the other side while they celebrate natural disasters. trump is scum.

submitted 54 days ago • 141 comments

It’s always revealing when the party of “we’re the fun ones saving this country from humorless scolds” shifts messaging gears to “the hustle grindset requires the endless sacrifice of any kind of pleasure or distraction.”

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

submitted 88 days ago • 626 comments

Thank you, Senator Klobuchar. This time of fear and anxiety about our country and our future is the perfect moment for legislation that nobody could give a flying fuck about.

submitted 76 days ago • 58 comments

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a 30-something dude in moderately-priced fast fashion stretch work pants! It’s…

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

it’s just been me and dad since calgon took mom in ‘86

submitted 90 days ago • 83 comments

Mike is correct. I’m about as Legal Realist as they come (the legal philosophy term for “law is whatever the judges say it is”), and even I agree. Don’t let them just have it. Make them earn it, even if only at the price of their reputations.

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

I don’t think the argument can simultaneously be “no one cares about newspaper endorsements” and “endorsements are why nobody trusts the news media” but I’m not a billionaire.

submitted 126 days ago • 5 comments

ouch www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

submitted 126 days ago • 41 comments

I just realized that Succession’s Jeryd Mencken is what you’d get if you combined Gavin Newsom’s looks with JD Vance’s ethno-nationalist politics.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

“Sofa. Sofa. Dolphin. Sofa.” — JD Vance’s cognitive test

submitted 220 days ago • 0 comments

So I am sure the "he's too old to be president" will shift now, right...?

submitted 224 days ago • 0 comments

“Can’t believe he didn’t nominate Romney.” — Newsroom fans

submitted 225 days ago • 0 comments

Current life goal: Putting my coffee mug down on the conference table, coolly saying, "People, give us the room" and watching all but one of my subordinates exit wordlessly. Now I just need a conference room, a table and some subordinates.

submitted 230 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry, wait, the doctor everyone was obsessing over but which turns out to have maybe been a false lead is named Cannard? I’m sorry, that’s just lazy scriptwriting.

submitted 237 days ago • 1 comment