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they should build a giant helicopter from which to eject, from high above the sea and in groups of 2-300 at a time, white dudes my age who watch stuff on their phones or laptops at full volume in enclosed public spaces

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

An almost Calvinist version of a hierarchical society where gaining power proves you are deserving of it and whatever you do with it is correct. Divine right of kings without kings or divinity. Not “might makes right”, but rather “might is right”.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Yikes

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

mommy coming on line to defend your multi billion dollar nazi company is crazy

submitted 18 hours ago • 417 comments

must rock being a cybertruck guy. every time you pull up it’s like beep beep make way for the Ambassador of Divorce

submitted 1 day ago • 335 comments

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The news media is really burying the lead on this one. The implications are clear. The U.S. is a young, attractive woman on a boat, and Donald Trump is Dennis Reynolds. And we are a long, long way from shore.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling. wrd.cm/3XA0IHP

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

again, I think a major problem with America is that a critical mass of voters and elites have convinced themselves they can't die even if they stab themselves—that it is impossible to elect a government that actually makes their lives worse so its all just a game

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Slavery cities, then. The freedom they’d seek is the freedom to have slaves.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Absolute clown shit. It really is just a TV show for these people. Wake the fuck up and realize that threatening and then attempting to forcibly annex your allies isn’t just a silly gaffe. It’s an existential threat to another country, made and followed up on by the president of the united states!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Never ever ever forget this

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Trying to do autarky and getting really mad when you find out that you can’t fit an entire global economic supply chain inside Oklahoma

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we are in a weird position where steak & shake can run an openly nazi-themed trump-positive advertising campaign but the press cannot print the analogy

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

the entire idea of "vote-shaming" is extremely Late Republic. i do not know how to explain to someone who thinks that you aren't responsible for deciding who should be in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons just because you didn't consent to being given the responsibility

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is a Facebook post by Missouri State Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia). Rep. Mark Alford is one of the members of Congress who got rocked at a townhall in late February. So now they're not just refusing to hold townhalls. They're apparently demanding people keep their office number a secret.

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

Last time I bought a car, the salesman was a young guy and had set everything up on his desk to appear very smart and he had two books: Moby Dick and the Art of War, and I guess what he wanted you to think was that he would be selling cars and just need a quick bit of inspiration from Moby Dick

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

EUROBOOM redux? on.ft.com/3QOvbhy

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“Please help the ride we bought a ticket for was seemingly advertised to us wrong. Yes I ignored the warning labels on the package but how could you expect us to read that? It’s in big bold letters????”

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I increasingly think the Khmer Rogue is an apt analogy for Trump 2.0 and this is a scary and radical inflexion in Republican politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

fundamentally we are going to have to put him in the wicker man and burn him alive if we want to rejoin the international community. nothing else will do.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

How can U.S. act like a peacemaker & try to overthrow the leader of a nation under the bus & plot to throw him out of office: 4 senior members of President Trump’s entourage have secretly met with Ukrainian opposition leaders on potentially holding early elections to unseat Zelensky, per Politico.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

If you're wondering why you haven't seen more organized disruptive action from Democrats at the speech tonight, I've heard from multiple people on Capitol Hill that House Dem leadership actively organized against any strong actions tonight. They are leading, but in the wrong direction.

submitted 4 days ago • 473 comments

one small schadenfreude joy is that donald trump correctly understands that john roberts is a trusted subordinate who is willing to perform acts of corruption on his behalf and treats him that way in public, not understanding that this is humiliating

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

lmao

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

lookin through the gaps

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

one thing that's absolutely buckwild is that trump decided to take this insanely belligerent stance with respect to canada without even making a cursory attempt to whip up anti-canadian sentiment. not even the "supporters" of this policy can name what the cause of it is supposed to be.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

As always, if you're a government employee or someone working in tech, and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at vittoria89.82

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

They're scared. They're not thinking straight. They don't realize that the town hall struggle sessions are the alternative to even less pleasant forms of protest.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

submitted 5 days ago • 77 comments

Timbo gets it

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

ay lmao

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

the boomer ISIS jihad will be a thing of terrible might so long as our allies in the Canadian underground can keep the Ensure flowing

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

We have spies serving life without parole in supermax prisons for less than this. The Rosenbergs got the chair for less than this. He's doing espionage right out in the open.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Aside from everything else about this, "if we just don't CALL it a recession then the economy will be fine" is just another iteration of "if we weren't testing there wouldn't be so many cases"

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

it's a yarvinist coup and he's the national ceo and anyone more worried about norms than the fact that they're plotting a eugenics and euthanasia campaign against the entire non-white, non-christian, non-cishet, and non-abled population is not watching the ball

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

khmer doge

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As a cishet dude, when I see a Dem ditch trans rights, it sends a message: you ain't got no fight in you, no principles, just another empty suit. Think I'm some too-online outlier? Go ask your expensive consultants why people don't bother to vote. It's because they know you're all empty suits.

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

He’s the president

submitted 6 days ago • 247 comments

the movies suffer terribly when there is a lack of weird looking dudes to play major roles. Clarence Boeddicker was a good 30% of why Robocop was so memorable and he sold that character by looking and feeling like some freak who knifes you behind a bar for the $12 in your pocket

submitted 6 days ago • 89 comments

Trump Administration may be on track to put its thumb on critical GDP data: “Doing so could potentially complicate or distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy’s health.” Via AP.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments