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resonates.

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

The US media, the Democrats and the EU spent over a year making anti-semitism a meaningless political insult without real content and now these dudes can heil hitler on stage and journalists will be like "wow! Controversial gesture!"

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Panic Room was really good and Blackberry made me painfully nostalgic for the pre-iPhone era when tech and phones were fun and cool and not making us miserable and destroying society.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hard to articulate the contempt I have for neoliberal bullshit like this that amounts to a backdoor tax cut for the top 10 to 20 percent of earners that are the only ones who could ever hope to take advantage of it in a useful way. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The pants are bad, but what the fuck is up with that tie, my man? What are you, a fifteen year old dressing up for the first time to go to mock trial?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.

submitted 1 day ago • 1335 comments

Putting aside the obvious moral issues, the question to people who support defunding these and so many other programs that support the mentally ill and disabled must always be: "how exactly do you think you'll benefit from the disabled and mentally ill being put out on the street in your community?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Iowa GOP wants to defund our parks and give the money to wealthy property owners. Someone explain to me again why it's so hard to campaign and win against these people? www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ok, I get that it's the big thing that's happening right now, but it's making me crazy that fully half to three fourths of the leftist and tech skeptic podcasts I listen to all put out either a "DOGE? We're DOOMed" or "The Guy Is Called Big Balls? LOL" podcast this week.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once again I am here to remind people that one of the first things Trump did in his first term was rollback rules that would have forced financial advisors and wealth managers to act as fiduciaries for their clients. He is the Scam President.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The GOP are the party of bullying 11 year old into suicide

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I think one of the funniest ways the next four years could play out is Republicans somehow managing to undo the 22nd Amendment to try to bring on perpetual Trumpism, but instead Obama decides to run again and blows them out of the water even in red states.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Noblesse sans Oblige is the motive force behind a lot of elite American institutions these days and a large part of why our society is in crisis. Bottomless grubbing after wealth, power, fame, influence, and status coupled with a rejection of the idea that any of that comes with responsibility.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments