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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

The paper that broke Watergate is too chickenshit to endorse a presidential candidate? How times have changed.

And the roots of the (old, original, now dead) Republican Party; The Wide Awakes: The 1860 Election Was Influenced By Young People Advocating Against Slavery www.teenvogue.com/story/the-wi...

If you're upset by art not being damaged in protest against climate change, I can only imagine how furious you'll be at the actual damage to art caused by climate change.

Trump when asked about replacing Obamacare

Just like the magical algorithm claims, the idea that a machine trained on your posts, emails, and texts could *know* you enough to essentially become a digital copy of you is bizarre thinking. Tech bros really think people have no inner life—that there’s nothing beyond what you click and type.

conservatives like school shootings, in pretty much the same way they like crime. a terrified and unsafe population makes people more distrustful and reactionary, and they have the fun bonus of helping to destroy the public education system.

Did you notice that suddenly the headlines look exactly the way old movies thought 2024 headlines would look

Go ahead, keep calling me a sexist. But you’re going to look real silly when in response to that slur I donate a bunch of money to a rapist.

The attacks you’re seeing on the Harris and Walz families from the online right are reflective of a different ideological orientation towards family as mere objects that are meant to reflect the greatness of the husband and father, not people with their own lives and emotions.

Mainstream media fact checkers decided that, faced with wildly asymmetric volume and degree of lying, the fact-checker’s job is to force balance—eg by equating nitpicks with whoppers—thereby not being “biased.” Loses credibility with people who value truth, gains them no credibility with the liars.

If Elon Musk wasn't the world's richest person and didn't own car and space companies, the headlines today would be that Trump is being interviewed by a white supremacist.

A friend's elderly Fox News-brainwashed mom was doing one of the manglings of Kamala's name they do and my friend told her, "You should probably practice saying her name correctly so your doctors don't think you have dementia when you can't pronounce the president's name."

remains incredibly striking to me that most of the entire cadre of “democrats must reach out to rural americans” and “democrats must speak to blue collar americans” pundits are sour on the Walz pick

The Oldest Known Recording of the Human Voice

the weirdest thing about terfs to me is that they seem to think cis men need to pretend they're not men in order to abuse women

she has both a mother AND a father?!?!?! which is it kamala