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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 12 days ago • 1023 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 13 days ago • 288 comments

The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

submitted 18 days ago • 224 comments

[it's hip to be square voice] it's fine to be cringe

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 22 days ago • 186 comments

The reason I'm hitting myself in the head with a big cartoon mallet is that the people who told me not to do that were condescending. "That's gonna hurt dumbass" they sneered. Well it doesn't hurt and in fact I think it may be helping my asthma

submitted 21 days ago • 33 comments

The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

submitted 24 days ago • 271 comments

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 25 days ago • 661 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 25 days ago • 79 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 25 days ago • 265 comments

my offer to america: we bring woke back

submitted 26 days ago • 316 comments

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

submitted 27 days ago • 58 comments

got one of those "just talk about books nobody wants to hear your politics" dms. buddy i am not on these apps bc i think people want to hear from me. i am here bc a witch cursed my family line long ago and now none of us can shut the fuck up

submitted 29 days ago • 264 comments

so basically the "keep politics out of gaming" crowd have now destroyed gaming with politics

submitted 29 days ago • 148 comments

I blame George W. Bush. He softened America up to the idea that we could have someone stupid in the White House and things would still function.

submitted 29 days ago • 1743 comments

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

submitted 29 days ago • 970 comments

it’s so cool that all of the Silicon Valley right wing freaks obsessed with living forever are replacing our best-in-the -world medical research institutions with Steak n’ Shake beef tallow fries

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submitted 31 days ago • 125 comments

traveling in and reporting on the Nordics has really soured me on American style subcultural bohemian leftism. actually existing egalitarian institutions rely on a lot of dutiful, virtuous, boring ass bureaucrats

submitted 30 days ago • 89 comments

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

submitted 31 days ago • 82 comments

hard for me to give much rope to the idea that private business is more efficient than government when it now takes 7 years to make 8 half hour episodes of a TV show

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 31 days ago • 196 comments

WATCH: Sen. Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest U.S. Senate speech. Booker's marathon speech breaks the previous record — Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that stretched for 24 hours and 18 minutes.

submitted 31 days ago • 36 comments

Official Statement: Miles 'Tails' Prower

submitted 31 days ago • 101 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

submitted 31 days ago • 329 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 32 days ago • 1062 comments

Big-city police forces are janissaries. Rural police are mostly straight up organized crime syndicates.

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

yet another 'fake debate, real debate' thing. fake debate: are people blank slates or are things like intelligence heritable to some degree? real debate: are the untermensch subhuman? it is Fine, Actually for there to be pretty strong norms about having to be cautious about some topics.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

So, like, it's really clear that the GOP is trying to isolate us from the rest of the world like an abusive stepdad.

submitted 36 days ago • 308 comments

WHO'S HUNGRY NOW, BITCH?

submitted 37 days ago • 163 comments

film still #71 after band played happy birthday for Adam. #severance

submitted 37 days ago • 148 comments

Sometimes you just have to ask—why? The Senate voted to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure introduced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was expected to save Americans billions each year.

submitted 37 days ago • 1184 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 37 days ago • 1705 comments

Never, ever accept that these people give one shit about your kids. They send cops into your schools to arrest the people who care for them. They love the cops, not your kids.

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submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

This aged badly

submitted 38 days ago • 604 comments