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What -- and I cannot emphasize this enough -- the actual fuck

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 22 days ago • 311 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

New "We Play Wednesday" is up! In this one, we get to meet Mike's, uh, furrier children. youtu.be/9xFpkkhCzJQ?... #Dadicorns #DadicornsMusic #WePlayWednesday #ParenthoodIsAwesome

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

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submitted 29 days ago • 58 comments

5'5 guy here. Tried online dating with minimal traction for 4 or so years. Finally deleted all my profiles, started getting out more. Turned out I was not, in fact, undesirable. More dates, eventually met my now wife. Moral: get the fuck offline. (This does not just apply to dating either.)

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I think the lesson of history since 1989 is that the decisive element in modern geopolitics is not brilliance but incompetence. No one can be genius enough to have the world dancing on their strings (it's too complex!), but plenty are stupid enough to wreck a perfectly viable state apparatus.

submitted 78 days ago • 5 comments

Yes, but in 2004, even as Kerry lost, a freshman Senator with a funny name had just wowed at the DNC and seemed (correctly) to be on the fast track to the White House. I'm less engaged than I used to be for a wide variety of reasons, but is there anybody like that waiting in the wings?

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

My life in a nutshell: I type "F" in Spotify search bar and the first two suggestions are Fugazi and the Frozen soundtrack

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Huh, I had assumed the point of the Gaetz nomination was to be so extraordinarily awful that it made the merely incredibly awful nominations around him easier to stomach

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Look, this isn't why Harris lost -- she was going to lose anyway -- but it's also NOT not why she lost either.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Read this short thread, then read more about the election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction. It's undertaught at schools how dramatically this set the stage for much of the internal strife of the next century. In some ways, we still haven't recovered, and i think the comparison is apt

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

submitted 110 days ago • 600 comments

Great analysis here. Point #11 lingers first and foremost in my mind as well. We seem intent on relinquishing American hegemony, and given that nature abhors a vacuum, I fear what might fill it.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

The emphasis is on the "secretly" part. My wife and I have often voted differently (albeit not at the presidential level, yet) but we discuss politics and would never not be open about it. That's kinda crazy.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

"Taking away full body autonomy from half the population will bring us together" was certainly an interesting theory

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

This would be a disgrace. It's also extraordinarily disturbing.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

What could possibly go wrong?

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

"There is no GOP governor in the US that fears Harris’ presidency on the grounds that if something bad happens to their states, the federal government will abandon them." Key exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social about media's failure to convey Trump's bad faith: newrepublic.com/article/1871...

submitted 131 days ago • 9 comments

For those who may still wonder why some of us insist on calling it the “criminal LEGAL system,” not “justice.” DAs pressure a man to plead guilty to a rape they already KNEW HE DID NOT COMMIT, withholding the DNA they KNEW exonerated him. 13 YEARS in prison. My GOD.

submitted 132 days ago • 44 comments

Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to prosecute the media for airing pro-choice ads

submitted 139 days ago • 33 comments

Whether this is true, I think the salient part is that it is believable. No one could have made similar accusations against Dubya, Obama, or Biden and seemed credible.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

this is happening talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/desan...

submitted 139 days ago • 33 comments

If another big tech company were backing Harris this unabashedly, Republican hacks would rupture their tracheas shrieking about it.

submitted 139 days ago • 29 comments

America isn't debating if Trump and Co. attempted a coup, conspiring to overthrow the Constitution of the United States to stay in power after losing reelection. Not really. America is debating whether it was bad or good (or at least acceptable), and if the people who did it should be empowered.

submitted 144 days ago • 9 comments

Yikes. YIKES. For a company of Meta’s size and sophistication to be storing passwords in plaintext is almost unthinkably reckless and incompetent. I genuinely cannot fathom how that was allowed to occur. This isn’t even security 101, it’s like Baby’s First Infosec Coloring Book.

submitted 147 days ago • 11 comments

"I won't vote unless my very specific, personal requirements for your platform are met, period" is baby-brain engagement for lazy assholes. You don't bend the will of the machine when you withhold your vote, you give them permission to ignore everything you say from that point forward.

submitted 150 days ago • 151 comments

For what it's worth: Biden was polling better in 2020 than Harris is now. And Trump outperformed the polling average in all the close states in 2020. Every single one.

submitted 167 days ago • 1 comment

I know how much of a skeptic I've become, but I believe the Cheney endorsement actually makes things worse on the margins. It effectively reinforces the "Washington elite vs the people" narrative ("the Swamp" that needs to be "drained") and that only helps Trump.

submitted 170 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time for the GOP’s periodic game of “teachers are communist groomers indoctrinating our children to be godless anti-American transsexuals and we should arm them.”

submitted 171 days ago • 27 comments

I don't understand 8 minute rounds of applause at movie premieres. I'm not clapping for anything for 8 minutes. A chimpanzee could deliver a human baby by c-section then sit down at a piano and play a flawless Chopin movement. Sure, I'll stand, but I'm only clapping for like 2 minutes, tops.

submitted 176 days ago • 61 comments

I don't know who to credit for this but it's perfect

submitted 188 days ago • 13 comments

I think my biggest issue with the vast majority of conspiracy theories is that they project a level of competence on the perpetrators that they have never remotely exhibited.

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Zahkia Mendoza of Trivial Warfare put together a GREAT game for this week's episode, featuring Ian, Evan, @baneyboii.bsky.social, and Adam! Check it out now at frenemytrivia.podbean.com/e/season-3-e...

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