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So have the Yanks added aeroplanes to schools on the list of "things that are pretty safe everywhere but America"?

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Again my slightly contrarian take is that billionaires *should* be right wing and it’s usefully clarifying to have so many of them announcing what their interests are.

submitted 51 days ago • 120 comments

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

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Just started "Parable is the Sower" and the fact that it's set in 2024 is doing a number on me.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best things about NBA games is seeing a 6’1 guy playing and thinking “that little freak, that little gremlin”

submitted 94 days ago • 82 comments

I'm just going to start posting a book a day that I think you should read (in no particular order): 1: The Age of Revolution, Eric Hobsbawm.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

submitted 99 days ago • 2305 comments

I feel like the Pod Save America guys had a genuinely good idea in setting up a non-conservative media outlet but then ruined it by being the Pod Save America guys

submitted 98 days ago • 39 comments

Making RFK Jr eat McDonald's is so good as a Stalinesque tactic to break his inner circle's spirits completely, over and over. You WILL eat the Big Mac and you WILL NOT say how you think it's pumped full of hormones that cause autism. Look at RFK's face here!

submitted 102 days ago • 353 comments

The current state of politics is just: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." On infinite loop. Credit to everyone who gets their shit done regardless.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.

submitted 106 days ago • 211 comments

Seen a couple posts where people are surprised that Flavor Flav has opinions on politics and I feel like I need to remind you all of Public Enemy and what Public Enemy is

submitted 108 days ago • 135 comments

I have now convinced myself the American elections are probably more economy and inflation than racism and personality. Which makes me worry Australia is stumbling toward a Dutton shaped future while our government fiddles with banning social media and vaping.

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Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.

submitted 129 days ago • 147 comments

It's great that this website is doing well while other websites run by gormless billionaires seem to be slowly doing less well. Still, it would be nice if our various governments could avoid being run into the ground by similarly gormless millionaires.

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I'm feeling worried the Americans have abandoned the racist dog whistle over "illegal" migration and seem to be just straight up blaming migrants now. That feels like a significant shift to me, but I may just be poisoned by two decades of Australian politics obsessing over boats.

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YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?

submitted 152 days ago • 68 comments

my only comment on Eric Adams is every leftist online had the guy pegged from the second he appeared on stage, and it is my sincere wish that every 'reasonable moderate' who installed him as the Cop God of their fascist daydreams has a spiritual awakening triggered by these indictments

submitted 155 days ago • 8 comments

BLUESKY: Which people are you missing? Journalists? MATT: No. BLUESKY: Political commentators? Brands? MATT: lol, no. BLUESKY: Which, then? MATT: Oh, you know the ones.

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I once tried to file a story on a Palin visit to Haiti that included full-sentence quotes she said, and the editor made me paraphrase and cut them because he said it was unfair to show how she really talked

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