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why is everything so goddamn dumb?

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

At this point a Republican congressman could get on stage and say “Listen up—I am a Nazi! I think Hitler is good! I think it would be a good idea to build some camps!” and the NYT would lead with “Debate Over Puzzling Remarks From Rally Outburst”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It's great for people with actual capital returns (your Warren Buffets) and terrible for people with fake, levered wealth on juiced up equity (Much of Silicon Valley and especially Elon Musk). At some point, their jubilation will turn to horror

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

There’s a van driving around the courthouse displaying JURY NULLIFICATION on all sides

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We're doing it, folks

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 121 comments

Of course there are reasons we don't let one person decide what government spending is and isn't legitimate, and chief among them is that this person could be someone who hasn't had a normal life in 30 years. This guy wouldn't know what to do in a grocery store, he's basically an alien

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

every sales pitch is now "wouldn't you like me to be your new overlord? i'll only hurt you a little. at first"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Republicans are holding back our own tax money from us to extort policy changes that Californians voted against. Treating us like conquered territory to be looted www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Just so everybody is clear on Republican priorities: We put up an amendment to make sure nobody making over $500 million gets a tax cut. Republicans voted against it.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

we cant have that reckoning. the ego collapse for hundreds of millions of people will give rise to a local black hole

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

sometimes it fills me with paralyzing dread to think that early millennials are the last people in the industrialized world who have an accessible, first-person pre-internet frame of reference, but then i am comforted by the knowledge that someday i will die defector.com/glossy-gunky...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"the Republican Party has transformed from a despicable but predictable vehicle for the interests of capital into an enormous cult of personality in which you must either be a legitimate lunatic zealot or a remarkably shameless ass kisser in order to rise in status. This is a mob"

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

wondering why we haven't seen a musk "founded" "hatchery and conditioning center" yet

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

do you understand how online you have to be to believe there is no gold in fort knox

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,

submitted 33 days ago • 43 comments

The kids and Grimes don't deserve any of this but from what I can tell Elon didn't go hard on stimulants until she introduced him. He was obviously open to drugs already (can't be around TESCREAL people if you aren't) but the monster we see today was created in part by her. Shakespearean

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Elon isn't the reason that we shouldn't be sending humans to Mars. Our wholesale destruction of this planet is why we shouldn't be sending people yet. Order of operations matters.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

People are being incredibly calm about imperative government systems being torn down considering how fast this country would grind to a halt if their own passwords didn't autofill

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Mom, come pick me up, they're coming up with the silliest possible version of the Great Man Theory of History

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

if anyone could do anything about any of this that’d be so appreciated

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

when Trump burst onto the scene just saying “I’m going to do the best things,” all the savvy pundits laughed - your lies need to be better than that! but they do not

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

the insight that decodes elon musk is that he's an insecure mediocrity who desperately wants to be seen as cool, smart, & funny he'll burn down the planet, build a police state, and install mind control chips in every person in the country if that's what he thinks it will take to make that happen

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I saw the worst minds of my generation destroyed by madness

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

They should maybe ask Grok what the phrase "go postal" means and why it was coined

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I don’t know where Elon is testing his drugs but someone could be a hero

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments