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Side-note: I am an old soul, which is probably apparent enough, but I've noticed a fair deal of folks express that they are only interested in novel things. I, for one, think it's cool to look backward at least enough to see how the world has changed and not just how it is changing.

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

You watch movies all the way through because you’re a coddled baby who needs the meaning of a story spoon fed to you. If you were comfortable with ambiguity you’d stop watching ten minutes before the end

submitted 3 days ago • 313 comments

The Billionaires have decided, that people with nothing, have too much. I’m not going to stop posting it.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

Trump is STILL - RIGHT NOW - tweeting about Tesla. He's spent more time protecting the richest man in the world's profits than he has protecting healthcare, education, jobs, or veterans in the last 6 weeks as president.

submitted 4 days ago • 742 comments

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

I thought I should let you all know what is going on over at Twitter ASAP Spread the word: Elon Musk is indeed deportation-eligible

submitted 6 days ago • 392 comments

TIGER ON THE BEAT (Lau, 1988)

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Another mad element of that press conference is that Trump & Vance were ordering Zelensky to thank them personally for aid that Joe Biden had provided. All while insulting Biden & ignoring Zelensky’s frequent previous expressions of gratitude.

submitted 14 days ago • 169 comments

What Trump said late last night: Zelensky can come back when he is ready for peace. What Trump meant: Zelensky can come back when he is ready to give a piece of Ukraine to Russia, its minerals to the US, never join NATO and sit there and wait till Putin comes back for the rest.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Massive Oasis fan. Song came on at work, I sung along to it all the way through. Made multiple remarks about how Oasis never get played on radio stations like this, and how did I forget this banger, haven't heard it for years. It was fucking Old Before I Die by Robbie Williams

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Good work from Macron. A relief to see him sat there, speaking truth, injecting moral clarity.

submitted 19 days ago • 60 comments

Read this twice. The world we know is shifting beneath our feet.

submitted 19 days ago • 217 comments

Are folks here following the Grok Scandal? Apparently there’s significant evidence that Grok was compromised at some point in the last 48 hours by a code intrusion that instructed it to avoid disparaging Musk or Trump. And the entity supposedly pointing a finger at Musk for all this... ...is Grok.

submitted 20 days ago • 183 comments

Studying history made me understand humankind’s capacity for evil, but I was less prepared for our capacity for stupidity. Ultimately, the fascists surprise me less than the people applauding them because they think they’re the good guys or not noticing them because they live up their own arses.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe was arrested during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting after protesting a proposed 'MAGA plaque' outside the city library. Kluwe approached the dais to "engage in the … tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." He was then arrested. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

🔥 Has Zelenskyy just played Trump? Yes. Yes he has. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

submitted 24 days ago • 87 comments

Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing

submitted 31 days ago • 67 comments

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submitted 31 days ago • 38 comments

submitted 34 days ago • 102 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 39 days ago • 587 comments

Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.

submitted 40 days ago • 692 comments

Trump's the high school bully in Footloose who challenges Kevin Bacon to a game of chicken and then blinks...

submitted 40 days ago • 18 comments

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk take aim at Canada, some high-level observers are calling on the federal government to consider sanctioning or even banning corporations owned by those close to Trump — much as it did with Russian oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine globalnews.ca/news/1099569...

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

submitted 41 days ago • 847 comments

It was so easy to be wise two thousand years ago or whatever. Some doofus would go "When you seek revenge, dig two graves" and everyone would ooh and ahh. That's maybe 12 likes max in the modern poster's world

submitted 43 days ago • 77 comments

Elon Musk, encouraged by his mother and an army of his cultish fans, is threatening tonight to sue a Washington Post journalist for pointing out on live TV that neo-Nazis welcomed his salute on Inauguration Day. Can we finally put the ‘he’s a free speech absolutist!’ BS to bed?

submitted 46 days ago • 291 comments

🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 46 days ago • 57 comments

Elon Musk has been Community Noted on Twitter for cheating at the PC game Path of Exile 2. "This is not his accomplishment."

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

I wonder if people realise how utterly pathetic they sound when they say ‘the reason I’ve gone full fash and hate minorities and excuse Nazi salutes and vote against my own interests and in favour of having my rights taken away is because you made me use pronouns’?

submitted 49 days ago • 7 comments

He has, not fully. DOGE was originally going to have a lot more power. Instead Trump gave Elon Musk a rebranded version of Barack Obama's dormant 2014 US Digital Service. 20 employees, government email (he's using it to bother people) and an office. Sam Altman gets $500 Billion for Stargate AI.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Very interesting view from autocracy expert @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on why picking a morally flawed man with no management experience to run the world’s biggest bureaucracy has logic for a strongman like Trump

submitted 50 days ago • 26 comments

Oh. www.cityam.com/brexit-has-l...

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submitted 53 days ago • 437 comments

Breaking: Attorneys general from 18 states have sued the Trump admin to block his executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens. The complaint is joined by the cities of San Francisco and D.C.

submitted 53 days ago • 35 comments

Fun fact - the "roman salute" is a myth. There is no mention anywhere in Roman literature or iconography of such actions. We think otherwise because of films and 19th-century art ... oh yes and the Italian fascists and Nazis who pretended it was a thing. One might even call it "Fake history".

submitted 54 days ago • 91 comments