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I don’t want to be an American anymore. It’s anything but great. It’s not great. It’s a lie.

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A thing people don't remember about 2003 is that "they have WMDs" was the pitch to high-info voters. The pitch to low-info voters was "the dastardly muslims attacked us on 9/11 and we have to hit them back by deposing the muslim king saddam hussein who attacked us"

submitted 13 hours ago • 61 comments

Today’s realization: Dolores Umbridge is really J.K. Rowling’s effort to Mary Sue herself in the Potterverse.

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Things this idiot {points to self}, right here, says at bedtime to his wife: “I’m going to make it after all… Except I’m not Mary Tyler Moore… Hell, I’m not even a woman, and I don’t live anywhere near Minneapolis… Also, I’m over 50 years too late… You know what… forget everything I just said.”

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Let's be clear: those who don't like the subway aren't really afraid of it. They are simply bigoted, anti-socialist thugs who fetishize twisted notions of individualism & conversely demonize amazing public works (like the NYC subway system) that benefit everyone, whether they use it or not.

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If only national party leadership had the guts to fight back on TV like this.

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Look I don't think a world where trans kids are loved and affirmed and Palestinian kids get all the food they can eat and Black kids get the best education in the world and immigrant kids can be anything they want to be is all that big of an ask tbh

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Today, I heard the best new-to-me derogatory nickname for The Orange Shitgoblin in quite some time: MAGAmemnon.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

For context, Comstock is a Republican & former House of Representatives member who represented my district in Northern VA from 2015-2019. She is by no means whatsoever any kind of Democrat. In fact, she was a standard, undeniably and reliably solid Republican politician during her time in office.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.

submitted 9 days ago • 106 comments

I'm living vicariously through @pattonoswalt.bsky.social, as he's living out my young adult dream of being on both MST3K & Star Trek. Seriously, that's really it -- the rest is superfluous.. The fact that he graduated from high school with @colorsally.bsky.social, just makes it utterly surreal.

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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

I just love that every single person I hear from in L.A. is like "I just did all the stuff I needed to do. Went to the store. Went to work. None of the protests were anywhere near me" while Fox "news" and the right are screaming about the city burning to the ground.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

What the everlasting fuck. I am old enough to remember the Rodney King riots, and they were way worse than anything seen in LA over the last few days. You know what Pres. Bush didn't do at that time? Send in marines or any other federal military units. This is what juntas do.

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Earlier today, I had a terrible, meaningful epiphany. For some time now I’ve called myself a cheerful nihilist. That’s misleading. I’ve left out a vital modifier. I’m not simply a cheerful nihilist. I’m a reluctant cheerful nihilist. I don’t want to embrace it, but I feel there’s no choice.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

They can’t police trans people’s bodies without policing cis people’s bodies, and they can’t police immigrants without policing citizens.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

It’s Friday night, the night you tell Caution to go to the corner, stare into the abyss until it’s told it can leave, and to seriously contemplate all the things it has prevented good-hearted, fun-loving people from doing.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I'm actually super fucking mad that the Elon Musk era is gonna end because of narcissist infighting with a former reality TV show host, and not because even a single institution in American life made a serious effort to hold him responsible for a decade plus long crime spree

submitted 16 days ago • 68 comments

Just saw an ad for Dude Wipes on TV. It really is ridiculously sad how often certain products have to be rebranded to make men comfortable buying and using certain kinds of products. See also skirts/kilts, paint/makeup, & action figures/dolls.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

We are absolutely allowed to have fun on days like this and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise still wets the bed. Experience some joy when and where you can among the horrors.

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Watching the Musk-Trump meltdown on Twitter right now, makes me feel exactly like Bridget Jones's friend Tom, when he gets to run across the street into a restaurant and exclaim, "Fight! Well, quick! It's a REAL FIGHT!"

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I mentioned before that I love this song as hard as humanly possible for a cishet male. When we were at The Stonewall Inn on Karaoke Night nearly three weeks ago, there really wasn't any question which song I would do. Wish I was far less self-conscious to start, but I did get better as I went on.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Post a female character you love.

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Happy #pridemonth! #pride

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I posted this to Facebook many times in the past, but I haven’t done so here… I unabashedly love this song as hard as humanly possible for a cishet (non-normative) male. A week & a half ago at the Stonewall Inn in NYC, I performed it at karaoke. (Video courtesy of my wife is coming this weekend.)

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The type of posts I want to currently write won't fit nicely into the micro-blogging format. I either need to get much more concise or actually force myself to take the time to write them as I truly want to see them online & post them to my underused blog.

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The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

submitted 25 days ago • 62 comments

As a way of conveying my life journey, I would like to acknowledge that as a teen, I grokked Isaac Asimov’s R. Daneel Olivaw. As a middle-aged adult, I idolize @marthawells.com’s Murderbot.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Given the software industry's fetishization of shoving AI down our throats whether we want it or not, I'm happy that I still have Office for Mac 2019 on my computer, and I will literally use it until a future OS update gives me no other choice.

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I'm depressed about everything pretty much continually (and I am NOT asking for your advice on dealing with it, just to be absolutely clear) but I'm also just so fucking ... annoyed, at the irritating stupidity of it all. It's like being ruled by a giant, stupid, buzzing mosquito.

submitted 30 days ago • 34 comments

And just like that, all the good feelings I had towards @booker.senate.gov vanished like a fart in a Bath and Body Works. It’s not making good trouble if you only do it when it’s convenient.

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