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Well, at least one thing's for certain: Putin likes Taco.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Even if the number should be way off, it's assuredly greater than zero, because that's how shit works. You dumb sicko, you've got blood on your hands. #LetThatSinkIn. Could also tell you where to put that chainsaw. Might even help with your bladder issues, if you put it in deep enough.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“I said go ahead and punch me in the face and he did,” #Musk said, allegedly to Miller, not his kid burdened with the world's most stupid name. If you read anything about Musk's #BlackEye and how he got it from a 5 year old, now you know what he's lying about. #Allegedly

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

While folk songs are still in semi-vogue (is that a word?), may I introduce you (if necessary) to Pat the Bunny? This song in particular exemplifies what being a young lefty was about back in the day, including the defeatism and contradictions. Probably, maybe, perhaps: still? [Lyrics in comments]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you want the Democratic Party to never again have any relevance, just go with what this dude from the "Third Way" says. (Rant down below.)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So according to his lawyers (which are just the best, believe me) the network is wielding "the First Amendment as a sword.” That's no good. Everybody knows that the First Amendment must be wielded as a warhammer. And just in case you don't remember: trump declined to be interviwed by 60 Minutes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Racism, misogyny, and everything else that's used to divide us is ultimately in service of a class war most don't even realize is happening. Always has been, but they're getting bolder by the second.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." Yeah, actual quote. This must be the 4D Chess they keep talking about, because this shit is stupid on oh so many dimensions: judical, factual, grammatical, humanitarian, ...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Quick reminder that you can use 10 Minute Mail to register to any site that forces you to register.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Wunderbare Auf- und Weiterarbeitung, aber was haste anderes erwartet? Wenn nur der Verfassungsschutz vergleichbar professionell wäre ...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If you're still loyal to trump, I'd want you to write down what he'd have to do to lose your support. If you can't, ask yourself why. If you can, keep that piece of paper close by. Yeah, that's not how deprogramming works. This is more for the folks who don't believe it's a cult.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Sure, I'm a Marvel fanboy, and one of five people who really liked #Eternals, so take it with a truckload of salt if you must. West Chesapeake Bay #Thunderbolts was exactly the kind of movie the MCU needed. Not the grandest story ever told, but deeply personal. Not solved by punching harder ...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

It's important to ridicule fascists, because they hate that and it's fun to watch them crumble. But never stop there.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hot take: Viagra can be a kind of gender-affirming care.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

You don't need me to recommend #Sinners to you, it's obviously great, and might even be better than you expect. What I'm here to point out that the title of the film in Germany is "Blood & Sinners", because Germans are a little dim-witted? [RE: Thor: Ragnarok]

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Arcs is such a beautiful, enticing and all around great game. Can't recommend it enough. But like Root and Oath before it, don't let the art style fool you, it's also brutal. Which in the world of board games is refreshingly retro.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" is right out of Baron Münchhausen. It's not possible, y'know? Also, why on the topic of the right wing not understanding shit: the saying about "one bad apple" continues with "spoils the bunch".

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Why do political cartoonists so often add the names of the people they depict, even though they are easy to identify? For example:

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

"Maßgeblich sind Verstöße gegen die Menschenwürde, das Rechtsstaats- oder das Demokratieprinzip." [surprisedPikachu.gif]

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Fun fact regarding nepotism: the word comes from the habit of powerful figures in the Catholic church to grant powerful positions and possessions to their "nephews" (who could well be [due to celibacy] illegitimate sons); nepos is latin for nephew. No clue why that came to mind.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The Tesla brand is probably damaged beyond repair either way. Rightfully so, as the board was fine with Musk being a fascistoid asswipe until it affected the stock price.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

That it at least seems that Il Douche and his regime don't have the military completely under control should be a little calming to everybody besides the regime itself. Otherwise it could get really ugly really fast. Even more ugly than it already is.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

On top of all other worries (which are legion, as per usual with this regime) this is grist to the debunked mill of anti-vaxxers. Great.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

No two ways about it, you've become monsters. Got to wonder, and excuse my sudden but inevitable outburst, WHY YOU DIDN'T SEE COMING WHAT THE SAID, LOUDLY AND REPEATEDLY AND WITHOUT PRETENSE, THEY WOULD BE DOING? You wanted an unjust fascistoid regime, you got it. Now what?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments