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Remember all the assholes in 2003 who insisted that we’d be greeted as liberators and called you anti-American for opposing the war and then changed their minds many years later to pretend like they always opposed the war? They’re doing the same schtick again.

submitted 3 hours ago • 66 comments

A.G. Sulzberger saw a man suffer consequences for sexually abusing junior staff and decided we couldn't have that happen again.

submitted 15 hours ago • 10 comments

The "whoever he last spoke with" rule strikes again.

submitted 1 hour ago • 14 comments

Millennials are cursed

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

At some point I feel like I have to write something about how the physiological impact of the Long Peace has left us unable to conceptualize any level of conflict between "deniable" and "existential", and how dangerous that is now that we're entering History II: Again as Farce™.

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGGGGG

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

Someone tell Trump they're surrendering and save us all a lot of pointless death.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Deeply, darkly ironic that Trump purged the neoconservatives from his first administration, didn't hire the likes of Bolton, Pompeo, and Haley for his second administration, and is still possibly about to get us into a regime-change war with Iran, all with the backing of left-wing isolationists.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

I can’t believe Soros got to the roommate that quickly

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

submitted 13 hours ago • 68 comments

horrifying thought that Tucker Carlson could lead a dissident right movement in 2028 if the Trumpist right implodes over Iran

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

It’s almost impressive that the United States has managed to find a way to make FIFA even worse.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

stealing our money from us and ruling over us like conquered territory. intolerable.

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

It is extremely important to treat moral outrages as though they are morally outrageous. If you want a society where this sort of grotesque behavior, then you need to act like it is already is.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Real scientists have lost faith in RFK. The American people have lost faith in RFK. I won't stop fighting until I see the headline that RFK has resigned. That's the greatest thing he could do on behalf of our nation's health.

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

What exactly is it about internet right-wingers that make them ride so hard for countries that go 0-1 in wars. Nazi Germany. Confederacy. Rhodesia. I mean Mussolini at least beat Ethiopia. He had a .500 batting average, and it’s like that makes them all allergic to him.

submitted 6 hours ago • 51 comments

please do this for your trans friends.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Tehran has a population of about 10,000,000 people, over 16,000,000 in the greater metro area. It should go without saying but it's 2025 so let's just clarify: the President of the United States saying this on social media is going to cause a huge panic and people will get killed because of it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The one constant of "western civilization" is that everyone outside of it is a "barbarian" and should be treated as such.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

its really cool how IRV promotes positive sum coalitional politics and we get to see it happen in real time

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

I would not actually interpret it as indicative of anything more than that Trump is watching explosions on FOX news right now.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Anti-cancel culture is worse than cancel culture and always has been for the exact same reason that the excesses of democracy are always less bad than the excesses of monarchy/feudalism/totalitarianism.

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

theory: lot of lib-left hostility is because a lot of discourse flows from ny commentary that's colored by new yorkers being provincial dipshits i am going to eat my big mac and not elaborate

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Although the media coverage is always going to focus on the exceptions, it has to be clearly said just how peaceful and disciplined the protests involving MILLIONS of people were that there were only three disruptions to cover.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

The two stages of comic book literary criticism: 14 year old you: Oh wow, Ozymandias saved the world by killing millions in Watchmen! It's so adult and deep. 30 year old you: Oh, wow, Ozymandias didn't save anyone and killed millions in Watchmen. It's so adult and deep. #comics

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

Trump says mass deportations are urgent—but not if they mess with his donors’ pockets. ICE was told to back off farms & hotels 'cause it was bad for business. But LA and Chicago? Open season. Please be for real—this is the weaponization of government against cities that refuse to bow down to him.

submitted 7 hours ago • 205 comments

adjacent to this, but one of the fucked up dynamics in american politics is that Democrats nationally are a center to left wing party but in deep blue states it is a center right to left wing party, a lot of blue state legislature are non ideologically polarized

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

I guess the resistance isn't dead after all, it's just that the journalists who normally covered it have found other things to do.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

People like when you unapologetically stand for something, specifically the working class. This shouldn't be seen as some super lefty position, and we shouldn't need a poll to tell us it either.

submitted 8 hours ago • 82 comments

"Moderate" to most Americans just means "Loser."

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

They're practically stage managing the rise of a Second Bonus Army.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend more time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.

submitted 14 hours ago • 156 comments

Of all the pseudoscientific and conspiracy-minded horseshit we’ve allowed to take up space in the common consciousness of humanity, “Our ancestors were simply too stupid to put one rock on top of another! Aliens MUST have helped!“ remains the most viscerally offensive.

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

ah "instant pot got bought by private equity goons that ran it into the ground then started doing a bust-out into a 2023 bankruptcy" now the trump partnership story makes sense

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

The people who claim we’re in an “echo chamber” are literally trying to imprison everyone who disagrees with them.

submitted 14 hours ago • 40 comments

I never actually use the word, but this is proper actual Nazi shit. A demonstrable lie left unquestioned inciting harm to a minority. We’re in awful times. Fight, fight, fight for your trans siblings.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Bowser would never say a swear word. Wario would, but he’d use them wrong. Like an edgelord 11 year-old. I think we all intuitively understand this.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments