I'm sorry but americans inventing "nothingburger" to describe the absence of something is pretty funny
My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · last mo.It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
hell yeah man. keep doing this. Trump Ocean. North Trump. The planet Trump. The Trump system in the Trump Way Galaxy. This isn't humiliating for us or for you at all.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoTRUMP SAYS HE IS CONSIDERING CHANGING THE NAME OF THE ATLANTIC OR PACIFIC OCEAN.
our investment prospectus? that we will invent and enslave god, producing an effectively infinite engine for economic growth our politics? absolute opposition to redistribution of any kind
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible
I love the notion of an "Islamic crusade". Sounds like integration to me!
Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 2mo agoObviously this isnt real but can you imagine? Bunch of 60 year old heart disease Harley guys going up against a town composed entirely of Basrawis and Lebanese Shia dudes? Dawgggg
A man who is ineligible to be President is President. SCOTUS is acting as a wing of the Republican Party. ICE and CBP have been converted into openly partisan paramilitary units, sent, by the President's own words, to terrorize "Democrat cities" and "Democrat communities" How about shut the fuck up
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
The sentences handed down today in Texas are a threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years for those not involved in even planning the protest?
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
The political spectrum under Trump according to me. 1. People appalled and terrified by what is happening and what is yet to come. 2a. People who have only a vague idea of what is going on and don't believe it can be that bad. 2b. As above, but they are angry at 1 for "being hysterical"
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? TRUMP: Suspending who? Q: Habeas corpus TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
imagine thinking, in the year of our lord 2025, that Donald Trump is capable of human empathy
Katie Fallow@katiefallow.bsky.social · last yr.It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...
Truth truth truth. Anywhere where truth is valued and not systemically eliminated will be targeted. It will lead to the frustration of the centrists who try to find moderation with fascism. With liberals who try to make peace with it. Truth truth truth. It’s an essential ingredient to freedom.
we must start a 4chan movement that 'ironically' performs acts of charity, which gradually over time inevitably become real virtue.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last yr.Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Netanyahu shared a video from Olivia Reingold arguing that it doesn’t count as starvation if the kids in Gaza had preexisting conditions
Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls Political pundits:
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
The thing about the right pretending to care about free speech on campus in order to end free speech is that it was obvious that's what they were doing, mostly because they said that's what they were doing, and all the "neutral" media people who credited them with good faith were part of the scam.
Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · last yr.If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
This is the core proposition & selling point for reactionary thought: not that they are better, but simply that *everyone* is corrupt, everyone is a crook, everyone's just out for themselves, so you might as well get yours. That is the molten core of right-wing thought everywhere.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Sen. John Kennedy defends Emil Bove: "If everyone is corrupt, nobody is corrupt." (Not the flex he thinks it is ... )
People used to phreak their phones now their phones phreak them
All the sins of Wade–Giles romanization, rendering 北京 as "Peking" and all, are forgiven for setting up this joke.
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
the dominant ideology of Silicon Valley right now is "god does not exist, but He soon will, and He will be our slave"
we're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2y agoif you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.