Iris

@irisembury.bsky.social

the r/bald subreddit is so bad for men. this dude looked fine and normal, turned himself into a weird looking cue ball because he was insecure about aging. and the gaslighters in that subreddit all tell him "hell yeah looking great dude!" it's worse than TwoX yasqueening

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I don't like the city-owned grocery store idea because I sense it's more a covert populist plot to spite grocery retailers than a serious attempt at solving a problem. And best case scenario, I don't see how it's not just welfare with extra steps.

Some leftists believe a company that makes stuff people want and sells it for money is inherently doing something wrong. To them business is itself unethical. Tlaib will never have to explain how all of these random companies are "hurting Michiganders." She just says it.

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The main purpose of prison is punishment and ergo to deter crime. A secondary function is that it protects society from further being harmed by the imprisoned people. If we can also rehabilitate anyone along the way, that's a nice benefit, but definitely not the reason we do it.

There's a big advantage to widespread public surveillance that I feel people never acknowledge, which is increased public safety. It's impossible to do a lot of crimes today that you could've easily got away with 30 years ago. Brian Thompson's murder is a good example.

When Trump announced he was running for U.S. president, I didn't know who he was. I searched his name online. He said climate change is a hoax made up by China, Obama was born in Kenya, and that vaccines cause autism. Clearly a lunatic, not a serious candidate. Right?

What was the point of this video? Why did Hunter Biden and this lefty dude say "let's spend an hour trying to humanize and find common ground with Nick Fuentes"?

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There's a lot of misinformation and pseudo-science peddled in online trans communities because they're so afraid of self-criticism and calling out each other's bullshit.

Troy Jackson, at a glance: Normal guy with years of experience in Maine politics. Takes progressive positions for U.S. federal politics, without being weirdly antisemitic or pro-Russia. No fake backstory, no pretending to be anything he's not. Why was Platner ever a thing?

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Q: "What makes you stand out from your opponent?" El-Sayed: "I'm not taking 50 million dollars of corruption money. I haven't traded my votes for money"

Trump: "I thought Kaitlan [Collins] had really made it big with a new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney."

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Toronto has the best transit system in the country if not the best in North America, but people often shit on it simply for not being even better. Why do I feel like being a pessimistic ingrate has become more common these days?

I love Quebec and the Quebecois — except for the part where some of them are still hanging onto regional separatism. This is a possibility Canada was open to in the 70s when the nation was still young. Your ancestors voted to remain. Today, it should be a settled issue.

'You have to play the game, and I don't think that Kamala can win the game. ... You need to consider someone like Gavin Newsom, someone who looks more like what they're used to.'

Left-wingers call people "AIPAC candidates" with the same energy as right-wingers calling people "DEI candidates." It's just a punchy way to imply a bunch of racism and conspiracy theorism without standing on it.

MAGA don't care about democracy, rule of law, personal liberty, truth, or the Western order. They have no real solutions to your problems. They just want to follow a cult of personality and revel in conspiracy theorism. And, word for word, this applies to Communists too.

In non-U.S. countries, you have small left-wing parties to absorb the fringe of crazy. This makes it easy to draw lines and understand who's who. Remember the Canadian politician who said MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+? "Don't look at us — that was an NDP member, not a Liberal." Easy.