it has a lot to do with incentives.

to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense.

to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative

“Not implementing policies that benefit me, personally, wil bring about the anitchrist” sounds like something an antichrist would say.

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

I work at the dick sucking factory. I am in finance. we are losing so much fucking money

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

This is the kind of shit I’m talking about, how do you get from Mike Johnson frantically making increasingly threadbare excuses not to swear in one member to dozens of state-level elections, many of them administered by Democrats, being canceled

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

A lot of (mostly American) leftists have a child’s view of how political violence works.

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

One of the smartest things Costco does is assigning every shopper a “Costco Enemy,”who stays in front of them putting carts in stupid places and blocking the aisle and going really slowly. This gives the shopper 30% more browsing time and creates a memorable, provocative experience

There is a style of management which does this, almost entirely defined by its lack of sufficient theory of mind to understand how other people would react to this.

Realizing why the vibes of the frog man pictures have felt familiar — its this old meme with stakes

Johnny Cash performed for prisoners at Folsom Prison. Today’s Nashville country stars would be performing for the ICE agents locking them up.

Does the picture they’ve used for this leaflet really capture the mood that either the sender or receiver would feel in light of this shittyTrump-induced move?

This is a user error. You’ve got to look at your own skewed expectations. A nectarine isn’t out there promising the earth. It’s just promising to be a satisfying tangy few mouthfuls. And most of the time it’ll come good on that.

I agree with that; long time ago had the same feeling with Cash's version of Highway Patrolman, even if the original by Springsteen remains strong as it is. But Cash revealed something. Same too with Mercy Seat and Cave...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

Your jokes about Trump are extremely insensitive to those of us who are also bereft that we didn’t get the Nobel peace prize

The Nobel committee is always playing 3D chess. Giving the prize to Obama in 2009 looked idiotic but 16 years later it's caused a US president to think about peace for almost an entire week.

I could probably live without poems that aren't poems but little arrangements of self-interested observations. Honestly, read Auden or Seamus Heaney, then consider whether you need to post yours. If poetry was taught better, maybe we'd understand what is and isn't a good poem. Yes I am gate-keeping.