This mentality also worked a lot better for them back in the day, but now that print media in general is struggling and trust in media is at an all-time low it just comes across like those former royal families who think anyone gives a shit they used to rule Montenegro.

My slogan "No Kings Except Kong" is going over very poorly. I'm sorry, I didn't realize New Yorkers were still traumatized by his 1933 rampage.

But Anakin betrayed the Jedi and turned to the Dark Side. The Vader connection is necessary to demonstrate that Anakin redeemed himself and fulfilled the Chosen One prophecy by killing the Emperor and destroying the Sith.

Could a man survive falling into a river of lava? No, that's ridiculous. The Skywalker-Organa clan is lying about Vader's identity in order to promote the myth that their father was the Chosen One and not simply a traitor, which in turn justifies the family's dominance of the New Republic and Jedi.

Yes but the longer Mike Johnson can drag this out for the longer he can avoid having to come up with a plan to deal with the problem. He's basically doing the political equivalent of refusing to see a doctor because you can pretend you're fine until they officially diagnose you.

In addition to Gork and Mork they worship Draco and "'Ermione." Draco is sexy but brutal and 'Ermionie is brutal but sexy.

The fact that the culture war was always secondary to Kristol really helps him here. He doesn't need to go "Does the radical left know what a woman is?" in order to feel valid, but Brooks has to scream that because otherwise he loses a core part of his identity.

Askshually I think you'll find only 43% of replies will be pure pedantry.

Ordinary person: Worried their greed may damn them, but also won't give more to charity because it would mean they can't use that money on themselves.

Donald Trump: Worried that his greed may damn him, but literally everything in his house is made of gold.

One big part of Christianity is that this is how most people are, it's just that like everything Trump takes it to a cartoonish extreme.

Its especially notable in Johnson's case because that's his go-to answer. At some point any decent reporter would say "OK, so how can you be Speaker and know literally nothing? Are you stupid or lying?"

With food in particular it fell apart pretty quickly because it stopped even being about making money/displacement and just became about the act of eating it at all. Which is both not actually a problem and also a building block of how culture develops in the first place.

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" sucks to be you but I'm built different.

Part of "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" is that if the Court's role as interpreters of the Constitution can be nullified if their interpretations are flagrantly anti-constitutional. You can only use this in extreme circumstances, but we are in extreme circumstances.

The Holy Roman Empire still existed when America gained independence and James Madison kept dissing it for being weak and ineffectual.

This is also the third or fourth time he's snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. World-historic bag fumbler.

This is a good example of left-wing accomodationism: just going "lol lmao" when Trump does something horrible.

"My son's birthday is today. Here's what raising him taught be about B2B sales..."

True moderation has never been tried.

Hating Buttigieg made sense in 2020, maybe even 2021, but at this point anything more than moderate dislike can be safely called Mayor Pete Derangement Syndrome.

The version of that Contrapoints power meme for the far-right is that "they don't want power, they just want to endlessly make content about how powerful they are."

I think part of the genuinely pro-Israel people's anxiety comes from an understanding that the deferentialists will support literally any I/P position as long as it is ascendant and thus they are on the edge of losing a lot of their nominal allies.

I think most of them will slide over to being nominally pro-Palestine. The smarter/more self-aware ones will come up with some line to change subjects when asked about their former position. The advantage of not having any real opinions is that its easy to adopt new ones as the situation changes.

Bsky's automod is permanently set to "Ned Flanders." You say "That's stupid" in a reply and you can practically hear the automod going "Okily dokily posterino I'm just gonna put a rude label here because you used the S-word."