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There's def a gap; even leaving side films about the ambitious wealthy or larger-than-life heroes, what we see otherwise doesn' involve working people but instead people who *look* like working people:
small business people, including successful criminals
the jobless underclass
the POLICE!!
small business people, including successful criminals
the jobless underclass
the POLICE!!
Does anyone else feel that in recent decades movies rarely depict average working people? In the 70s and 80s we had movies about struggling families, stories about people most of us could understand. Not necessarily about the struggle, but where it was an obvious factor.
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
There's def a gap; even leaving side films about the ambitious wealthy or larger-than-life heroes, what we see otherwise doesn' involve working people but instead people who *look* like working people:
small business people, including successful criminals
the jobless underclass
the POLICE!!
small business people, including successful criminals
the jobless underclass
the POLICE!!
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I think my favorite part of this is the suggestion that they charge $1,000 for a subscription.
Ah, the solution for WaPo is to just buy several other media outlets (?) and make it like Axios, which has also not avoided layoffs under Jim's leadership.
February 5, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I think my favorite part of this is the suggestion that they charge $1,000 for a subscription.
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Feds gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal when he was alive, let him die before facing trial, obstructed justice after his death, punished victims for demanding transparency, and are now trying to move on without addressing the vast corruption and abuse. THIS is how our “justice” system works.
February 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Feds gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal when he was alive, let him die before facing trial, obstructed justice after his death, punished victims for demanding transparency, and are now trying to move on without addressing the vast corruption and abuse. THIS is how our “justice” system works.
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I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"
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most cowboys were wage laborers from the peripheries of society, barely able to afford more than 2 nickels to rub together and the massive cattle barons they worked for were sometimes literal British Barons, like Baron Thurlow, the Marquis of Tweeddale, and the Earl of Aberdeen
it's untrue that europeans stood by and did nothing while white americans stole most of a continent and then called the previous owners demonic savages & trying to exterminate them. they got in on the scam. They were in on the scam before "white american" was a concept at all
January 22, 2026 at 4:59 PM
most cowboys were wage laborers from the peripheries of society, barely able to afford more than 2 nickels to rub together and the massive cattle barons they worked for were sometimes literal British Barons, like Baron Thurlow, the Marquis of Tweeddale, and the Earl of Aberdeen
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The bedrock of liberalism globally is a bunch of guys who saw the incipient plantation slavery economy in north america - its reliance on the twin myths of indigenous & african inhumanity - and thought, "sure, that checks out", or "sure, that checks out, but what if it's good of them to be inhuman"
January 22, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The bedrock of liberalism globally is a bunch of guys who saw the incipient plantation slavery economy in north america - its reliance on the twin myths of indigenous & african inhumanity - and thought, "sure, that checks out", or "sure, that checks out, but what if it's good of them to be inhuman"
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I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe.
“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”
Fuck off.
“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”
Fuck off.
January 31, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I hate living in the Asshole Cinematic Universe.
“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”
Fuck off.
“So the King of Pedophiles got the 4chan guy to make the Nazi board and that’s why the host of Celebrity Apprentice was made immune to laws by the Tradcath Illuminati. This has something to do with video game journalism, maybe?”
Fuck off.
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""They've never been worried about the victims," said Lisa Phillips, an Epstein survivor and advocate." www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crim... "the documents made public so far fail to paint a coherent or truthful story about Epstein's operation" #EpsteinFiles #law
Epstein survivor says she's losing faith that all of the DOJ's files will be released
The DOJ has not released a single document pertaining to its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell since Dec. 23, and survivors aren't holding their breath.
www.scrippsnews.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
""They've never been worried about the victims," said Lisa Phillips, an Epstein survivor and advocate." www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crim... "the documents made public so far fail to paint a coherent or truthful story about Epstein's operation" #EpsteinFiles #law
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I *never* want to hear "No one is above the law," like ever again!
It's like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard.
They have like 6 MILLION pieces of strong evidence, way more than enough to charge many, many sick pedophiles.
Still!
It's like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard.
They have like 6 MILLION pieces of strong evidence, way more than enough to charge many, many sick pedophiles.
Still!
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I *never* want to hear "No one is above the law," like ever again!
It's like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard.
They have like 6 MILLION pieces of strong evidence, way more than enough to charge many, many sick pedophiles.
Still!
It's like screeching fingernails on a chalkboard.
They have like 6 MILLION pieces of strong evidence, way more than enough to charge many, many sick pedophiles.
Still!
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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/6 No, when society tells you to shun someone, be SKEPTICAL. Like Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky KNEW that it’s the dark forces of American imperialism that don’t want him to listen to a famous child rapist teach him about black people being inferior.
January 31, 2026 at 3:35 PM
/6 No, when society tells you to shun someone, be SKEPTICAL. Like Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky KNEW that it’s the dark forces of American imperialism that don’t want him to listen to a famous child rapist teach him about black people being inferior.
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/5 This close-mindedness, this cancel culture, can be DEADLY because it shuts you off from sources of scientific insight. Like, if it weren’t for the brave people at @cbsnews.com platforming Peter Attia, how would we learn that if you hang with child rapists you may go into withdrawal when you stop?
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
/5 This close-mindedness, this cancel culture, can be DEADLY because it shuts you off from sources of scientific insight. Like, if it weren’t for the brave people at @cbsnews.com platforming Peter Attia, how would we learn that if you hang with child rapists you may go into withdrawal when you stop?
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So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
January 31, 2026 at 12:27 PM
So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
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Noting how these masters-of-the-universe emails about Epstein’s “wild parties” and “bringing your harem” postdate his 2008 conviction and semi-imprisonment… in retrospect, that seems to have cemented his bona fides as a guy who could deliver the goods and get away with it
Disgusting.
In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Noting how these masters-of-the-universe emails about Epstein’s “wild parties” and “bringing your harem” postdate his 2008 conviction and semi-imprisonment… in retrospect, that seems to have cemented his bona fides as a guy who could deliver the goods and get away with it
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truly doing my head in to confront the idea that the broad strokes of qanon were generally correct
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 PM
truly doing my head in to confront the idea that the broad strokes of qanon were generally correct
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you think there’s an evil cabal of democrat billionaire pedophiles who all hang out together and are secretly responsible for every bad thing that’s ever happened in history? okay bud (six years later) oh, republicans were there too. that actually makes more sense
January 31, 2026 at 3:32 PM
you think there’s an evil cabal of democrat billionaire pedophiles who all hang out together and are secretly responsible for every bad thing that’s ever happened in history? okay bud (six years later) oh, republicans were there too. that actually makes more sense
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the reason why theyre so open about it is they think they personally represent superhuman advances in the evolution of the human race and they should be allowed to get away with stuff that other people arent because they have better dna
January 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
the reason why theyre so open about it is they think they personally represent superhuman advances in the evolution of the human race and they should be allowed to get away with stuff that other people arent because they have better dna
Disemboweled. Nice
January 31, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Disemboweled. Nice
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Nearly missed this one but Epstein was sending SOMEONE to the Yuri board back in fucking 2011. That's when MY ass was active on site. This is insane to think about.
January 31, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Nearly missed this one but Epstein was sending SOMEONE to the Yuri board back in fucking 2011. That's when MY ass was active on site. This is insane to think about.
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ok is now a time to say I 100% believe this caused /pol/ to exist because a few years ago someone texted me to say they were with moot at a party and asked if I wanted to relay anything and I said “yeah tell him to ban gamergate shit off 4chan” flippantly AND THEN HE FUCKING DID
January 31, 2026 at 4:27 AM
ok is now a time to say I 100% believe this caused /pol/ to exist because a few years ago someone texted me to say they were with moot at a party and asked if I wanted to relay anything and I said “yeah tell him to ban gamergate shit off 4chan” flippantly AND THEN HE FUCKING DID
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aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 AM
aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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i might be going out on a limb here but it is not good parenting to take your kids to jeffrey epstein's private island 4 years after he plead guilty to sex crimes involving children, & it is very strange to list their ages to him
But the new Epstein files show a series of subsequent interactions. That included this email from Lutnick about bringing his family and others to visit Epstein at his private island, Little St. James.
3/6
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
January 30, 2026 at 10:18 PM
i might be going out on a limb here but it is not good parenting to take your kids to jeffrey epstein's private island 4 years after he plead guilty to sex crimes involving children, & it is very strange to list their ages to him
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
so much of the important and official writing of the last ten years has been done to a standard I would have been mortified about publishing to my blog when I was in the 8th grade
January 30, 2026 at 9:17 PM
so much of the important and official writing of the last ten years has been done to a standard I would have been mortified about publishing to my blog when I was in the 8th grade