Timid Pessimist
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"When we become Americans, we accept not only citizenship's privileges that we did not earn but also its responsibilities to correct wrongs that we did not commit." - Richard Rothstein
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Most relatable US president
“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell... To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better...”
“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell... To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better...”
Any contemporary of Lincoln describing his personality: His natural sagacity was matched only by his wit and good humor
Describing his appearance: The grotesque creature was made by the devil in hell. Also his suit didn't fit
Describing his appearance: The grotesque creature was made by the devil in hell. Also his suit didn't fit
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Most relatable US president
“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell... To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better...”
“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell... To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better...”
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The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
Cis people really have no idea how it feels to watch a regime hold a press conference to admit, on camera, the pogrom against trans people they've been waging for 11 months is not only real, but they're going to double down on genocide and try to wipe out all the children first.
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.
I want to blow my brains out every time I meet someone who imagines this, it's insane! No, our ancestors did not eat better foods that were supposedly "organic" and local, even 100 years ago!
One curse of modernity is achieving levels of comfort and wealth never before known to humans such that our minds are free to imagine an earlier time when all our food was local and things were better, when "local food" was either onions and potatoes, or onions and mutton, or potatoes and mustard
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I want to blow my brains out every time I meet someone who imagines this, it's insane! No, our ancestors did not eat better foods that were supposedly "organic" and local, even 100 years ago!
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like, humans literally started wandering *as a species* in search of a better meal -- and, it worked! We eat good now!!
December 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
like, humans literally started wandering *as a species* in search of a better meal -- and, it worked! We eat good now!!
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One curse of modernity is achieving levels of comfort and wealth never before known to humans such that our minds are free to imagine an earlier time when all our food was local and things were better, when "local food" was either onions and potatoes, or onions and mutton, or potatoes and mustard
December 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
One curse of modernity is achieving levels of comfort and wealth never before known to humans such that our minds are free to imagine an earlier time when all our food was local and things were better, when "local food" was either onions and potatoes, or onions and mutton, or potatoes and mustard
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People are like "oh so you're saying you want there to be no food huh" like my brother in Christ they're draining the Colorado River to grow alfalfa to feed to racehorses in Saudi Arabia youtu.be/owieQnPYfT8?...
An Arizona Farmer on How to Grow Alfalfa in the Middle of the Desert | Odd Lots
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
People are like "oh so you're saying you want there to be no food huh" like my brother in Christ they're draining the Colorado River to grow alfalfa to feed to racehorses in Saudi Arabia youtu.be/owieQnPYfT8?...
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All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
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this woman is your FRIEND
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
this woman is your FRIEND
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
she FIGHTS for FREEDOM
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GOP-led healthcare reform will make penises cheaper than ever by putting the power back in the hands of consumers
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
GOP-led healthcare reform will make penises cheaper than ever by putting the power back in the hands of consumers
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“Could I have the balls on the side, please?”
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Could I have the balls on the side, please?”
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And that's crazy because I got mine for free
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And that's crazy because I got mine for free
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-laughs nervously-
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
-laughs nervously-
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
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sometimes i think about how california manages to be the world's fifth-largest economy and yet also a consistently dysfunctional and shambolic state government
This is what passes for progressivism and climate policy in California. Jane Kim’s answer for elevated fire risk and actuarial risk? Put it on the public dime. Urban renters should bail out well to do exurban property owners and landlords in fire zones. FAIR plan is already a ticking time bomb!
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
sometimes i think about how california manages to be the world's fifth-largest economy and yet also a consistently dysfunctional and shambolic state government
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About 8.6% of California is developed land(not including farms). That number could probably go down to 8.5% and have a population of 100 million at an average population density of only 7543 people per square mile. The rest of the land can stay farmland @ 40% leaving over 50% of CA for conservation.
ONE
BILLION
CALIFORNIANS
BILLION
CALIFORNIANS
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
About 8.6% of California is developed land(not including farms). That number could probably go down to 8.5% and have a population of 100 million at an average population density of only 7543 people per square mile. The rest of the land can stay farmland @ 40% leaving over 50% of CA for conservation.
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The idea that these are useful idiots for arms companies is empty of all empathy or understanding. These are people whose grandmothers were raped by Russian soldiers purporting to “liberate” their country. Here, Bucha isn’t just something that happened to other people.
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The idea that these are useful idiots for arms companies is empty of all empathy or understanding. These are people whose grandmothers were raped by Russian soldiers purporting to “liberate” their country. Here, Bucha isn’t just something that happened to other people.
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Ordinary, rational people are discussing this possibility. They aren’t delusional, they aren’t paranoid - they know the history of the region; they understand what strategic interests Russia has in respect to the Suwałki Gap; they would *love* not to have to spend money building up defences.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ordinary, rational people are discussing this possibility. They aren’t delusional, they aren’t paranoid - they know the history of the region; they understand what strategic interests Russia has in respect to the Suwałki Gap; they would *love* not to have to spend money building up defences.
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I know I should just brush this aside as the having of opinions by a professional opinion-haver, but it is as offensive as it is ignorant to suggest that people in Poland, of all places, are in the grip of a delusion for fearing the very real possibility of Russian invasion.
What are you even talking about! I am saying it is a delusional fantasy to suggest Russia is going to invade European countries like Poland, Germany or indeed the UK, which is the insane drivel currently being promoted in support of a disastrous arms race.
December 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I know I should just brush this aside as the having of opinions by a professional opinion-haver, but it is as offensive as it is ignorant to suggest that people in Poland, of all places, are in the grip of a delusion for fearing the very real possibility of Russian invasion.
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This lady wrote an entire book to bully her estranged daughter lmao. How is this not classic abuser shit that they do when they can't directly control you? Control everyone else's perception and destroy your reputation.
This article isn't political, but you can tell exactly who these people voted for, even if the estrangement wasn't about politics.
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This lady wrote an entire book to bully her estranged daughter lmao. How is this not classic abuser shit that they do when they can't directly control you? Control everyone else's perception and destroy your reputation.
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
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All of this is so stupid, etc.
But again, I mentioned this during the shutdown, it's fascinating how their tone has shifted here from "lmao fuck u libs, we ain't paying suck it." to "(girls get mad at me) sorry, sorry, I'm trying to fix it."
But again, I mentioned this during the shutdown, it's fascinating how their tone has shifted here from "lmao fuck u libs, we ain't paying suck it." to "(girls get mad at me) sorry, sorry, I'm trying to fix it."
Q: You guys were out for 2 months during the shutdown. Why has it taken until the end of the year to start addressing these healthcare bills? And what's your message to those who are going to see their premiums rise?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been working steadily producing ideas trying to address this
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
All of this is so stupid, etc.
But again, I mentioned this during the shutdown, it's fascinating how their tone has shifted here from "lmao fuck u libs, we ain't paying suck it." to "(girls get mad at me) sorry, sorry, I'm trying to fix it."
But again, I mentioned this during the shutdown, it's fascinating how their tone has shifted here from "lmao fuck u libs, we ain't paying suck it." to "(girls get mad at me) sorry, sorry, I'm trying to fix it."
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I feel like if the US is picking AI to be its biggest industry then the politicians in charge of regulating it need to be at least tech savvy enough to retrieve their own passwords without asking IT/their grandkids for help.
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I feel like if the US is picking AI to be its biggest industry then the politicians in charge of regulating it need to be at least tech savvy enough to retrieve their own passwords without asking IT/their grandkids for help.
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this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd
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thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit
turns out the guy was a Syrian immigrant named Ahmed al Ahmed who got his Australian citizenship in 2022 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he’d do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’
Despite Ahmed al Ahmed being in a lot of pain, according to his migration lawyer, he felt as if disarming the gunman at Bondi was an act for the community.
www.smh.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit
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Trump voters when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do:
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Trump voters when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do:
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Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?
I have a friend for instance - an assistant headteacher in a grammar school in South East England - who has radicalised herself into racism and fascist apologia simply by being there. Would that be the case if liberals she took seriously were still posting on the app by which she’s addicted?
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Look, not to pick on this lady in particular, but do people not have moral agency anymore?