your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe

I need adults to understand that "fairness" is not niceness. If you have behaved poorly multiple times it is *entirely fair* for people to approach you as though you will continue to.

Fight don’t fold.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid

anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House”

this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

Man Still Trying To Find Right Work-Anxiety–Life-Anxiety Balance https://theonion.com/man-still-trying-to-find-right-work-anxiety-life-anxiet-1819575766/

Late stage idiocracy

All the shitty, awful technologies are going FULL SPEED AHEAD. Meanwhile, we have new vaccine technologies that could *literally cure cancer, a thing we've been trying to do since we found out cancer was a thing* and to that, RFK just mumbles "nah" through a mouthful of roadkill. This is the worst.

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

I’m not saying we shouldn’t call, email, and protest. We should annoy them and waste as much of their time as possible. But the victim-blaming needs to stop. We shouldn’t have to call our representatives every day to remind them to do their jobs. It’s not our fault when they refuse.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

So basically all of Game Theory can just be chucked out the fucking window now, right? I never have to think about a Nash Equilibrium again? Cause the idea any of this is rational is beyond the fucking pale.

never forget that you're valid and by that i mean stop taking shit out on yourself and instead take it out on the fuckers that deserve it

Conservatives have understood at a visceral level for 70 years that the defeat of fascism by the liberal order was destructive to their legitimacy. So while many tried to write themselves into the history of liberalism, others tried to rewrite the history of fascism. The latter camp is now ascendant

Kurt Vonnegut man