We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

[I grab a slice of pizza, but the toppings begin to slip off]
Peyton Manning, getting out of seat: get the fumble get the fumble
[it slips off, falling on my jeans]
Peyton Manning: ohhh, no
Eli Manning: that’s gonna be on his pants all night

This sort of response always tells you so much about the person making the statement. The details of this arrest contradicts everything Hersh has claimed, but it's not really about that, it's about your side being right and the other wrong, not about pesky things like facts or evidence.

Here is Trump talking about the market one year ago versus today

I'm in my 40s and have lived through three iterations of "both parties are the same OH WAIT THEY'RE NOT THIS SUCKS" (2000, 2016, 2024).

Most Americans don't want a manufacturing job; the US remains an industrial titan; & globalization has helped us move UP the value chain:

"Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer:
Donald Trump’s vision to onshore factory jobs reverses decades of progress" 💯
on.ft.com/3XYt1Qv

I’m gonna speak for my people here and say that the worst thing to happen wasn’t leaded gasoline but the idea of not caring and always triangulating yourself as the nonchalant cool one

The slacker to nihilist fascist pipeline is real

a fine @cartoonshateher.bsky.social piece as ever, and I'm going to make a tenuous argument that the filming of U.S. 'reality' shows *and* the sitcoms based on them played a big role in convincing people to take obviously staged footage as real.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/context-th...

Am I Ugly?

I can’t believe that a ketamine-addicted South African is going to single handedly destroy the post world war 2 Atlantic alliance

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

and fwiw, there is a pretty easy path to feeling like a "hero" if a given man wants to take it — it is being a responsible member of your community, a provider for your family and being a good role model for the younger men around you.