a brief moment of rotational symmetry.

After walking past thousands, I squeeze past the growing crowd to find the speaker reciting "ballots, not bullets" pablum and singing songs from the 60s off-key. The turnout was there, because RWC is amazing, but the leadership really disappointed.

Young men are credulous, young women are suffering.

Cleats agony is real. My coworker has two daughters, and spent sixty-nine dollars on soccer cleats that were worn four times. She mourned those sixty-nine dollars ("for four games! Four! She doesn't even run that fast.") on every game day over four weeks, so I bought her sixty-nine dollars a trophy.

I cannot apologize for disagreeing with you, but I can apologize for paying taxes to this shitty government.

I have to believe she's crazy and that this very specific scenario isn't an actual cliche, but I also have to admit I recognized zero references in that xkcd edit two days back.

Sure, a few countries have a higher incarceration rate, but none of them enjoy the prosperity we have. First the War on Drugs, then the War on Terrorism, now the War on Immigration, we pick fights we do not need.

It's not just a federal phenomenon. States are locking up a ridiculous proportion of our population as well.

without downloading any new pictures, what is your mental state?

All I really needed to hear today.

These two could be soulmates so long as they never actually meet.

mfw someone rejects egalitarianism and the rule of law to usurp personal authority through criminal acts

Between the tariffs, disappearing permanent residents without due process, and the gulags in El Salvador, it really does seem like he's treating the Declaration of Independence as a todo list.

The one they're building right now, hopefully before it's too late.

Truly, we can build a better world.