broken bokonon
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Like most things in my life, this has been a huge mistake
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The only people who think the 90s were better were too young to remember them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The only people who think the 90s were better were too young to remember them.
QTing to break the chain, since the guy I replied to seems to be taking things personally.
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I think it's simply an artifact of rancid evangelicalism. As a matter of fact, I believe there was a significant rise in American Catholic observance in the years following Kennedy's presidency.
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
QTing to break the chain, since the guy I replied to seems to be taking things personally.
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
I don’t think Kennedy and bush are similar in this regard at all. Kennedy was a secular president with a secular administration, personal faith aside. I don’t think that’s what either of us were talking abt
"Follow up question, Dr. Krauss, does the Bernoli principle explain how Jeffrey Epstein's plane could fly?"
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Follow up question, Dr. Krauss, does the Bernoli principle explain how Jeffrey Epstein's plane could fly?"
Illegal Immigrants? Don't you mean Future Americans?
This is also why semantics are important in politics and the idea they should be dismissed as immaterial is at best wrongheaded imo
Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Illegal Immigrants? Don't you mean Future Americans?
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'without a border you don't have a country' has always been a lie. The truth is that you don't have a free people without migration.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
'without a border you don't have a country' has always been a lie. The truth is that you don't have a free people without migration.
but her emails, everybody
what about her emails
what about her emails
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
but her emails, everybody
what about her emails
what about her emails
"Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, apologized for not knowing anything and fucking up the most basic expectations of his position."
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, faced blowback after defending Tucker Carlson's interview with a white nationalist. He later apologized and said he erred out of ignorance, because he did not keep up with the news and had simply read an aide’s script.
In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance
Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, apologized for not knowing anything and fucking up the most basic expectations of his position."
Even better if they’re southerners who fought for the union cause
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Saying it while posting Union generals ought to get the right message across IMO, unironically
man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Even better if they’re southerners who fought for the union cause
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
Especially if they’re not generals, imo
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I’m old enough I remember when Georgia was a red state.
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
When you have one (1) trillion dollars worth of juice
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
I think the question "is Trump a good politician?" is genuinely a complicated one. He is extremely good at running for office in the United States as is, slotting into deep-rooted material and cultural dysfunctions that other politicians who are less sociopathic were loath to prod so directly.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
”Look at this perfect puddle. It fits into the hole just perfectly!”
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hell yeah, this government efficiency thing is off the charts
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
a wartime footing? With *my* beautiful tax cuts?
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Can you believe the new mayor won't even give me the time of day? Me? A rich guy who sucks?
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
is it a 40k thing cooking our online nerd brains, or have we all actually forgotten that heresy is normal and cool?
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Penny wise, pound foolish. The amount we spent on helping stave off poverty, oppression, and famine was a pittance compared to having to manage a refugee crisis.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Penny wise, pound foolish. The amount we spent on helping stave off poverty, oppression, and famine was a pittance compared to having to manage a refugee crisis.
Strangely it's already dropped out of the discourse, but don't forget that Tuesday was a fucking sweep.
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Strangely it's already dropped out of the discourse, but don't forget that Tuesday was a fucking sweep.
Kristol-Trotsky Thought
Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Kristol-Trotsky Thought
You need to pay higher taxes babe
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You need to pay higher taxes babe
“You have a right to a life that is free.”
Damn son.
Damn son.
Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“You have a right to a life that is free.”
Damn son.
Damn son.
Watching Hank Greene interview of Nate Soares and man there’s so much bullshit in here. Soares seems to assume that using language is the same as understanding language, and his whole theory of artificial mind seems to be based on this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Watching Hank Greene interview of Nate Soares and man there’s so much bullshit in here. Soares seems to assume that using language is the same as understanding language, and his whole theory of artificial mind seems to be based on this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
Genuinely surprising how credulous Hank seems to be in this.
I feel like she looked at the polling
MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I feel like she looked at the polling
Part of me wants to join in the dunks, but the other part of me doesn’t care what the world’s most insane fillers officianados have to say about this.
What’s even the point.
What’s even the point.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Part of me wants to join in the dunks, but the other part of me doesn’t care what the world’s most insane fillers officianados have to say about this.
What’s even the point.
What’s even the point.