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2026-08-30 22:49:46 UTC

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The police will often yell conflicting orders, too. One might say to put your hands behind your back, another will tell you not to move, yet another will tell you to get on the ground.
Who do you listen to and in which order so you don't get shot? Trick question - the answer is "fuck you."

2026-08-09 17:07:54 UTC

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They have, in fact, taken the sky from us.

2026-07-21 19:55:16 UTC

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Under international law, he's a criminal and has an arrest warrant.

2026-07-14 00:28:19 UTC

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This is the second time I've seen recently that you've linked to what really, really looks like AI slop merch. This is really fucked up.

2026-07-12 16:49:42 UTC

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My thoughts are with his heart. spine, and soul, who he had parted ways with many, many, *many* years ago and who are, I assume, happily living together as a throuple in a beach cottage.

2026-07-07 12:47:24 UTC

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Having extensive records of Jewish people wasn't a problem until it became a big fucking problem.

2026-06-27 22:12:55 UTC

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Jimmy Stewart was a bomber pilot and instead of using his fame to get sent on cushy milk runs, he actually flew serious combat missions. That's particularly notable because bomber crews had outrageous casualty rates - it was just about the most dangerous jobs you could do. Stewart flew over *20* goddamn missions.
And, on the flip side, John Wayne did everything he possibly could to avoid fighting in WWII because he was a fucking coward.

2026-06-25 22:30:15 UTC

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Minecraft server idea: an island where people are hunted for sport, but it's an entire planet and the people are billionaires.

2026-06-25 13:09:34 UTC

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I find it very hard to judge the actions of a people who have been so systematically oppressed.
During slave uprisings, slaves would often not only kill their masters, but also their children. I don't think killing children is ever justified, but how can I judge that? Many of those children were individually blameless, but from the slaves' point of view, they were a part of the machinery that was crushing them. Just as their own children were bred and raised to be slaves, the children of slave owners were bred and raised to be slave owners. If I were a slave during that time, would I have had the luxury to see it any other way?
There is blame to be assigned, but it falls squarely on the shoulders of the oppressors. If you push someone down so hard that their only recourse is to desperately lash out in all directions, that's your fault not theirs.

2026-06-25 12:24:07 UTC

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Armed resistance is a very effective form of political violence. A lot of people got their hands very bloody when the Nazis occupied their countries, for example.

2026-06-18 00:34:44 UTC

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I miss when conmen would build elaborate, humanity-destroying systems of lies and deceit so they could spend all their time searching for buried treasure on the high seas and not because they're the physical manifestation of the hollow pit of loneliness and despair at the heart of capitalism, wrought carelessly into an empty, shambling husk of flesh.

2026-06-13 16:39:32 UTC

One of the many things I hate about Elon Musk is the fact that if I had been handed as much wealth and privilege as he has at a certain time during my mental and emotional development, I might very well have turned out like him.
I mean, look back at your past, imagine the cringiest version of yourself you can remember. Then imagine never having any reason to grow beyond that.
So this is to say, I really, *really* hate that we've organized our society in such a way that it's possible for a person to amass a development arresting amount of wealth and privilege. Anyone who claims to be against Musk, but supports the status quo that made someone like him not just possible, but inevitable, is fundamentally dishonest and has no place in helping decide how we move forward from here.

2026-05-24 23:05:18 UTC

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For real. They're usually talking about people who consume a small fraction of the resources that they use themselves.

2026-05-03 23:39:33 UTC

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"but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person"
...what? But that's...
Fucking *what?*
Though I guess that's the kind of oxymoronic nonsense I'd expect from someone who thinks that systemic harassment is a matter of personal responsibility.
Instead of bloviating about how you think things *should* work, maybe take some time to listen to people who actually get harassed. They're the ones who know what works and what doesn't because they don't have the luxury of playing with hypotheticals.

2026-05-03 22:15:33 UTC

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What you're talking about has been disproven by history time and time again. Social consequences are a huge part of how we suck less.
Making certain beliefs socially unacceptable is how we curtail their influence, not acting is if they're simply a difference of opinion.
And yeah, I have intolerant family members. For instance, my dad is a Holocaust denier. We don't talk.

2026-05-03 14:19:46 UTC

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It's wild that you can live in the world as it is today and still think tolerating intolerance is a winning strategy.

2026-05-02 16:05:54 UTC

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By this point, Israel has dropped more than double the tonnage of bombs on Gaza than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atrocities *combined.*
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 15 kt and the one dropped on Nagasaki was 21 kt.
Even as of October 2025, it was estimated that over 72 kt worth of bombs had been dropped on Gaza - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Gaza_Strip

2026-05-01 21:42:41 UTC

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Is the unicorn vomiting a rainbow onto its dick or is it sucking its own rainbow dick?
I suspect the answer is yes.

2026-04-24 15:25:55 UTC

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This is just a metaphor, right?
...right?

2026-04-19 15:48:29 UTC

Finally, tools for MEN™!
Alternate title: When you're behind enemy lines and need to assemble an IKEA bookshelf.
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2026-04-14 01:48:41 UTC

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It's wild - we have all these internal memos and shit from Meta where they're like, "Designing our algorithms on Facebook and Instagram to make people angry and hate themselves keeps them on the site half a second longer, which makes us an extra millionth of a cent. So obviously that's what we gotta do." It's not even a secret.
Yet despite all of the mountains of evidence that this is being intentionally done to people, particularly young people, the idea that we should regulate a handful of companies doesn't even come up for a vote. Apparently, trying to regulate the daily lives of tens of millions of people is a lot more rational?

2026-04-05 22:07:54 UTC

Trump: "I'm gonna commit war crimes until Iran opens the fuckin' strait!"
Liberals: "How dare he use such crude, unpresidential language."
Just... I mean... not the thing to focus on here, guys.

2026-03-17 03:17:21 UTC

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Their "double-tap" strikes are specifically designed to kill anyone who tries to tend to the wounded. The "tactic" is literally just meant to murder everyone with medical training.

2026-02-25 15:20:16 UTC

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You can always rely on the news to tell us that nobody wants to work anymore, kids are more disrespectful than they used to be, and trans people are new and scary.

2026-02-08 15:50:44 UTC

Everyone's posting pictures of owls today, but I think it's important that everyone knows the real reason for the season.
#SuperBowl
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2026-01-31 01:37:09 UTC

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More like how I *don't* sleep at night, am I right?

2026-01-17 02:27:48 UTC

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The only appropriate response to an instance that welcomes Nazis is to defederate. If that means effectively cutting all ties to an entire platform, then it sounds like a shitty platform to be on.

2026-01-17 02:09:56 UTC

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Not mentioned, but extremely worthy of note: tear gas is linked to adverse reproductive health and outcomes.
These "pro-life" dickheads are indiscriminately gassing people with a chemical that is known to cause miscarriages.

2025-12-29 20:06:16 UTC

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My point is that if John Deere's profit center gets cut out from under them, it's going to significantly hurt their ability to produce and sell products. That's going to provide a ton of opportunity for other manufacturers to steal that business.
Think of it this way, John Deere is planning to make *10%* of their revenue just from software fees alone by 2030: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/12/deere_software_revenues/
I mean, even if it was just that by itself, can you imagine how completely and utterly fucked *any* company would be if they lost that much of their business? Their ability to stay competitive would get tanked just from the restructuring alone.
Now consider the fact that software fees aren't just a standalone part of the business. John Deere's entire pricing model is dependent on the fact that they can force customers into those high margin software fees. Then, of course, there's all those overpriced service and maintenance fees they can charge because the software means nobody else can work on the equipment.
John Deere doesn't know how to make a profit off a tractor anymore. You know who does? Every other goddamn tractor company. And even with tariffs, you're only paying those once instead of having to constantly shell out cash for the entire lifetime of the product.
So, sure, John Deere equipment will be very attractive to farmers if they can jailbreak it, but why in the hell would John Deere keep selling it if it's not making them any money?

2025-12-29 17:04:01 UTC

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John Deere isn't going to be much of a competitive threat if the company collapses. They've become extremely dependent on locking customers in. If they lose that, they'd need to completely restructure the business and lose a significant amount of market share in the process.

2025-12-29 16:42:35 UTC

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The biggest stranglehold John Deere has on farmers is the fact that it's a black box that they're not even allowed to service or modify themselves. That's where they make their money.
If an overseas company shipped third-party software that farmers could load on their John Deere equipment, that would be a *devastating* blow to the company. Hell, if they gave it away for free, they could make John Deere implode basically overnight.

2025-12-21 15:39:38 UTC

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For anyone else experiencing this, look up "revenge bedtime procrastination."
It's definitely something I experience now and then. Talking to my wife about it has helped, for sure. We've been able to figure out how to make sure I'm not ignoring my own need for time for myself, but sometimes there really isn't any time for it for some extended period of time and the compulsion builds up again.
Something for other people to consider, though - the kind of people who are denying their own needs in order to take care of the needs and wants of the people around them will also likely have a lot of shame around the idea that they need to carve time out for themselves. That makes it hard to admit to themselves, much less talk to someone else about.
Personally, a lot of my self-worth has been wrapped up in my ability and capacity to do things for people and there was a *lot* to unpack before I could feel comfortable talking to my partner about it. That isn't a trivial thing to overcome.

2025-12-19 06:18:23 UTC

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Yeah, there is a very simple explanation for the rightward shift of young men:
They're being heavily propagandized by Nazis and way too many platforms are just allowing it to happen.
Case closed.

2025-12-18 18:18:32 UTC

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I like to think that, back in the day, when someone said that trading the same banana back and forth meant it was three bananas, we just collectively got together and hurled them into a volcano or something.

2025-12-18 05:07:48 UTC

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I've always found it telling that executives are far and away the biggest fans of a technology that provides mediocre results, at best, but grovels so obsequiously that it makes regular people uncomfortable.

2025-11-26 17:52:06 UTC

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Lucky for her, the spell follows Bruce Banner rules for clothing damage.

2025-11-11 00:34:58 UTC

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"I have a hot scoop about how Mayor Mamdani REALLY feels about Israel and Palestine."
Boy are they going to be surprised about all of the public statements he's made about that. Clearly they aren't aware any of that exists based on all the hearsay and gossip they report about his feelings on the matter.

2025-09-29 00:41:39 UTC

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By "24 karat gold," he means cheap plastic and spray paint - https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-home-depot-gold-b2823190.html

2025-09-26 16:19:00 UTC

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Their big donors are masters at using progressive-ish language as long as there's no danger of it actually impacting their bottom line. Corporate social media accounts are a treasure trove of empty pandering.
Less so of late on account of all the fascism, but you know.

2025-09-26 15:58:49 UTC

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Democrats won so decisively in 2008 that they could basically pass any legislation they wanted. Their supermajority in the Senate made them completely immune to the Republican filibusters that would later grind things to a halt.
So isn't it weird that Democrats have never even *tried* to run the same kind of campaign they did with Obama? I mean, if I was even half that successful at something, I'd at least give it another shot, you know?
It's also not like they don't have tons of data to know exactly what would get people out to vote in those kinds of numbers. Yet they always handle those kinds of topics like they're wearing oven mitts.
Do you really need someone as charismatic as Obama to just confidently state that you're going to make universal healthcare happen? Is it beyond the grasp of all but a once-in-a-generation political operator to realize that compromising with yourself on your own policies will stop your momentum dead in its tracks? They can't have possibly thought that voters were dying to hear all about how they were going to means test the hell out of student debt relief, right?
None of it makes any sense in the context of a political party that is doing its honest best to execute a legislative agenda. It does, however, make perfect sense for a party that wants to maintain an extremely unpopular status quo but knows they would never get elected if they just said that. A party like that would need to trip themselves up just enough to keep elections close so that they could always blame their inability to pass substantial legislation on not having enough political power.
Otherwise, they have to make bizarre excuses for why their legislative centerpiece amounted to nothing more than a repackaged Republican healthcare bill. I'm supposed to believe that the reason we don't have a modern, functional healthcare system is because the entire Democratic Party was brought to its knees by *Joe motherfucking Lieberman*? His opposition to a public option was so principled, so full of moral courage that there was no bone that the entire Democratic establishment could throw him tempting enough to get him on board with the single most important item on the Democrats' agenda? They had absolutely no choice but to go, "Oh well, we tried, I guess we just have to copy Mitt Romney's healthcare bill?"
No, it's much simpler to just say, "We really want to do all these cool things for you, but those mean ol' Republicans won't let us."

2025-08-19 01:12:18 UTC

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Like cop shows that make people look guilty for "lawyering up," AKA exercising a basic Constitutional right.

2025-05-10 19:51:36 UTC

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It's not the "opposing politicians" part that's the issue, it's the fact that he wants to arrest them simply because they were looking into his administration's illegal activities.
We wouldn't be in this mess if Democrats had actually been willing to hold Republicans legally accountable for their criminal behavior instead of worrying about whether or not it would look partisan. At the absolute very least, the Republicans who were deeply involved in the 1/7 insurrection should have been arrested, "opposition politicians" or not.

2025-03-30 05:00:57 UTC

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That's my thinking, too. Why does it matter whether he's officially part of DOGE or not if those flunkies are going to do what he says regardless?

2025-03-07 03:23:29 UTC

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As far as the powers that be were concerned, one of the scariest things the Black Panthers ever did was the free breakfast program.

2025-01-06 00:46:36 UTC

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My toddler took my phone from me and gave this picture kisses.