I’m don’t get people who go off to war and then get butthurt when people from that country (or area) try to kill you.
Like, dude, that’s what war is.
But this Venezuela shit? This isn’t war. This is the worse type of use of the military justified by folks who’d shit their pants in actual combat.
06.12.2025 16:42 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
I watched soldiers kick a Taliban member repeatedly and I told them to stop, only to be instructed by my own chain of command not to get involved.
But that was war, and war is war and I’m not everyone, but I’d like to think I’m fucking human and can recognize when someone is a threat or not.
06.12.2025 16:11 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As someone who was troubled by watching members of the Afghan National Army simply kick a detainee…
*who I know with 100 percent certainty tried to kill me personally just hours beforehand*
… I can’t say what I want to do to the entire chain of command here.
06.12.2025 16:05 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
Or if you just wanted to watch construction workers, now that I think about it.
06.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’ve always been fascinated with construction equipment. My mom says when I was a baby she used to take me to construction sites to watch the machines.
That’s what you did before iPads, I suppose.
06.12.2025 15:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wanna see a big crane?
06.12.2025 15:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When you bring the shopping cart back to the cart return:
06.12.2025 13:43 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
If he started at 21…yeah. That’s 20 years.
People should retire in their 40s.
06.12.2025 13:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.12.2025 12:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump says the NFL should change its name because soccer “is football.”
06.12.2025 10:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
I don’t care who they are, the next Democratic administration better be staffed floor to ceiling with the pettiest of people. I don’t want the slightest offense to go unreturned.
05.12.2025 23:52 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Peace prize.
Piece prize.
Let’s not quibble over grammar.
05.12.2025 22:35 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
a dog wearing a hat with a hammer and sickle on it .
ALT: a dog wearing a hat with a hammer and sickle on it .
I say appropriate and redistribute the wealth of everyone making over $100k a year.
And anyone who thinks that’s too low is part of the problem.
LOL I’m kidding.
I’d make it $60k.
05.12.2025 03:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There’s no such thing as cameo of the year, but if there was, John Cena would win it for this episode of Pluribus.
05.12.2025 03:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“…and John Roberts as Chris Moltisanti.”
05.12.2025 00:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There should be a global tax for space pollution.
04.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
There’s nothing in the water that suggests the country won’t slip right back into electing republicans if the economy even slightly improves.
This isn’t doomerism. This is not falling into the hope trap where you’re so desperate for good news you manufacture false hope.
Maine. Maybe Alaska.
04.12.2025 21:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Man you really run on optimism.
I feel like a win in TN and winning the Nassau county executive’s race on Long Island would have portended an anti-fascist wave sweeping the country.
I’m not seeing that. I’m seeing the normal political movement in a second year president’s off off year.
04.12.2025 21:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Conservatives want America to be as hated globally as they are at the holiday dinner table.
04.12.2025 17:10 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s called the horseshoe theory of politics because most of the people it applies to seem like they’ve been struck in the head by a horseshoe.
04.12.2025 16:54 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Imagining a 1970’s-style station wagon being like those flat cars you see at monster truck rallies in this era of SUVs the size of Godzilla.
04.12.2025 13:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watching Hakeem Jeffries do politics is like watching a Jets quarterback do football.
04.12.2025 11:40 — 👍 77 🔁 11 💬 11 📌 4
So basically he’s the perfect 21st century Democrat.
Wife gets shot in the dome but he still supports guns.
Comes from a state full of immigrants that he supports deporting.
Will vote for the judges of a president who thinks he committed treason.
Just a party of spineless jellyfish.
04.12.2025 07:12 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Either way you’ll saying “Jesus Christ!”
04.12.2025 01:32 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This house is a four story row home filled top to bottom with books.
Going to see it tomorrow.
04.12.2025 00:37 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Good Times with Old Wrestling! Has even met Maffew. Who wants to touch me?!
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