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Conservatives 2016-2024: dumb libs think words are violence

Conservatives in 2025: mean words are literally violence bsky.app/profile/robe...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

Genuinely the most shocking realisation of my adult life is how dramatically those of us who enjoy thinking are outnumbered by those who find it wholly unpleasant and worth significant cost and effort to avoid.

The truth is, SNAP has one of the lowest fraud rates of any federal program (under 1%), and it helps keep millions of children, seniors, and working adults from going hungry.

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

and yet still, TODAY, Democrats in the Senate are voting in favor of Trump's judicial nominees

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

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The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Bernie Sanders praises Trump's job on securing border "I don’t like Trump, but we should have a secure border. It ain’t that hard to do. Biden didn't do it," the senator said.

Hey Bernie, quick question, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

With the clusterfuck of windows 11 it's interesting that you can't even count on being able to buy the newly created electronic waste at heavily discounted prices.

Those non-upgradeable business computers aren't gonna hit the used market, theyre just going to landfills in developing nations

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

Oh and now they're going to designate Antifa a FOREIGN TERROR ORGANIZATION

You know, in case the domestic terror designation doesn't give them enough leeway to kidnap and torture people, which -- mark my words -- is where this is going

Oh my fucking god, and people who help homeless people are also antifa

And homeless people are antifa

The most vulnerable amongst us, and the people who help them. They are gearing up for unspeakable atrocities

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way. What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money. Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight. To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

undocumented people should receive free health care, just like everybody else.

in addition to health care being a human right, health care is also a collective issue. denying people health care creates risks for everyone. contagious diseases are the obvious one, but there are plenty of others.

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

The ONLY reason any of this works is because everyone is handing victory to them.

The media reprints their lies credulously, the universities let them set curriculum, SCOTUS and congress have utterly abdicated their oversight duties.

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

Between killing kids by taking vaccines away and censoring comedians, I almost missed this story outlining what is plainly the largest case of public corruption in US history. UAE gets a boatload of rare AI chips in exchange for the Trump family receiving a cool $2 billion crypto infusion

They know what they’re doing.

Just a reminder that Brendan Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025, even though that violates the law which prohibits gov't officials from using their positions for political advocacy like that. www.techdirt.com/2024/07/23/f...

It is brain breaking how so many people losing their jobs, from Kimmel down to random teachers, aren’t actually making light of his death or praising the killer. they’re just saying they disagreed with the guy, or noting the hysteria over people disagreeing with the guy

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk. The decision, according to Variety, was made after television giant Nexstar announced that its local ABC affiliates would pre-empt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, just hours after Carr issued that threat. Nexstar is one of the biggest owners of television stations across the country. We’ve reached out to the FCC for comment on what specifically is objectionable from Kimmel’s show and which FCC regulations he may have violated.

Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking

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