If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
03.02.2026 17:15 β π 3010 π 603 π¬ 36 π 13
βInstead of traumatizing people with whistles, which can be triggering for some people, use jazz handsβ
03.02.2026 17:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
01.02.2026 05:05 β π 43 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
Yeah that turned out to be quite the banger. And pissed a bunch of right wingers off
28.01.2026 02:26 β π 54 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
Nate not realizing that our "unincorporated territories in the Caribbean" were acquired from Denmark in the first place in exchange for... relinquishing all claims to Greenland.
Peak punditry right there.
10/10, don't ever change.
22.01.2026 14:23 β π 678 π 158 π¬ 13 π 8
This is kind of freeing in a way, knowing that thereβs no going back to normal. We can build something new, but it will require crushing republicans at every turn, not βworking togetherβ
22.01.2026 17:27 β π 21 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
Wil Stancil following ICE in his Honda Fit is a wonder to behold. The man canβt be stopped
12.01.2026 14:09 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The chair of the fed ripping off his shirt and yelling "you know where to find me, bitch" while very clearly signaling to The Money that Trump is breaking The Money
can I have a precedented time again? I've been good
12.01.2026 00:55 β π 1817 π 308 π¬ 6 π 7
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
17.11.2025 04:53 β π 12454 π 2678 π¬ 128 π 85
US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.
The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...
23.10.2025 12:45 β π 603 π 342 π¬ 14 π 28
The path forward involves killing off your grandma and sexually harassing your daughter.
26.10.2025 19:25 β π 588 π 90 π¬ 30 π 6
This is how Josh Barro sounded ten years ago! His nonstop immersion in social environment where these sorts of views are treated as ridiculous has changed and radicalized him! (and many others)
26.10.2025 19:29 β π 315 π 55 π¬ 13 π 0
I love tech and tech gadgets! But itβs bad enough that I will basically never wear a nice watch again because I only wear my Apple Watch now, outside of special occasions. Iβm not going to give up having a nice pair of glasses just so I can buy a Meta product
23.10.2025 13:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I am a big time glasses snob so I will never wear a pair of sunglasses just because they are tech-enabled, ensuring I will never get punched in the face because someone suspects Iβm surreptitiously filming them just because Iβm wearing Ray-bans
23.10.2025 13:35 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
23.10.2025 10:50 β π 5825 π 1608 π¬ 4 π 13
This somewhat fits the perception, fair or not, that High Point is for rich kids who couldn't get into Elon, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Wake Forest, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Duke.
21.10.2025 14:51 β π 35 π 6 π¬ 5 π 2
Protests of normies and wine moms might be cringe to leftists and the Nazi edgelord crowd, but these are the people who vote. We are a cringe nation. All hail our cringe resistance suburban wine moms
21.10.2025 14:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
These guys love spending other peopleβs money and indulging in their Nazi fantasies in the group chat. Amazing stuff
21.10.2025 13:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
First Trump is crushing the soybean farmers. Now heβs undermining the cattle ranchers. These are unexpected blessings!
21.10.2025 12:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
As a guy who keeps a bunch of good stories in my back pocket to pull out when necessary, I absolutely agree.
21.10.2025 12:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Whomst among us has not ended up at the UstaΕ‘a tattoo parlor during a drunk night out?
21.10.2025 12:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It has warped my fragile little mind
21.10.2025 03:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You really sorta understand where marvel/dc characters come from when you realize how many types of guy like sliwa are in new york
20.10.2025 21:41 β π 63 π 12 π¬ 3 π 1
My brain is rotten to the core.
21.10.2025 02:44 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there
06.08.2025 18:05 β π 1058 π 87 π¬ 59 π 41
Iβm sure if Obama did this no one would think it was a big deal
21.10.2025 02:15 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The fact that the Uvalde police were called and that that is where all this is happening is a nice touch
21.10.2025 02:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
god created him and demanded that he die
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