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We Slopped Some Steaks I Think You Should Leave Style Sloppy steaks: Piece-of-shit food or actually good? Or … both?

The woman who wrote this article should be a nobel laureate or something.

www.vulture.com/article/slop...

29.01.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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8 years after Frederick Douglass gave this speech, Congress passed the first major federal immigration restriction, banning Chinese women from the United States.

People want to talk about whether US immigration policy has become racist. My question: when did it ever stop?

28.01.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He hates federalism for the same reason he hates free speech, civil society, most pop culture, and the Constitution. He fundamentally, deep in his bones in a way he could never coherently articulate, is animated by all-consuming hatred for the idea that anybody doesn't have to do what he commands.

28.01.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Profiles in leadership:

Ilhan Omar, after being assaulted: I will fight these assholes with my bare hands if that's what it takes, we're never backing down.

Tim Walz, from his cozy office: I'm willing to give Trump, Miller, and Tom Homan the benefit of the doubt that they won't be mean anymore.

28.01.2026 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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"There's no place for politics in art and also putting Dear Leader's name on the building wasn't political anyway" is just a perfect encapsulation of how these people see the world.

28.01.2026 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

27.01.2026 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 18888    πŸ” 6273    πŸ’¬ 927    πŸ“Œ 1167
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Imagine insisting this about ICE jackboots but denying it about immigrants.

27.01.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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The desire to keep re-litigating your massive L in general is understandable, if childish.

When combined with the fact you took this specific L because you ran a candidate who gloried in genocide and explicitly promised to be tougher against immigrants than Trump, it becomes absolutely deranged.

26.01.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bari Weiss watching videos of ICE chuds murdering people in the streets

26.01.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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lollll. Dipping into your rerun archives because there's nothing going on in America that Bari Weiss thinks is worth covering.

26.01.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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thehardtimes.net/news/ice-con...

25.01.2026 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh good, the guy who ordered the process-free executions of multiple US citizens (and innumerable foreign citizens) never charged with a crime thinks this stuff is bad. Glad we get to hear from you buddy.

25.01.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As God is my witness, I am asking the Pope to commission a new Crusade against the word "appears"

25.01.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your analysis finds that the video APPEARS to show it @cnn.com?

Well keep fucking analyzing then. Analyze it until you can state the plain objective fact that it didn't just APPEAR to happen, but actually, objectively DID happen. Jesus Christ.

25.01.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BlueMAGA just gonna keep re-living the genocidal L forever.

"Don't you wish you'd voted for genocide" will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, make more sense than "don't you wish you hadn't run on genocide?"

Nobody in history has tried to be smugger about such a colossal moral and political failure.

25.01.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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rude

20.01.2026 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"It's called libertarianism, pal"

10.01.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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www.contextus.org/Frederick_Do...

09.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To put it another way: "the video contradicts the government's account" is a premise, not a conclusion.

That's not the whole story, and it's journalistic malpractice to stop the analysis before getting to the point.

09.01.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sighhhhh. They're lying

They've been lying from the moment it happened. They knew they were lying then and they know they're lying now. They know that the words they're saying are not true. They are lying. Say it FFS.

09.01.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So Maduro can just have the whole indictment tossed under "official acts" immunity, yeah? lol.

03.01.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humanity's final irony will be the nuclear annihilation that follows an LLM being asked for strategic advice by Admiral Shitass and regurgitating the script to Terminator.

31.12.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pete Hegseth after spending months murdering innocent Christians in the Caribbean...

26.12.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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