Ross Douthat looks like someone tried to bake a Vince Vaughn cake but took it out of the oven ten minutes too early

Do you think ICE agents understand that the GOP won't be in charge forever? Eventually we'll know the names and background of every agent wearing a mask today.

Their family photos look like a biology class evolution of man poster.

In my lifetime, we've gone from, "Should a president who uses his position to coerce sex from a coed step down?" to "Yeah, the vice president shot him in the face, but didn't he kind of deserve it?" to "Sure, the president may have diddled a few kids, but will he lose support?" Pretty spectacular.

Creating products that help to undermine democracies abroad and entrench dictatorships is so on brand for Lockheed Martin, that this move is really more instinct than strategy for them.

As a Harris voter, I'd like to point out the obvious here. Blame all of those "sensible Republicans" she wasted the last half of her campaign courting instead of her base. They didn't turn out, and it wasn't the fault of anyone their campaign decided that they didn't need.

They might actually win, and that's the last thing the DNC wants. It's much more lucrative to run against Trump than it is to beat Trump.

He's not counting on everyone being dumb. He only needs 51% of us to be dumb

Is it selfish to say that I enjoy when people post about finding Nazi and KKK flyers around town because the replies give me a chance to really do some deep cleaning of right wing profiles in my timeline.

I'm kind of comforted by the fact that if there ever was another civil war in the US, the side with all the guns could be immobilized in seconds by painting a picture of a tunnel on the side of a brick wall.

If I ever feel like I'm missing neo-nazis in my life, I'll open up an X account. There's an app for that.

The Democratic Party still hasn't realized Republican voters aren't going to vote for Republican Light when they already have the real thing. Try to appeal to the base for a change.

If you think the murder disturbed you, imagine living there when it happened. The people of Saudi aren't their government though.

Everything Burr said is right. They weren't putting on a show for him. Saudis are very laid back and fun. 65% of the country is under 30, and they are very up to date on Western culture. If Burr hadn't come to him, they would have come to the US or UK to see him.

Having lived in Saudi for six years, it always bothers me when American pundits believe that the Saudis do things like this to change western countries' view of them. Sometimes countries do things for their own domestic audience. They want to keep their citizens' money in Saudi.

Canada has spent over a decade dumping their right-wing nuts on us. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but there's a definite pattern.

I, for one, think President Camacho is doing a wonderful job.

Yes, but also primary every single Democrat who's spent the last year sitting on their hands. We don't need Democrats. We need Democrats who will fight.

So, what are you going to do about it?

A clean cut 22 year old white Mormon kid in a Dodge Challenger isn't going to stand out so much at a Utah university. It's not surprising at all that he could get away at that distance.

They also got stuck on how easily he got away, as if being a cis white male between 16 and 25 years old would have really stuck out on a Utah campus.

Centrism is the privilege of not caring enough to take a stance because you think you'll never be negatively impacted by the issue.

I wish I could be more specific about the absurdity of American free speech absolutism, but I don't want my citizenship to be stripped away and to be deported because I mentioned them.

You seem to have a more European view of free speech. In the US, it's more of an absolutist ideology, and we just have to accept the absurdities that come with that.

If we flew flags at half mast for a week after every mass shooting in the US, we could save a ton of money by only buying half-sized flagpoles.

Bluesky is already written using open protocols, that was the whole purpose of spinning it out of Twitter. There were some early moves towards Mastodon integration, but I haven't heard much about it lately.

The US has always been at that point, but information is free flowing that it's been impossible to get away with for a while now.

All you need are open Internet protocols. You don't need a millionaire. You need a nerd.

Yeah, that'll happen, but yelling a lie loudest isn't magically going to become the truth. The guy is going to get caught, and either way the truth will come out. Not everyone will believe it, but that's the world we live in.

I was going to add that, but didn't want to get put on a list.