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the good place had a decent start and then by the end they were solving the problem of heaven being unfulfilling and the ultimate reward is being a white boomer man on earth in the present day. i’m furious every time i remember feeling hopeful about the show’s direction

i don't want to hear about your feelings. i want to know what you are doing to punish the fuckers who sold us out

The ideas underlying socialism are hardly toxic. Inclusion, community, compassion, opportunity, effective governance are all fundamental, widely embraced. The term socialism itself has been cynically stigmatized. But with a little good sense, we can move past that and focus on values & results.

The thing about rationing healthcare that is unlike rationing most other things is that the people who need healthcare didn't choose to need healthcare and do not get a choice in how they can economize, or not, on healthcare

Scarlet Street is underappreciated and sooooo good

The greatest thing Twitter and Bluesky do every day is show us that the power who control our lives aren't a cold-calculating monolith but a bunch of squabbling morons.

I’m so upset it (alone among supergiant titles i think) has never come to switch, i played it on PS4 but i crave the portability 😭

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment:

It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.

The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

As a young white man who grew up middle class (son of a public school teacher) and was very online ASAP and played sports, I was never Nazi-curious nor was anyone I know

None of this is “normal.” Shut up

Serving in the government as a representative is a privilege, not a right. Somewhere, we lowered the bar to ”not convicted of any crimes, even if everyone knows you did it.” There’s lots of ppl in the US. If we cant find one w/o a swastika tattoo to represent us, we’re in trouble.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

I’m really sorry people do this to you. Shameful

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Apollo 13 and The Martian are movies that depict the same thing, both as fiction and as historical retelling: that we *can* come together as a people for a common purpose. It’s up to us to *do so*, to reject the idea so prevalent across the political spectrum, that we only owe anything to ourselves.

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

And let me highlight the DISCIPLINE at play here and across the country, too.

They are trying to goad protestors into lighting a Reichstag fire and those efforts are being met with suggestive hip thrusts from a giant inflatable frog.

This is movement not taking the bait.

The DMV wouldn't accept a school field trip permission slip to renew your drivers license and Congress and local governments shouldn't be accepting these crayon scrawled orders to round up whoever

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II.

A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media.

Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

Marvel’s “Punisher” Was a Hate Symbol Long Before Police Co-opted His Character The Punisher has long been embraced as a classic superhero, but his comics spread reactionary ideology.

3c) Want to take the opportunity to share this great article from @truthout.org about racism/fascism and The Punisher character

I feel like the only person who gets incredibly depressed by long days/sunny too late but my seasonal depression finally lifts when it gets below 60

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

>new Thomas Pynchon book has dropped

Licking the powder of cereal and “marshmallow” crumbs at the bottom of a box of marshmallow cereal

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Why does the president need Abbott’s “full authorization,” under Stephen Miller’s interpretation of federal supremacy, wherein Pritzker’s refusal to accept them is ignored?