As long as liberalism has existed with it's framework of rights, conservatives have reverse-engineered it to create boutique rights just for them & their loyal subjects/allies/dupes/whatever.
Here we go again!
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As long as liberalism has existed with it's framework of rights, conservatives have reverse-engineered it to create boutique rights just for them & their loyal subjects/allies/dupes/whatever.
Here we go again!
Paris is too beautiful and sumptuous and engrossing to bother with things like the details of oneβs writing, and I simultaneously envy and pity anyone who can make a permanent life there.
04.08.2025 13:53 β π 17 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1It cracks me up that heβs still here fellating himself while shutting down replies on literally everything he posts. Talk about creating your own echo chamber.
04.08.2025 13:42 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe you can ask him whether heβs thought about getting a (real) editor.
04.08.2025 13:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love my big boy governor.
04.08.2025 01:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In conclusion, logic is a land of contrasts.
03.08.2025 17:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Lisa, please hire me and fire your staff. you and the people who work for you are marks and morons
03.08.2025 16:04 β π 168 π 14 π¬ 11 π 0The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
03.08.2025 13:20 β π 2590 π 1195 π¬ 130 π 271Kansas stays winning. Love you Kansas
03.08.2025 12:46 β π 1691 π 255 π¬ 27 π 9We don't talk enough about how ridiculously dominant and in the all-time, all-sports π conversation Katie Ledecky is.
02.08.2025 15:59 β π 60 π 7 π¬ 6 π 0100%. I checked this today to be sure. Sheβs won the 800 free at every single βmajor international meetβ from 2012-2025. For reference, Michael Phelpsβs longest similar streaks in the same event were the 200 fly (he won it from 2006-2011) and the 200 IM (2003-2008).
02.08.2025 16:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
01.08.2025 20:25 β π 10846 π 1802 π¬ 277 π 154I wish people cared about research more - this is devastating, and it should be a bigger story.
02.08.2025 04:06 β π 497 π 149 π¬ 23 π 8Rehnquist smiles among the flames.
01.08.2025 22:26 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0the position of the roberts court is both that racism isnβt real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the courtβs holding in plessy v. ferguson.
01.08.2025 21:45 β π 2469 π 440 π¬ 22 π 10oh they will definitely hold that the 14th and 15th amendments dictate that nothing can be done to ameliorate racial inequality or past racial discrimination, even in voting and representation, despite the fact that the text of both amendments clearly allows for such.
01.08.2025 21:42 β π 4288 π 988 π¬ 97 π 18All because dude dared unfreeze illegally frozen federal funds that went towards helping people
01.08.2025 03:29 β π 425 π 127 π¬ 11 π 1This shows the failure of leadership exhibited by Chief Justice Roberts and the Judical Conference. To know that your judges are experiencing this abuse and yet remain silent, even accommodating to this administration.
It's not just lack of leadership. It's passive destruction of a branch of govt.
Oh absolutely. And then weβre going to start to see all sorts of nakedly racist exceptions being applied.
31.07.2025 14:43 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok I read it. I hope it works!! π¬
31.07.2025 14:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ok but if I develop trust issues from thisβ¦ π
31.07.2025 14:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0No one can make me click on Sydney Sweeney content.
31.07.2025 14:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is this a dril bit?
31.07.2025 14:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The notion that resistance to authoritarianism should be comfortable and painless is a substantial reason why we have been so ineffective in resisting it.
31.07.2025 13:55 β π 39 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0recall his mug on the homepage of the New York Times because Ross Douthat finds him "interesting"
31.07.2025 12:10 β π 227 π 45 π¬ 3 π 3Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country β and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil β because itβs prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.
31.07.2025 10:52 β π 807 π 257 π¬ 18 π 13#SkeetOfTheYear
30.07.2025 21:21 β π 25 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0I came in here to call Joe Walsh a goddamn fucking moron and find that my work has already been done for me infinitely better than I could do it. Much appreciated, Hat! π
30.07.2025 21:14 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm not trans, so I donβt have the daily experience of the latest liberal great white hope cheerfully selling me down the river, but I can imagine what that must feel like! and for that reason I would NEVER whine at a trans person for being mad at chris buttihead or whoever
30.07.2025 16:40 β π 48 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0i'd love it if people stopped treating trans kids like they can be little Omelas, as a treat
30.07.2025 15:55 β π 230 π 37 π¬ 10 π 2