I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you believe a word of the "Tylenol causes Autism" bs, you deserve every dismissal and eye roll you get whenever you say you "did your research".

Not distracted, release the Epstien Files.

So now the Nazi party is waffling like crazy, trying pathetically to walk back their calls for larger crackdowns and pogroms, calling for compassion and understanding when less than 24 hours ago the most vocal mouthpieces were talking about how this only justifies their hateful rhetoric.

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...*wasn't extreme enough* and has a disturbingly large collection of Tijuana Bibles and Betty Boop porn.

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...and minorities that have already suffered from Goebbels' propaganda.

Then the shooter is found and it turns out that it is not a member of Nakam, the French resistance, MI6, or a disgruntled German citizen... but an overzealous mentally unwell Hitlerjugend who thought that Goebbels...

Joseph Goebbels has just been very publicly and violently assassinated and the entire Nazi party is in a complete uproar. They are automatically assuming that it's one of the the Nazi Party's enemies and prepping themselves to use this event as a catalyst to further victimize communities...
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"What's a 'groyper'?"
"What does 'owo' mean?"

If you find yourself asking these questions and don't want to risk the kind of rabbit hole that will send you down, let me try to explain the latest "development":

Imagine that we're in 1939 Berlin.

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Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

Just watched Tango & Cash for the first time.

My main takeaway: more strip clubs should have their dancers do live drum solos.

Line them up and have a bunch of writers and artists who are actually chronically ill and/or disabled fire at them with paintball guns, rubber bullets, and beanbags until there's everyone taps out or gets knocked unconscious.

The winner gets a free year of tuition at a creative arts program. 2/2

Here's an idea for a new gameshow.

Take a bunch of AI enthusiasts who swear that Gen-AI "levels the playing field for people who want to write and create art" and that people who are anti-AI are "ableist because not all of us were born with talent". 1/2

Looking forward to the day where we look back at people who flippantly use GenAI to make not-art and plagiarize writing the way we currently look back at the people who would gather to watch nuclear detonation like a spectator sport.

Am I the only one who remembers that "the government is paying women to have babies when they can't support them" was one of the big propaganda lines against child credits and welfare?

Also, expect to hear a LOT of talk from the MAGA side about bringing back abstinence-only education, as that's a pretty guaranteed way to increase rates of teen births.

When you hear some conservative charlatan tries to rant about birthrates, they don't care about the "future of humanity", they're worried about the future of cheap, expendable labor and the serf caste they want to make happen.

When you hear talk about declining birthrates and the "survival of humanity", remember that 1) the human population is nearly double what it was when people first started to get concerned about OVER-population and 2) the decline in birthrates is ALSO due to the massive decline in teen births.

It is hilarious to me that the almost unanimous response to the #Oscars announcement about voters actually having to watch the films they're voting on is "You mean that wasn't already a rule?!"

The fact that this wasn't a requirement to begin with explains a LOT of "winners".

Anyone taking bets on how long until Trump insists that he should be the one to appoint the new #pope ?

I would love to point out the idiocy of RFKs statement about autistic people "not paying taxes" while being a lackey for people who's entire fortune is partly based on exploiting every tax loophole under the sun, but if the MAGA crowd cared about ignorant hypocrisy we wouldn't be in this situation.

So it's not just a matter of it being cheaper to make food at home - it's also a matter of people realizing that they can make BETTER food at home. Which cuts the restaurant industry down to people who go out *just for the sake of going out instead of because they actually like the food*.

As more people actually learn how to cook and perfect their favorite recipes, they found that it was considerably cheaper to do so.

Not only that, but in a lot of cases when things opened back up, people started to realize that a lot of casual chain restaurant just *aren't that good*. 2/

Hot take: part of the reason so much of the restaurant industry is suffering is because of Covid - but not in the way you think.

During lockdown, many people were forced to stay at home and pick up ways to pass the time. One way that a lot of people did that was learning how to cook. 1/

...and threatened with losing what little if any benefits they do have if they even think of the word "union".

Y'all were so obsessed with the notion of the fact that the jobs were in the US that you completely ignored the other factors that made that era such a boom to the middle class.

If manufacturering did, by some miracle of Biblical proportions, get back to the point that it once was in the next few years, it will operate on the same principles as your average Amazon warehouse: grossly overworked staff being paid just barely enough to not be able to say "fuck this job"... /4

What part of the last few decades of vulture capitalism makes you think that if ALL OF THAT WERE POSSIBLE - that the people working said factories would be paid the kind of union wages and given the kind of union benefits that allowed your grandpa to own a house and raise a family on one salary? 3/

Let's fucking say that we're in a world where that is a logistical fucking possibility...

I need the people who think that the tarrifs are necessary to get American manufacturing to a point that it once was on the world stage to answer a serious question: 2/

Let's say that this IS a temporary pain and within a year or two American factories are up and running again. (thread)

Let's say that we have the infrastructure and resources to make that happen.

And let's say that the cities in which said factories are built have appropriate labor pools. 1/

Bold of you to assume that DOGE had any credibility to begin with...

The LOTRx The Woobles Collab is finally here! LORDI: RINGS WOOBLES COLLECTOR'S EDITION لا

Does anyone else smell toast

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Every air traffic controller who responds to Musk's request should demand the exact wages, benefits, and conditions (adjusted for inflation) that Reagan denied in '81.