Luke Bretscher

Trade offer! US receives: walkable cities. UK receives: street signs.

Please I'm begging

Cup of coffee wherein has fallen a small box of Milk Duds

An omen, an omen, send for the javamancer at once

They couldn't even get Newsmax to sign? Ha haaaa

I know the answer is probably "because 1 p.m. is 1 hour after noon" but it still doesn't sit right

Why isn't noon at 1:00. Shouldn't the 12th hour of the morning be in the morning

Yeah bro you gotta read this book, it's called uhhhh, The Protocols of the Elder Queers of something or other

The Liberal Project spans centuries and is larger than any one country! The fight for individual liberties and true social virtue is not lost we have to reclaim our Truth!!!!

Thomas "Do as I say, not as I do" Jefferson

I must have missed "All venues for regime-opposed discussion have already been crushed" on Eco's list of the characteristics of fascism

You can't think of _any_ reason to say "this is fascism" other than "and so we should give up"?

You can make the statement "this is fascism" with or without an implicit shrug. The shrug is a problem, but Tom is equating the shrug with the statement, which is unhelpful.

They're saying it to someone who is under the odd impression that calling fascism what it is entails giving up the opportunity to fight it.

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

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I went to the theatre with Hans Landa back in 1944. He plays a character, but there is a real man behind it. The character may be a brutal genocidaire, but nevertheless,

The Good Place cactus meme template. Janet ("Rumor Mill"): I got the liberal transgender murderer. Michael ("Media"): Is it actually a right-wing weirdo? Janet: I don't understand. Michael: You have a liberal transgender murderer, not another right-wing weirdo? Janet: That is correct. I have a liberal transgender murderer, not a right-wing weirdo. Michael: Alright, let's see them. Janet: *hands him the word "GROYPER"*

It keeps happening 😅

I saw a good post recently, opining that the de facto state religion of America is "conservative political beliefs, held as if they were religious beliefs." Ties in with the whole thing where right-wingers will say they're super pro-Christianity and then not even go to church.

visenyaism: Had to ban the phrase "tricky dick" from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they're just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they're all medieval peasants. gonna lose it. visenyaism: an image that shows the man pulling the date meme with the woman saying "Richard the Treacherous has attempted usurpation and must be stopped at all costs" with the calendar date showing it ripped from 1972 to reveal the actual date of June 1483.

Pritzker Khan

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

This sort of ties into another idea I’ve been kicking around, that if I was an actual theorist I’d take a shot at writing up coherently: we have freedom of the id, when we need freedom of the superego. We live in the tyranny of revealed preferences, totally disregarding expressed ones as legitimate.

No one would care about the words on the list if Republican media weren't constantly howling about leftist speech police.

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A few terms on that list (like "unhoused") are unnecessary. Several others are not. But even if Democrats found some magical way to never say that whole list without betraying all their principles, literally no one would care. The right-wing media would just keep lying about the whole thing.

However unlikely the Dutch etymology is, the acronym etymology is less likely

It doesn't stand for anything, it's from a Dutch word meaning "club." It was invented in Scotland though.

"Gen AI is bad" is one thing, and pretty easy to argue for. "Gen AI is worse than every alternative in every situation" is perhaps going a bit far.

They're calling it the B-52 of the 1940s

The Swordfish will never be obsolete. Take a squadron of them out of the museums and the Russian Navy is doomed.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…