John T

That’s rad—Sam’s Town made the list! Unfortunately always stuck in the shadow of Hot Fuss. Great list

Yes! Especially Reddit if you’re still there

THE MATH ADDS UP

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

Why do they still hide the switch under the lampshade? You can barely reach it with the lights on, let alone flip it on at night. Touch lamps only in my house.

Not my HR team presenting on sexual harassment, giving a real-life example about Joe, who transitions into Sally, only to deadname her for the rest of the story, AND calling her, “him”. 💀

You know a movie is bad when there’s a crater between 4 & 5⭐️ user reviews, where 4.5⭐️ should be.

See, anyone can drop an ironic 4 or 5⭐️ review, but 4.5⭐️ is an acknowledgement that something great was there—and it was nearly perfect. That’s a serious statement requesting to be challenged.

And in case it isn’t clear:
Fuck Trump, fuck the right, fuck ICE, and eat the rich.

We all observed this happen during Covid, but this just connected the dots on the WHY.
Admittedly, I drive totally selfish now (not reckless) because personal vehicles are, by definition, selfish. PERSONAL. The American road system is masterfully designed to disincentivize altruism to other humans.

Imagine a world where you never learned or tried anything new, you just kept pushing the button for another pellet like a rat.

Welcome to the Cum Report, I'm Doug Nuts. Jim Cum is on assignment.

If the Broncos get another flag, Brandon Perna needs to add the refs to the curse wheel. #thatsgoodsports #nfl
@tomgrossi.bsky.social

I really wish this “bend the knee” framing would stop. They’re not acquiescing or being forced to comply. They’re putting themselves in a good position to maximize profits. These are billionaires and corporations; applying morality to their motives gives them way too much credit.

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Why were Democrats unable to counter the idea that Trump was an economic savant? And why did most Americans vote for someone they believe will harm the country but help their own pocketbooks? The answer is the ongoing decimation of working-class institutions and civil society, started by neoliberalism, accelerated by the rise of the internet as a medium of interaction and put into overdrive during the isolation of Covid. The vehicles for building solidarity with others and for caring about strangers have been decimated. In crass terms, people have become more selfish. Union membership, for example, still makes voters significantly more Democratic than would otherwise be expected based on demographics alone. Even this year, Harris won union members easily while losing the popular vote overall. Unions and civil society organizations also provide a baseline of political education: members know their interests and which policies will help or harm them. Without this, Americans’ views are shaped by the algorithm. Perhaps most emblematic of this is at the heart of Trump’s campaign: his embrace of extremely online tech billionaires, crypto currency and online influencers. If the archetype of Trump’s win in 2016 was the left-behind post-industrial Rust belt manufacturing worker – or, perhaps more accurately, the car dealership or McDonald’s franchise owner in a left-behind post-industrial Rust belt town – this year it is the crypto scammer, the dropshipper, the app-based day trader, the online engagement farmer.

That embrace was Trump’s message, and at the core of his gains, especially with young men. Without civil society and without strong unions, people believe the only path to success is getting one over on someone else. And who is better at that than Trump? While the core of the resurgent-left generation of Sanders was downwardly mobile college-educated professionals, selling their labor for wages without the prospect of buying a house or retiring on a pension, the second wave of newly aging-in Trump voters entered adulthood without even those prospects, hoping only to grind out a living through scams. But this is fundamentally an anti-social and anti-humanist mode of economic activity that contributes nothing to society and offers nothing but alienation to its victims. The result is people willing to vote for someone they know will cause immense harm to others, hoping it will help them personally. While the new right has made great hay of returning to a communitarian model of politics, economically populist, socially conservative, and focused on family and society, the truth is that the Trumpist movement is the opposite. It is hostile to the very concept of society and community. To combat this, we need an unabashedly pro-society left.

This is, I think, the single best explanation of what's happening that I've read, to the degree that it not only explicates Trump's win but the society that made it happen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

actually I think democrats should move 2 the right & just become republicans and republicans should become giant skeleton monsters and giant skeleton monsters should become giant skeleton monsters that pee wasps