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Look, "if Obama did this" is a boring counterfactual, but the shit that scanned as "defiling the office" under Obama would blow your mind.

There is no system where keeping bad people out of power is not important. You can create systems with rules against abusing power. But we already have one of those. The problem is that the people in charge selectively enforce them if at all, which is why you don't want bad people in charge.

I cannot tell you how many times I've given just normal criticism about dudes doing weird stuff, and people have responded with, "YOU JUST WANT THEM TO BE HOMELESS OR TO GET THEM KILLED."

Can I finally admit that I hate this tweet and the way it gets used to sneer and dismiss people for being able to understand the concept of context and dog whistles

They were mad at him being an example of Actually Existing Positive Masculinity, which they *said* they wanted, but what they're really looking for is to get to be the same pieces of shit they've always been but with everyone else loving them for it.

Dave Chappelle is one of the comedians getting paid millions for going to this and I expect he'll have a whole bit about getting canceled for it when he's doing a set at the 2027 Republican National Convention

I feel like a lot of our political moment stems down to tens of millions of Americans literally incapable of imagining something worse than someone being annoying.

People on here say the problem with Democrats is the hegemonic DNC Illuminati rulings with an iron fist, but I think the actual problem is that we’re leaderless at the moment and nobody’s really picked up the crown from the gutter yet.

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

You're supposed to pretend the outrage about Trump on here is evenly distributed and the white hot anger isn't coming from people who unironically enjoy brunch while all the cool kids sneer about how Kamala would have been just as bad

sorry but at some point you have to stop being concerned about appearing cool and detached and actually start believing in things, even if it means defending the rights of stupid people like jimmy kimmel

This is unironically true in the case of the media with the corollary that they also hate us for their responsibilities and our freedom to criticize them for failing to meet them.

"Andromeda..... we don't talk about Andromeda"

bro talks like every youtuber tf 😭

lol but also seriously, the notion that writers have somehow failed if people who are paying attention can put the pieces together is the most cancerous side effect of “spoiler” culture.

Quite simply, they’ll never forgive us for what they did to us.

The notion that doing anything good in public ever was in itself proof you are actually a bad person because virtue signaling is the worst sin you can possibly commit has to be the most destructive psyop in human history.

Why did Gen Z males all hate Kamala with the fury of a thousand suns while believing that Trump was gonna personally make each of them rich I dunno what could possibly explain this it must be her neoliberal policies

I think there’s a threat of authoritarian consolidation on the American model, which looks more like the first reich than the third reich. A thousand petty little kingdoms and principalities which owe allegiance to the emperor. A HRE of used car dealers. A Worst Guys You Know union.

I've said this before but the idea John Fetterman got bonked on the head with a bowling ball like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed every political position he held is pure cope from people who refuse to accept any responsibility for being suckered in by big stronk man populist dipshittery

A thing that will 100% happen next election are longform media pieces about struggling rural voters who feel abandoned by those elitist Democrats, wherein neither the reporter or any of the subjects mention the fact Trump ended all federal aid to their district and shut down their only hospital.

Yes. I think Bernie is unfit for the moment because deep down he thinks Trump voters are innocent victims who were only led astray due to the Democratic Party’s wrongdoing and I think it leads to analytical distortions which we cannot presently afford.

Even the "good" billionaires are incapable of seeing any moral difference between politicians lawfully raising their taxes and an autocrat shaking them down for protection money. If the bottom line on the latter is less, it's preferable.

Everyone is focusing on the diction when to me, the significant thing is that Lincoln is correctly noting the American people did a wrong and needed to atone, something which is simply not allowed in today’s political/media environment.

Honestly, it feels like every Dragon Age game is set in a functionally different universe.

what an image

this means less to many of them than the ability to grope their hires or say slurs.

if you are an american who is from a cosmopolitan urban area the message you have gotten from the self-styled party of rural America "we hate you and your home" in increasing volume, for decades. one side is allowed gleeful chauvinism and the other is scolded constantly to check it's privilege.

"If crime is down, why I am I seeing videos of carjackings and killing sprees in Miami all over the place?"

"Sir, those are trailers for GTA VI."

"Okay, but the fact I could believe it was real shows how bad everything is!"

I think this kinda misses the forests for the trees in that actually strong case for heavy taxation on the wealthy is that there reaches a point where you became a potential threat to the state without any actual increase in your quality of life.