Absalom Detarame

In a reasonable society, about half of our current 'economy' would be outlawed.

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

CNBC report ranks Tennessee last for quality of life in 2025 CNBC ranks Tennessee as the worst state for quality of life in 2025 due to high crime rates, lack of inclusiveness and minimal worker protections.

Thus always with GOP Supermajority States. This is the future conservatives want.

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I wrote something for my birthday after a ProPublica article picked up by MPR (and apparently noone else) really got to me.

Do with this what you will:

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“The oxpecker and the elephant” - one of the tales you can find in “a star called the sun”, coming out this week from myself and @imagecomics.com

Finally, one of these that is good and interesting. This one goes in the 2056 AP US history DBQ.

Defund the Police also a pattern cut from similar cloth.

1. Actual injustice is demonstrably shown.
2. Rhetoric heats up.
3. One small step towards reform.
4. Reactionary backlash, backslide.

Police budgets actually went *up* after Defund, despite no fundamental reforms. And now my city has ICE.

The rich will not flee the cities because living in cities is amazing and exciting, while living in rural america sucks and is boring. The only people who do not realize this are rural americans who have been made to terrified to actually go into cities.

Also, moving is a pain in the ass.

Ah, yes, the Caesars -- traditionally beloved by Christians and definitely the Good Guys in the bible.

Hahahahahahaha holy fuck not only did they get nothing they got worse than nothing! Absolute fucking idiots all of them!

Your election day reminder that the Pundit class works for Capital not Labor. They are not intentionally full of shit, their lifestyle and worldview can't help but be myopic.

Charlie Kirk's wife is starting to wear pleather pants because she knows it will remind JD Vance of a couch.

"I consider this non-apology accepted and myself forgiven" in such a wild worldview to inhabit.

The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.

Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.

Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Why do young liberals love Zohran Mamdani? We talked to 3 elderly Staten Island conservatives who can’t correctly say his name.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

The dick and hair pill people?

HOWARD THE DUCK is playing at my local dive bar. Howard yells "Tora, Tora, Tora!" and "Banzai!"

This suggests that there was not only a Duck Japan, but also Duck WWII, Duck Pearl Harbor, and Duckywood Movie about Duck Pearl Harbor thirty years later.

Can we at least get actual fascists out of power before radical centrism drowns us all in Takes, please?

I could be a little sensitive because I'm living in a city literally under an occupation w/real consequences, but imagine this being the preoccupation of a real person right now? For 1.6k folks

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Also, four years and change is barely anything at all.

Bring on the civil suits for true ruination, may he be released broke.

We are a year out of MID-TERMS and three years from a Presidential Election, neither of which are guaranteed to go smoothly or honestly.

More Journalism, less TAKES. Let's talk about today.

Me, after 18 hours of sleep: "God made me sleepy because He knew if I was well rested, I'd be too powerful to contain."

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

The Dark Tower (6/7th of it)

The Dead Zone

The Eyes of the Dragon

The Bachman Books

Something about a definite article just gets a title going, I guess!

Literal "banality of evil" demonstration.

Now watch as the conversation turns to..... "What SHOULD the quota be?" Instead of, like, "let's not round up people and put them into camps."

Those same centrist people are now chastising liberals for being too shrill about Trump. Say what you want about the tenets of neoconservatism, but at least a lot of neocons are on the right side now. Can’t say that for many centrists.

Not the first, but maybe the largest.

Also, a depressing fact: After the Kent State killings, polls indicated ~3/5ths of the US blamed the protestors, not the guard.