YouTube video by Rick Astley Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

I was 28 in 2016 and this is an insane characterization of what growing up as a white man in my cohort was like. Demonstrative of how out-of-touch the cultural right is with actual American life www.theredneckintellectual.com/p/right-wing...

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

They used to call it a stove. A stove! Such an old fashioned word. I brought it back though. I said we’re touching the stove! Biden wouldn’t touch it, he was too sleepy! Sleepy Joe, remember that? Well we’re touching the stove now, putting my hand on it and maybe, quite possibly, my face!

oh this is a big mystery

Everyone knows it’s KC strip anyway.

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

He nails it.

On the military plane ride from California to Panama, Mona, a 32-year-old Iranian Christian convert, said her 8-year-old son cried, terrified to see his parents shackled. To calm him down, she told him that this was like overcoming the challenges in a video game, and that once the plane landed they would be free. Her son asked if she would make his favorite Persian dish after the plane landed. Her husband, Mohammad, 33, said that throughout the flight, when his wife and son cried, he reminded them about a Christian teaching they often recited.

I truly hate the people doing this..

Go ahead.

Let the people see you for what you are.

Y'all really voted to end the republic? Shit, I woulda lent y'all some damn eggs.

A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

New York Times saying Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl half time show focused on a rap beef "at the expense of a larger statement."

Samuel L. Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam, performing in the Super Bowl half time show.

Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl half time show, standing in the center of an all Black groups of dancers in red, white, and blue, arranged like the American flag.

Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl half time show, standing in the center of an all Black groups of dancers in red, white, and blue, arranged like an American flag that is splitting in the middle.

I have wondered if the New York Times has been acting as handmaidens of fascism because the paper's leaders find it appealing, but now I'm wondering how many people with prominent positions there are just genuinely stupid.

USAID supports Missouri Ag producers. I hope you’ll share…

#USAIDrural

These people would rather destroy the country than respect people from marganalized groups as equals.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.

Corporate leaders who were fine with Trump sadistically imposing mass suffering on vulnerable groups as long as they got their tax cuts deserve every last bit of what this madman is now unleashing on them with these tariffs. Assholes.

They want to ban the teaching of the unpleasant facts of American history because people might conclude injustices in the past that contribute to inequalities in the present should be rectified, instead of their belief, which is that some groups of people are inherently superior to others

Missouri gets a whopping $1.18B in funding for 1,888 projects. Washington University is one of the leading medical research universities in the country. This is going to hurt (and, sadly, we’re a red state)

My dad has been reading Facebook posts out loud for 20 mins. Happy thanksgiving everyone.

People from my rural hometown say the same about where I live- Columbia Missouri!

The best social media accounts are folks super into something I have absolutely no interest in but through their sheer enthusiasm become very invested in knowing. You know how volcanos work? Awesome. You know about the 3 Kingdoms period of China? Great. You know how ants fuck? Tell me more my man

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candi...

I dunno, seems pretty bad
www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

These guys are gonna be stepping on their own dicks for four years, and it’s our job to help them do that.

My grandmother voting for Kamala Harris.

Born 1918.
2 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
47 when the Voting Rights Act secured her vote.
Will turn 107 on inauguration day.

She’s lived through it all, and she’s damn sure not going back.

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

to heal the nation, joe biden must apologize for being mean to people with 'fuck joe biden' flags