Epic bacon must be worth at least 10 billion market cap.

The DOD just paid Elon a bunch of money for his mechahitler chat bot…

Who’s still buying this crap?

I think Trump would not be president if the Democrats hadn’t thrown a horrible batch of candidates at him.

Maybe but there’s this shitlib take that the problem with the Democrats isn’t their shitty candidates or their shitty policies or their shitty consultants or their shitty campaigns.

The problem is the voters are just too deplorable to vote the right and honorable way.

This whole “you can’t change minds with reason” is a shibboleth for these types of people.

These people would rather lose and be self-righteous about being “one of the few good ones” than put any pressure on the dems to stop this country’s increasingly fast slide into fascism.

Adam Curtis is the Cassandra of our age. I first saw Century of the Self when I was young. It depressed me and left me in a funk for weeks. Hypernormalization is great and yeah, a rewatch every year is warranted as more of its vision comes true.

That’s actually what Hollywood did until the red scare. Hence the “keystone cops” of early cinema.

Bombs for peace ™.

“Rubber” bullets are steel bullets coated in rubber.

It was the largest spontaneous global protest in human history and we accomplished fuck-all. 🤷

As a guy who spent the first day of the Iraq war trapped in a police kettle, yes I know.

When W’s rehabilitation began during Trump 1 the libs were saying “Cheney was the real bad guy”. Then along came Kamala.

“The American way of life is not negotiable” – Liberal hero “normal President” George W Bush.

We are melting ice caps and boiling lakes to help high schoolers not learn Spanish.

Renters have two options:

• get fucked
• move (and get fucked)

At least if the homeowner sells they get the windfall.

I was living in a neighborhood that gentrified and my rent went up a “life altering” amount. I had to move to a different, shittier neighborhood and had nothing to show for it. If a property owner has the same thing happen, they may be forced to sell, but they will get a massive windfall. Renters get nothing besides a kick in the butt.

It’s really incredible. Then again, there’s a theory I heard that Israelis like it when Jews feel/are threatened elsewhere in the world, because it promotes Zionism.

Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.

Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.

Yeah. In this case it’s the resort town not wanting to provide living wages or housing for their contingent workforce.

In both cases it’s millennials. It’s even called “millennial grey.”

Unironically one of the most surprising thing about the current crop of techbros is how anti-intellectual they are. Back in the day Paul Graham published a smarmy essay about how you shouldn’t have possessions except books. Nowadays, I see so many techbros saying “I hate books” and “I never read.”

It’s weird to have your self identity be both I’m smarter than everyone else and also I don’t read. I really am baffled at how they square that circle.