Doctor Manhattan meme. First panel: It is 2006, LeBron put up 28-8-7 in the playoffs. Second panel: It is 2016, LeBron put up 28-8-7 in the playoffs. Third and final panel: It is 2026, LeBron put up 28-8-7 in the playoffs.
Old man bron vs. old man durant is just so surreal to watch. It feels like watching Prometheus go up against the Boulder. I'll let you decide who's who.
"War is patient, war is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. War does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. War always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." - Hegseth 69:420
he's saying something about getting jobs and quitting jobs and how you should get a new job before you quit your old job. Then he says "but if you quit it's important that you [unintelligible]" and she says "they do! they do! what the fuck are you talking about?"
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I do not use it to mean a thing's vagueness, I use it to mean a thing or things that are vague.
When did we invent "vagueries"? I feel like I've been using it all my life, but the dictionaries either don't list it as a word, or they use the wrong definition. I use it to mean words or phrases which intentionally or accidentally obscures one's meaning.
A table of election outcomes for the nazi party from 1928-1938, showing increasing support over the decade, including a jump from 43.91% to 92.11% after the Nazi Party became the "sole legal party" between March 1933 and November 1933.
A zoomed in screenshot of the previous table, emphasizing the words "majority government" and "sole legal party"
The real trick is avoiding the "sole legal party" potentiality
There are many accurate comparisons between our current situation and 1930s Germany, but it's quickly becoming clear that well more than a majority of Americans do NOT want a fascist dictatorship.
going to be tough to find a jury that will convict the person whose face gets him typecast as "good guy who beats up bad guys" unless you do the whole trial Love Is Blind style where they don't get to see the defendant until they make the decision.
Hannah Hidalgo has discovered a secret fact about basketball which is that the other team cannot score if they do not have the ball.
Reveal the relationship between the worker and the owner. Clarify the relationship between workers everywhere. Explain that collective power is the only path from poverty to prosperity.
A pro-worker message can work everywhere, as long as the messenger isn't a nerd or a dick about it (and sometimes, even then).
Erika Kirk and Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the same room is a new level of cursed. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
The news is often the place people go to report non-violent, non-property crimes, especially when they are committed by a powerful person or institution. When billionaires take over mass media, they often "take cops off the beat" for things like tax evasion, workplace safety, and sexual harassment.
y'know, call me crazy, but I don't think the platform that includes:
- hide the pedophile papers
- bomb iran
- immigrant concentration camps
- masked gestapo
- hang democrats (lol jk... unless?)
is actually all that popular.
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
Silicon Valley fascists have so enshittified the Internet that people are returning to media the oligarchs can't put behind a subscription gate
holy shit dude
It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.”
Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”
Meanwhile the FBI director is partying with Olympians on our dime.
also who tf benches with the rubber weights, except to make their bench look more impressive than it is
How many reports do the perverts leading this administration read per week? Not emails, not texts, but full on analytical reports from career civil servants. I'm setting the O/U at 0.25.
I was born with an em-dash in my hand, and I'll die with an em-dash in my hand.
the just keep cycling between these three deeply unpopular moves and panicking when people react negatively
fascists only ever have three moves in their arsenal:
1. make government worse
2. concentration camps
3. foreign war
USA? USA? USA?
I spent the whole gold medal game shouting “GO Robert Mueller and the rule of law!!!”
the only way to get rid of tanking is to get rid of the draft
"I took my husbands last name" sounds wrong. Cause he's still got his last name, but yours mysteriously went missing. Starting to sound like he took yours.