Posts by Platitudes with Attitude
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Wall Street Journal headline: "Alan Dershowitz: Why I'm Becoming a Republican"
Higher acceptance of sex crimes, same reason as everyone else who announces this
surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters
Infowars: exists
The Onion:
Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.
i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners
Feeling great
The top panel says "playing single player games really a man of your talents?" Brian on the bottom panel "it's a peaceful life" Shown are a bunch of N64 single player games Harvest Moon 64 Animal Crossing Bomberman hero Quest 64 Hybrid heaven Neon Genesis Evangelion
Time for some Tomodachi Life
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
The reveal of who took Whittaker’s badge on the Pitt last night was TV perfection, zero notes
Texting my husbands phone, then liking the tik toks he sent me and chatting there, then liking the insta reels he sends me and talking there…
Dave Chappelle on his Saudi show:
"The U.S. government does business with the Saudis. Netflix does business. ... None of these things were issues until I went there. ... As soon as a Black man can make money off the plantation, they try to tell you that the money is dirty."
What a load of bullshit.
The thing that is so incredibly stupid about using promises made, promises kept as a catch phrase is the people using it are just full time lying about everything. So incredibly easy to say and do when you just make shit up whole cloth.
Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.
Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.
Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.
If any sports team owners want to rehab their images, this would be a good start.
Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales didn’t announce they were resigning until they were referred to the House Ethics Committee for investigation into sexual misconduct allegations.
Consequences work when shame fails.
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
One thing that's frustrating about the DoorDash PR guy's response that "no one is claiming it was a real delivery" is that this is how mainstream media actually covered it:
Yes I am victim blaming, and no I don’t care: the entire industry has used fear as the cornerstone of its marketing for years; threatening people’s way of life in the abstract while damaging the economy, stealing peoples work etc. You don’t get to walk that back just because it became real for you.
Sam Altman's house wouldn't get Molotov Cocktailed if he simply surrounded it with data centers.
this is the first time I've heard this guy speak and I gotta say he seems petrified to be interacting with an adult
IF YOURE IN LINE TO BULLY ICE
STAY
IN
LINE
J.D. Vance is so swagless, the entire arena is just filled with professors trying to show how empty it is
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
The Pope is soft on crime though.
there was the commissioning and then canceling of that Pride collection by queer and trans artists, then there was the DEI rollback, now it’s AI-driven false arrests. Target is setting land-speed records for torching customer goodwill, given how high their popularity and how far they had to fall
the two most successful recent democratic presidential campaigns ran with progressive-coded messages -- obama 2008, biden 2020. the campaigns that adopt cautious centrism - harris 24, kerry 04, clinton 16, gore 2000 - fucking lose. so of course ny times editorial board wants dems to do the latter.
They like Trump and want to help him