‘Well “Pope” “Leo” what do you think of these 95 theses? or should I say feces!’ proceed to smear shit on a random door in Wittenberg.

‘We’re actually better Catholics than the Pope’ -JD Vance, Peter Thiel, others whose opinions should not be taken seriously

The US and the world are living through one man’s dementia. We are in a terrifyingly absurd place. To quote John Mulaney (who was quoting Dr. Octagon) ‘there’s a horse in the hospital!’

Are we going to war with Iran today? YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know

Trump is considering releasing everything about aliens and UFOs made me immediately think of this sketch. The distraction part still rings true, but it’s clearly of a different time when the state viewed the press as a tool for manufacturing consent and not an adversary

this is really cool.

They still hate poor white people, as do you!

You were a star amongst liberals who bought your bullshit about how everyone in Appalachia is stupid except for you.

I don’t understand why Vance doesn’t back the 25th amendment when used against Trump. Come on you idiot. You could literally leak the Epstein files and become President, right? Maybe Ron Howard is paying you to not expose how stupid the subject of his movie is?

They had fucking Twin Peaks!

Gen X had Nirvana, Wu-Tang, Belle and Sebastian, the Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Pulp Fiction. Somehow they managed to fuck it up.

But you have figures like Henry Ford and Lindbergh in the US, along with organizations like the German American Bund. I guess I’d defend the Nordic model like this: they may practice welfare state chauvinism, but I live in the US where we’re just practicing straight up right wing chauvinism.

Aztec Batman exists and the only way this fact would disappoint 18 year old me is that it’s in Spanish and not Classical Nahuatl.

I think of the Nordic race as a concept more prominent outside the Nordic countries. I know there are stories about Islamophobia and racism there, and there is some truth to that (especially in Denmark?), but that’s common among Western countries. It’s wrong and evil just not uniquely Nordic

They also have higher GDPs and higher HDI. When you throw in inequality adjusted HDI Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden are all in the top ten. I know there are far right parties active there (e.g. True Finns), but I don’t get the sense that those are that powerful.

Millennial brain kicks in: sure, but what if Seinfeld was still, like, on TV today?

2026: Artemis II sends humans the furthest they’ve been from Earth.

Trump administration: Let’s start a pointless war with Iran to satisfy Netanyahu’s weird anti-Iran fetish.

2025: JWST was able to view the early universe.

Trump administration: what if ICE just had free rein to deport whoever?

2024: Perseverance discovers signs of past life on Mars.

Trump administration: yeah well, Vought says it’d cost too much to bring the samples back so let’s just cut NASA’s budget and use the money to attack our own people?

Look babe, I don’t know how far I can take this relationship if you’re not going to let me perform cranial deformation on our children。

‘I support Israel because they’ll usher in the apocalypse and I have a very stupid understanding of Christianity’

Hi my name is Larry Ellison. You don’t know me but I’m one of those tech centibillionaires you hear about; I’ve just been quiet. Not anymore. I’m in my eighties and contemplating my legacy. I’m buying up media companies so that my horrible opinions will continue on after my death

Let’s take this postmodern moment to its logical endpoint: a conversation between Melania and Žižek in Slovene, live-streamed.

The US has gone downhill since Avengers: Endgame.

But the other Nordic countries also have high incomes. Without oil Norway would probably still be highly developed. At worst they’d have a per capita GDP like Finland’s

By ‘respect’ do you mean the extensive system of military bases in other countries around the world, the prominence of US tech firms, and the dollar as the global reserve currency? Fuck. We in the US have a lot to dismantle… Let’s fucking go!

I think of the works of literature (very much including comics) that I find meaningful. I think of the films I love (or don’t, you can acknowledge something as art and still despise it), and much of the music I listen to. But art is just so fucking complicated as a topic.

Then their main constituency will go back to being gamers.

I feel like you’re wrong about NVIDIA. Its growth has been entirely AI related. Before this their brand was mostly concerned with the ‘can it run Crysis?’ meme. They’re not going to be okay

They all should be judged, but Hegseth’s shit eating grin in a basket feels appropriate.