Don’t give them a single dime to I build a new stadium. If they want private benefits, they should look at private fundraising.

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

So many of the expectations of a benign social contract are collapsing, from the individual ("I'm gonna listen to my loud music without a headset") or institutional ("Fuck you for wanting to sit in this waiting area")

"opt them out of the gene pool" is a really diplomatic way to say "abort trans fetuses before they're born"

I have been online and arguing about politics for nearly twenty five years and not once have I ever seen anyone respond to vote scolding with anything but "fuck you"

if you want to be mad at people for not voting, sure, knock yourself out

if you want them to vote next time, try a different tactic

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imagine sitting on a potential challenger to the current bloc of social media platforms people are on but dislike for various reasons and going "no, no I must burn through my userbase's goodwill as fast as possible because I'm too bitter that funny trans women are more popular than AI dweebs"

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

Every defense of the electoral college as not wanting “New York” and “California” to decide things for Real Americans is based on this and somehow those making them are taken seriously by the Serious People

Personally, I'd love to see

A) Nationwide redistricting
B) Valuing compactness and regularity of districts
C) For districts of equal population
D) Ignoring state lines
E) In an expanded house,
F) Where each rep represents 300,000 people.

But in the meantime, sure. Let's play this game.

Images not rendering right now are actually such an incredible use case for ALT text and a great way to experience what it’s like to want to participate while not being able to see.

If Darth hadn’t included ALT you’d have no idea what this was.

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

Williams says that the bill wouldn't apply to "appropriate drag," and said that it's written in a way that obscenity could be determined by individual law enforcement.

Conservatives *want* the vagary inherent in the law because it makes them, and their police, the arbiter of morality. They don't like the idea of justice being blind.

"Of course we won't go after Shakespeare!" they say honestly, and they're correct.

They'll decide what drag is "appropriate."

Of course, the article also doesn't mention that this was done in service of banning trans people from public spaces.

Instead, they let the legislator run wild saying this about "men" in women's locker rooms and "protecting children's innocence."

This is how gender fascism advances.

i mean, look at this guy. just bopping around the watering hole.

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

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.

End the project already, Dave.

You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.

Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

the penne opticon

I will absolutrly criticize people for attending. It’s a grotesque spectacle nobody who cares about press freedom should dignify with their presence.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

So, wait: I'm being framed for the collapse of western "civilization" because cis men get confusing boners about us and cis women cry about their kids' decisions?

You're sure it's the trannies? Not the literal sexual-predator billionaires sucking up all the world's wealth and resources? Really?

Why is it that Democratic politicians are always doing this thing where they legitimize right-wing caricatures of Democrats?

Which Democrats are referring to people in prison as the "justice involved population?" That's just not a thing any elected official is saying.

There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.