In the summer of 1992, if you turned on the radio at random, you were far more likely to hear Michael Bolton or Color Me Badd than Nirvana or Soundgarden.

"This era is dominated by superheroes, video games, and Star Wars" is a sentence that would have also been true in 1982

It's the Mitrokhin Archive. The KGB actively spread rumors in the US accusing the CIA and President Johnson as masterminding the assassination in a desperate attempt to get suspicion off the USSR. This later turned into the efforts to accuse the FBI of assassinating Martin Luther King.

There's no politics any more, it's just a race to the bottom of who can come up with displaying the biggest wad of moral outrage and parasocial relationships in hopes that a real political system will show up to mate with it.

"'P' is for plagiarism from Ogden Nash!"

"Every frame of this movie looks like somebody's last known photograph!" from "MANOS:" THE HANDS OF FATE.

(Runner up: "A pentagram, and reindeer laughing. YOU figure it out." from SANTA CLAUS.)

Turns out that as a result of this, I've been added to a list called "Cuunts," I suppose pronounced like one of Adam Driver's line readings in MEGALOPOLIS.

it is very tiring to watch people openly embrace the whole "evil Jewish money is corrupting and running the world!" but because they can manage to use slightly different words everyone who's not Jewish acts like they can't see it.

An address that the media not just refused to carry, but agreed after the fact proved that *Biden* was the fascist threat because of red lights and honor guards. And rather than give credit for trying, his detractors on the left said "maybe if his vibes didn't suck we'd listen and defend him"

I'm not having a good brain day today. I wish it were otherwise.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to use the word "Imperial" unless they're discussing margarine or Star Wars.

"You still think hammers and sickles look cool / In a real People's Republic you'll be first to go"

Scratch a Communist and a child raised by right-wing Evangelicals bleeds.

This is, honestly, an underrated dynamic with a lot of these kinds of posters. A lot of ex-vangelicals who are now Marxist-Leninists, for instance, are people who grew up being taught liberals are the enemy and never grew out of it; they just shifted their rhetoric.

I've noticed that a lot of people who are too young to remember life during the Cold War are awfully eager to opine loudly and confidently on what various countries should have done during the Cold War.

MTG hasn’t turned on Trump because she’s seen the light; she’s a true believer who views him as an apostate who has betrayed the faith, and is maneuvering herself into a position to become a hard-right figurehead & party leader when Trumpism falls.

"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!"

Russian Blue cat, asking for cheezburger

Dat Boi, approaching

Pipe character, repeated with underscore

Taylor, pointing at cat

"Kurse all SeeDs! Swarming like lokusts akross generations! The world was on the brink of that ever-elusive ‘time kompression’. Insolent fools! Your vain krusade ends here, SeeDs!"

I appreciate this deep film/historical cut.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18.

I had a little trouble choosing between three different movies, but in the end I went with this one.

"that's not going to be popular!"

no, it's not.

did we think reaching the socialist utopian future was going to be easy and painless and the only people taking Ls are billionaires?

not how the real world works. we're gonna have to gore bigger oxen than ranchers if we want Medicare for All.

this is the problem with the populist left. it's easy to talk about solving all our problems by taxing billionaires and bringing out guillotines.

but the reality is that every single thing we need to do has painful trade-offs somewhere and we're going to have to convince people to make them.

"This time for certain, we will have our beautiful night!!"

I am still incredibly proud of this line.

I still say that sometimes, even after so many years.

🎶It's the end of the world as we know it🎶