slouching towards flavortown

What is the logical response one should have had to the Biden-Harris administration’s actions in Gaza?

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

Might be time to finally read this book I’ve had on my shelf for years

Third spaces are for everyone

No, I’m saying she was right. It’s good that she embraced the genocide in Gaza and campaigned with billionaires and republicans, otherwise she might have lost. I’m agreeing with you!

“The reason why fools and knaves thrive better in the world than wiser and honester men is because they are nearer to the general temper of mankind, which is nothing but a mixture of cheat and folly.” -Samuel Butler

Now that I think about it, you’re absolutely right. Kamala Harris did nothing wrong and in fact she won the 2024 election and is currently President of the United States.

devising a new social media platform where you get three energy to spend every turn, posts can attack or defend, and the goal of the platform is slightly more obviously about defeating other commenters than here

How does so obviously lying when the truth is damning enough do anything good for anyone or anything other than your engagement stats?

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

As long as you don’t mind being wrong

screenshot where a user has requested "draw a gnome surfing" and someone else has replied with a hastily doodled little stick guy wearing a red pointy hat catching some waves on a surf board

youraislopbores.me is a fun little idea where you put in a "prompt" and another user "steals ai's job" and draws or writes an answer. but i want to draw some stuff and there aren't enough requests rn so check it out and i might be your pretend AI

Barton Fink is probably closer to Horror than No Country For Old Men

When Obama said “I’m not opposed to all wars just dumb wars” he meant we should have just taken out Saddam with a cruise missile, destroyed all of Iraq’s critical infrastructure, and then imposed sanctions to prevent rebuilding or humanitarian aid.

Hard not to assume that elite Democratic opinion about the Iraq War wouldn’t have soured so quickly in 2004-06 if Bush had just been bombing Baghdad into rubble and not putting boots on the ground.

That’s the excellence part, the incompetence is not hiding it or lying about it well enough to allow Atlantic columnists to comfortably support the war without fearing dirty looks at cocktail parties.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

It’s so funny to be “reality is whatever the Leader says is” about a guy who literally has no idea what he said 5 minutes ago.

Stonks???

This is a Nick Fuentes fan! A literal self-proclaimed Nazi! Running AI for our imperial death machine!

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

If this is what you sound like it’s time to take some serious time to reflect on how you got here. Something is NOT right.

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

If the words “people respect Markwayne” just escaped your lips you need to go back to square one. Are you even listening to yourself? “Markwayne”??? Be serious.

Terror Alert Level:

Maybe this takes place prior to Gardner? Nathan Fillion is supposed to appear in the show as well so presumably this is an origin story season or something

Yeah if you watch the clip he really lets Rogan dog-walk him and concedes a lot of ground and seems to say he agrees with Rogan on at the very least least the sports ban. Not sure he’s the ally we need lol

The Bobafication of Manhattan’s Chinatown The proliferation of bubble tea shops displacing Chinatown’s legacy businesses might not “look” like gentrification. That makes it even more insidious, some say.

The Bobafication of Manhattan’s Chinatown

The proliferation of bubble tea shops displacing Chinatown’s legacy businesses might not “look” like gentrification. That makes it even more insidious, some say."

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