The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America
those are the stakes in November, full stop
look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem.
1. Impeach some justices
2. Impose term limits
3. Expand the courts
4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives
5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit
"We had to unplug your father's breathing machine."
"Why, Doctor? Was he past the point of no return?"
"No, an AI company needs the electricity to make a cartoon picture of a 17 year old girl with breasts the size of 50 pound bags of cement and 4 rows of teeth."
Please remember that CNN is Diet Fox and has been for years. Chris Licht wanted to go full-bore, it was a disaster, they're back to being Diet Fox again. But that's what they are.
we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop
It's like how a restaurant won't give me a straw, and that makes up for the Deepwater Horizon disaster spilling trillions of gallons of oil into the ocean.
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
Donald Sutherland, RIP. One of my favorites from him is CITIZEN X, where he plays the official in charge of a Soviet oblast where a serial killer has been literally getting away with murder for years. He's charming and ironic, not at all what you'd expect from a Soviet military cop.
"Expand public transit and make it free? And who's gonna pay for that?"
Me you fucking goofy bastard. I pay taxes. give me healthcare instead of buying another 700,000 tear gas canisters for the police to spray on my friends.
the whole "fascists make things work" thing is based on a bunch of bullshit from Mussolini and stereotypes about German efficiency and has nothing to do with empirical reality
fascists do nothing but lie and hurt people, and the efficiency myth is nothing but another fascist lie
Folks really need to internalize this more. Fascists don’t make the trains run on time. They don’t make garbage collection smoother or roads better. They’re very very dumb! They do one and only one thing well: inflict pain on their perceived enemies.
