Sean McBride

Somehow the slight possibility a goofy gamer kid entertains a feminine side on his phone is this generation's equivalent to WOMD and there is literally nothing standing in the way of a similar media-government conspiracy to plant evidence & ride rumors as pretense for tyrannical acts against lefties

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

2016: "drain the swamp" 2025: "let's all get used to living in the swamp for the foreseeable future"

Senior Living centers usually have seminars on how to avoid scams

Stop saying "unalived"

So I guess now we're all just waiting for the admin to come up with a way to silence the Epstein files uproar by releasing some fake/redacted version or just doing a press conference where a reprogrammed Gr0k takes the podium to pretend it has the final word

an important sub-theme in Tolkien's work is the last stand against evil will always be on the doorstep of deliberately ignorant & decadent people who you reluctantly to defend because they ultimately share the same fate as you

The downfall of its vain proponents aside, early 2000s atheist movement saw this on the horizon and were poo-pooed by liberals all along the way. Zappa called it in the early 80s, we are slipping into fascist theocracy, and with God in govt every kind of evil is possible

What movie did you see at way too young of an age?What movie did you see at way too young of an age?

Dylan, who recorded "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" also recorded a cover of "Don't Fence Me In" for the hagiographic Reagan movie, a tribute to a man who carried Bircherism up to the new millennium

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Being a former rapper could always turn out embarrassing but his big hit was about Chapati and his stage name was Young Cardamom. How could anybody not like that?

Is the goal to just keep running this country into the ground long enough so that, without chance of recovery, we are forced to give up on the idea something better than this was possible?

Anytime I'm around folks watching a major sporting event broadcast--w/ hours of 3-piece suit commentary about players' body parts, personal lives, how good they can move a ball, etc.--I can't help but wonder what our society would be like with that much serious attention paid toward important things

DOGE vote literally just passed because of the exact problem he was trying to address

*index finger on earpiece* We did it, sending babka to the Nazis stopped the shoah

Someone needs to sit down Dr. Phil on a stage, in front of cameras, and lecture him on the poor decisions he has made over the course of his career, and how he can do better. That person should be Oprah.

The Left is Palestine

Will they reel in Hogg and successfully deliver another decade of treading water, or will Hogg accomplish something for his generation?

There’s a connection btw Elon’s “the sun will eventually die so we have to leave Earth” and Joni Ernst’s “well we’re all gonna die anyway” – a nihilistic rejection of all the horizons that matter most

By the end of the year we'll be hearing about the immigration gold cards being held up by rich foreigners attempting to exercise special privileges we native poors don't get

Early 2000s atheism got derailed by confusion over its identification with certain snarky libertarian intellectuals, but it certainly didn't go far enough and now transparent rhetoric based on "celestial dictatorship" is still being used as justification for worldly dictatorship

I know someone who makes six figures a year in an office position for a weapons manufacturer who today asked for help on how to spell "Africa"

HAL: The Origin Story

We can’t even begin to explain how dumb this period was to future generations unless they sit through hours of these insane moments that don’t even make the news anymore

👍 kicking Bigfoot off medicare

Four years ago Marjorie Taylor Green called for "Marshall Law" Now it begins.

If Rings of Power had been as good as Andor it could have focused on why people seek this kind of control, but we don't like the thinky parts to impede spectacle-making in this society

The rebirth of Theranos under Elizabeth Holmes's partner needed only one *neat* trick to get investors back into the scam: just say "AI will figure it all out for us"

We know how he got brain worms

If you invest in this you do not deserve reimbursement

we are dealing with a Golden Age for fraud

Transferred eroticism dressed up as scientific discernment

for so long the existence of other minds has been a source of mystery and distress. what if there was a better way, a way we could transact with nonbeings who have zero interiority, and mirror verbiage back to us on demand? and what if we could burn acres of trees to do it? well

No joking, i think whatever parallels are found between the arc and current real-world politics could have been at least partially prevented if Lucas was capable of making a politically salient film. The confusion we all still feel about it contributed to Republicans capitalizing on blurry symbolism

Wondering how many self-help gurus have worked out a take on how to tell the difference between what they prescribe and what Trump has done his entire life.