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This boss fight track from Final Fantasy 14 is really good at making me feel pumped up and ready for anything youtu.be/SmPQ5jE3eDE?...

Not super familiar with this outlet and I try NOT to do "callout" posts so DON'T take this as that BUT: IMO framings like this don't help good movies, even if meaning to. "WILDWOOD" deserves to be more seen, but it also *exceeded* its financial expectations and had unique financing and distribution

This is silly for a number of reasons, but primary among them is JD Vance is a Marine Corps veteran AND a Yale Law School graduate. He could very easily pronounce those words.

this is what American trans folx have been asking for and few of them will notice this or give the dems any credit.

People truly believed that this was gonna be the End Da Warz presidency when the whole point of this presidency was to meme all the gutter bigotries of the GWOT’s origins into official policy

reminder that this is a totally made-up, invented story. obama's joke was not remotely interesting or controversial — they saw an opportunity to lie about what he said in a way they think advantages them and ran with it.

Genuinely funny he was out of there in 24 hours

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

Yes the Cenk Uygur ad is antisemitic, yes it is transphobic, but it’s the *interaction effect* between the antisemitism and the transphobia that causes it to give off so many Hitler particles

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i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

you write 500,000,000 in ARABIC NUMERALS you slack-jawed brain-dead carbon sink of an undead racist, go try and prove germ theory wrong firsthand by huffing e. coli cultures

WHO WOULD WIN objectively best living conditions in human history VS. "i have to see transgenders on twitter :("

correct states further down the path of autocracy than us have had those autocracies overthrown by sufficiently large voting numbers recently we can do it here too

This, but also, as a liberal I believe in freedom and human rights for all people, all around the world. That translates into rooting interests in elections where freedoms and rights are on the ballot, as they often are.

The far right is international and they all organize together and raise money for each other. I'd argue it's critical to pay attention to elections in other countries.

“I have absolutely no regard for the immediate interests of the workers because I happen to know better than you and them both, due to my superior education.” it’s weird finding 2011 Reddit /r/atheism in the wild still

it does kind of seem like yglesias also thinks this is true of their own countries, and indeed he would prefer the people not participate in politics at all, and leave the hard business of running a country to the smart people (him)

Matt STFU, sincerely. You can live in *the world* or you can not, and if you're going to eat food and enjoy art/media from other nations/peoples you should at least be passingly familiar with stuff like "Who made this? What's it like where they're from? They doin' alright? If not, why?"

That one in particular has been pretty conclusively debunked (mostly because SDI came after Soviet military spending had already skyrocketed in the late 1970s/early 1980s due to Brezhnev and Andropov attempting to "win" the Cold War after the US withdrawal from Vietnam)

Upon receiving criticism for his unilateral destruction of the US biological (and later chemical) arsenal, Nixon stated that "if someone uses germs on us, we'll nuke them." George H.W. Bush's government made similar veiled comments vis a vis Iraq in 1991. These weapons are just inferior goods.

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

one of my quasi-kooky hobbyhorses is that I’d regulate commercials and advertising content co-equal with any street-level enforcement. Americans get 100s of hours of years of straight bad driving myth, subconscious coding of drives you’ll never get to fulfill safely or pro-socially.

I'm currently the only one of 3 disabled people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and chronic migraines have left us very broke, and we're helping my sister move cross-country now. If you can send a few dollars, that'd be very appreciated! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Anyway, occasional reminder that attempting to get NYC tenant activists to explain how they would actually pay for the NYCHA’s maintenance backlog produced the classic “white ways of knowing and being” tweet.

BOY WOULD WE LIKE TO

what is actually true is that the western canon is a real thing, and one that has been *enormously* historically impactful, but also it is an *artificial* canon--a lineage constructed of ideas, not blood or soil

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

Technology is repeatable and it is remarkable when a piece of technology is unreliable (think about how a car that functions intermittently is seen as a bad car nowadays). Magic is seemingly inexplicable at first, and it is remarkable when it is consistent(think about the praise for “hard magic”)

CBS identified Illinois based Three Z Printing as the holder of the permit associated with the fake transgender mailers. One of the owners, Matt Zerrusen, is based in Dallas. His Instagram shows pictures with Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and comments from local Republicans.

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

"You look like you're trying to delete democracy. Are you sure you want to do this?" "Oh fuck, nonononono, cancel! Cancel!"

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overheard in the discord

marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government

The other thing here is heggles is an army guy and (it is my understanding) the marines generally do not like army people telling them what to do (and in particular saying who gets to be a marine)

Very glad to hear that Elon Musk is a stickler for details on contractor – government relationships. Could come in handy later.

the obama/cheesecake factory is giving me flashbacks to when he said he liked arugula and the pundits went fucking nuts about how this was elitist. they have always been garbage who don't deserve oxygen

of course i get the point: their argument was always that they should be allowed to make jokes about us and we shouldn't be allowed to complain about it. reciprocity was never part of the deal

man republicans these days truly have zero sense of humor

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

genuinely embarrassing that TNR would publish this NIMBY propaganda full of factual errors