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the problem with hiring a honeypot we put in china's banking industry is that sometimes they'll talk about their more chinese part of their life in a way that scares republicans.

this is a flawed premise not only because it's deeply racist, but she did support kamala. this idea there was mass protest of the vote by leftists is an unreality when the truth is that america has a massive problem with getting everyone to vote.

Pleasebury Doughboy ✨@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social

I know a lot of people won't want to hear this but Ilhan Omar withholding support for Biden and Kamala has a clear correlation to her potential deportation

the much cooler car news are the guys driving around GTA cars in miami. i would lose it if someone pulled up in a Cheetah.

the changes to PvE Tarkov NPCs in the last patch is such a good step to making it feel like Ultra S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but there is a teensy part of me that could tune down the AI PMC accuracy, but Tarkov's treadmill requires a certain amount of raids ending with getting aimbotted.

i think it would be healthier for our species if we could just say, "killing slave owners was/is sick as hell". why are we concerning ourselves with tears dried on a confederate flag.

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social

And we can certainly condemn his violence. But let’s step back and remember just how horrible slavery was. On December 20, 1858, Brown, who had briefly returned to Kansas, led a party into Missouri to free slaves.

it is okay to acknowledge that some humans have taken actions and beliefs into their hearts that make them evil. dehumanizing slave owners and their beneficiaries is a morally, ethically, and necessary action that must be taken to grow as a species.

i do not need teslas for flipping cars. we have one million travis pastrana style white boys in this country that could do that with a honda fit.

i'm in my new tesla roadster. i just refilled the co2 thrusters. oh huh, my battery is running a little hot. well, let me just pull over next to this elementary school and see if it's going to be a problem.

there are plenty of perfect red bull promotional videos i can watch that aren't going to enrich Hitler's least favorite hanger on.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

also its just like, its a scam donkey show. i'm not going to be impressed with someone who makes explosive sham cars made of slapped together laptop batteries spending billions to put CO2 thrusters in it. i would be more impressed with a video of a self driving car not running over children.

protest voting isn’t real. there’s just voting. if people were really protest voting we’d have successful write-in candidates everywhere.

no one ever says the centrist Zionists are doing purity tests. it’s just the folks who think people in America shouldn’t lose more rights based on their identity are the problem.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Abortion rights? Purity politics. Trans people being treated as human beings? Purity politics. One billion dollars for forever war and Islamophobia? Sensible, reasonable policy proposals everyone sane can agree on.

if I went to the voting booth in Ohio with the Dems operating there, i would be thinking about the Stephen paddock pokeball too much to make a decision.

if you're a democrat running in 2026 and someone asks you what you will do for the pro-life movement on television, you can just laugh at them and say "next!" if you want to win with doubt digit numbers

isla@politeisla.bsky.social

that talarico town hall thing is the most liz smith thing. just a series of people approaching the stand, saying, "i'm the most evil person in my community, what will you do for me," and talarico just offering individual pieces of his spine to each one

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i would also like someone to start saying, "we can not rule a country via biblical literalism" out loud on the television screen

then again, it's the current media culture to manufacture an environment that puts forth this lie that the christian right is a much larger part of the country than it is.

if you're a democrat running in 2026 and someone asks you what you will do for the pro-life movement on television, you can just laugh at them and say "next!" if you want to win with doubt digit numbers

isla@politeisla.bsky.social

that talarico town hall thing is the most liz smith thing. just a series of people approaching the stand, saying, "i'm the most evil person in my community, what will you do for me," and talarico just offering individual pieces of his spine to each one

sorry but a man on television saying, "we can come to a compromise" about abortion rights is not a display of level headed, widely supported policy crafting, it's him coming out as a fucking freak on television

that talarico town hall thing is the most liz smith thing. just a series of people approaching the stand, saying, "i'm the most evil person in my community, what will you do for me," and talarico just offering individual pieces of his spine to each one

common bad neighbor: loud music, parties till the early morning expert saboteur neighbor: takes away your toilet

isla@politeisla.bsky.social

shout out to my upstairs neighbor for letting them take out his toilet to work on this.

current ceiling status: the super cut deep into the boards to get the rot and now there is a big fan drying it out before the sheetrock goes up tomorrow.

i think you need to have voted democrat for at least four presidential elections before you get to do the ex-republican consultant grift. i'm not taking shit from someone decades older than me who didn't vote for obama.

like, if you voted for george w bush, you get to sit quietly in the corner and vote blue no matter who, you should not be yelling about hasan piker.

i think its very good and deserving of a pat on the back for not being a freak anymore. good for you. if you begin trying to take the wheel and saying, "get a load of these guys" i am going to ask you repeatedly how long have you stopped being a freak before I let you touch the wheel.

thank you to all the democrats who voted for the "immigrants are killing our white daughters" bill.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

one of the most blatantly fascist bills in recent history. you can get ossof to support a bill titled, "stop brown people from killing my precious brealiegh" before you can get him to support M4A

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Lena Dunham in HBO pitch writing GIRLS on the whiteboard, then wiping away the S so it says GIRL, then adding a dollar sign so it says GIRL$, then wiping it all away and writing ARLI$$

having teensy panic moment about this. not like spiralling, just feels like trying to go about my evening with a cognito hazard in the apartment

isla@politeisla.bsky.social

half of the ceiling in my bathroom collapsed. cool.

it would be sick to have my main account back to maybe ask if anyone is looking for a roommate but eh. what can ya do.

I don’t know how to tell everyone but biddy blas just got hit by a car in forest hills. it didn’t stop for one second, and he just went under it. he’s not saying anything we’re so scared.

at some point i have to admit to myself that i am never going to use any skin care product samples. i have so many little ketchup packets of hand cream i never use because i have my products already.

john kennedy stuttering and barely able to get his racist smear against abdul out of his mouth is like a scene they had to cut out of a 90's southern law thriller for being a little too on the nose

i wonder how many of her democratic colleagues, let alone democratic leadership, are going to react with silence because they also want her harassed out of power.

the premise of deportation as punishment for crimes is a flawed concept because criminals should actually go to prison for their crimes and everyone mentioned in this post should be in pelican bay forever. also if we're dreaming why not let the most strung out fort hood guys raid maralago.

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love the concept of a guy who makes video essays on the sopranos but he has only watched season one during recovery from a tbi