Chronos the Caster

"What do you want the Dems to DO exactly?" is kicked dog behavior. Elected officials are not meant to do insider trading and occasionally give a 4/10 speech about civility. They are an expression of the values of those they represent, you're damn right I expect up to and including physical action.

This is a white supremacist rally. Anyone who attends something like this or still supports the leader of this movement should be unwelcome in your home and shunned from civil society. Period. We’re way past the point where this crap should be tolerated from anyone. Cast them out.

im always taken aback by just how much cis people will humiliate themselves to be dicks to trans people. like sorry, youre confused about pronouns? how did you make it thru 6th grade english you slimy dipshit? why are you going on podcasts to advertise youre too stupid to understand simple concepts?

“Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Ok, so he was definitely in on it? We can all say that now right?

broad-tailed hummingbirds built a nest atop a tea light on a friend's front porch. one bird fledged yesterday, and one kiddo (who I saw flying, too) was hanging around for more food from mom #birds

Trump has a natural advantage with these voters over people who give a shit about policy or reality because we’ll mumble something about hardening electric infrastructure while trying to hide contempt, he’ll say that the marines will kill Glonzo under him.

If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.

i entered last week very skeptical about Epstein conspiracy theories and now I'm wondering if Trump personally walked into the jail and killed him

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq. archive.ph/tfOaG

and I think a lot of people realize deep down that if they were to ever switch their basic morality back "on" again post-pandemic, the full weight of their self-centered choices would crush their self-perception, so to avoid it they just simply stop caring about others, a sort of sunk cost fallacy

Big "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty" vibes.

"but the immigrants are criminals" Yeah, and what group of people do you think we're rapidly being reclassified as "criminals" in 1930's Germany? What you do now, is what you would have done then.

We can all just admit that whenever Republicans say "dei" it's because they can't say slurs anymore right? So when Trump says that "dei caused a plane crash" he means it's because women and black people were allowed to have jobs reserved in the past for white men. It's obvious craven racism.

Interesting.

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

around 42% of all marriages end in divorce. that is a very high regret rate for people committing to life changing decisions. the state should do something, ultimately we should ban marriage entirely

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

I think there's something darkly ironic about how all the manosphere influencers are all taking supplemental testosterone (HRT) and have hair plugs or other gender affirming surgeries, fearmonger about trans people getting access to the exact same things.

Justice Jackson asks about a child who does not want to grow breasts. Notable that thousands of boys have cosmetic surgery to remove unwanted breast tissue from their chests.

We're still gonna call them skeets right?

Really looking forward to the conversations we'll get to have about how people "only voted for trump for the economy". And what they really mean is "eggs were a dollar too expensive so I decided to go all in on fascism".

It's going to be very important over the next four years to remember that there is not a single person who voted for Trump who also values the rule of law or democracy.

it doesn't even make sense!! it's supposed to be advertising a product!!

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.

and I joined pretty recently too, this place has really taken off.

Some mock the idea that Biden is better than Trump, and by extension that bourgeois democracy is better than fascism, by adumbrating all the dreadful things done/said by Biden and his administration. This demonstrates that they have no idea just how bad fascism is when it is in power.

There are literally tens of millions of USAians who grew up being taught in evangelical Sunday Schools that they would see the end of the world in their lifetimes. Many of those are now in positions of power in government, media, and military, and they’re getting impatient.