A 2021 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 23% of Republicans believe that “the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.”

I’m torn between thinking “Well, Marx didn’t think of that” and “it’s predictable that during the death throes of hypercapitalism the proletariat may get a bit fuzzy-headed.”

Nah, they just can’t spell truth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Reagan - whose father paved the way for the Bush/Trump syphilis parade

I’ve always low-key blamed Trump (and his minions) on lead poisoning - paint, exhaust from leaded gasoline, old pipes & so forth. I suppose there’s some portion that’s explained by inbreeding. But, I guess some portion of the phenomenon could also be explained by uncooked pork products…

I wonder how they handle diapers in jail.

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming “How can she slap?!”

I read Nikki Haley as Kristi Noem, and frowned at this headline in confusion.

The DA figured it out: if you want to shut Trump up, just show him your Pecker.

Science often has maybe 6 pharma ads every morning. Today it had so many I went looking for someplace to discuss it.

I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

“withdrew all ground troops” … “one brigade remains.”

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

As opposed to foreign autocrats like Putin buying votes, which is perfectly fine… Perfectly fine.

Three fiddy.

Aussie Pedo-Priest is all you need for a very dark horror-comedy.

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My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

What’s the underwater game that came out a few years ago? Your spaceship crashes in the ocean of a cold planet, and you explore and make bases, and solve a mystery… SubZero or something?

I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.