All of this began with Steve Bannon and his WoW guild. I can’t believe how far they’ve taken it.

https://www.thewrap.com/how-world-of-warcraft-propelled-steve-bannon-to-the-white-house/

Holy shit, what dirt does Putin have on Elon?

Their values are aligned, theirs strategies are aligned, and so their efforts are aligned.

Ender’s Game was prescient text, regardless of Orson Scott Card’s personal beliefs.

Locke and Demosthenes are now armies of manipulative bots (but often real humans), shaping political discourse throughout the world. The Internet gave mind control powers to people with money, ambition, or both. We saw it with the Bernie Sanders and Trump movements in 2016 on Reddit, all too clearly for those who lived through an era where bullshit detection was a critical skill.

I was once fairly defeatist on this subject: the bad guys won, got Trump elected, and kicked off a new era of 80s conservatism that demonized progressive values like environmental conservation, freedom of choice in a number of matters, and equality.

But now, I’m starting to see young people stand up to their boomer relatives at Thanksgiving and bring facts and logic to social media discussions. And I have regained some hope that we will once again find a way to make the progressive “line go up“. Our society seems to swing like a pendulum between the right and left, over decades, and it feels like the Trump era was a swing too violent for most of us. It’s time to swing back.

This is why I have no plans to buy a PS6.

Disgusting. Please don’t participate in this.

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Sports and celebrity bullshit are the only things keeping Twitter afloat. They all need to move to threads or bluesky, because let’s be honest, they aren’t going to mastodon.

Melania is stunning in the same way laser cut glass figurines are. Sure they look cool, but do you want it on the shelf in your house?

Everyone does.

The worst thing is that the family member I have to deal with knows this shit sounds crazy, so they’ll go to great lengths to make it true but sound less crazy.

Their assertion will go something like: “well I know it SOUNDS crazy and I thought it was too, but then I looked it up and someone DID have their cat eaten by homeless people there (wherever “there” is) and they found out the people were from Haiti!”

So even if this single anecdote were true, does it turn into migrants all eat house pets?

I also wonder about this apartment building in Aurora. Was it abandoned or in some slum? I saw the video, but it seems absolutely insane and obviously isn’t a trend.

It’s not a mystery how he plans to do it. He’ll demand Zelenskyy cede taken territory to Russia. If Zelenskyy doesn’t accept those terms, then the funding to Ukraine will stop.

She would easily win against Kamala. Thank God the base is dumb enough to keep supporting Trump.

They’re all like this. Ted Cruz’s wife gets called ugly and Ted sucks him off. Lindsey Graham says something innocuous about Trump, Trump tells a reporter he doesn’t give a shit what Lindsey thinks. Oh shucks, well, whatever. Most republicans are reported to have talked about how bad for the country he is behind closed doors, INCLUDING TRUMP’S CURRENT RUNNING MATE, but that person is also too unprincipled to do the right thing. Even in spite of the family members he says he worries about under a Trump presidency.

Republicans simply cannot rebuke Trump anymore, because the idiots who vote for him are single issue voters now, and the single issue is whether or not the candidate is endorsed by their golden spray tanned god. Those people are deplorable. Their hate is the one thing driving their political opinions.

It already was like 10 years ago.

Oscillators that give us access to ridiculous speeds on the way.

Yeah I gotta say, as a straight person, there was never a time I thought I was gay. If this dude thought he was gay as a teen, well, maybe it’s ok to finally come out.

What is the deal with this guy and breeding?

Presidential hopes? More like wishes on a penny thrown into a fountain.

Independent as my boomer dad who loves to poke fun at Biden and assures me everything Trump did was fine.