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Showing content with the highest reputation on 02/05/25 in all areas

  1. On a personal level, my parents just fucked around and found out. The continued support of an obvious racist is just too much, even if they aren't openly espousing those views in front of me. I don't want my mixed-race kids around them until they do some serious soul-searching, and I told them as much. It fucking sucks, but pretending everything was ok and ignoring the state of the world when they were around was not going to be sustainable.
    39 points
  2. Wrong. We're to blame. We became fat, and lazy, and indifferent and/or ignroant to the concept of it being a civic duty to be informed, to strive to be educated on topics, and to be grateful for having the right to vote, and to exercise it. Instead, we couldn't be bothered to watch the news, becuase it's sooo depressing/boring/who cares, and we couldn't follow politics for the same reason. We took everything we had for granted, and we turned into the fat fucks on the ship in Wall-E, simply eeeking along and becoming only concerned with things that are right in front of our face, or effect us directly. During that time, we escheweed morality, we allowed power hungry self-interested people to be elected (becuase good people didn't want to be politicians, we could make more money elsewhere), we allowed corporations to take over our politics monetarily, and we didn't punish people at the ballot box becuase politics became a team sport. We let for profit news, in all of it's obvious contradictions, take root and flourish. Trump. Congress. Politicians, all of it. They're all us. This is on us. You can call it as a species, or Americans as a country, but it's on us. This is who we have become. Pointing at Congress, Trump, the Supreme Court, it's all the same picture, and that picture is us.
    30 points
  3. https://247sports.com/player/max-wright-46151680/
    26 points
  4. Sure, but did you hear Kamala’s laugh??
    26 points
  5. The wife of a guy I work with has a pretty high job with USAID. She only has to go into the office a few times a month, which is good because they live about 2 1/2 hours from the office. Even though she teleworks most of the month, she gets DC locality pay. She's been put on admin leave. If she keeps her position, she's been told that she will have to be in the office 5 days a week. They are both apparently pretty upset and don't know what they are going to do. Not sure how she voted, but I found out today that he voted for Trump.
    25 points
  6. The correct course of action was to set up a small meth lab in the crawl space and then call the cops on him a couple weeks into his lease.
    20 points
  7. Yeah, a Trumper on my social feeds was big about trans but now the state of Oklahoma is wanting to cut Medicaid funding for her autistic kid and she's upset. Oops.
    20 points
  8. I cut my family out in the middle of Bidens term. They were already insufferable assholes, but their non stop spewing of hate and ignorance was too much. I wasted too much time on trying to share actual reality, but their only response would be personal attacks aimed at me. I get pissed off just typing this. They can wallow in their misery without me. Also had to cut out a friend for his maga shit. Gave him a second chance, asked how he was doing. His response, "Great now that we have our country back;" Blocked and forgotten
    19 points
  9. I will give a whack at disputing it. When Gingrich became speaker, he told told every republican congressman not to argue policy with their Democratic opponents, but to demonize their opponent as bad people: enemies of the country who wanted to hurt the country with their policies - that they were socialist communist liberals who were against God and American values. That was a very effective strategy for the next 30 years. Because dems telling Bubba that they are NOT a godless atheist socialist will not win the day. It’s like the LBJ story about how he told his political advisor to spread the story that his opponent was having sex with barnyard animals. When they told LBJ that it wasn’t true, LBJ said “Who cares? let’s get the son of a bitch to deny it!” So debate content was no longer about issues so much as it was about God and country and “family values” And people like Karl Rove perfected the art by having wedge issues like burning the American flag become pivotal in an election. The Republican senators and congressman knew that the first amendment gave you that right, exactly the same right as standing on a soapbox and saying, “ I disagree with my countries long-standing racism”, or “ this country sucks because our foreign policy is literally killing people who are innocent.” Republicans back then knew that the liberal position was true, but they also knew it was not politically effective to agree with supporting the constitution when Bubba wants to beat up the guy who would burn the flag. It was brilliant, because taking the mature responsible position on preserving our constitutional liberties will get your ass defeated in an election. The second thing that the Democrats were not responsible for is Rush Limbaugh and the advent of conservative drive time talk radio, and Fox News becoming what it is. You are blaming the Democrats for not being effective communicators when the other half of the country are sworn to not listen to Democrats or any news that Democrats might be on, because it is “fake news”. The active communication you blame democrats for failing requires two parties, one of whom agrees to listen to the other person communicating an idea. They don’t do that. In fact, listening to the other side or reading something from the other side’s news source is an act of treason that is against your team. The other problem is that there are numerous studies showing that people on the right embrace black-and-white simplistic ideology. They have no time to learn why the Middle East is not all Arabs, but also Persians. They have no interest in learning about Sunni and Shia and Wahabism - they are much more receptive to “bomb the desert into glass”, and “ make Gaza a beachside resort”. The short way to put it is that nuance and complexity is not something they have an interest in. That is why “drain the swamp” has such an appeal. that is the only thing they need to learn to say. They don’t even have to know how to explain it to someone. There are other tangential issues like diminishing education, a total lack of emphasis on critical thinking and the liberal arts (the biggest sin being the word “liberal”, which does not mean what Cletus thinks it means). The other thing is the rise of the toxic fundamentalist evangelical Christian community, and their desire to push theology over secular debate on issues. If the magic sky fairy du jour tells you what rules to put on in vitro fertilization legislation, who are mere mortal democrats to oppose that? The more the GOP took the low road the more successful they were. I do not know when it happened, but we reached a tipping point. We should’ve seen snowbilly Palin‘s popularity as the canery in the coal mine. But alas, what she was selling is exactly what the voting population wanted. If the economic crisis of 2008 had not happened, McCain would’ve likely won. Finally, I’m not saying Democrats don’t have a lot of old and new feet wounds from their shooting. But I disagree that they could overcome those other factors. and I did not even go on a tirade against social media, another huge promoter of tribe thinking. TL;DR Apparently, we get the country we deserve.
    18 points
  10. The guy scores 100 points in a game and he thinks he's an expert in foreign affairs.
    17 points
  11. From the same people obsessing about our involvement in Ukraine over the past two years.
    17 points
  12. Judge Soifer here in Austin (Jewish) had her car tagged with a spray painted swastika. Nah no nazis here.
    16 points
  13. These fucking idiots have no idea that politicizing trans bodies is politicizing all women’s bodies. You think you’re free from suspicion, harassment, and inspection. Shit girl, think again. You thought the patriarchy was bad before, give them an inch to police my body, they will come for you as well. It ain’t just abortion, its inspection, hormone checks, fuck you let them go all the way it’s back to husband consent to medical procedures of any kind, oh and permission for youth marriage like what’s on the docket in one of the states for 17 year olds where the groom is in the military. You fucking people are so god damn dense. Owning women’s bodies and our/their rights is the goal, not just policing trans women.
    15 points
  14. Has anyone, in the national press, called this what it is? The NYT, CNN, etc should all have in the biggest banner headlines they can run: ”TRUMP PLAN FOR GAZA: ETHNIC CLEANSING” Our press is weak. The opposition is pathetic. We are a frivolous and depraved country.
    15 points
  15. Interview with a former Director of USAID. He established PEPFAR. This one caught my attention. What? My mother did development. I knew these people. A lot of them were foreign nationals who work for USAID/USG. It’s illegal and it’s outrageous. They have no right to abolish an agency, a statutory agency in the federal government. Congress appropriated money for us to spend, and we’re spending it now, right? So what do you think happens now? I hope someone will sue them, because if this goes to court, they’re going to lose. And that’s why Marco Rubio said that he’s the new head of USAID. That’s not what Musk said. Musk said we’re abolishing USAID. He didn’t say we’re merging it into State. That is criminal. They can’t abolish the aid program without a vote of Congress. They also took down all of the plaques [honoring murdered USAID officials]. We had a wall. I had it installed myself. For every USAID officer who’s been murdered in the last 70 years, we have a plaque commemorating them. They took the whole thing down. That is a desecration of sacred space. For people who sacrifice themselves for the United States to be treated that way is outrageous. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/04/elon-musk-usaid-00202409 This could go a lot of threads, but fuck it. I don't have words. @956 Worldwide
    14 points
  16. I am lucky and have spent a fair bit of time with her - fuck you, you piece of shit. She would kick your ass while educating you on economic history. Choke on a dick.
    14 points
  17. 13 points
  18. Yes, Ana, you and Johnny Sack of Shit join Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro in making sure women everywhere remain dry as a bone. You are truly a pathetic and sad person.
    13 points
  19. Walking through HEB today. Old codger in his chair is pissed there is no ice cream. He is wearing a MAGA hat. Yep I said, supply chain and all that. "dammit, just get ready to pay more for groceries" he says, tossing in some hungry man beef with glue whatever into his cart. I could not help myself. "Yep, thanks Trump." I got the glare. I loved it. Oh, and later on saw him walking out to his car. No handicap. Just fat as fuck and lazy.
    12 points
  20. Live look inside leadership for the democrats: "Should we send Schumer back out there to talk about avocados again?"
    12 points
  21. No it’s voters like you who demand ideological perfection on every issue that is the problem. I want the party to be further left, by a lot, but I don’t shit on every candidate who isn’t perfectly aligned, I support them without reservation. There is plenty of room for robust debate on the left but support the candidate because we know we’re up against a bunch of people on the other side who don’t give a shit about anything but the R by anyone’s name. Your peanut gallery approach is complete fucking bullshit and a big part of why we keep ending up in this fucking place.
    12 points
  22. Credit to @Longhornfrenzy, but hoooooly shit that took a turn.
    12 points
  23. Dude instantly goes to composite 4* the day he commits. That's how BOMC works.
    11 points
  24. I think the problems started in 1839 when they passed a law outlawing duels in Congress. We need to open the option back up to keep the dickheads in check.
    11 points
  25. This entire thing reminds me of those Fyre Fest documentaries, and magats are showing up to the empty island going "the fukk?"
    11 points
  26. They found out that it was going to hold up all the MAGA swag that's being made over there.....
    10 points
  27. As a practical matter, short of calling for an armed uprising there isn't much the Democratic party can do other than throw sand in the gears of government and pound the table to try and draw attention to all the worst shit Trump/Elon are doing. Hell, the MSM is still barely covering Elon's coup. So yeah, they need to come up with something that resonates just to get the media to actually cover this shit.
    10 points
  28. Feel free to blame the Democrats for what they failed to do in government. What annoys me is when the Republicans do stupid shit and then people blame the Democrats for losing to them. No the Republicans are responsible for their stupid shit and the Democrats are responsible for theirs. It is not the Democrats fault when the Republicans suck.
    10 points
  29. 10 points
  30. Trump really thinks the Gaza "Strip" is like the Las Vegas Strip. I'm not even kidding.
    10 points
  31. What exactly do you want the Democrats to do when they have no majority in either house of Congress? Yes, the Democrats suck and should speak up more but what actual options do they have to stand in the way of any of this? Lawsuits have already started flying for things like the birthright citizenship attack. That appears to be the only option now.
    9 points
  32. What could go wrong? Yes, let's purge the CIA too. This apparently was Ratcliffe's idea. At the risk of delving into Godwin's Law here, a certain dictator years ago also had a cabal of underlings who fought amongst themselves to see who could push the envelope more to impress the boss. That did not end well.
    9 points
  33. Fuck all of those idiots. Anyone with an IQ above room temp knew Trump was a LITERALLY insane narcissist, but they thought he wouldn’t be. They are fucking stupid, and they are making all of us suffer for their stupidity.
    9 points
  34. The DOGE stunt actually turning out to be Elon Musk just holing up with a squad of 19 year old college dudes and going on an agency-by-agency crime spree is pretty much the only thing I haven't completely expected out of this admin so far. Maybe that's on me. It's hilarious to me that our resident aggy posters love to throw around the phrase "unelected bureaucrat" as a boogeyman but are cool with all of this because orange man say so. We've crossed the Rubicon into full banana republic territory.
    9 points
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