i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
@EmpireFiles No, I think you’re close but I believe the real reason in to normalize them doing this. Then when they do it to a fully inhabited building with real citizens, real people, the can push that it was a training exercise to the media
Hasan Piker: “Every dollar spent on a bomb that Israel drops on a school is a dollar stolen from you because that’s a dollar that could’ve been used to build a school in your neighborhood. That’s your productive output used for the death machine to kill other people’s kids”
the Vatican archivist when the first Black Pope in 1800 years asked to pull up the official Church apology for slavery so he could quote it in his encyclical:
@suchnerve Andor my beloved, on top of being top tier Star Wars content, it’s also a great place to jump off and chat about the state of things and network. Like the hardest part of talking to anyone new, or with coworkers, whomever is breaking through their apathy and lack of awareness
One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.
All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy
My ideal vision for America is for the Cold Civil War to end between the Left & Right and we just get a Republican party that looks like Sliwa and a Democrat party that looks like Mamdani and the country has like 20 golden years of bipartisan cultural and social cooperation