Casey

socialist. being a hater is one of life's great joys

[Casey @casey__m]

Americans identify with their cars so much that I think this is actually true. On an unconscious and spiritual level they do believe they ARE the car. The car is their Avatar and they are Jake Sully

[Meagan Day @meagankday]

Millions of Americans think a car stops instantaneously when its driver dies.

[Sean @demsocsean]

Holy shit. This poll found Bernie, AOC, and Zohran the most popular politicians in MO01 and Cori Bush at -27

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

@ettingermentum I think people on this site who like to play cnn clip referee are wildly overstating woke 1.0’s toxic weight. Like to a shocking degree.

[Casey @casey__m]

@TheDailyKoko I can't believe theres so many suburban teens at the suburban teen zone

[mhud @mhudgg]

Tarik Skubal is a perfect Dodger because just like their fans, the longest he can stay in the game is 6 innings

[Jessica @BadPostsLLC]

Just remembered Film Crit Hulk

[Casey @casey__m]

I would bet that among other highly educated countries, Americans have the absolute worst ability to describe their own political ideology as a system of beliefs with undergirding principles (rather than just a list of positions they have on various issues)

[Casey @casey__m]

People whine that they "don't teach civics" in schools, but the problem is that they DO teach "civics" which is a pointless class that just teaches kids to worship the constitution. they never learn about how governments elsewhere or basics of political ideology and philosophy

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

Who has moved too far extreme

🔵 Democrats 46%
🔴 Republicans 40%

Quinnipiac #B

[Casey @casey__m]

I had to look up where the germ of this "Castro is a billionaire" idea is from and it appears to be a forbes article from 2006 that said he's worth $900 million because that's the value of nationalized firms he controls lmao

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cruz: Fidel Castro was a billionaire. Putin is a billionaire. The leaders of communist regimes are always rich. They steal and rob from those they govern.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

(set of TNT's "INSIDE OLYMPUS")

ZEUS: hey Poseidon. tell em where we're sending him. where did you say we're sending him
POSIDEON: Laestrygonia

[Casey @casey__m]

@matthiasellis It isn't automatically conservative just when you wish things could be how they used to. If you're upset about losing the social contract, diplomacy, a rules-based international order and turning to a hierarchy where the only law is the threat of violence... that's liberalism!

[Casey @casey__m]

@matthiasellis imo there's been a lot of mistaking these ideas as "conservative" simply because he's fretting about the collapse of an old order, ignoring the loss he's lamenting is a LIBERAL one of norms and peace, that is giving way to a conservative principle of might makes right

[david c. porter (read NTTN) @toomuchistrue]

friend of mine's older brother knew the daniels in college and went in on renting a house with them one year and it ended up being a situation where there were five guys living there who collectively owned six GameCubes. something i think about whenever they're in the news

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over

[Casey @casey__m]

Also not for nothing that this guy is *president of the DGA* now

[Casey @casey__m]

At this point this take is exclusively based on some political stuff in TDKR, a movie which came out 14 years ago. Meanwhile it's hard to see his most recent movie as anything than Liberalism with a capital L. It's literally all about The Social Contract!! Liberal to the bone!!

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

The thing about Nolan is he's clearly a small-c conservative but taken in the context of modern conservatism he's practically wokatron 5000

[Casey @casey__m]

The closest thing to a villain of Oppenheimer, the Salieri who gets righteously owned by his Senate aide, was an actual real-life small-c conservative!

[saying "yes, master" to the GPS @GarlicCorgi]

It's really funny mainstream dems immediately pivoted back to this kind of 0 sum identity politics after 1) swearing they wouldn't do it all 2025 after Trump won and 2) Zohran rose to prominence by really focusing of God governance and neutral economic messaging

[Casey @casey__m]

@piperocktheory And also the way he does it sort of hypothetically, the "what if there was a man who..."

[Casey @casey__m]

Crazy how the big linchpin scene of Odyssey seems to be a big homage to Paris, Texas

[Casey @casey__m]

@piperocktheory Yeah, and the way it's a man who's been out wandering for a very long time giving a confession of guilt