are you a warrior for free speech, patriot?

meritocracy failed, so we're trying meretrocracy.

wait, i don’t get it. who’s today’s main character?

i think the public remains broadly in denial about how dangerous John Roberts’ decision in Trump v United States is.

the mighty fuck around, the meek find out.

funny how the people who claim it’s “the groups” that make it so democrats don’t win somehow seem less exercised by the people who make it possible for them to do all the good and ill they do. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/i...

even while he is standing for reelection, he is still the sitting president.

Lina would’ve won.

the more you protect from foreign competition on strategic grounds, the more essential it is you ensure a brutally competitive industry domestically. we're usually better at the first half of that than the second, unfortunately.

“you say you are an honest person, but *have* you read the terms and conditions?”

they ignored us but finally we matter. bwahahaha! we are the villains of the comic books we grew up with and transformed into world dominating, endlessly derivative mass media products. whatever.

one way to think of it is we have huge effective tariffs on pharma products *first sold elsewhere* regardless of where they are produced. it seems to me people in the US don’t love this. we maybe feel a little ripped off by comparison to our neighbors.

Grover Cleveland: “the communism of combined wealth + capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice + integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty + toil.“ via chrispeel.net/2024/11/15/t...

years from now, where you least expect it, there will be sightings of dark brandon.

politicians draw the lesson being dickish is the superpower but it only works for a very special kind of dick.

they call it x because it’s all of our ex.

the murderer is scandalized. “do you see? do you see? do you see what i am up against? *they mean to hang me!*” “it is i, it is me, who is the true victim here.”

hypocrisy is a mark of status, as consistency is only enforced on those of low status.

It breaks my heart when my kid is sick.

actually skeet is just the plural form of skoot.