

Fair point. There used to be a distinction.
To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”



Fair point. There used to be a distinction.
To quote the great Peter Sellers: “Not anymore!”



A guy like Holsey has incredible strength of will. Has surmounted challenges that I know would have caused me to give up shrink in fear and/or just die.
What the fuck is he so afraid of ?


And it is a death cult
Look at their churches everyone praying to the nailed-up dying guy pleading for their Savior to come back and end the world
Christianity is sick as fuck and Christofascists are in charge


There are no longer any rules
NYT just ran an article today, interviewing academics who study countries that have slid from Democracy into Authoritarianism
Quote from Prof. Sean Westwood :
The most permanent damage, however, is the precedent. With these guardrails shattered, the temptation for a future Democratic administration to launch its own campaign of retribution — using a weakened system for its own ends — becomes immense. This is the grim, iterative nature of democratic backsliding: each transgression lowers the floor for the next, creating a cycle of political revenge that, once started, is nearly impossible to unwind.


please accept this Lemmy Gold


what happened to all the pre Rand Paul libertarians
I was one of them. I was in deep. I’ve met Ron Paul multiple times. I know some of his former staffers.
I will tell you what happened:
It’s so banal. But it’s the truth. I know because I watched my former friends turn into people who intentionally spread COVID, to “show up the hoax”


I am older; my Dad was an older guy when he had me. He fought in WWII.
Growing up he always told me: “I fought the jackboots. One day it will be your turn.”


In the current environment it’s wise to clearly note where artistic license has been taken


Fact check: the original vid this is from was about insomnia, not fascism
But Hitchcock was a huge anti-fascist and made anti fascist films https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-26-ca-50581-story.html


Be the change you wish to see in the world


And tens of millions of us will pay to see his content even if we aren’t huge fans of Kimmel … because we are huge fans of pluralistic liberal democracy


Can we vote on next? Because I really want to nominate Tucker


His bro DJT says the same thing about what will happen if his tariffs are blocked
The end of the world, to these guys, is someone not agreeing with them


Justice was just millimeters away, in a field in Pennsylvania


Well USA is not the only NATO member with nukes, maybe Trump needs a reminder


America needs the same denazification that turned Germany and Japan into tolerant diverse democracies.


Somebody start monitoring GOP members for trips to Spain
Routinely pissing off bona fide spooks … seems like a way to wind up mysteriously disappeared