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A sequence of shots from the TV series MASH. Three surgeons are operating in a mobile army surgical theater, and are masked in cotton masks, wearing cotton caps to cover hair, and aprons. Bright lights are visible in their backgrounds. The first, panel shows Frank Burns (an absolute jerk character but Larry Linville, his actor, was not) saying, “Everybody knows war is Hell”. The second panel shows BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) saying (sarcastically) “ remember, you heard it here last.” The third and fourth panels show Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) saying, “War isn’t Hell. War is war and Hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.“ 
5th panel shows Father Mulcahey, the chaplain (William Christopher) saying, “How do you figure that, Hawkeye?” 6th is back to Hawkeye, saying “ Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?” 7th is Fr Mulcahey saying “ Sinners, I believe.” 

The last three panels are all Hawkeye, saying,  “ Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

A sequence of shots from the TV series MASH. Three surgeons are operating in a mobile army surgical theater, and are masked in cotton masks, wearing cotton caps to cover hair, and aprons. Bright lights are visible in their backgrounds. The first, panel shows Frank Burns (an absolute jerk character but Larry Linville, his actor, was not) saying, “Everybody knows war is Hell”. The second panel shows BJ Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell) saying (sarcastically) “ remember, you heard it here last.” The third and fourth panels show Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) saying, “War isn’t Hell. War is war and Hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.“ 5th panel shows Father Mulcahey, the chaplain (William Christopher) saying, “How do you figure that, Hawkeye?” 6th is back to Hawkeye, saying “ Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?” 7th is Fr Mulcahey saying “ Sinners, I believe.” The last three panels are all Hawkeye, saying, “ Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.”

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Agree that I hate this is still relevant.

06.03.2026 20:08 👍 266 🔁 117 💬 5 📌 9
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Free Stars: Children of Infinity An Epic Space Adventure Free Stars: Children of Infinity is an action-adventure game ins

Did you know you can wishlist Free Stars: Children of Infinity on @gog.com to get a completely DRM-free experience on Windows, Linux, and Mac when it releases? The Demo will be available there too! *jumping peppers* www.gog.com/en/game/free...

07.03.2026 00:02 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here:

"I guess."

06.03.2026 03:11 👍 363 🔁 107 💬 12 📌 9
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Joe Rogan calls trans people "f**king perverts" & blames them for school shootings - LGBTQ Nation He's the world's most popular podcaster.

Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise?

He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist.

There is a reason you hold the line at sports.

06.03.2026 19:04 👍 1301 🔁 350 💬 37 📌 50

Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:

1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.

2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.

Find your senators at reps.fyi

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 523 🔁 293 💬 3 📌 6
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Veteran Rep. Darrell Issa decides not to seek reelection in new Democratic-leaning district Veteran Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has decided not to run for reelection in his newly configured congressional district in San Diego and Riverside counties.

If nothing else comes out of Prop 50, getting Darrell Issa the fuck out of congress is good enough for me.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

07.03.2026 02:48 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

07.03.2026 01:32 👍 4564 🔁 1359 💬 86 📌 41

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

07.03.2026 02:13 👍 7742 🔁 2122 💬 265 📌 78

BREAKING:Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas House District 70 special election, flipping the GOP-held suburban Little Rock seat from 🔴 to 🔵.

06.03.2026 23:41 👍 1971 🔁 335 💬 37 📌 25

As Rachel points out on her Instagram, notice that the guy at the front has a Totenkopf on his quarter zip.

That's why Maine Democrats should not let anyone displaying Nazi symbols near the United States Senate

06.03.2026 05:02 👍 1045 🔁 314 💬 14 📌 4

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 7295 🔁 2011 💬 154 📌 88
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 20035 🔁 4237 💬 753 📌 1113
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Flagship Harry Potter store to open on London’s Oxford Street British outlet for the Hogwarts-adjacent ‘interactive retail experience’ will include recreated film locations, as well as ‘photo moments’ and merch

The Guardian is promoting a commercial enterprise the profits from which will be used to harass, exclude and victimise one of the most vulnerable groups in the country.

04.03.2026 11:21 👍 442 🔁 118 💬 27 📌 18

“Good morning I just got borned”

05.03.2026 05:43 👍 1285 🔁 48 💬 28 📌 0
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I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

05.03.2026 00:41 👍 1993 🔁 894 💬 29 📌 15

I’ve seen it said that the conclusive proof for innate sexuality is the continued existence of heterosexual women over the age of 30.

05.03.2026 02:40 👍 304 🔁 52 💬 8 📌 3
Screenshot of a warning to Americans to "depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks" from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Screenshot of a warning to Americans to "depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks" from Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Warning American citizens to evacuate over a dozen countries three days into this war, when commercial flights are already shut down, demonstrates the Trump Administration’s lack of planning or coordination.

03.03.2026 22:21 👍 357 🔁 99 💬 26 📌 5
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Breaking: Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.

Our full recap:

04.03.2026 03:41 👍 3047 🔁 798 💬 14 📌 47

lmfao get wrecked

04.03.2026 04:36 👍 3984 🔁 509 💬 26 📌 4

I really want this hat

04.03.2026 02:43 👍 77 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

Honestly I gotta hand it to Trump. If someone had told me they had a plan to get 23% of the GOP to support abolishing ICE I would have called them a liar.

Any democrat who isn't all in on this is either deeply committed to cruelty or has the political instincts of a half-baked potato.

04.03.2026 01:55 👍 698 🔁 199 💬 8 📌 2

Trans Rights Wins Elections

04.03.2026 02:06 👍 751 🔁 198 💬 6 📌 1

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

03.03.2026 00:17 👍 2758 🔁 680 💬 67 📌 13
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."

*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

03.03.2026 01:31 👍 1211 🔁 500 💬 20 📌 38

The unspoken third phrase in "Bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus ..." is "...and all the Jews die" but they skirt over that bit of the mythology.

03.03.2026 03:23 👍 278 🔁 90 💬 10 📌 1

I just noticed that Newsom signed that fuckass law requiring Linux to implement age verification... for your OS

I want all of you blue wall with no concessions idiots to shut the fuck up on the internet for a while

26.02.2026 04:36 👍 377 🔁 126 💬 15 📌 19
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The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."

03.03.2026 03:39 👍 2863 🔁 864 💬 183 📌 45

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

02.03.2026 20:44 👍 16491 🔁 5118 💬 1 📌 63

I mean who, actually, is in control of our military at this point? A bunch of delusional religious extremists? Who has control of our nuclear arsenal?

03.03.2026 05:44 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

what

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fuck

02.03.2026 01:08 👍 287 🔁 135 💬 12 📌 6