Man if you stopped watching cable news years ago and try to watch five minutes in a row you will feel like you’re in the black lodge or some shit no thank you what are people doing to themselves every single day with this stuff
In 2012, there was a six-week gap between when we sold our house and when we moved into our new house, and during that time, we stayed with my parents. My dad kept cable news on the TV all day, and after 20 minutes, it felt like my brain was being stung repeatedly by hornets.
One issue is that while there are conservative people one can have interesting discussions with (some of my best friends and cetera) if you go to spaces dominated by the contemporary right they are *unfathomably* inane. Even other conservatives struggle with it! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
@max.is.a.cutie.fyi
we uparmored now
when the intern at fox news suggests they do some coverage on the stock market imploding instead of a trans competitor in a mongolian throat singing competition in albania
YOU GUYS.
oh lord
i truly will never understand how that relationship got hardcore stans lmfao
the plan? blindly destroy the economy and institutions of a nation accustomed to comfort and heavily increase the number of angry people with nothing to lose relative to the number of firearms
no lol, i am using my alt on threads though because somebody tried to get into my main and it locked my account but it’s not sending the verification code to my email for some reason
i will when it gets here!
fondly remembering when everything was produced locally and global trade was minimal (you were an illiterate peasant subject to famine)
Rhodesia tried to get recognition by inviting a bunch of European diplomats to attend the unveiling of their national anthem. When they found out it was just English lyrics over Ode To Joy their jaws dropped. The Rhodesians thought they would find them sophisticated; they found them Philistines.
Woodrowen Wilson watching Birth of a Nation: Wowww
well i’m glad i finally ordered that body armor before my american dollars are a bit worthless
[guy who only has knowledge of trade disputes from star wars watching the news] getting a lot of phantom menace vibes from this
you vill eat ze plants. you vill live in ze temple. you vill desire nothing. und you vill be contented
cult_papa @ 2h I think at this point we need to eat mosseri, it's the only way to gain his power redcloak_ 2h Replying to @cult_papa we need to figure out how to get in the threads bonus program
my wife and I have been obsessed with the show Yellowjackets and she made this meme after seeing @redcloak.bsky.social and I's interaction lmfao
i voted for the economy i don’t care about all that other stu- oh what’s that
The US university system was the envy of the world; now it’s being actively disassembled by America’s inbred elite, all of whom enjoy legacy admission to the same six finishing schools.
It’s disgusting beyond measure what is being done, shame is the correct emotion.
👀🇺🇸 Victoria Spartz was booed during a speech in Indiana.
you can get fluoride supplements for kids! not sure if it’s prescription but that’ll make up for it
NEW: Musk announced that Sunday he will “give a talk in Wisconsin. Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election.” There he will “personally hand over 2 checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote.” www.propublica.org/article/wisc...
list of unusual animal deaths: 1999 "On the inaugural ride of the Apollo's Chariot rollercoaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, male model Fabio was struck in the face by a goose during the first drop. The goose was killed, while Fabio's nose was bloodied and required stitches"
on this day
you know, major paper employees pout and cry about how bluesky is mean to them but the amount of normalization they did of authoritarianism should never be forgiven
endless articles about how these corrupt sociopaths were "antiwar," or a friend to labor, or supportive of "antitrust reform"
