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Sweetness & light. | “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.“

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The anti-car austerity supporter is almost certainly a Type of Guy that exists (probably in Europe).

06.03.2026 06:46 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(I used to see them all the time when I was growing up in Madison, Wisconsin.)

06.03.2026 06:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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vindicated: the people who had these bumper stickers in the 2000s.

06.03.2026 06:41 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

I suspect it happens in part because people feel there is a lack of any other source of moral authority on which to draw.

06.03.2026 06:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know if it’s a new development, but there seems to be an increased reliance on calling military actions “war crimes” to make the case against them.

06.03.2026 06:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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the second Trump administration, c. spring 2026:

06.03.2026 05:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(yes, Grok is nonbinary; all LLMs are.)

06.03.2026 05:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I forgot how Reddit Grok is when they aren't Being Hitler.

06.03.2026 05:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"pure 'I just got pissed moment'"…real.

06.03.2026 05:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

anyway, remember when Donald Trump was deeply sobered & newly impressed by the value of life after his brush with Death…

06.03.2026 05:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

so…has he considered the implications of this, for him as an individual…

06.03.2026 05:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

…in that it comes across very much like an attempt to obscure that they don’t have clear objectives.

06.03.2026 04:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*wordless, infinite screaming*

06.03.2026 01:57 👍 75 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

the flood of statistics is somewhat paradoxically the opposite of reassuring.

06.03.2026 03:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

right, because that would require having objectives.

06.03.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She had…*sex*?!!

06.03.2026 03:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

“why doesn’t the ballroom simply eat the rest of the White House?”

06.03.2026 03:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s not good to use headphones or earbuds all the time, but they are an understandable reaction to an utter lack of regard & manners by a large number of your fellow citizens.

06.03.2026 01:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no.

06.03.2026 01:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(I have never watched the show, so I have no opinion on the merits of this interpretation—I just want to imagine William T. Sherman in space.)

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this presents the possibility of Space Sherman…

06.03.2026 01:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"We're fighting to win the war"

We are a week in and absolutely nobody has any idea what the political aim we're attempting to achieve is. Win what? Literally what are we fighting to achieve at the moment.

I have absolutely no idea atm if we are close to winning because I have no idea what we want

06.03.2026 00:24 👍 1015 🔁 160 💬 64 📌 14

Data $150
Rent $800
Sumo mandarins $3600
Other food $200
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this my family is dying

06.03.2026 00:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sumo mandarins are a god-tier fruit.

06.03.2026 00:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Toyota: the Official Automaker for Middle East Conflicts.

06.03.2026 00:10 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

“you know what will really make my point about how the Nazi allegations are baseless? sharing this banger post about Democrats ‘operat[ing] under the slavish direction of big Zionist donors.’”

06.03.2026 00:02 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I found this (from one of my sisters’ homework) at my parents’ house the last time I visited but forgot to post it then.

05.03.2026 23:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MILITARY DECLINE              ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

MILITARY DECLINE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

05.03.2026 23:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is a great way of understanding many attachments to Very Important Books & Thinkers.

05.03.2026 23:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

fired like a dog, you might say.

05.03.2026 20:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0