Medieval dirtbags, sports-related complications, socialism from below. Graduate of Viable Paradise 18, represented by Miriam Kriss of the Irene Goodman Agency.
this would be a situation where an actual left-wing party would be coordinating with unions to mobilize demonstrations and work stoppages and prep for a real strike, because that's how you apply political pressure when you have a popular majority
lots of people are making fun of
@jack
but i think it's inspiring that he created a website that hundreds of millions of people use just to tell him he fucking sucks. truly one of a kind
a good way to understand American foreign policy is that Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent and compassionate person to ever be President of the United States, started the policy of US support for the military dictatorship of El Salvador
prediction: national guard will deploy, there will be a few deaths, and congress will pass a bunch of emergency anti-protest measures that will soon be used to jail hundreds of thousands of young Black people
the Democrats, however, are the left flank of capital, and to do such a thing would be unthinkable. you can think of them as a controlled opposition if you want - i think they're a capitalist party with genuine disagreements with the other one, but it works out the same
VAN GUNDY: And if you want to fire a coach, he should get to shoot you first! One bullet, right in the middle of the street! And if you die, so what?!
JACKSON: That's right. Like I always say, you cannot expect the wombat to change his bill.
BREEN: Wiggins misses off back iron,
this is not really a comment on Jimmy Carter personally so much as a reminder of what, exactly, it is the job of the President of the United States to do
i'm not trying to be a doomer, i just think it's important to understand that the things that can actually affect change here are things that the Democratic Party is constitutionally incapable of doing. they can't meet these moments because that's not what they're for.
when presented with an opportunity to discuss whether this well-funded, multi-generational, divinely sanctioned plan by fascist freaks was actually enabled by the choices of individual voters in 2016, i politely encourage that you simply do not engage with this concept
this really is the apotheosis of their rivalry. CP3 is doing Steph's own taunt with serial-killer intensity, pure loathing in his eyes, and Steph is just jogging off like "lol good one bro." then Steph won the series.
sounds like a good case for uhhhh not doing a depraved racist drug war which apparently requires training a bunch of dogs into antisocial aggressive behavior cued by common scents
but that’s just me
I am genuinely sorry for all my friends who backed Warren and believe in her policies and governance. This should have been a two-person race between her and Sanders, the only serious candidates willing to admit this country is bone-deep fucked-up.
since this is blowing up, the human cost of the drug war far outstrips some heckin puppers being done a euthanasia - but IMO this is pretty illustrative of how the American carceral system is just built on suffering and misery all the way down
Here's the video and transcript:
"If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play."
"Now the barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me ... and I'm okay with that. I really am."
The 30-day ban on tear gas, Herbold points out, had an exemption saying that Police Chief Carmen Best can order it, which she says is apparently what happened last night.
ABC should have kept the show going and killed off her character and just made it a show about a family gradually healing the generational damage caused by their dead racist relative
Hunter Pence is promoting a tree-planting nonprofit and talking about the climate, which by baseball player standards puts him somewhere to the left of Assata Shakur
DALE: - after you splice the gas line in, you shut the door and wait. No one will ever know.
HANK: Dale, it’s a damn baby!
BOOMHAUER: whachoo talmbout, kill em dangol baby Hitler, ain’t make no sense. dangol, terialconditions ain’t gon change, counta you kill dangol baby.
kevin durant was unable to force a change in his circumstances but he was at least able to make a bunch of other people as stressed out and unhappy as he is. once again, the only truly relatable superstar
as far as i am concerned every tweet from
@JortsTheCat
is dictated verbatim by Jorts to an opposable-thumbed assistant who operates his twitter account. there might be other explanations but i do not wish to become aware of them
Shorter NYT: “don’t worry, the slowly dying rage grandpa in the White House is supported by an entrenched bureaucracy that, while personally despising him, tirelessly works to execute all the parts of his agenda that aren’t immediate nuclear warfare“
tommy la stella’s numbers don’t look great, but as the giants second baseman he is the natural heir to the powerful demonic spirit that has favored this team for over a decade
i am a million miles away from any sort of expertise in rap beefs but I feel like when you are calling a man a pedophile in a verse addressed to his mom and there are still three minutes left on the track, you have left him with very few honorable options
Steph Finals career:
26.8 PPG
5.7 RPG
6.1 APG
59.1 TS%
He is 1 of 3 players ever averaging 25/5/5 on 55 TS% in the Finals. The others are LeBron and Jordan.
weird how our country’s primary deciders of who goes to jail and who gets rich are all rich people who, it turns out, should be in jail. we should look into that
the main reason to be upset is if you're learning, like me, that the perfect fit exists but you cannot pull it off without being an insanely jacked cowboy
the inevitable dipshit take about Baen's Bar is that free speech is being infringed upon. Baen Books has every right to operate a platform for fascist fanfic about murdering their enemies. what they don't have is a right to demand we all pretend it isn't there
it rules that the people who own baseball teams are way more invested in destroying the players' union than they are in continuing to make a shitload of money by just putting up their feet and writing checks
among the many types of brain damage Twitter has given me is a completely skewed picture of the median Philly sports fan, who is probably not actually a slightly overdramatic gay socialist
@banalplay
not content with my entire politics being subordinate to a complex patchwork of twitter beefs, i have decided to do the same thing to my gender
it’s very cool how every couple years a perfectly acceptable major league team is like “we would like to send our best players to the Dodgers. it’s fine, we don’t need them.”
WEEPING EIGHT YEAR OLD: please, I’m so scared of the world ending
SENATOR: *rolling eyes* oh, another purity test. real nice. which one of you dumbasses put this joker on my schedule
one of the strangest legacies of the late-10s/early-20s American national conniption is the subset of people who venomously loathe Susan Sarandon. she fucking rocks
BREAKING: Actress
@SusanSarandon
has joined the Palestine solidarity activists rallying outside of Columbia University gates to share her message of solidarity with the students.
@adamjohnsonNYC
i used to think i missed Jon Stewart but turns out what I actually missed was being comfortable enough in my delusions to enjoy Jon Stewart
farm-to-table, haute-cuisine celebrity chefs: employee abusers, sex creeps, general psychopaths
guy fieri, who somehow makes every dish into a blooming onion: responsible employer, queer ally, community leader who flung his resources into disaster recovery
it is astounding how much more fun Mike Breen is to listen to when he's broadcasting next to Clyde and not two repeatedly-fired guys who hate the NBA but have a podcast about it
buzzfeed: i saw chelsea manning and cassandra fairbanks at the weird mike event making horseshoe theory and i saw one of the horseshoes and the horseshoe looked at me
The Warriors also partly didn't believe in Cousins' mutual interest at first. Agreement developed fairly quickly Monday -- after a few phone conversations -- with the reigning champions.
@kathbarbadoro
the three great threats facing the american left are the entrenched liberal establishment, the rising tide of fascism, and Podcast Brain
max boot, jennifer rubin, ana navarro, bill kristol, and erick erickson coming together to form the great anti-communist Voltron, which takes three steps, trips on a banana peel and ends up shoving its own head up its robot ass
“Havana Syndrome” would actually be a pretty good name for the set of delusions that compels these natsec freaks to do everything in their power to keep fighting the Cold War, regardless of whether the other side shows up
i believe the DNC is sincerely doing their best to recruit undecided voters, but it's the group of "undecided voters" that people in the DNC talk to - insurance lobbyists, rehabilitated war criminals, sinecure columnists, and various other Beltway mutants
one of the weird and telling things that Nate Silver and other Poll Knowers do is anthropomorphize their tools. they talk about what "the model" does it terms that grant it agency and intention – a flawed oracle, and they merely is helpless stewards.
tipping discourse is one of the things i'm a principles zealot about. yeah it's a stupid way to organize an industry, but you're not fixing that tonight. tip 20% or make your own fucking dinner
Of course the stereotype was that these protests were concentrated at expensive elite colleges but I didn't realize the rather extreme extent to which that's actually true.