But what I’m saying is that that’s why it’s hard for people to see that the choice is between Trump and ever having another meaningful election. His campaigns and his administration were enabled and supported by the system and norms that failed us, and in four years, Biden and the Democrats have failed to fix any of…

You’re right that Biden’s biggest selling point is “the alternative to absolute fucking armageddon” and... that’s not much.

Holy shit, that was some of the dumbest political analysis I’ve ever read, and I read the NYT.

“Why is this so fucking hard for too many people to see?”

It’s a symptom of much peace and too much prosperity for too long. Americans think nothing can really go TOO wrong, because it never has in our lifetimes and we’re always on top and we always win.

On the bright side between deregulations and declining intelligence I firmly believe Darwinism will solve at least a portion of this problem. Unfortunately it means those of us without the means to move to a better country are likely about to enter a hellscape.

Yup.

But that the Dems looked around and said “yup, this is the best we have to offer” is atrocious.

Look at the end of the day you have the VERY VERY real possibility that a facist, sexist, and racist leads the country and opens the floodgates for laws that will take away people’s rights, punish women and make it harder for anyone without a billion dollar bank roll or dark skin to have any real life.

YES I have…

When they made Idiocracy they really overestimated just how long it would take this country to turn into a shithole full of morons.

There’s a strong scent of nihilism in the current air. Also, people aren’t offered solutions to the many looming and ongoing crises (or rather ones where they don’t have to move out of their comfort zone), so a win for them becomes less about improving the future and more about making it worse for the people they hate.

If Trump gets back in to the White House, American democracy is over.

“Really?” isn’t used here in the sense of “oh, really?”; it’s used in the rhetorical fashion of “ugh, *seriously*?” — like “Really?! with Seth and Amy” Weekend Update style. (They don’t hit it as hard as that, but that’s definitely the usage, which struck me as... probably not of that time.)

Dude, that’s not cool. You really shouldn’t make light of someone’s appeara- JESUS BEATBOXING CHRIST. 

AI might not be going away, but I’m not sure it’s getting better.

I was definitely not expecting a B- grade for this one. I was mesmerized the entire episode. It was an easy A for me. I thought it was utterly brilliant.

Bull, not a buffalo. It was a bull. MM explicitly *said* it was a bull.

Someone who wants to watch House of the Dragon shouldn’t feel bad that a show based on stories written by an asshole is also on Max.

Texas has 30 million people, so maybe? Teh Googles tells me Texas only had 13.5K reported rapes in 2020, but the study’s methodology uses public health survey data to account for unreported rapes. I’ll include a link at the end of this post to the Houston Chronicle article I’m getting this from — it’s behind a…