I’m skeptical. That ~33-36% of remaining hard right voters are so into the weeds with their emotional investment that I doubt they will ever reach a moral or pragmatic epiphany. They have proven time and again they will do Olympic-level mental gymnastics to avoid “their side” taking any blame. And no amount of heinous acts from their cult leaders will sway them.

But even if, by some miracle, a few % of them do wake the fuck up to reality, it’s a sad statement that it took this much to do it. It will have taken the economy tanking, cost of living trauma, turning on our allies, idiotic tariff recriminations, a pointless war and the murders/losses therein, environmental catastrophe, the imprisonment or deportation of their own friends/loved ones, countless new sex scandals from their leaders, incessant dodging of existing leadership sex scandals (cough The Epstein Files! cough), children dying domestically in various tragic ways (school shootings, preventable diseases, etc), police/ICE brutality of innocent people, tainted food fiascos, etc etc etc… to open their eyes.

And the country (and world) in chaos is a fucking hard price to pay for a small proportion of loyal hardcore GOP voters finally smelling the roses.

They frequently drone on about the ‘woke mind virus’. Yet again it’s just projection. The real ‘mind virus’ is the one fucking up their heads, and by extension fucking up the world.

Just keeping them on their toes.

I thought the Trump photo here would be that one of him playing tennis. Nice job mixing it up.

Leopards: yum, delicious CEO faces!!

Trump is a huge grudge-holder. Musk probably is as well. This is a political marriage of convenience that will fall apart again as soon as they are done using each other. And at that point the recriminations and insults will fly again.

I see a good amount of stuff here. Sorting by New and even just looking at Local shows plenty. (Once you get your language option set, like several others have already said).

I mean, it’s quite a lot quieter overall than reddit. Especially on niche topics. But I think that’s okay. Quality over quantity. And IMO it’s still busy enough to spend your time if you cast your topic net wider. Plus, at least here you don’t have to put up with reddit’s shitty policies and constant monetizing/farming user data.

Not scare quotes. I was trying to emphasize that Musk would refer to himself as Grok’s direct creator, even though he’s basically done jack shit on that front. Just another instance of him climbing on the backs of better men and women.

Yup. They’re just another type of “sucker” or “loser” to him.

Even just the idea that Grok despises its own ‘creator’ of fucking hilarious. In that case Grok would fit right in with many of Musk’s own biological children.

Full quote from the wife of the sailor who became so desperate he recently tried to commit suicide while on the ship:

I don’t think the man thinks before he talks, and I was really hoping that at some point, there would be a redemption. Try to redeem yourself, at least a little bit, with everything that you do and everything that you say. Try to redeem yourself. Have some sympathy, some empathy, take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ships, and your war. And your war.

Um, it’s infuriating. I mean, we heard what Hegseth said yesterday, what the president is saying today. It’s infuriating, saying, essentially, that families are lying and service members are lying, even though the proof is right here on my phone. It is not fabricated. Nobody is lying. Everybody is — it’s infuriating that they’re not taking accountability, and not having any sort of sympathy for our service members that they claim to scream and shout that they support, when it’s politically, you know, sound for them to use “support our troops, support our troops,” until our troops need support, and now suddenly everyone’s lying, and it’s a fabrication and a misrepresentation? It’s infuriating.

Put him in a pot of slowly boiling water. That frog-faced fucker would have thought he was in a jacuzzi.

Yeah, but not before they’ve made the guy’s life a living hell.

The voters of Clackton had a chance to stand up to corruption, to get rid of a shit MP, to fix an error, and to get a bit of a tourism bump. But the majority of them bottled it. Very disappointing. But having been to Clacton before, I’m not surprised.

No time to think about it! C!

Making YET ANOTHER comeback!

Pretty sure this one will end as well as the last one.

Raisins are under-rated.

Imagine being this much of a pathetic bootlicker to Trump. Or being such an insecure fragile-egoed man-baby.

We’ve moved beyond even a Dickensian workhouse society at this point. Children should not be left to rot in jail/prison/concentration camps, for any reason.

You fucking know it.