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I wonder if there are any maverick Republicans who were excited at the prospect of making Gaetz the one and only appointment they voted down, to demonstrate to the public that there's one line they wouldn't cross. I wonder what they plan to do now. Actually vote their conscience on all of them?

Yes I believe that was the intention. Well, that and scaring people into voting for him in the first place.

Plus, it's the Republican Party. You could pick any one member at random to launch an investigation into and even in the event it doesn't turn up proof that they're pedo scum (although I bet the majority of them are), you're bound to learn something damning. If one of them manages to kick off a...

It would be nice if we could get a plugin that makes embeds work the way X embeds do, but it's 2024; nobody's writing new code for forum software anymore. It's frankly a miracle that the X embeds are still working, because every single time I've clicked through to a post, it's just thrown the...

Yeah, this feels very similar to the evangelical preachers who have so thoroughly encased themselves in a religious bubble that they're still going off what the Greatest Generation said about hippies in the dusty old books they read in seminary and believing it's not only an accurate reflection...

It's hate speech, which some countries have laws against and others (like the US, with its all-encompassing first amendment) don't. Apparently the UK is one of the "don't" countries. Also burning a cross on anyone's lawn counts as arson, and therefore a crime that's eligible to be upgraded to a...

No I mean literally share them. Relying on just one nuclear superpower to hold Russia accountable is a mistake we don't want to make a second time.

I dunno, that response feels exactly like something a malevolent AI from a sci-fi movie would say. Especially the "This is for you, human. You and only you" part. That didn't come from some random 4chan post directed from one person to another; that was purposely planted somewhere in the hopes...

How many missiles is Biden allowed to send them? Because if I were the president right now, you know what I would do? "Merry Christmas, Ukraine, I got you OUR ENTIRE NUCLEAR ARSENAL. If it's more than you need, feel free to share them with your western neighbors. I figured we won't be needing...

Fun fact: the Garbage Pail Kids were created by Art Spiegelman, the guy who wrote Maus.

When the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, Trump was... probably off partying or having questionably-consensual sex with some woman who wasn't his wife and not watching the news, but if he had been, he probably would have been like "Now that's how you show people who's boss."

I... think it might have started as advice on getting your feet unstuck from the mud, actually. I've learned to be careful of "folk etymologies" for figures of speech since I discovered that "drinking the Kool-Aid" predates Jonestown by multiple decades.

Unfortunately they're bought and paid for by Big Business just as much as the Republicans are. To an extent this is because they wouldn't be able to afford to campaign if they weren't. The few people who have a lot of money and genuinely wish to do as much good as possible with it are going to...

I for one have never been interested in being nice to Trumptards, but I highly doubt going around picking fights with them would have made Trump lose either. Unless you have a plan to wipe them out, the only worthwhile thing to do is try to avoid them as much as possible.

I meant his dad, the emerald mine owner whose fortune Elon inherited. Or whatever the verb is for when your dad is rich enough that you can live off and invest his money while he's still alive. Fred Trump also belongs on the list.

He never had a lane. He's garbage at everything and always has been. He's proof that rich people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, and should instead be subject to a 100% inheritance tax.

Remind me again why democracy wasn't a mistake.

It'll almost certainly come down to whether Trump actually makes good on his threat to become a dictator (and if that happens, we'll have bigger things to worry about). 47 Republicans in the House and 12 in the Senate voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, and I'm pretty sure most of them were...

Because saying things that are demonstrably false is all he's capable of when confronted with a topic.

No, at this point it's a ploy to get a cabinet position. Probably as the head of NASA or something, wherever she can do the most damage.