Southern New Democrat

Joe Biden gave us bridges and microchips. Donald Trump have us less hospitals for rural patients and work requirements for Medicaid.

Sometimes people try to highlight how cringe and bad weeaboos are by inverting it to be a Japanese guy aping American culture and it just never works since a foundational part of the U.S. is that nearly anyone can be an American. So a lot of Americans just think this is awesome.

Resurrect Karl Marx and he'd still be pro-Western Americophile, if not an outright neocon send tweet

Oppressive local government telling me I can't build housing in a floodplain.

I think that in the "normal" timeline we had a full nuclear exchange during the cold war. Everything seems weird and gets continually weirder because we are in a super-low probability reality generated by Stanislav Petrov's impulsive decision to disregard the "incoming" alert.

i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right. i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.

Why are you looking to the guy who ate a live bat for foreign policy wisdom

Threshold might have been too low, but Starmer does one thing to mildly inconvenience the pensioners of Britain and Labour is just done for Insane

Why are there so many South Asian clergyman and apostolic officials? Is it just because there’s more of them? If so, why aren’t there more Chinese clergyman and apostolic officials?

Much of America will be an infinitely depressing place if it ever loses its "empire" and thus the ability to fund mass affluence. Unlike Europe, our structures aren't cut out to tastefully weather a century of malaise. Cracked vinyl siding blowing in the wind . . .

Non-Minneapolitans need to understand how insane this is. Most people at our city endorsing convention now agree the first ballot was broken and affected the result. But because a DSAer won, the left has made “caring whether the count was accurate” an ideological litmus test.

this is how Germany immediately starts talking to its allies as soon as it wins one battle in a war

i do not set ‘reminders’, i do not ‘structure’ my tasks, i do not ’write things down’. i RAWDOG it. and if i do not remember, i don’t DO IT.

If you're curious about whether a nonfiction book is good or not you should read the final chapter before all the others because that's where the author just puts the least amount of effort in. For example, Malcolm Gladwell saying police brutality comes from "temporary autism"

The sitting President of the USA just accused a previous President of treason and called for charges to be brought against him. Not one peep from the so-called “dishonest liberal news media.”

Gen X in America is what the Boomers are in the UK.

Isn’t it so nice when your intellectual opponents are simply either lying or wrong?

Baltimore PD being 40% black, as you say yourself, would seem to suggest that the issue is at least slightly more complicated than you’re suggesting.

One gets the feeling that many Westerners are just horrendously unprepared for the propaganda war against them. The effects of 3rd worldist propaganda on simpletons is just astounding. Whoever you are, there's an authoritarian regime somewhere that has invested millions of...