You’re absolutely right, thanks!

ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit

Of course my point about appeasing fascists still stands, but it’s important to have the facts straight. Much appreciated.

Weird, I thought appeasing fascists made them stop attacking you.

Nice job, ABC. Guess that merger was worth losing all your credibility, huh?

Thanks for the recommendation. I bookmarked this comment in case they put ads in the app that I paid money for years ago. I got the ad update today, so I switched.

I certainly see where you’re coming from; there’s a difference though.

Charlie Kirk was fighting to overturn the social contract; he didn’t think the country has to accommodate LGB (and especially T) folks, atheists, Muslims, leftists, single women, et cetera. Hell, he loved political violence directed against Democrats.

People who break the social contract should not be surprised when they lose its protection.

Fascist bootlickers: “We need to increase our population of workers!”

Regular people: “How about this group of people who came thousands of miles to live here and work hard?”

Fascist bootlickers: “Ew, gross. They’re not even white.”

It’s things like this that make me glad that our justice system is perfect, and we’ve never executed an innocent person.

The only way to stop a bad kid from ringing doorbells is a good guy with a gun.

That kid was no angel.

I’m sure I missed some right-wing thought-stopping platitudes, I may be back later with more wisdom.

Shots and prayers

I posted this fairly recent, but I think it bears repeating:

I think the case of “southern gentleman” Robert E. Lee shows the horrors of slavery. He inherited people as property from his father-in-law and refused to free them according to the will. They escaped his plantation under the understanding that they were legally emancipated:

Lee’s more strict expectations and harsher punishments of the slaves on Arlington plantation nearly led to a revolt, since many of the enslaved people had been given to understand that they were to be made free as soon as Custis died, and protested angrily at the delay. In May 1858, Lee wrote to his son Rooney, “I have had some trouble with some of the people. Reuben, Parks & Edward, in the beginning of the previous week, rebelled against my authority—refused to obey my orders, & said they were as free as I was, etc., etc.—I succeeded in capturing them & lodging them in jail. They resisted till overpowered & called upon the other people to rescue them.”

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Wesley Norris himself spoke out about the incident after the war, in an 1866 interview printed in an abolitionist newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard. Norris said that after they had been captured, and forced to return to Arlington, Lee told them that “he would teach us a lesson we would not soon forget”. According to Norris, Lee had the overseer tie the three of them firmly to posts, and ordered them whipped: 50 lashes for the men and 20 for Mary Norris. Norris claimed that Lee encouraged the whipping, and that when the overseer refused to do it, called in the county constable to do it instead. Unlike the anonymous letter writers, he does not state that Lee himself whipped any of the enslaved people. According to Norris, Lee “frequently enjoined [Constable] Williams to ‘lay it on well’, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”

He was too cruel for a professional slave driver to carry out his order, so he had to get a cop to do it.

This is why reactionaries love revisionist monuments while destroying other memorials like the Pulse massacre’s: they want to rewrite history to make it so they don’t look like villains.

Roberts: “Now give us the respect that we’re due despite us wiping our ass with the rule of law. I swear I’ll cry if you’re mean to us!”

Hot Pursuit and the Porche one were my favorites; I remember steering with a force feedback joystick.

It doesn’t make it sound like he targeted the girl, it sounds like he was another idiot who thought he was the main character and wanted to mock women athletes.

Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl, and Burgess was charged with two counts of assault. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Burgess had an attorney.

A grown-ass man acting like a teenager doing a senior prank, presumably because he wanted to look cool in front of the other misogynist dipshits who think a woman’s value is tied to their sexuality, is peak 2025.

Hell yeah, these are such great games.

Literally chump change.

I bet several officers collapsed on the floor just being in the vicinity of something that could possibly be fentanyl.

Reactionaries decry “identity politics,” because it’s literally all they have; they’re the ones pushing to make their list of prescribed identities the only socially acceptable ones.

They loathe women who jump their station and get a “man’s job.” They’re disgusted by trans people who won’t accept their assignment to either pump out babies for the oligarchy or mainain white Christian supremacy. They’re enraged by immigrants who “don’t belong.”

The identity that they care about most though is “conservative.” You can get away with anything so long as you fly that particular freak flag and pretend to apologize. They’re narrow-minded bigots who should be ostracized in any civilized society.

It’s always uplifting when a white nationalist cries.

I hate these people.