A cousin uploaded a video to YT of her 4yo daughter playing with her friends in one of those inflatable pools. Just for family and the like. It was getting 500 views a day before she took it down. Creepy!

My first real girlfriend got pregnant soon after we broke up. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have been different if I did a teen pregnancy.

At this point in my life I’d barely traveled out of my red State; believed in Jesus; and the only contact I’d had with politics was Rush Limbaugh. Honestly, not ending up a Trump supporter with my demographics is like Neo-level bullet dodging.

Men are stoic, women are ruled by emotion.

Even if you give the regime the benefit of the doubt and say tariffs can bring back manufacturing, it would be vital to have stable and predictable tariffs that are in place for the long term.

Even if Republicans believe their own bullshit, they’re still fucking it up.

Many of these early communities on Atheism, which captured me for their sensibility and anti-orthodoxy, evolved into anti-progressivism and eventually evolved into the Redpill and Manosphere which is how millions of young boys today engage with their gender.

Everybody says I’m crazy when I point out that skeptic spaces in the 2010s were just as vulnerable as gamer spaces to hateful ideology. Islamophobia and Western Chauvinism were the red-pills of r/atheism.

In Reeve’s book “Black pill”, she notices a pattern in the alt-right leadership of terminally-online young men who are socially awkward, good test-takers, and high-IQ*, while having little academic, material, or dating success. Alt-right ideology was heavily correlated to autism. But Reeves points out that these were largely self-diagnosed “autists” who “identify” as having the one disability popularly conceived as a mental advantage. As opposed to all the other disabilities that make your life unworthy of living.

*IQ is bullshit

Helo flights are stupid common in dense urban areas. Helo crashes make news because wealthy and important people die when they crash.

Speculation is useless because the NTSB will account for every paint scratch and stripped bolt. (assuming that, the NTSB will exist and be competent post DOGE)

Who’s going to build these factories in the US when the tariffs are on-again off-again like a sitcom couple?

We’ve had about 9 different tariff regimes (all responding to the same “emergency”) in a little over two months. Trump thought he could ride into Tokyo on Godzilla’s shoulders only to raise a white flag out the bottom of a footprint moments later.

Applesauce and sausage gravy.

It shouldn’t be a surprise since pork pairs so well with sweet foods, but it’s as essential to biscuits and gravy as hot-sauce.

There were two kinds of people in our movement back then, the conservatives and the reactionaries.

No Mr. Brooks, you were all reactionaries. Just because MAGA doesn’t go around quoting Edmund Berk doesn’t mean that they don’t understand him, perhaps better than you. What did Burke advocate for if not for the French Revolutionaries to be brought low and for the kings to be restored?

You’re heroes resent extending political power to the bourgeoisie, so please stop talking about what conservatives thinkers want to do for the “working people”. Fuck off.

I would band up with individuals possessing superior ability or perhaps even supernatural power and strength to help the cops, the government, and protect the status quo.

The reasoning here is specious and anecdotal. If extreme porno causes sex crimes, wouldn’t you expect to see an accompanying rise in SA, incest, and rape? Why does it lead to the thing that the algorithm won’t show you? Because the article admits that you have to go elsewhere for the offending media.

This highlighted the fact that most people – around eight out of 10 – caught with images of children being sexually abused are not jailed.

What can this mean other than most of the defendants are adjudicated not to be a threat to children?

And if you think I’m being permissive, this article’s whole thesis is that internet porn turns normal dudes into pedos. Thus the offenders are not fully responsible.

I consider his transformation into a double-Christian to be a confession that all the accusations are true. The biggest pieces of dogshit always face consequence mumbling prayers and missives.

Yankee politics is wild to me. Where I live, all the politicians are competing to copy Trump in style, but emulating his open and consequence-free corruption is a bold move, Cotton.

Posts complaining about “politics” and “propaganda” are invariably made by people who want to see those things, just the kind aligned with their politics.

I think the first time I saw this meme format was around 2002-2004. And I’ve seen it 10,000 times since then. And if OP is posting this in good faith, this will be the first time.

And BTW, there is no such thing as a space without propaganda or politics. Only spaces where the politics and propaganda are homestyle and cozy.