SpaceX bounces back with a Starship test flight that ended on a buoyant note.
Huh! I was told this rocket would never work. Never. That’s what all the good liberals said.
And that’s what they also said about SpaceX’s other rockets nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. Not a great track record, really. The funny part about doing hard things is they often fail a lot in the initial phases.
Get out there and build shit. Ignore the posers, losers, doubters and haters. That’s all you can really do.
AI water usage is basically qanon for libs
— gabe (@allgarbled) August 26, 2025
And all the other degrowther bullshit too.
According to Covidians, Covid is still having enormous hidden effects on health, welfare and society that somehow completely fail to show up in statistics, daily life, cross-country comparisons, anyone’s actual experiences or in anything measurable outside of confidently-conspiratorial pronouncements on Bluesky or brainless turd headquarters, Mastodon.
Isn’t that mysterious? Huh.
Thoughts and prayers to Fat Studies scholars, who are decrying the rise of Ozempic.
Official in the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: “Ozempic is 100% making things worse for us."
Another person in the movement: "It just creates more work for fat activists.” pic.twitter.com/eRH3fdpG0a
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 18, 2025
Fucking good. Those cretinous assclowns deserve anything bad that happens to them.
Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists showed the entire FA movement was based on deception and delusion. It harmed millions of people.
It’s interesting that the people who insisted beforehand that Covid would be the Worst Thing EverTM and that Long Covid Would End Civilization® are the same ones who now claim to have Long Covid.
That strongly implies that at least for some people, Long Covid is primarily a manifestation of mental illness and nothing else.
That said, I do believe Long Covid is real. But I think its actual incidence is about 2%-10% of those who claim to have it.
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces.’
Get this degrowther shit out of my face.
So I can stuff it with more pizza.
Scapegoating the Algorithm. America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media.
This is very badly wrong, and in a way that’s typical of those with a more empirical bent: it mistakes extremely limited experiments with constrained inputs for an entire sociocultural landscape and media environment and concludes there is no effect. It’s the typical failure mode of this type of surface “well, ackshually” type of analysis and it hits all the clichés as if the author had a checklist to make it through.
The basic thesis is correct, which isn’t saying much. America’s epistemic problems do run deeper than social media. But pretending social media and even the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News had nothing at all to do with the disintegration of political alignment is, frankly, farcical.
I know that the empirical breed hates all anecdotes no matter their applicability, but everyone I know has had a relative or multiple relatives who was a relatively normal well-adjusted conservative or sometimes even a centrist Democrat who got exposed to social media, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh or sometimes all three and who then went on to become some demented ultra-conservative rage-filled caricature of their former self. And that’s because it happened so very often. In this case, anecdotes reveal a lot in ways the pseudo-empirical sophistry above does not.
To elide a great deal I just do not care to write, what matters here is not some few months of posts on social media. Or exposure to Fox News. Or listening to Rush Limbaugh rant1 about “feminazis.” What is relevant is that there is a recursively self-reinforcing media environment that inveigles and then entraps those at the periphery in small, measured steps. One can see this with how the YouTube algorithm recommends increasingly unhinged right-wing content over time no matter what you view. The same is true of Facebook and other sites and how media ecosystems operate in general, particularly in the United States.
In short, the article is crap because the author does not understand his own sociocultural environment well enough to write about it cogently, nor how propaganda works and its actual function, nor how algorithms actually operate, nor what evidence here is or would be relevant. It is itself a propaganda piece intended to absolve media of blame while at the same time self-inculpating.
It’s worthless other than as a target to lampoon.
Isn’t it incredibly interesting on a sociological level that the transgender lobby as well as standard-issue liberals chose to present these two completely contradictory items as incontrovertible facts:
1) That there is no such thing as gender. It is completely constructed and is as nebulous and as insubstantial as the wind on Pluto.
2) That the pull of gender and identifying as the “right” gender is such an impossibly-strong imperative that it is worth harming children with puberty blockers, telling women that they should just deal with penises hanging out in their locker rooms, and that anyone who believes that a transgender woman is not exactly the same as a natural-born woman is worse than MechaHitler.
As I said above, those two contentions are 100% contradictory. They do not, cannot work in any unified manner. But for more than a decade we were supposed to accept both of these ideas inherently at war with one another without questioning them an iota.
And people are surprised there was a backlash.
I’m old enough to remember when a narrow majority of anti-vaxxers were leftist types, not MAGA clowns.
They claim that was not true now, but they lie; that is the way it used to be.
That is indeed how a lot of the left operates. They even defend Islamic honor killings very frequently and the hijab as “feminist” as a matter of course. It’s insanity.
Women are like, “You’d change your tune about attention if you faced potential danger and violence like women do on rejecting someone!”
Sister, I can assure you, absolutely fucking assure you, I’ve experienced more danger and violence than you have ever seen in your life. Unless you’ve been in combat or something consistently, I can 100% guarantee it. And I’d still — like most men — prefer not to be an invisible chair or a walking wallet.
Bullshit argument.
The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine.
Anyone who believes this terrible article is a Putin propaganda victim. I’m sorry for you but it’s true. Russians are masters at propaganda as they spent so very long perfecting it.
And it works. These “peace talks” were to buy Russia time so they could regroup and invade again after Ukrainian defenses were down.
Russian intelligence (FSB) even said that themselves. Believe Putin why? Gawdamn y’all stupid.
I’m sad for my country. We have so much potential here; so much we could do. We’ve never met even a fraction of what we could be and could achieve, but we’re further away now than at any other point in recent history.
And the nation is effectively controlled by China and Russia at the moment. I knew Trump was corrupt and dishonorable but I had no idea the extent to which he and Musk would sell us all out for a bit of money and power. It is not an exaggeration to say that we’re now substantially a satellite state of those two countries.
What do you do exactly when your nation is in the hands of enemies?
One of the reasons the liberals and left deservedly receive a lot of hate is that they play idiotic words and numbers games like this to “prove” how smart they are.
What a fucking assclown douchebag the guy who wrote that tardicle is. He is both falling for the “austerity” propaganda and the perfect vector for said propaganda. Here’s a clue-by-four, goofus: “austerity” was never intended to slash spending — it was always a program calculated very precisely to privatize the resources of the state, to enrich those seen as worthy with redirected government largesse and to enforce neoliberal values both in monetary and ideological terms.
Spending has nothing to do with this, other than it’s important to the neoliberal project that public funds intended for the common weal be redirected to “deserving” private ends and hands and away from public provision.
As someone in the comments points out, during this alleged time of absent austerity the NHS was gutted, uni was made vastly more expensive, and other important services were worsened greatly by diminished funding and by privatization. Which, of course, was the actual goal of austerity — and not any decrease in spending.
Are people born this stupid or does that transformation happen in college? Fuck.
You just know there was going to come a terrible reckoning when the liberals started claiming crazy shit like that biological sex doesn’t exist, humans have more than two sexes genetically1, that bio men belong on women’s sports teams, and that it’s wonderful for a wild-eyed vagrant to have a little sexual assault, as a treat.
And now here we are. You idiots are just as responsible for Trump and his destruction as the Project 2025 people.
Own it. Of course, I know you will not. Fucking dumbasses.