If you can't get the political power to regulate them, good luck getting the political power to ban them.
a lot of shitty leftism, much like all of conservatism, is just driven by gender
A right-wing shibboleth you don't hear so much these days is "social engineering"; because they've stopped even pretending that they're not trying to destroy the lives and experiences of millions of real individual human beings so they can cosplay living in a Thomas Kincaid painting.
There was a lot of talk last year about ending the culture wars and reaching a reasonable accommodation, and what I think those people consistently refuse to understand is that *what the Right wants* is to be at war with the rest of the country. We're seeing what that looks like in the UK now.
I mean, you do actually have to live this way, if you want to live in New York. We could hermetically seal the borders and it would still be New York. It's too late man, the die was cast two hundred years ago. Eight million people here, and it mostly works. Move to Switzerland if you don't like it.
a little bit redundant because he's already doing life in prison, but worth emphasizing that Yoon very much *risked a nuclear war* to try and stay in power.
www.npr.org/2026/06/12/n...
I am familiar with some stalwart republicans even in this era, and I’m witnessing some broad mental health spiraling going on that roughly aligns with what you’d feel if your church pastor was revealed to be a pedophile yet you could not accept nor even acknowledge this news
Ultimately the Israelis begged the United States to go to war and the US agreed, and the end result of this is that the regional system that the US built, largely to benefit Israel, is now going to be permanently crippled.
One of the things that I always think when I read these "guys want trad wives" pieces is that the men who want one really don't understand what is required of -them- in such a relationship.
South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighte...
