They’re so fucking whiny. They literally had a trifecta just over two years ago, and now they’re acting like politics is over.

Enjoy! It will really help on hills. There are a lot of rack accessories you can get - even just having a basket for your backpack is nice. For locks, I’d recommend getting one of those really long ulocks that are meant for mopeds, it will give you more flexibility with the bulky body tubes.

I genuinely want to know if this is a “representative sample”, or if these are all just the nieces and nephews of people in the office. If it’s the former, then this is doomer material.

Lillian 27, Va., white, digital advertising, voted Trump in 2020

Abortions are legal in Virginia

Biden is unironically doing the Babylon Bee’s only funny joke.

Incredible things are happening in the executive branch

True, but I also think the writers meant it unironicaly.

In Star Trek Discovery, Cochrane and Musk get specifically compared to each other, and to the Wright Brothers.

Libs successfully coup the US government, proceed to implement crushing brat neoliberalism

On the one hand, this is completely delusional cope.

On the other hand, this is extremely funny.

We’re 2.5 months out from the first kid. I think we’re very well prepared, but I think this is the calm before the storm.

We’re going to get a freezer for down in the basement, for breastmilk storage, and then just to have the expanded storage for frozen food. Chest freezer, or regular side door freezer? I’m on team chest freezer, but I understand it’s more convenient to store things in a side door freezer… I’m torn.

I feel like Not Just Bikes would be a commie if he wasn’t such a settler lib. He has all the critiques.

Even though he’s a lib, I think these kinds of urbanism youtubers are a useful pipeline towards leftist thinking. If nothing else, they help break up some of the ossified thinking about what is possible, and promote such radical ideas as “communities are good” and “we can take some collective action to improve our daily life”

This shit’s seriously dark

Our fallen world is not righteous enough for such a blessed outcome.

NYPD cop turned media talking head. His podcast is #9 on Spotify.

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I’ve asked the Trump voters in my life about “why”, and they’ve all talked about his vision for a better the future. People do have an actual, concrete hope in him to improve their lives in specific ways.

It’s definitely possible that there are ulterior motives at play. All these people know I’m a “liberal” from the city, so I don’t expect them to just open up to me. But it kinda reminds me of starry-eyed libs voting for Obama: they weren’t being cynical, they believed in hope and change. And I think there’s a fair amount of earnest hope in Trump voters. Liberals complain a lot about what a fucking vicious asshole Trump is… but I think we’ve been seeing how vicious libs are too, they just don’t let their id hang out in the open all the time like Trump does. It’s a perplexing thing, I think all Americans really do want a better future, and are actually willing to believe in someone who promises it. But they’re also deeply brain broken, uncurious, and cruel - everyone in the country is just a scratched liberal in the end, especially Trump voters.

I think a good point was made on Hasan’s stream during election night: what was the point of picking Walz, if you were then going to force him to do right wing messaging that he wouldn’t deliver convincingly? For a second there, it almost seemed like the campaign was about to pivot into a more progressive messaging campaign… but then they just ran as if they had Shapiro as VP.

It was a slow burn for me.

The first major turning point was Obama’s assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, and the way that liberals just accepted it and moved on. I had an understanding of liberalism as fundamentally being the good guy protagonists of the story of America, and I could not square the circle in my head. It was the beginning of a major reorientation in my mind about whether the actions of the Obama administration really matched up with the professed values on the liberal movement.

The second major turning point was working in a really heavy industry factory job during the late Obama and early Trump years. I worked with a lot of people from very different backgrounds from me, and it really made me face my own internalized bigotries about people from rural areas, and those with a lot less education than I had. I think it finally helped me exorcise the remnants of shitty techbro libertarianism in my soul and actually try to become a better, more compassionate person.

If you are compassionate, and you are curious, you inevitably end up discovering certain things about the world