Dan West

@nikolas_dm @elonmusk We are tolerant. Notice she didn't say he doesn't deserve food, Healthcare, a place to live, or to be Alice. But he can have all those things and still go fuck himself.

Janja da Silva, Lula’s wife, just said “fuck you, @elonmusk” during the G20 Social panel. This is the “tolerant” left.

Can someone let me know when @TouchTunes goes over to Bluesky? I want them to know how much I love them on all platforms.

@JohnFetterman They're going to run someone more serious than Dr Oz against you next time, but only slightly more serious. You've shot yourself in the foot SO hard.

I reject the accusation and investigation in the strongest terms.

@MPopCraves She's an adult and her lyrics have been sexual for a long time. If parents are mad about their kids seeing it, why are their kids listening to her?

@JayJurden I don't know how this started, but I know it ends with her friends telling her that no, most girls don't flirt with their father. The only thing a bachelor's in psych is good for is telling people you have it.

And you’re studying psychology, correct??? Babe go ahead and get that CDL.

@SweatieAngle There are definitely some unhinged replies, but you ignored the part where she said she questioned why she married him. That's much more than just snapping and being a little hurtful.

SO curious how men replying to this would respond to “thinking of ending my marriage bc my husband, who is generally tolerant/indulgent of my fashion and multichrome indie shadows obsessions- once angrily snapped that I yammer too much about shallow bs and oughta hit the gym”

@NotZariaaa Wow, spoilers

@imbethmccoll This is peak "they had us in the first half."

youre not allowed to say it like this!!!!!!!!!

@brndxix She deserves it. Dude was fabulously wealthy with all the privileges of generational wealth and a genius father. She's in college and made a suit that is just as cool.

black woman with a tony stark sized ego, EndWokeness and LibsOfTikTok might have a stroke

@DiscussingFilm Did anyone ask for this? Now that it's a thing, does anyone want this? Please let it lose money at the box office so they stop doing these.

First look at Hiccup in the live-action ‘HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON’ remake. In theaters on June 13, 2025. (Source: empireonline.com/movies/news/ho…)

@Angry_Staffer Dude is on the wrong side of Right Now

If you’re “strongly discouraging” the release of an ethics report, you’re on the wrong side of history.

@marsbarsenti @RoxyTall That would be a game changer for me.

@Danwestcomedy @RoxyTall Have you ever tried loaf pan lasagna? It's pretty much all corner pieces

Whenever I’m stuck with someone (like at work) and I don’t know how to make conversation with them I just start listing different foods and asking their opinion on them. I have no idea if it’s a solid strategy or not I just do it anyway

@spaceghost Right? Someone at the bar I'm at yelled at another guy to take his hat off, and I just don't understand what's happening but I hate it.

why does the national anthem feel like a dog whistle now tho

@PamKeithFL Probably die broke

Soooo….the GOP is planning to throw thousands of vets off of VA health care (while also repealing the ACA), and slashing VA benefits and pensions. To my fellow vets, what’s your plan when that happens?

@esrtweet This is so many words for a fairly irrelevant distinction.

We need to talk about the accusation "Matt Gaetz is a pedophile." I know little about Matt Gaetz, and don't have an opinion about whether he is a qualified nominee to be Attorney General. I'm also not here to make a pro-Trump or anti-Trump political point; I want to address an issue that's bigger than the political flap of the week. I know a lot about the manipulation of language. There's a nasty one going on here that people need to be aware of, because when a propaganda tactic is successful it tends to get repeated. There isn't a single good term in English for people who are post-pubertal but below the legal age of consent or majority; for the rest of this discussion, I'm going to refer to them as "tweeners". I'm going to stipulate one thing for purposes of this rant: when Matt Gaetz was an adult man, he had sex with a tweener girl (the specific allegation I keep hearing is that she was 17; note however that in a majority of U.S. jurisdictions age of consent is 16). If that's not true, the analysis I'm about to do stops being very interesting. Now let's talk about the word "pedophile". If you ask your friendly neighborhood AI what that word means it's going to tell you that a pedophile is a person who desires to have sex with prepubescent children. Unless the society you live in has a major totalitarian episode, it is not likely that you will ever encounter anything that is as evil, sick, and degenerate as what pedophiles do to children. The concept horrifies people. I'm going to assume it horrifies you. Because the concept is horrifying, "pedophile" can be used as a propaganda word of power. Now let's get back to the case at hand. How likely is a 17-year old girl to be prepubescent? Note that by asking this question I'm not trying to make an excuse for Gaetz's behavior. There are reasons we put a taboo on sexual contact between adult men and nubile women below the age of majority. I am stipulating that Matt Gaetz is probably guilty of statutory rape (not certain because of jurisdictional variations) and should be in jail. But. The distinction between pedophilia and what I stipulate Gaetz was doing (technically, "ephebophilia") is an important one. Ephebophilia ranges from being a mere malum prohibitum to a minor crime, depending largely on how sexually and psychologically mature the victim is. It's not the deeply perverted, sick, damaging thing pedophilia is. People who run around yelling "Matt Gaetz is a pedophile" are doing something harmful and wrong, and should be called on it. They are confusing behaviors with very different moral weights, and they are doing it to mess with your head. Their aim is to use the current atmosphere of moral panic about pedophilia among the rich and powerful to recruit you into a consensus demand that Matt Gaetz be lynched. This is dark propaganda. This is bad. It is not very relevant to my logic whether that moral panic is justified or not. I'm not even going to state a position on that, because it would be distracting. I'm also not going to state a position on what the upper age limit on tweeners should be, because that's not relevant either. You should ask yourself: do you want to live in the kind of society where men who have sex with tweener girls can be equated with men who rape infants, and destroyed that way? I advise against this. I'm not going to write down a detailed argument here, except to point out that it would create an opening for people who want to normalize actual pedophilia. In fact, it may already be doing that, and I wish I were sure that nobody is doing this intentionally. There are some very evil people with very long time horizons out there. If you don't want to live in the kind of society where power word "pedophile" can be used to lynch people who are not in fact pedophiles, you should (1) stop abusing the word if you were doing so, and (2) talk down other people when they do it. Thank you for your attention.

@GS3rdleg @Rocket_Grrrl Fuck, you're dumb

@Rocket_Grrrl Or, and hear me out, we don’t pay any respect at all to a culture of savagery and cannibalism. They showed up 700 yrs ago and genocided and cannibalized the actual indigenous people (the Moriori people). They ate them all. It is a great thing that whites civilized them

We need to start busting out a haka in the face of Trumpist legislation

@Rocket_Grrrl I like the spirit of aggressive protest, but the level of appropriation and just plain awful the image of Nancy Pelosi and John Fetterman doing a haka creates is giving me second hand embarrassment over a complete hypothetical.

@essenviews My stance has always been "if you have to do math to find out if it's appropriate, it's not."

Almost never?

@pierretheBezst To be fair, there's also a very clearly designated crunchy to alt right pipeline. So yeah, there's some "Trump Bad" happening, but there's also plenty of "vaccines are bad so food additives are bad."

Cartoons is mystified by this but the answer is Trump. If something had ANYTHING to do with Trump it's BAD. No exceptions. If Trump cured cancer there would be Atlantic think pieces titled "The cure that nobody asked for"