macheresin for the macherewin

i'm still a leftist but in my experience women are viewed as expendable in leftist spaces, spoken over, treated as stupid, on a level that is astounding. you can get away with an enormous level of vitriolic hatred for women if you couch it in the right terms

Is anyone else seeing what’s on C-SPAN right now

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering

[you wake up tied to a chair in my basement] yes! i have captured you. [looks around expectantly] so. …… [pokes your head] bet you didn’t like that huh. [does it again] okay i’m bored what do i do [poke] okay just chill down here for a bit i’m gonna make some delicious Orville Redenbacher ™️ Popcorn. [goes up the basement stairs but stops halfway] and you’re not getting any. [goes up a couple more steps but pauses and goes back down a little again] because i’m evil and mean. [waits for a moment before sighing and going back to you] isn’t that upsetting. you look bored. [thinks for a bit longer and then goes back upstairs, returning after a few minutes with a bag of tasty buttery Orville Redenbacher ™️ Popcorn, sits down across from you and maintains eye contact while eating the whole bag] it really is very good

[Image ID: Headline from IFLScience reading: "You Wouldn't Steal a Movie" Advert May Have Led To More People Stealing Movies /End ID]

Fun fact! Both the music and the font in that ad were incorrectly sourced and did not provide compensation to the creators

less fun fact: the temptation to perform the forbidden action is the sole reason that tobacco companies fund anti-smoking/vaping PSAs

When I am king, we will valorize sanitation workers the way we currently valorize the military

So heroic posters showing trashmen battling allegorical monsters? I'm down.

Yeah but that's just the beginning. I also want Sanitation Worker Discounts at every business and blockbuster movie propaganda glorifying sanitation work. I want random people to salute garbage collectors and thank them for their service. I want drivers who get impatient with the recycling truck and honk at it and swerve around it to become social pariahs

As I said once before, in America a riot over a sporting event is rare and occupies the news cycle for weeks, in Europe that's just another game day

Both Philadelphia Eagles and New York Knicks' fans trashing their cities and getting people hurt after their respective wins was enough of an outlier that the rest of the country called them out for being insufferable.

the usmnt are but a sacrificial lamb offered up every four years to remind americans that there will be no international glory unless three or more gay women are gathered to bring it home

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.