Kulturkampf

[Polident]

What’s amazing is Japan Christmas theming is 10000x what it is in modern America, yet it’s divorced from Christianity. It’s full blown “Christmas” and not generic. 

That said, one Christmas market I went to with a group had a small nativity setup. They asked “what’s that?”…”that’s the baby Jesus.”…”who?” Then we stood in line for overpriced mediocre ¥700 pretzels.

[Alpacx]

[benji]

So the smoking gun is that they reassigned a story about a scientific review from a political reporter to a science reporter?

Always with the abusive gaslighting:


"MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS" unless you want to not force women to subscribe to their religious edicts.

Also the complete inability to understand the mindset of their opponents. Assuming they must be narcissists afraid of being converted. And are liars who just say things to manipulate people. Of course they don't really believe that men can't be women and women should be allowed to have places without men, that would be absurd.

[benji]

Bonus one of our friends in the replies:

[Uncle]

they're not going to recruit them in a bathroom, duh

they're going to recruit them in a discord

[HaughtyFrank]

Mamdani is no fun. (Don't ask me if it's really illegal to delete tweets)

[benji]

Case closed. Full stop.

[HaughtyFrank]

"Ey, I'm walkin' here"
"No, Tony. We are walkin' here"

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

"Ey, I'm walkin' here"
"No, Tony. We are walkin' here"

[Uncle]

somehow for many years I had never seen the sopranos and in my head just looking at that guy he sounded exactly like jon favreau

then a year or two ago I finally watched some clip of him in therapy and it's this whiny little high pitched stereotypical bada bing, bada boom mobster voice 

[HaughtyFrank]

And how are the nordic countries doing? 

‘Ready to murder?’

How criminal networks in Sweden are recruiting children to kill.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/12/15/ready-to-murder-how-criminal-networks-in-sweden-recruit-children-to-kill

Alrighty

[benji]

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[benji]

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

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[HaughtyFrank]

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[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

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[HaughtyFrank]

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100k Likes for the Mehdi tweet, 16k for the Yanis tweet

People really believing it's only out of respect for the law that countries don't invade other countries

[benji]

Wouldn't that credibility already be gone from Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya? Or does it start over with each new President?

[HaughtyFrank]

People mad the NYT didn't publish a military operation right before it started.

Wouldn't a leak have logically lead to far more deaths on either side?

[Uncle]

alternate universe: "thank goodness NYT published this article early, so that a few dozen venezuelans lived and some of the US's most skilled soldiers were killed"

[HaughtyFrank]

Yeah, imagine Russia just invading a country

These people are being paid for their opinion

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Alpacx]

[benji]

Yeah, imagine Russia just invading a country

These people are being paid for their opinion

Are these people saying it would have been worse if Putin did a lighting strike solely to capture Zelenskky with a small force and then withdrew versus what is coming up on the third fourth year? Because that seems to be the position they're taking.

"RadioFreeTom" aka Tom Nichols is the guy who a couple years ago after he seemed to suggest otherwise people on Twitter kept asking if he thought Taiwan was a country and he kept repeating "US policy only recognizes one China" over and over instead even when they clarified they were asking his personal opinion.