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The Odyssey movie should have been a Jackass movie. A series of loosely connected sketches that involve something terrible happening to someone? That's Jackass. They could have saved 200 million in CGI by lashing Jonny Knoxville to a mast and have women fire a potato cannon at him as he sails by.
In 2022, Mitch McConnell voted down a proposal to extend seven sick days to railroad workers. So far in 2026, he has taken over six weeks of medical leave. By his own lights, he should be terminated from his job and the US Government should claw back his last six weeks of salary.
it's particularly weird that this is happening to Nolan's Odyssey, which was foisted upon the left by the right. we don't have to accept the framing of a bunch of incel fascists and defend every aspect of the film as if it's a product of pure virtue
Charles Louis RichterPeople with very cramped ideas about politics are prone to fearing that any criticism of a culture-war object that exists on their side is tantamount to handing it to the other side.
Some of us are old enough to remember when Tyson executives were betting on how many of their workers would get covid back in 2020 before we had vaccines or any good treatments.
Jon of The NorthTurns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
Do you know why airlines are so safe? Because we regulate the ever-loving shit out of them. You don't have to like government regulations. They can be annoying. I promise they have saved your life. They happen when people get hurt or die. Every single one is written in blood.
tech bros are the laziest free speech warriors alive, like what do you mean you feel censored when it takes two mouse clicks instead of one to disseminate your ideas give me liberty or give me even more convenient liberty is not a problem, you have no problems, you have never met a problem
Most politicians dislike Mamdani because he actually loves the job. They love the trappings of the job but hate the actual work, so they don't do it. Mamdani, to their chagrin, sets a bar they can't meet with respect to showing voters what's possible with governance.
Kevin M. KruseOnce more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
He makes the Establishment look like shit every day.
Mayor Zohran Kwame MamdaniAt our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
