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Can't wait to see which comedians the state hand selects for us to laugh at

I don't doubt it. But it doesn't take many disillusioned folks to make a political impact either

Don't even know where to begin with this one.... but we'll at least start with the fact that if you're gonna go through the effort of doing this cynical video, at least have your staff find a paint color that even remotely blends in with original concrete coating there.

https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/09/usda-again-increases-corn-planted-acreage-production/ The weather has been really dry recently in the Midwest, but it's a bumper crop for corn and (pretty sure) for soybeans as well.... a lot of economic factors at play, article mentions inputs but tariffs and just the ability to sell the product is a big one (soybeans has gotten a lot of attention in this regard re. China)

It's also just attrition.... the boomers are retiring, and there are less of us than there are any of us. Am sympathetic to farmers, especially given where we live. They are getting hammered right now and are pissed.... politically, you see it with the Iowa special elections, for instance. But it was very very predictable nonetheless.

Charlie never mattered to any of these people, he was just competition....

This is what happens when you outsource everything to AI....

Alluded to this in the Donald Trump thread, but do not understand how this sort of dehumanizing rhetoric advances a culture of life. Also worth noting that Kilmeade is a Catholic. He should repent at his earliest possible convenience.

Engineering background here... I would prefer that technical expertise be the determining factor to the greatest extent possible Just an insane opinion.

It's a very small detail from the week that was which been overlooked, but the way that Steven Crowder moved quickly to rebrand as the "#1 Conservative Daily Show" after Charlie Kirk was murdered kinda says a lot about the culture of life on that side, doesn't it?

"Pro Life"

The credible news angle is only part of the issue - the other part is that people find themselves seeking out "news" that confirms their worldview. And in a world where "news" isn't he the basic reporting of facts, it's a commodity that is marketed to people based on what they want. Which ultimately leads to the destruction of any shared truths. As much as we blame the news media, and boy oh boy do they deserve it a lot of the time, especially in a capitalist system, they are just giving the people what they want. We collectively deserve blame for that.

Agreed in full. Again, nobody is "celebrating" his death

If that's what this is really about, they'd be better off with Charlie Kirk alive

I don't see this moving the needle one way or another.

I would add, this starts with the President of the United States. Who by his own admission has no interest in uniting Americans

He appears to be a nihilist with possible groyper tendencies

I watched a clip of Vin Scully's comments after 9/11 on the first Dodger game last night... we weren't perfect and certainly what we did afterward (ie Iraq) probably helped create this environment. But it is hard to imagine anything really uniting us anymore. Tend to think most people see this and understand it, but lack any ability to be introspective as to the bad actors on their side.

I thought it was wild how TPUSA was pushing merch yesterday.... like, he's not even cold yet?

Wow, who knew that crazy nihilistic people with guns could incoherent views.

Of course they did.... for as much as they complain about "identity politics", nobody is more obsessed with it than they are.

Kirk is also someone who made his name in the social media world, and social media, as it is constructed, is built to push all of us away from the larger community in front of us and monopolize our time. And one of the emotions that gets exploited by the platforms and the influencers who utilize them is anger. Anybody who has spent any amount of time on a social media platform in the last 24 hours should be able to notice how easily they exploit it. None of it makes anybody happier, none of it makes us better off, none of it makes the world a better place. Treating people with dignity and respect, regardless of who they are, that's' what makes the world a better place. Charlie Kirk should not have had this happen to him. I feel bad for his kids, his wife and his friends, all the people who maybe saw a different side of him than any of us did. But in terms of his public life, the record speaks for itself... he said a lot of mean and terrible things about many different people from walks of life different than his own. It would be intellectually dishonest of me to pretend otherwise.

Wow, who knew that hiring someone with hardly any law enforcement experience to run one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States would be a disaster.

Holic, since you're posting again.... Can you admit that Kash Patel sucks at this job yet?