WatDabney

Unfortunately, facts count for nothing now, since Trump is a delusional narcissist whose only reality is inside his own mind, and he's surrounded himself with angrily frightened sycophants who just want to be told that reality is something other than what all the people they hate and fear say it is.

Conservatives live in such a bizarre fantasy world.

You'd think that sooner or later it would filter through to at least some of them that it's meaningful that essentially without exception, if they just let information flow freely, whether on a website or a forum or in public comments or via an AI or whatever - it ends up skewed against conservatism.

But they never seem to get it. Instead, they go to great lengths to carefully censor and silence and astroturf and manipulate to force it over to a pro-conservative position, and they then have to constantly monitor and censor and astroturf to keep it there because if they relax their guard it starts drifting anti-conservative again.

In one sense, yeah - it's easy and obvious - they lie, and often even to themselves.

But that doesn't really explain anything. It goes so far beyond just lying that I really have a hard time making sense of it. Glib answers just don't hack it.

It just doesn't seem possible that they can sincerely believe that opinion consistently turns against them through some sort of near-universal conspiracy and that their constant manipulations and censorship and astroturfing can really be in support of truth. Sure, individuals can be that delusional, but that many of them?

I just can't make sense of it. It's like they believe that gravity is a conspiratorial lie that everyone else pretends to believe in just to stop them from flapping their arms and flying to the moon.

Government of the people, by the idiots, for the psychopaths.

I used to work with a woman who was part of a Pentecostal church that did snake-handling and speaking-in-tongues.

Reading this article was sort of like listening to her talk about her church.

And the Democrats for that matter - the Schumer bit was spot-on.

This is one of the best Onions I've ever seen.

I still remember when Facebook first caught on, and I learned that it was a site on which people posted their real names and pictures of themselves and their families and their lives, and all I could think was, "Why in the hell would anyone ever do that?"

I still don't know.

The late 90s or maybe the early 00s Probably pre-Google (so pre-1998) but maybe in their earliest days. Definitely pre YouTube and pre Facebook (so pre-2004). It's been pretty much all downhill since then.

Fucking psychopaths.

"Shamed" implies he's capable of feeling shame, which I very much doubt.

And they didn't even really try to hide it - the tax cuts for the top 1% are pretty much exactly equal to the Medicaid cuts.

So millions of Americans are losing their healthcare so that a few thousand can afford bigger yachts and more mansions, and not just in a sort of roundabout sense, but in an officially mandated transfer directly from the poor to the rich.

If the world was just, every single Congressperson who voted in favor of this bill would face criminal charges for every single avoidable death that it will cause.

And as I point out every time they tout this number, without context, it means nothing.

What was the change in the overall US labor pool for the same month?

This is only actually job "growth" if fewer than 147,000 people were added to the labor pool. If exactly 147,000 people were added to the labor pool, then it's only managing to keep pace, and if more than 147,000 people were added, it's actually a net loss.