Against His Immense and Terrible Flesh

twiststreet:

20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think.

For the last few years, I've had this sense that everything I learned as a kid about how America's government works is completely wrong. But

upworthy

“Their study took data from nearly 2,000 public-opinion surveys and compared what the people wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America has essentially no impact at all. […] The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.“

okota-man asked: Please explain to us this Shazam/ Fantastic Four idea you have

evandocshaner:

Oh, it’s not my idea. At some point @calamityjon decided to torture me with the notion of a Shazam/FF crossover that can never happen and the world is worse off for not being able to do it.

I am the Devil.

paradoxius:

cultural-marxist-sjew-agitprop:

This is supposed to be a joke, but this was an actual controversy when the queen was introduced into chess:

15th century gamergate: ‘tis about moral unrighteousness in the folios printed about games on Master Gutenberg’s new movable type press.

(via twiststreet)

sandyjarrell:

It’s May 30th, aka Mort Meskin’s Birthday

memecucker:

averyterrible:

peteseeger:

tdwhisperer:

elmyra-is-tired:

pregnantseinfeld:

Democrats are a pro-war party.

America is a pro war corporation

What kinda stuff y'all smoking if you think democrats are “pro war”

World War I

World War II (War in the Pacific)

Atomic bombing of japan, Korean War

Near nuclear war with Cuba and the USSR, Vietnam (early)

Vietnam (full escalation), Dominican Republic

Bosnia, Somalia

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, attempted with Syria, escalation of war on terror in Somalia, Nigeria, Niger, Pakistan, etc.

I mean, you can turn on MSNBC at prime time every weeknight and when Rachel Maddow isn’t chasing at every shadow for Russians, she’s condemning anyone who doesn’t want to send ground forces for simultaneous invasions of Venezuela and Iran.

In the 2000 presidential election Al Gore attacked George W Bush for being too soft on foreign policy. In the build up to the invasion of Iraq he again criticized Bush because he thought the US would stay in Iraq too briefly

(via shituationist)