30 years of Super Mario 64 and I genuinely don’t think people who weren’t there can understand just how magical this game felt. Walking into Peach’s Castle for the first time. Hearing the music. Running down those hallways, finding a painting, and realizing you could literally JUMP INTO IT and enter an entirely different world. Every door was a mystery. Every painting was a new adventure. Every star felt like you’d discovered something nobody else had. The first time you flew with the Wing Cap. Racing that stupid penguin down the slide. Swimming through Dire, Dire Docks. Running around Bobomb Battlefield with absolutely no idea what you were supposed to be doing, but somehow having the time of your life. And the music. God, the music. There was no YouTube tutorial telling you where to go. No internet spoiling every secret before you found it. Just you, your N64, and an entire new game to be explored. I think what makes me emotional looking back is realizing we weren’t just experiencing one of the greatest leaps in gaming history. We were experiencing a kind of childhood wonder you can never quite get back. Those mornings sitting on the floor in front of the TV, completely lost in a world that felt so big. I can still hear the castle music and immediately feel like a kid again.

Under capitalism if you steal from your employer you go to jail but if your employer steals from you then you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole, and they suffer zero consequences. Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force.

It's always strange how the US uses its unparalleled military and economic power to strangle and suffocate the economies of small nations it dislikes, then points to the intended devastation as proof that those countries are bad and don't work, with no reference to the US role.

I’ll take care of his fine

Ed Sheeran’s opener, Aaron Rowe, has dropped out of the tour: “As Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children. I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal […] FREE PALESTINE”

Liberals really want you to believe that Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss domestic policy lmfaooo

Older millennials know!

it will never not be weird that Democratic leaders have special fits when they need to address the poors

People with 6 teeth defending people with 8 yachts is one of the greatest political achievements in modern history.

The magnitude of Trump's personal corruption and the monetizing of the presidency by him and his family have no precedent in US history. It takes a total peasant mentality, or some weird cultish devotion, to defend or excuse this, especially if you objected to corrupt Biden transactions (as I did). It's on a completely different scale. Trump set up a crypto company (World Liberty Financial) 4 days before his inauguration, then had the UAE pour hundreds of millions into his pockets for 49% of it, then gave rewards to the UAE. Jared getting $2 billion from the Saudis. On and on and on.

Jaime Harrison was a Podesta Group lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BP, for-profit colleges, big banks, and the credit industry He raised a record $109 million in a doomed race vs Lindsay Graham, and lost badly Harrison embodies why so many hate the Democratic Party

Donald Trump, in 2016, questioned every piety and broke every rule (he questioned NATO's worth and even mocked John McCain's POW status), leading the political and media class to repeatedly pronounce his candidacy dead. But he won: because they never grasped how much people hate their elite class and therefore also hate their pieties and rules. That anti-establishment hatred isn't the exclusive property of of Trump. In fact, Trump has utterly squandered it: there's basically no economic populism or foreign policy heterodoxy in Trump's second term, which has created a huge opening for the left to seize that mantle. I get that if you're ensconced in DC think tank conferences or Morning Joe studios, it's Gospel that Claire Valdez's views on unions and health care and Israel are politically fatal nationwide. They're not: no more than Trump's "transgressions" were. The most potent political force by far -- not just in US politics but in the democratic world -- is hatred of establishment politics, and that has rendered almost all of the old rules entirely obsolete. DC Democratic politicians can't embrace this kind of anti-establishment populism -- by far their most potent weapon -- because they're enslaved to a donor class that won't allow it. But their own voters are forcing it on them. Zohran's win by itself should have demonstrated all of this, but for those who didn't see it then or didn't want to, it should be extremely clear now.

She is right. The Democratic Party exists to protect capital and keep us trapped in the duopoly, yet the American left continues to gloss over the countless betrayals & remains loyal to a party that would rather collude with Republicans than fight back against them. The fact that a viable third party is closer to emerging on the right than on the left only reinforces the stranglehold that Democrats hold over the very voters they sell out and betray over and over again. I get that folks are afraid of change, but what you should really fear is continuing to hand power to a fake opposition party that gives Republicans everything they want. Until we collectively take the leap to build and agitate for an alternative, nothing will change. A better world is possible if we fight for it!

Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer completely betrayed the residents of Saline Township, Michigan, today by attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the $16 billion AI data center they tried to stop. Here she is posing alongside the most dangerous CEO in America, Sam Altman. If you’re wondering why these betrayals keep happening, it’s because Democrats exist to serve capital and mislead the working class. They don’t oppose Republicans. They collude with them to serve the billionaire class.

Nothing to see here except Benjamin Netanyahu telling 60 minutes the war against Iran is not over and that the U.S. military needs to go in and take out the Uranium. At this point the President of the United States is Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump is his little bitch!

The opening of ‘BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES’ is recreated in the new ‘LEGO BATMAN’ game.

1. Denying people healthcare is violence. 2. Cheering on a national gestapo that shoots moms and VA nurses in the head without consequence is violence. 3. Pushing for lower wages for workers while at the same time advocating for lower taxes for oligarchs is violence. 4. Supporting a President so compromised by whatever shit he got up to on pedophile island that he agreed to destroy the world economy to keep it from coming out, is violence. You pigs are the most violent animals the planet has produced since the Mongol hordes rode up out of the Asian steppe. Least they could ride a horse. What are you miserable freaks good for other than collecting $7K checks from Israel and ruining the lives of desperate young men.