The Santacon battle lines are drawn

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

Former Rep. Justin Amash has confirmed that ‘several’ of his relatives, including two women, were killed in an Israeli air strike that destroyed part of the complex of Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, where they were sheltering from the war. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

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the misinfo on the other site is just out of control. thousands of propaganda and disinfo accounts spamming lies every minute. every credible news source post has a half dozen identical community notes citing total bullshit. the scale if it is overwhelming

Pundits and journalists, in particular, need to grapple more seriously with the fact that the empirical reality of crime levels and the *perception* of crime-associated threat are two entirely separate things.

It’s true for many public policy issues, but most pronounced here. 1/

My hopes for Georgia’s future continue to degrade. Like spiking the ball at the one yard line

While Surkov had been on his way out long before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this is another example of the Russian state’s “spring cleaning” after the Wagner coup. Like similar events in the Putin regime, whether anything actually comes out this isn’t necessarily the main goal, so much 1/2

Russia has waged full-scale war against Ukraine for 600 days. But Russia’s war against Ukraine began 3,525 days ago in 2014. Since then, Russian has murdered, tortured, captured, imprisoned tens of thousands of Ukrainians, destroyed entire cities as it tries to subjugate Ukraine.

How is it that even after Afghanistan and Iraq the pundit brain can't hold onto the concept that two wrongs not only don't make a right, but the second wrong doesn't practically improve anything either?

*a million corpses and a reinstated Taliban later*

Ah yes, really stuck the landing there.

*communist rule 😂

Poland’s election had the highest election turnout since the end of columnist rule, and in a “dramatic upset” a trio of opposition parties appear to have won more seats than the ruling nationalists. Uncertainly left but opposition is jubilant:

I check an old Twitter account and the first thing I find is people yelling at Bosniaks for not interrogating “the Hitler inside of them,” which is apparently tied to their whiteness according to the poster. Of all people…

The Christchurch shooter referred to himself as a “kebab removalist”

Before I deleted my account, my main use of Twitter was a news/article aggregator. I was tempted to return but this kills any desire entirely