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This is the main problem with vulgar Marxist materialism tbh. You get too caught up in looking behind the curtain for the man in the top hat when it comes to like racism or nationalism. Sometimes things just are what they are.
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is the main problem with vulgar Marxist materialism tbh. You get too caught up in looking behind the curtain for the man in the top hat when it comes to like racism or nationalism. Sometimes things just are what they are.
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“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
“But we are just smol reporters” doesn’t fly at the nation’s largest and most powerful publication.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.
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"We fired the guy for what he said in emails to Epstein, but we never read any of the emails" just doesn't pass the bullshit test. I'm sorry.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"We fired the guy for what he said in emails to Epstein, but we never read any of the emails" just doesn't pass the bullshit test. I'm sorry.
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the more times i see this the more I think it belongs in a textbook about using woke language to reactionary ends
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
the more times i see this the more I think it belongs in a textbook about using woke language to reactionary ends
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November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
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post your guess about what this is about in the comments before you check
Because criticizing grammar is ableist bullshit most likely. You ARE an arrogant SOB.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
Doubly so, given not a single part of your post follows traditional Western grammar rules.
Plebeian.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
post your guess about what this is about in the comments before you check
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
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in the 19th century, there were extraordinarily graphic religious tracts condemning lesbianism and bondage. these were sold for relatively high prices to people who wanted to read about lesbianism and bondage. QAnon is that, but for pedophilia.
q anon specifically is really fascinating given that it was initially founded on an infamous gathering site for pedophiles, moved to the site which was explicitly founded by pedophiles for pedophiles, and basically faded away when its followers just got bored of Satanic Pedophile Armageddon
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
in the 19th century, there were extraordinarily graphic religious tracts condemning lesbianism and bondage. these were sold for relatively high prices to people who wanted to read about lesbianism and bondage. QAnon is that, but for pedophilia.
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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This is again the sort of thing that to a moron sounds very sophisticated
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is again the sort of thing that to a moron sounds very sophisticated
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anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.
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but what actual EMPIRICISM tells us is that any proposed explanation must be put to the test of generality: does this explain other election results? does this explain the specific pattern of voting we saw in this election (kamala lost *less* in battleground states than she did in "safe" states)
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
but what actual EMPIRICISM tells us is that any proposed explanation must be put to the test of generality: does this explain other election results? does this explain the specific pattern of voting we saw in this election (kamala lost *less* in battleground states than she did in "safe" states)
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
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12 Angry Men. Legal drama, played completely straight except half of them are rubber suit aliens speaking gibberish. This is never commented upon and the humans respond to them as if they had delivered a perfectly comprehensible English sentence.
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
12 Angry Men. Legal drama, played completely straight except half of them are rubber suit aliens speaking gibberish. This is never commented upon and the humans respond to them as if they had delivered a perfectly comprehensible English sentence.
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"Congratulations, Comrade General. You achieved every objective we set for you and crushed NATO. Without you, our logistics would have entirely collapsed. We're still counting that as a draw though."
This game really makes you feel like a peon of incomprehensible communist bureaucracy.
This game really makes you feel like a peon of incomprehensible communist bureaucracy.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Congratulations, Comrade General. You achieved every objective we set for you and crushed NATO. Without you, our logistics would have entirely collapsed. We're still counting that as a draw though."
This game really makes you feel like a peon of incomprehensible communist bureaucracy.
This game really makes you feel like a peon of incomprehensible communist bureaucracy.
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Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”
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>Take every single objective
>It's a draw because you didn't meet the arbitrary quota
10/10, authentic military simulator
>It's a draw because you didn't meet the arbitrary quota
10/10, authentic military simulator
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
>Take every single objective
>It's a draw because you didn't meet the arbitrary quota
10/10, authentic military simulator
>It's a draw because you didn't meet the arbitrary quota
10/10, authentic military simulator
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From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.
so my town has been hosting an emergency food drive for snap recipients. the town, high school clubs, the Y, the churches (Episcopal, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Unitarians, and the Catholics) & the synagogue, are involved.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
You know who isn't participating? the fucking evangelicals.
November 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.
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“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists
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i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy
this would mean half of registered california voters voted in an odd year special election with a single arcane proposition on the ballot
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy
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The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.
Trump has gotten huge numbers of infrequent voters to the polls, twice. He's deeply unpopular but has mobilized a large, unprecedented coalition of Americans motivated by some combination of ignorance, avarice, and cruelty. It is hard to describe what he has as something other than charisma
His charisma is fundamentally incompatible with me (and likely many of the people on Bluesky) but it’s kind of insane to say it doesn’t exist
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.
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trying to imagine the person that goes, "man, it's really important that i vote, i gotta keep steve bannon out of prison"
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
trying to imagine the person that goes, "man, it's really important that i vote, i gotta keep steve bannon out of prison"
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.