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My Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/maxp94

No fighting in the Jobs War Room
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On the recent tariff walk-back, or why everyone is missing the forest for the trees on Canada-U.S. relations
The Tune has Changed, but the Waltz Continues
Why do we pretend that nothing about America has changed?
open.substack.com
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🎶Their sons have no politics/none call recall/allegiance from long generations before/O’this or O’that name can’t matter at all/or be cause enough for to war🎶
December 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Diaspora brain (in the general sense) is kinda disastrous, especially when the immigrant generation grew up in a profoundly anti-liberal environment and the offspring generation can’t/doesn’t care to recognize it, but has the smarts to repackage ultra-nationalism as liberation.
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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My favourite form of this is actually when the diaspora community has a stance that is way less hinged than that of the actual residents of the place.
Like this goes beyond the Gaza issue. You see this a lot where some diaspora community will have some bugbear about a conflict back home and occasionally you’ll see liberals endorse it and it’s like uhh no that’s fucking crazy. Their “””Lived Experience””” doesn’t trump human rights. Use your brain.
December 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I think just world fallacy and an inability to comprehend scale combine to make people think “the good ones“ exempt policy is possible when it comes to mass deportations or LGBT rights or a literal invading army.
My least favourite aspect of modern imperialism is the ‘little birthday boy’ routine every time it so much as looks like the people of said empire might face any consequences for its behaviour.
"Sanctions hurt good Russians too!!!"

Idc? This isnt personal
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Read the inside story of how self interest moved me to perform remorse for credulous media outlets
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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We could make it a strict liability crime/tort if your image generator is used to generate CSAM of a real person

What‘s that you say, this would effectively outlaw image generators? Feature, not a bug
there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water

if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
It’s the most powerful online sexual harassment tool ever invented and it’s driving people insane with parasocial relationships but the most prominent critics lie about water use.
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
My least favourite aspect of modern imperialism is the ‘little birthday boy’ routine every time it so much as looks like the people of said empire might face any consequences for its behaviour.
"Sanctions hurt good Russians too!!!"

Idc? This isnt personal
December 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us

we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.

Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I feel sorry for those Polish troops they sent to Iraq in 2003. The deal was that Poland would pretend to believe aluminum tubes posed a threat to the safety of the free world in exchange for us being there when Ivan came knocking and now the president is like “Well, Ivan *does* have a point.”
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The UK is a state that now experiences far-right pogroms every summer, mainstream parties call for the revocation of citizenship over social media posts and non-white MPs are accused daily of having dual loyalty. Absolutely rancid state of affairs.
December 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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i love how the system of authoritarian control also produces images that fabricate a reality where opposition is occurring. i love how this is a novel problem that we didn’t have less than a year ago but it is now at the center of every major online platform controlled by right wing billionaires.
More of this !!
December 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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If you’re on bluesky, you know the deep lore about Thiel, Yarvin, the Nazi teenager group chats, that sort of thing.

But Vance came across as basically reasonable to normies in the VP debate.
December 29, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Holy shit they fucking immediately ran into the wallet inspector. Twice!!!
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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It’s funny to say this about cars, a product that has gotten noticeably more reliable and better in my life time and which China is quickly innovating on.
The profit motive is at the heart of every single stupid, unnecessary change to the things you use. Capitalists can't increase their profits by making something that works well and keeping it the same, so they endlessly "innovate" to Make The Line Go Up
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
You are on some pretty deep levels of neo-nazi propaganda to be calling other people ‘fascist’
December 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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anti politics is usually just a byword for reactionary. people who celebrate some "end of ideology" in MENA celebrate the destruction of Gaza, south Lebanon, southwest Syria, much of Sudan
December 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle:

-he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas

-a few nuanced critiques are made

-drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him

-shifts to different argument between him and inane people
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Huge news from Blakeney Point...
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Speaks to something deeply wrong with capitalism that Lampert was allowed to annihilate the value of this company to less than nothing while still walking away with hundreds of millions in profits for himself from the saga.
Sears had more than 3,400 stores in 2005 -- then it was purchased by a hedge fund magnate.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I don’t know when or how I’m going to see Avatar 3, but I know that by the start of the third act, I’ll be cheering for the Na’vi to commit unlimited genocide on the SKKKy “People”
December 27, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I think part of it is that it’s difficult and/or boring to talk about good spatial filmmaking, even though people really seem to like good spatial filmmaking (see also: John Wick)
Avatar’s cultural relevance discourse is an expression of slop anxiety, the worry that most people don’t actually want something interesting like you do, and you know what? It’s fine if they don’t. Cool stuff still gets made and you get to enjoy it.
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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You can buy a home nicer than anyone in the history of the human race lived in until at least 1997 for like five dollars in Mississippi and yet for some reason these guys don’t seem eager to move there.
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Battlefield 6
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Charity has always generally been considered a respectable activity though?
Also, people claim they do, but people actually don't respect this kind of thing. Yeah people are gonna post at me and say they do, I mean, real people, not posters
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM