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*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics
September 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics
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for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.
May 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.
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I'm kind of ambivalent about the value of shame and shunning as a way to convince the person being shamed to abandon harmful beliefs and absolutely convinced of its effectiveness in discouraging others to adopt those harmful beliefs.
I’m pretty sure this take is backwards. Cognitive dissonance theory holds that people become *more* invested in beliefs that have cost them dearly, such as losing important relationships or social standing—and beliefs are *more* resistant to shocks when buffered by a community of fellow believers
I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs.
Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.
Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I'm kind of ambivalent about the value of shame and shunning as a way to convince the person being shamed to abandon harmful beliefs and absolutely convinced of its effectiveness in discouraging others to adopt those harmful beliefs.
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"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century
April 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century
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So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP?
March 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP?
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This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump executive order boosts proof of citizenship requirements for voting in federal elections | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don...
www.cnn.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.
Here we go.
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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"
It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017
This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up
A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.
www.popsci.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"
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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough
February 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough
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It’s pretty extraordinary how you can turn the entire government over to billionaires and get called “populist” just because you resent scientists and integrated schools.
December 23, 2024 at 3:03 AM
It’s pretty extraordinary how you can turn the entire government over to billionaires and get called “populist” just because you resent scientists and integrated schools.
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Really bad how the only thing that’s harmed Trump nominees is personal behavior. As if the awful things they’d do to America are irrelevant.
Bondi will corrupt DOJ, Patel will turn FBI from law enforcement to political revenge, Gabbard give secrets to Putin?
Not a sex pest or drunk, so they’re fine.
Bondi will corrupt DOJ, Patel will turn FBI from law enforcement to political revenge, Gabbard give secrets to Putin?
Not a sex pest or drunk, so they’re fine.
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Really bad how the only thing that’s harmed Trump nominees is personal behavior. As if the awful things they’d do to America are irrelevant.
Bondi will corrupt DOJ, Patel will turn FBI from law enforcement to political revenge, Gabbard give secrets to Putin?
Not a sex pest or drunk, so they’re fine.
Bondi will corrupt DOJ, Patel will turn FBI from law enforcement to political revenge, Gabbard give secrets to Putin?
Not a sex pest or drunk, so they’re fine.
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At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
December 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
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There is no greater joy than everyone in the house being asleep as you drink your morning coffee.
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 AM
There is no greater joy than everyone in the house being asleep as you drink your morning coffee.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
I’m Diväd, a ceiling fan with slightly uneven blades
I’m Diväd, a ceiling fan with slightly uneven blades
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
Nivëk, a table lamp whose bulbs are only found in Lisbon.
Nivëk, a table lamp whose bulbs are only found in Lisbon.
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
Hello, I'm hannäh, a quickly recalled type of ladle.
Hello, I'm hannäh, a quickly recalled type of ladle.
November 29, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.
I’m Diväd, a ceiling fan with slightly uneven blades
I’m Diväd, a ceiling fan with slightly uneven blades
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NEW: How to talk to your family about socialism without talking about socialism.
Have a class-conscious Thanksgiving!
Get your family to think about our common cause as workers without getting into a fight!
www.carlbeijer.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:12 PM
NEW: How to talk to your family about socialism without talking about socialism.
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Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
November 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Graphic design is my passion
November 14, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Graphic design is my passion
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one reason the IDF is losing the propaganda war is that at some point, after you lie enough times, people will stop trying to parse every claim and just assume you’re lying. this is simple enough that there’s a children’s story about it
November 15, 2023 at 11:04 PM
one reason the IDF is losing the propaganda war is that at some point, after you lie enough times, people will stop trying to parse every claim and just assume you’re lying. this is simple enough that there’s a children’s story about it