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Don’t be like authoritarian regimes and imagine the world as yours for the taking. Be a gift to the world. #merrychristmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Don’t be like authoritarian regimes and imagine the world as yours for the taking. Be a gift to the world. #merrychristmas
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I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
December 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I saw a chart about commitment to AI, and unsurprisingly the US was far in the lead, and it really drove home an key emotion driving the grift.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
The *idea* of the U.S. as number one is so powerful that we have effectively made up a category we can be number one in, and it MUST BE TRUE.
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Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.
Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.
Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.
Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.
Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
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Billionaires will always be a scourge upon us, we have to get rid of them
Xmas reminder: If GOP didn’t give 800 billionaires a $2T tax cut (again)—we’d have enough for SNAP & to cancel medical & student debt.
GOP sold out 200M Americans for 800 billionaires.
This is what class war on working people looks like. Stop bootlicking billionaires. Tax them out of existence.
GOP sold out 200M Americans for 800 billionaires.
This is what class war on working people looks like. Stop bootlicking billionaires. Tax them out of existence.
December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Billionaires will always be a scourge upon us, we have to get rid of them
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Journalists and media: stop bothsidesing attacks on childhood vaccines. We look to you to report what is happening and what the effects will be, not repeat the administration’s rhetoric. The effects will be more sickness and more death. That is not something to bothsides. Hold power accountable.
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Journalists and media: stop bothsidesing attacks on childhood vaccines. We look to you to report what is happening and what the effects will be, not repeat the administration’s rhetoric. The effects will be more sickness and more death. That is not something to bothsides. Hold power accountable.
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Seconded. That last line hits hard.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Seconded. That last line hits hard.
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
The news is not just what’s reported, it’s also what isn’t reported
Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The news is not just what’s reported, it’s also what isn’t reported
“Crime” is not a moral issue; it is a bureaucratic term of art that means “against the law.” Anything could be against the law. Staking out an anti-crime position is not the same thing as being wise or just or thoughtful, it’s hall monitor cosplay
I hope people realize that fighting these raids by arguing they "aren't decreasing crime" is a losing battle -- they do not care and will simply change the definition of "crime."
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“Crime” is not a moral issue; it is a bureaucratic term of art that means “against the law.” Anything could be against the law. Staking out an anti-crime position is not the same thing as being wise or just or thoughtful, it’s hall monitor cosplay
To paraphrase a great insight I ran across: if you believe dem electeds are all automatically “your team,” and what’s bad for the team is bad for you, then criticizing dem electeds actually hurts YOU so you need to be quiet for your own good, no matter how much contempt they consistently show you
"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
To paraphrase a great insight I ran across: if you believe dem electeds are all automatically “your team,” and what’s bad for the team is bad for you, then criticizing dem electeds actually hurts YOU so you need to be quiet for your own good, no matter how much contempt they consistently show you
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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democrats: oh shit are we succeeding? better put a stop to that before we might actually have to do more than talk shit.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
democrats: oh shit are we succeeding? better put a stop to that before we might actually have to do more than talk shit.
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A better mayor is possible 🥲
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A better mayor is possible 🥲
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This IS a great metaphor! #AI is akin to outsourcing your brain to a 5-year-old on acid. It doesn't know a lot, and what it does know comes out like gibberish.
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This IS a great metaphor! #AI is akin to outsourcing your brain to a 5-year-old on acid. It doesn't know a lot, and what it does know comes out like gibberish.
Even Keynes, who was not a socialist, understood that capitalism just careens from crash to boom unless the adults do something about it
One of my favorite things, since I was a child, is when the economy is running at such a fast pace and with such thin margins for error that even minor disruptions cause immense financial damage.
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Even Keynes, who was not a socialist, understood that capitalism just careens from crash to boom unless the adults do something about it
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Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”
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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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9) People are, all things considered, pretty good.
I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.
That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.
I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.
That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
9) People are, all things considered, pretty good.
I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.
That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.
I see twenty thousand people a day, and maybe two of them are assholes. Even on a stressful day, even in an unfamiliar environment, even hungry and tired and on a timer.
That's a *much* better ratio than folks realize.
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Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."
They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.
They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.
October 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."
They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.
They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.
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US culture doesn't reward people for 'having been right' about anything. In fact, this rarely matters. If you are powerful, it hardly matters whether you are wrong. Power rules everything around us.
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
US culture doesn't reward people for 'having been right' about anything. In fact, this rarely matters. If you are powerful, it hardly matters whether you are wrong. Power rules everything around us.
I spent a few weeks in Jackson this summer and saw for myself the big divide between the ordinary ppl who live there (or commute from Idaho) and the rich ppl who only bop in for fun
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Down and Out on the Crypto Frontier
In Wyoming, the Delaware of cryptocurrency, industry players celebrated their fortunes and said everyone will benefit. But workers haven’t seen it.
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September 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I spent a few weeks in Jackson this summer and saw for myself the big divide between the ordinary ppl who live there (or commute from Idaho) and the rich ppl who only bop in for fun
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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This.
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This.
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imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means
I think there are a lot of answers that have already been floated around here, and I've even offered some myself, but I did want to sharpen the question a bit.
September 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means
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it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient