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The men behind Trump are not white supremacists, religious fundamentalists, or capitalistic imperialists. They are post-humanists. They look forward to a dead planet, and all the people who helped them achieve their goal will be killed as well.
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The men behind Trump are not white supremacists, religious fundamentalists, or capitalistic imperialists. They are post-humanists. They look forward to a dead planet, and all the people who helped them achieve their goal will be killed as well.
If you asked an AI to examine how to take over the USA the response would be what Trump paraphrased as “Get me the votes.” If all you need is enough votes, it’s easy enough to achieve if you don’t believe “free will” or “human agency” are difficult things to influence.
December 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you asked an AI to examine how to take over the USA the response would be what Trump paraphrased as “Get me the votes.” If all you need is enough votes, it’s easy enough to achieve if you don’t believe “free will” or “human agency” are difficult things to influence.
Americans have been taught about democracy through lore, advertising, and political speech. Very little about civics is taught in schools. Americans believe it’s a wish-fulfillment system: If enough people vote for something, ANYTHING, it will be done, and we must respect the wishes of the winners.
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Americans have been taught about democracy through lore, advertising, and political speech. Very little about civics is taught in schools. Americans believe it’s a wish-fulfillment system: If enough people vote for something, ANYTHING, it will be done, and we must respect the wishes of the winners.
If a Democrat wins the presidency, he (it won’t be a woman) will tell us democracy works, the Constitution works, and the conscience of the voters has triumphed. It is all wrong; American democracy is sick. If everything an Obama does can be negated by a Trump, American democracy is dying.
December 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If a Democrat wins the presidency, he (it won’t be a woman) will tell us democracy works, the Constitution works, and the conscience of the voters has triumphed. It is all wrong; American democracy is sick. If everything an Obama does can be negated by a Trump, American democracy is dying.
When your opponent sees the practice of nonviolence as sheep eagerly lining up to be slaughtered, rethink your strategy.
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
When your opponent sees the practice of nonviolence as sheep eagerly lining up to be slaughtered, rethink your strategy.
How long until the Trump Administration tells us the harms of nuclear radiation are fake news?
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
How long until the Trump Administration tells us the harms of nuclear radiation are fake news?
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Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.
Elon Musk's SpaceX bought tens of millions worth of Cybertrucks Tesla can't sell
As demand for the Cybertruck can’t reach more than about 10% of Tesla’s planned production capacity, Elon Musk used his...
electrek.co
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.
To The Man Who Was Taught How To Fish:
Here’s a one-time payment for selling your fishing pole for firewood.
Here’s a one-time payment for letting us have exclusive access to your rivers and ponds; your family can live off canned fish for months.
You’re welcome.
Here’s a one-time payment for selling your fishing pole for firewood.
Here’s a one-time payment for letting us have exclusive access to your rivers and ponds; your family can live off canned fish for months.
You’re welcome.
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
To The Man Who Was Taught How To Fish:
Here’s a one-time payment for selling your fishing pole for firewood.
Here’s a one-time payment for letting us have exclusive access to your rivers and ponds; your family can live off canned fish for months.
You’re welcome.
Here’s a one-time payment for selling your fishing pole for firewood.
Here’s a one-time payment for letting us have exclusive access to your rivers and ponds; your family can live off canned fish for months.
You’re welcome.
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Already seeing tons of fellow Progressives planning to boycott voting again because their mythical “perfect” Candidate doesn’t exist. No. You will vote, and you will vote for the most viable Candidate who isn’t the Fascist Republican Nominee. It may be our last chance ever to restore Democracy.
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Already seeing tons of fellow Progressives planning to boycott voting again because their mythical “perfect” Candidate doesn’t exist. No. You will vote, and you will vote for the most viable Candidate who isn’t the Fascist Republican Nominee. It may be our last chance ever to restore Democracy.
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My weekly email to my Congressman.
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My weekly email to my Congressman.
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When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.
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Can we get something straight?
Putin did influence the Brexit referendum.
That's a fact.
The question remains, to what degree were those efforts effective?
Given the tiny margin...Putin's interference could easily have made the difference.
Putin did influence the Brexit referendum.
That's a fact.
The question remains, to what degree were those efforts effective?
Given the tiny margin...Putin's interference could easily have made the difference.
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Can we get something straight?
Putin did influence the Brexit referendum.
That's a fact.
The question remains, to what degree were those efforts effective?
Given the tiny margin...Putin's interference could easily have made the difference.
Putin did influence the Brexit referendum.
That's a fact.
The question remains, to what degree were those efforts effective?
Given the tiny margin...Putin's interference could easily have made the difference.
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Moderate (on strip-searching 12yos) to win!
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Moderate (on strip-searching 12yos) to win!
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Just imagining the media reaction if Joe Biden had launched a war on a random small country because he fucking felt like it.
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Just imagining the media reaction if Joe Biden had launched a war on a random small country because he fucking felt like it.
A healthy political system lets the best ideas rise to the top, and the final decisions should be difficult, based on an educated understanding of what's most needed.
We don't have that at all. We have races that are all about brand identity, and affinity to cultural identity.
We don't have that at all. We have races that are all about brand identity, and affinity to cultural identity.
December 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A healthy political system lets the best ideas rise to the top, and the final decisions should be difficult, based on an educated understanding of what's most needed.
We don't have that at all. We have races that are all about brand identity, and affinity to cultural identity.
We don't have that at all. We have races that are all about brand identity, and affinity to cultural identity.
I try to keep up with slashdot. But today it's packed with some tech and business bombshells.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
slashdot.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I try to keep up with slashdot. But today it's packed with some tech and business bombshells.
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Trump talks about drug trafficking but here are the facts:
“Venezuela has about 17 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, or more than 300 billion barrels, nearly four times the amount in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
“Venezuela has about 17 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, or more than 300 billion barrels, nearly four times the amount in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Trump talks about drug trafficking but here are the facts:
“Venezuela has about 17 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, or more than 300 billion barrels, nearly four times the amount in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
“Venezuela has about 17 percent of the world’s known oil reserves, or more than 300 billion barrels, nearly four times the amount in the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
People now talk about the Overton Window like it's some kind of brilliant marketing maneuver. As if, If you can manipulate it, you have indeed changed reality.
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
People now talk about the Overton Window like it's some kind of brilliant marketing maneuver. As if, If you can manipulate it, you have indeed changed reality.
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Hate isn’t a strong enough word for this monster…
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hate isn’t a strong enough word for this monster…
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I think a big part of it -- theatrically embracing obvious falsehoods -- is mocking liberals, mocking people who value principles (like honesty) above factional advantage. They do it because it pains us, because we care.
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think a big part of it -- theatrically embracing obvious falsehoods -- is mocking liberals, mocking people who value principles (like honesty) above factional advantage. They do it because it pains us, because we care.
If you can attach hundreds of millions of people to a computer network and give them instant access to each other, and information, commerce, whole new marketplaces, and instantaneous democracy; You can also entangle and ensnare these people in this network and make them do anything you want.
December 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If you can attach hundreds of millions of people to a computer network and give them instant access to each other, and information, commerce, whole new marketplaces, and instantaneous democracy; You can also entangle and ensnare these people in this network and make them do anything you want.
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Just thinking back to when Michelle Obama said that school kids should eat more vegetables and the entire conservative establishment lost its fucking mind.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Just thinking back to when Michelle Obama said that school kids should eat more vegetables and the entire conservative establishment lost its fucking mind.
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So taxes haven't gone down for most Americans but we're paying tariffs on top of our taxes and services are taken away that were paying for. 🤔
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
So taxes haven't gone down for most Americans but we're paying tariffs on top of our taxes and services are taken away that were paying for. 🤔
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Young American men volunteer for military service, knowing they may have to sacrifice their lives for their country.
But they didn't volunteer to sacrifice their futures to protect the President or Secretary of Defense from being convicted of crimes.
That's not the service for which we thank them.
But they didn't volunteer to sacrifice their futures to protect the President or Secretary of Defense from being convicted of crimes.
That's not the service for which we thank them.
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Young American men volunteer for military service, knowing they may have to sacrifice their lives for their country.
But they didn't volunteer to sacrifice their futures to protect the President or Secretary of Defense from being convicted of crimes.
That's not the service for which we thank them.
But they didn't volunteer to sacrifice their futures to protect the President or Secretary of Defense from being convicted of crimes.
That's not the service for which we thank them.