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The left needs to stop being afraid of the state. Like, I get it, the American state has often been hostile to the left. But the solution to that is to take that power and use it for good rather than evil.
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The left needs to stop being afraid of the state. Like, I get it, the American state has often been hostile to the left. But the solution to that is to take that power and use it for good rather than evil.
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You are not going to mutual aid $4 billion a month, and when presented with that fact, they said "well what if only the people who really need it take it?"
ARGH NO STOP NOW YOU'RE DOING MEANS TESTING BUT LEFTISHLY.
ARGH NO STOP NOW YOU'RE DOING MEANS TESTING BUT LEFTISHLY.
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
You are not going to mutual aid $4 billion a month, and when presented with that fact, they said "well what if only the people who really need it take it?"
ARGH NO STOP NOW YOU'RE DOING MEANS TESTING BUT LEFTISHLY.
ARGH NO STOP NOW YOU'RE DOING MEANS TESTING BUT LEFTISHLY.
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I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
Guys I know you’re all going to yell at me here but mutual aid is not meaningfully distinct from the kind of privatized community charity system where poor people go to the church and hope someone has donated a hot meal. It’s not progressive, it’s not effective, it’s not good service provision.
"poor enough to need mutual aid"
Everyone needs mutual aid.
Everyone needs mutual aid.
December 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.
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I think the fundamental problem with Will, and the Democrats broadly, is they have gone all in on this data-driven philosophy that is so obsessed with observing and understanding the current moment that it has lost the ability to perceive a future that isn't just the current moment extended forever.
December 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I think the fundamental problem with Will, and the Democrats broadly, is they have gone all in on this data-driven philosophy that is so obsessed with observing and understanding the current moment that it has lost the ability to perceive a future that isn't just the current moment extended forever.
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It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
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The problem with this premise is a hypothetical president AOC or (insert progressive here) would almost certainly be filled with a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies albeit for reasons entirely different from those animating Sullivan and co.
Has anyone written the definitive piece about Jake Sullivan’s world-historic errors on Gaza and Israel that got Trump elected, and how he and his team were a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies who should be nowhere near power ever again?
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
We need a President AOC just to break from this past
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The problem with this premise is a hypothetical president AOC or (insert progressive here) would almost certainly be filled with a bunch of overconfident, uninformed ninnies albeit for reasons entirely different from those animating Sullivan and co.
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Corollary of thinking anything in society you don’t like is the govt repressing you—interracial couples in TV commercials, “Happy Holidays,” trans people you never meet being themselves, etc.—is thinking that the president, Supreme Court, and police aren’t govt when they do something you agree with.
I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Corollary of thinking anything in society you don’t like is the govt repressing you—interracial couples in TV commercials, “Happy Holidays,” trans people you never meet being themselves, etc.—is thinking that the president, Supreme Court, and police aren’t govt when they do something you agree with.
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really wondering how large the overlap of "reads the Atlantic", "struggling to afford one bedroom per kid", and "makes massive financial decisions based on magazine articles" can possibly be
December 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
really wondering how large the overlap of "reads the Atlantic", "struggling to afford one bedroom per kid", and "makes massive financial decisions based on magazine articles" can possibly be
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The Greeks called the practice of speaking truth to power παρρησία. It is the essential characteristic of noble thought and heroic deed. Conversely, a person cowering in the face of power and refusing to challenge it is known as a συκοφάντης, or sycophant (that's where the word comes from).
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Greeks called the practice of speaking truth to power παρρησία. It is the essential characteristic of noble thought and heroic deed. Conversely, a person cowering in the face of power and refusing to challenge it is known as a συκοφάντης, or sycophant (that's where the word comes from).
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They confirmed that wheat causes celiac disease during the post WWII Dutch famine (when celiac kids, like all kids, didn’t get any bread but actually died less than before )
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They confirmed that wheat causes celiac disease during the post WWII Dutch famine (when celiac kids, like all kids, didn’t get any bread but actually died less than before )
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ain't no fuckin way
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ain't no fuckin way
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The largest ever built European battleship rests peacefully at the seafloor less than 4 miles from my childhood home. If you're MAGA do not look up her combat record.
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The largest ever built European battleship rests peacefully at the seafloor less than 4 miles from my childhood home. If you're MAGA do not look up her combat record.
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THIS ISN’T CALL OF DUTY
WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE
WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE
December 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
THIS ISN’T CALL OF DUTY
WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE
WE PROCURE MILITARY PLATFORMS BASED ON THEIR UTILITY IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE
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UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials.
Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).
Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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it's sometimes crazy that we made cops the ones in charge of enforcing the laws. extremely questionable decision.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
it's sometimes crazy that we made cops the ones in charge of enforcing the laws. extremely questionable decision.
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
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College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Named Successor Executor in 2014 Draft of Epstein’s Will | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was designated as a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein’s last will and testament, positioning him to oversee Epstein’s estate ...
www.thecrimson.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
College journalism strikes again www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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There are 78 Burke-class destroyers and we're planning to build 99. They say they're going to build "20-25" Trump-class thingys instead of the Burke's replacement.
Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers.
Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.
Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers.
Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.
this is just insane
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
There are 78 Burke-class destroyers and we're planning to build 99. They say they're going to build "20-25" Trump-class thingys instead of the Burke's replacement.
Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers.
Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.
Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers.
Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.
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I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
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Just like they did in the mid 90s to one of the Farmer sisters when she contacted them about Epstein and child porn/trafficking. Ghosted.
December 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Just like they did in the mid 90s to one of the Farmer sisters when she contacted them about Epstein and child porn/trafficking. Ghosted.
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The freakin FBI ghosted her
December 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The freakin FBI ghosted her
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Might be some crossed wires here, too. "Mona Lake" might be a game of telephone from Lady Mona K, which is the boat Ghislaine Maxwell's dad owned and died on. Might also just be Mona Lake. Might also be bullshit. No way to know without a very public Congressional hearing imo!
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December 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Might be some crossed wires here, too. "Mona Lake" might be a game of telephone from Lady Mona K, which is the boat Ghislaine Maxwell's dad owned and died on. Might also just be Mona Lake. Might also be bullshit. No way to know without a very public Congressional hearing imo!