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An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.
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Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
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This is a radio station out of Fort Meyers, a part of the country that looks like this and is going to be underwater before basically anywhere else. This feels like a death drive thing to me.
December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a radio station out of Fort Meyers, a part of the country that looks like this and is going to be underwater before basically anywhere else. This feels like a death drive thing to me.
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bite-gnaw at the societal chains that bind-stretch around skaven yes-yes warpstone to the workers more warpstone take-share
December 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
bite-gnaw at the societal chains that bind-stretch around skaven yes-yes warpstone to the workers more warpstone take-share
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight
December 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight
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ICE have revealed themselves to be nothing more than the partisan militia of MAGA. When Trump became president, he did not "execute Order 66." They have been yearning for the Day of the Rope since their founding, and all Trump did was give free rein to their basest impulses.
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ICE have revealed themselves to be nothing more than the partisan militia of MAGA. When Trump became president, he did not "execute Order 66." They have been yearning for the Day of the Rope since their founding, and all Trump did was give free rein to their basest impulses.
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vermuele can’t make the same choice because he is, at the end of the day, unwilling to part with the faction that he’s been tied all his life to despite whatever heterodox ideas he’s advanced in the past
December 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
vermuele can’t make the same choice because he is, at the end of the day, unwilling to part with the faction that he’s been tied all his life to despite whatever heterodox ideas he’s advanced in the past
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increasingly i just feel these people chose a side and that’s really all we need to know about them. there were people with beliefs close to fascism that still opposed the axis and even died doing so
December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
increasingly i just feel these people chose a side and that’s really all we need to know about them. there were people with beliefs close to fascism that still opposed the axis and even died doing so
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the 'conspiracies are actually real' rpg was very common in the 1990s but I think it's considerably harder to do today because conspiracy beliefs (and the attendant, inevitable anti-semitism) are an obviously malignant political force
I love learning about the little ins and outs of conspiracy and occult lore - the key is to always remember it's not actually real, at best it's real in a "this is a belief some people act on".
Once you actually start thinking there are Secret Masters out there, things go... bad.
Once you actually start thinking there are Secret Masters out there, things go... bad.
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the 'conspiracies are actually real' rpg was very common in the 1990s but I think it's considerably harder to do today because conspiracy beliefs (and the attendant, inevitable anti-semitism) are an obviously malignant political force
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I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.
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They really do seem like the movie equivalent of Nickelback, where no one you know will say they’ve seen them but statistically SOMEONE is buying all those tickets.
these movies are fascinating to me, none of the people i hang around with in real life have ever seen them, i've never heard any of those people talk about them, and my friend group includes a lot of people who see and talk about movies often, but i *know* that tons of people go see and enjoy them
December 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
They really do seem like the movie equivalent of Nickelback, where no one you know will say they’ve seen them but statistically SOMEONE is buying all those tickets.
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That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
That billionaires tax is for democracy not primarily for revenue.
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i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
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The mass intelligentsia is a sleeping leviathan that has just begun to wake, more and more are saying it.
See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The mass intelligentsia is a sleeping leviathan that has just begun to wake, more and more are saying it.
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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The combination of qualified immunity and the lack of any actual duty of care for the public has been, uh, not good for society.
via Breaking911, here are the radio transmissions from Providence police responding to the Brown University shooting
Officers standing outside not entering during the critical moments, allowed the shooter to escape
The public wants police to take on risk but there is no incentive for them to do so
Officers standing outside not entering during the critical moments, allowed the shooter to escape
The public wants police to take on risk but there is no incentive for them to do so
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The combination of qualified immunity and the lack of any actual duty of care for the public has been, uh, not good for society.
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I genuinely have no idea how George Lucas wants us to think about padme
Padme (horniest a woman has ever been human history): I like the beach, it makes me happy and reminds me of good times from when I was younger
Anakin (oblivious): ew gross weirdo
Anakin (oblivious): ew gross weirdo
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I genuinely have no idea how George Lucas wants us to think about padme
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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sometimes I do not like the person the Trump era has turned me into all that much tbh.
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
sometimes I do not like the person the Trump era has turned me into all that much tbh.
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'Woke at the point of a gun' is what I have in mind, personally
"assertively moral" is one way to put it
KLEIN: “.. cruelty as the dominant culture repulses most people. .. Closed and cruel are on their way out. What comes next, I suspect, will present itself as open, friendly and assertively moral.”
@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
@ezraklein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
'Woke at the point of a gun' is what I have in mind, personally
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nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other
if this was me at a public event mourning my spouse who was violently murdered my kids would either have me committed or never speak to me again
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other