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One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric.
No, writes @ddale8.bsky.social, Trump did not warn voters during the campaign that his tariffs would require a “transition period.” He said they would make voters “so rich” and are “not going to be a cost to you,” with none of his current rhetoric about temporary issues. www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he warned Americans during his campaign of a tariff ‘transition period’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that he warned during his 2024 campaign that his tariffs would require Americans to experience the challenges of a “transition period.”
www.cnn.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric.
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You should be able to bet on salmonella futures
May 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You should be able to bet on salmonella futures
This is no joke, they let you go on the roof of St Peters
April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This is no joke, they let you go on the roof of St Peters
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Part 2 of Chosun's interview, with the second soldier -- 21-year-old rifleman with the surname Baek.
'My mother doesn't even know I'm here'
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
'My mother doesn't even know I'm here'
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
Exclusive: ‘My mother doesn’t even know I’m here’ — North Korean POW on capture, family, and uncertainty
Exclusive: My mother doesnt even know Im here — North Korean POW on capture, family, and uncertainty
www.chosun.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Part 2 of Chosun's interview, with the second soldier -- 21-year-old rifleman with the surname Baek.
'My mother doesn't even know I'm here'
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
'My mother doesn't even know I'm here'
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
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Incredible exclusive interview by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo (from Kyiv) of the two North Koreans captured in Kursk.
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
Exclusive: Captured North Korean soldiers speak out on deployment to Russia
Exclusive: Captured North Korean soldiers speak out on deployment to Russia
www.chosun.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Incredible exclusive interview by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo (from Kyiv) of the two North Koreans captured in Kursk.
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
www.chosun.com/english/nort...
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Conclusions reluctantly reached are the most firmly held.
February 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Conclusions reluctantly reached are the most firmly held.
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a lot america's problems come back to the basic fact that we 1) have barely had united government for the last 30 years and 2) it has been basically impossible to pass normal legislation for the last 20
The transformative promises are a product of an electorate that wants to have an elected autocrat in charge (or thinks we already have one), and the disappointment when they don’t happen is a product of those promises’ contact with mere reality.
Another thing is that politicians, to gin up support, have been promising increasingly totally transformative agendas for the last 20 years, and then deliver like one (1) money bill and sole executive orders, so people have taken that as proof that things can't really change for better or worse
February 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
a lot america's problems come back to the basic fact that we 1) have barely had united government for the last 30 years and 2) it has been basically impossible to pass normal legislation for the last 20
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This is also why I'm a bear on Vance '28 - this is an elemental power, you can't just transfer it to a guy who hasn't been famous for 50 years.
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is also why I'm a bear on Vance '28 - this is an elemental power, you can't just transfer it to a guy who hasn't been famous for 50 years.
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it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want
February 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
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I hear climbing through a broken window is always a MAGA option.
MAGA in DC just being told that Trump just said the inauguration will now be inside: “So we’re not gonna see it in person? I don’t like it. We came all the way from OK. We might as well stayed home & watched it on TV. It sucks. We have farms. We don’t get to not feed the cows cause it’s cold.”
January 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I hear climbing through a broken window is always a MAGA option.
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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After all the pardon arguments, here is something to cheer us up. @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times (Gift Article)
The devastating outcome of the 1983 game reveals that nuclear escalation inevitably spirals out of control.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:46 PM
After all the pardon arguments, here is something to cheer us up. @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...
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‘Data from the battlefield suggest that the hit rate for these AI-guided drones is currently above 80%. That is higher than the rate of manually piloted drones. As important, the training burden declines dramatically. “We can train an operator within 30 minutes…”’
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
Ukraine is making tens of thousands of them
www.economist.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:40 AM
‘Data from the battlefield suggest that the hit rate for these AI-guided drones is currently above 80%. That is higher than the rate of manually piloted drones. As important, the training burden declines dramatically. “We can train an operator within 30 minutes…”’
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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There are people outside those communities who want to argue but share no common causes. They want to argue about premises, not consequences.
THESE ARGUMENTS ARE RHETORICALLY EMPTY. THEY HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES.
They are a waste of time, and usually deliberately so. They are yelling into the void.
THESE ARGUMENTS ARE RHETORICALLY EMPTY. THEY HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES.
They are a waste of time, and usually deliberately so. They are yelling into the void.
November 22, 2024 at 3:15 PM
There are people outside those communities who want to argue but share no common causes. They want to argue about premises, not consequences.
THESE ARGUMENTS ARE RHETORICALLY EMPTY. THEY HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES.
They are a waste of time, and usually deliberately so. They are yelling into the void.
THESE ARGUMENTS ARE RHETORICALLY EMPTY. THEY HAVE NO CONSEQUENCES.
They are a waste of time, and usually deliberately so. They are yelling into the void.
Since fascism is an emotional response it cannot be effectively countered by logic, which is always Democrats’ first instinct. You can’t use statistics to convince someone with a primal fear of flying. We need a different political science for these moments
this is increasingly what I believe too, especially regarding fascism: it is the ideology of pure indulgent feeling, unchecked by reason or consistency. that's why so much of it is built around empty aesthetics that feel strong or important but have no substantive ideas beneath them.
This mirrors closely my idea (spurred by reading Robert Sapolsky) that at its core, populism is the politics of gut social instincts - our default social mode, inherited from primates. Baboons have no ideological beliefs but tons of MAGAesque social opinions - xenophobia, pro-hierarchy, etc.
November 20, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Since fascism is an emotional response it cannot be effectively countered by logic, which is always Democrats’ first instinct. You can’t use statistics to convince someone with a primal fear of flying. We need a different political science for these moments
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fascism doesn't spread by convincing you of its ideas, it spreads by convincing you to stop challenging your feelings and to give yourself over to them. it wants to shut down the nagging voice in your head that say "isn't this wrong? isn't this evil? isn't this incoherent?"
October 31, 2024 at 4:30 PM
fascism doesn't spread by convincing you of its ideas, it spreads by convincing you to stop challenging your feelings and to give yourself over to them. it wants to shut down the nagging voice in your head that say "isn't this wrong? isn't this evil? isn't this incoherent?"
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For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.
They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.
They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.
November 17, 2024 at 11:14 AM
For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.
They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.
They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.
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Young man-- there's no need to feel down
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
August 16, 2023 at 11:12 PM
Young man-- there's no need to feel down
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town
You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown
Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?