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Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
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Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
"Mussolini once said that he didn’t create fascism – he extracted it from the Italians’ unconscious. And I think it’s the same thing with Bolsonarismo. Bolsonaro dies, but these radical ideas and ideology are here to stay." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term
Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prison
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
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the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
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Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
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You bet your ass every one of these had donation links
September 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
You bet your ass every one of these had donation links
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
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one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
June 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
Absolutely, furiously certain that the floating letters pasted in around the knuckles were physically there
Well that sure clears up the question of whether he was just sharing the meme from the neo-Nazis that purported to translate the tattoos or whether he's so senile he confused the added translation in the meme for part of the tattoos!
April 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".
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I don’t think you can summarize the fatal problem with modern liberalism any better than “My issue with the way people are being deported and disappeared is procedural.”
April 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don’t think you can summarize the fatal problem with modern liberalism any better than “My issue with the way people are being deported and disappeared is procedural.”
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I think it hasn't quite permeated yet that the worldview that many of the people in DOGE marinate in is white supremacist—and not in the abstract, structural sense but in the sense of posting 40 times a day about IQ rates and immigrants being "trash" slate.com/news-and-pol...
February 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I think it hasn't quite permeated yet that the worldview that many of the people in DOGE marinate in is white supremacist—and not in the abstract, structural sense but in the sense of posting 40 times a day about IQ rates and immigrants being "trash" slate.com/news-and-pol...
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trump literally made made cuts to all major airline safety administrations day 2. this crash is easily and inarguably his fault
January 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
trump literally made made cuts to all major airline safety administrations day 2. this crash is easily and inarguably his fault
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this is the most deliberate sieg heil performed since 1945, man. how is it possible we are gonna debate "what it is." this is a guy who barely knows how to jump, he's not accidentally doing all that
January 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
this is the most deliberate sieg heil performed since 1945, man. how is it possible we are gonna debate "what it is." this is a guy who barely knows how to jump, he's not accidentally doing all that
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A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.
January 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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“The democrats have moved too far left on immigration”
"Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says"
www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/p...
Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says | CNN Politics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants last fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014, according to a newly released annual report.
www.cnn.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:54 PM
“The democrats have moved too far left on immigration”
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That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are
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Detainees being freed from Homs central prison.
December 7, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Detainees being freed from Homs central prison.
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this guy wore a mask and didn't keep his cell phone on him when he fled and as a result a police department that is itself one of the largest armed forces and intelligence agencies on planet earth is completely flummoxed
One of the NYPD brass said “this isn’t blue bloods” when explaining they can’t just immediately find the guy and I like that years of copaganda have set standards cops can’t meet and might be contributing to people’s correct perception that cops don’t effectively stop crime or find killers.
December 7, 2024 at 11:51 PM
this guy wore a mask and didn't keep his cell phone on him when he fled and as a result a police department that is itself one of the largest armed forces and intelligence agencies on planet earth is completely flummoxed
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All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
December 4, 2024 at 11:35 PM
All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else
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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 6:19 PM
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-Frank Wilhoit
-Frank Wilhoit
I admit to being utterly bewildered by this new Trumpist conservatism that believes, on the one hand, that following the law is for suckers; while on the other hand believing that we need more policing and harsher penalties for violating the law. I don't understand how this coalesces into policy.
November 27, 2024 at 12:54 AM
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
-Frank Wilhoit
-Frank Wilhoit
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A perfect distillation of politics today, unfortunately. Outstanding article / essay 👏🏼
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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November 26, 2024 at 11:24 AM
A perfect distillation of politics today, unfortunately. Outstanding article / essay 👏🏼
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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