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I have one. Voters make decisions based on the ideas in their heads and their beliefs about the world, and those ideas and beliefs are heavily shaped by their social interactions, especially media consumption, and in the last 20 years most media consumption is from social media's sea of lies.
I don't think center left or left or center pundits have put forward a single coherent explanation of the 2016 election following the 2024 election as literally all of their theories of the 2016 election were disproven by the Biden term.
"Men are disturbed not by events, but by the view that they take of them"
Epictetus
Epictetus
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The year is 2035. World War III enters its third year. The United States has reverse quadruple defected and is currently aligned with Lesotho, the Society for Creative Anachronism, and a rebel faction of penguins in the Falklands. NATO has applied for admission into Ukraine.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has been secretly working in consultation with Russia to draft a new plan to end the war in Ukraine
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war
"We feel the Russian position is really being heard," Russia's envoy told Axios.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The year is 2035. World War III enters its third year. The United States has reverse quadruple defected and is currently aligned with Lesotho, the Society for Creative Anachronism, and a rebel faction of penguins in the Falklands. NATO has applied for admission into Ukraine.
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The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations
Rediscovering Chesterton's fence from first principles!
The key to being a good reformer and not just another wacky activist, I think, is understanding that most things in society - good and bad - exist for a reason. Once you understand the reasons you can understand which reasons are bad and therefore which things can be fixed.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Rediscovering Chesterton's fence from first principles!
He'll have to close this place in ... sixty years....
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
He'll have to close this place in ... sixty years....
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The last 48 hours have been incredible if you're a hater
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The last 48 hours have been incredible if you're a hater
Chilly season is soup season around here
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Chilly season is soup season around here
"Jeffrey Epstein killed himself"
So did Frankie Pentangeli
Just don't ask Michael Corleone about it
So did Frankie Pentangeli
Just don't ask Michael Corleone about it
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein killed himself"
So did Frankie Pentangeli
Just don't ask Michael Corleone about it
So did Frankie Pentangeli
Just don't ask Michael Corleone about it
I think this fellow might even have a theory about why...
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I think this fellow might even have a theory about why...
Po-tay-toes!
Mash 'em, boil 'em, stick 'em in your sock!
Mash 'em, boil 'em, stick 'em in your sock!
Under-the-weather TikTokers are slicing raw potatoes and placing them in their — and their children’s — socks before bed. The theory is that the potato draws out toxins.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
No, putting a potato in your sock will not cure a cold
TikTokers are placing slices of raw potatoes in their — and their children’s socks — overnight to cure illnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Po-tay-toes!
Mash 'em, boil 'em, stick 'em in your sock!
Mash 'em, boil 'em, stick 'em in your sock!
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THE GODS OF STORM AND SKY SHOW FAVOR TO THE KHAN
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
THE GODS OF STORM AND SKY SHOW FAVOR TO THE KHAN
News Flash! Glorious Leader even more glorious than originally thought!
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
News Flash! Glorious Leader even more glorious than originally thought!
At this time of day? At this time of year? In this part of the Internet? Concentrated entirely within @lollardfish.bsky.social 's Bsky Feed?!
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
At this time of day? At this time of year? In this part of the Internet? Concentrated entirely within @lollardfish.bsky.social 's Bsky Feed?!
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i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
i don't think democratic voters should have to spend this much time whipping democratic elected officials.
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Dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Again.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Again.
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Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Not that long ago, garments were so valuable they were routinely left in wills.
If you go back to the immediate pre-industrial period, clothing and bedding linens were likely the second most valuable thing you owned outside of your house (if you even owned it!)
If you go back to the immediate pre-industrial period, clothing and bedding linens were likely the second most valuable thing you owned outside of your house (if you even owned it!)
Clothing has become so cheap people literally cannot conceptualize it as a major household expense
November 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not that long ago, garments were so valuable they were routinely left in wills.
If you go back to the immediate pre-industrial period, clothing and bedding linens were likely the second most valuable thing you owned outside of your house (if you even owned it!)
If you go back to the immediate pre-industrial period, clothing and bedding linens were likely the second most valuable thing you owned outside of your house (if you even owned it!)
Fascinating to see in real time the moral degradation and auto-dehumanization of an entire class of elites who became so convinced of their own unique excellence that the mere *suggestion* of incorporating an ethical perspective that includes ANYONE ELSE is an identity-threatening event
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fascinating to see in real time the moral degradation and auto-dehumanization of an entire class of elites who became so convinced of their own unique excellence that the mere *suggestion* of incorporating an ethical perspective that includes ANYONE ELSE is an identity-threatening event
The Fordist Family Wage was not "prosperity" by any contemporary definition. It was stable, perhaps, but it was also highly contingent, dependent on the exclusion of women and non white men from much of the labor force. And even then, it could exist for only about 30 years before collapsing
People need to realize their ideas about past "middle class prosperity" are mostly nonsense.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Fordist Family Wage was not "prosperity" by any contemporary definition. It was stable, perhaps, but it was also highly contingent, dependent on the exclusion of women and non white men from much of the labor force. And even then, it could exist for only about 30 years before collapsing
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
We collectively memory-holed Abu Ghraib and let the wrong people get away with terrible crimes. We cannot repeat the mistake
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We collectively memory-holed Abu Ghraib and let the wrong people get away with terrible crimes. We cannot repeat the mistake
We elected Mamdani on Tuesday, and already this Friday, I got my mandatory Madrassa report date for 2026.... amazing how fast this happens these days!
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We elected Mamdani on Tuesday, and already this Friday, I got my mandatory Madrassa report date for 2026.... amazing how fast this happens these days!
I was at an event with a lot of finance and real estate people here in the city last night. Not a single person brought up Mamdani. No one was worried in any perceptible way
Oh, wait, one lady mentioned him - said she thought he was cute. That was it
The freakout is contained to the media
Oh, wait, one lady mentioned him - said she thought he was cute. That was it
The freakout is contained to the media
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I was at an event with a lot of finance and real estate people here in the city last night. Not a single person brought up Mamdani. No one was worried in any perceptible way
Oh, wait, one lady mentioned him - said she thought he was cute. That was it
The freakout is contained to the media
Oh, wait, one lady mentioned him - said she thought he was cute. That was it
The freakout is contained to the media
This is completely true. The gap between public and private sector pay for jobs of equivalent complexity has become a chasm. The mayor of NYC should easily be making 750K - 1M
This is also true of federal officials AND their staffs, by the way.
This is also true of federal officials AND their staffs, by the way.
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This is completely true. The gap between public and private sector pay for jobs of equivalent complexity has become a chasm. The mayor of NYC should easily be making 750K - 1M
This is also true of federal officials AND their staffs, by the way.
This is also true of federal officials AND their staffs, by the way.
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Happy 5th anniversary to the funniest thing that’s happened in the history of ever
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy 5th anniversary to the funniest thing that’s happened in the history of ever