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@krietzsche.bsky.social
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“Creationists and literalists should be publicly mocked”
Image of a man who says what everyone is thinking.
July 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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NYT article from today
July 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I suppose I might amend my point to being that elite political apathy leads to autocracy. But, along those lines, Rome was a slave republic that imbued only specific people with the right to vote. Their elite chose to live under autocracy
Indeed, a second part of Beard's answer is that the emperors were also careful to preserve the trappings of republican norms and institutions. Even if the Senate became a powerless debating forum, and even if the consular officials served for only two months instead of twelve as formerly, they kept the wealthy "senatorial elite," as Beard calls them, busy, respectable and ever looking to promotion and proximity to imperial power. And, as Beard dryly notes, replacing elections with imperial appointment saved the elite the tedium and expense of populist politics. As one-man rule arrived and stayed, Beard points out, scarcely anyone complained. Senators became, in the words of Tacitus, ineffective dissidents or cowards, flatterers and job-seekers; "power dining" with the emperor became, as she brilliantly demonstrates, an occasion of risk and uncertainty as well as an opportunity for promotion and proximity to power. In short, "despite the loud protests against the crimes and misdemeanours of individual rulers, or the discontent with some aspects of one-man rule, there is hardly any trace of significant resistance to one-man rule as such."
July 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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William motherfucking Sherman
July 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Got jumpscared this morning
What do you think of Graham Hancock?
June 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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June 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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A sick ass croc letting everyone know that fucking around means finding out
June 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Byung-Chul Han says:
Orwell's surveillance state, with its telescreens and torture chambers, is fundamentally different from today's digital panopticon, with its internet, smartphones and Google Glass. In the digital panopticon, the illusion of limitless freedom and communication predominates. Here there is no torture - just tweets and posts. Nor is there a mysterious 'Ministry of Truth'. Transparency and information have taken the place of truth. The new conception of power does not involve controlling the past, but steering the future psychopolitically. The neoliberal technology of power does not prohibit, protect or repress; instead, it prospects, permits and projects. Consumption is not held in check, but maxi-mized. No production of scarcity occurs; instead, surplus is generated - indeed, a superabundance of positivity. Everyone is encouraged to communicate and consume. The principle of negativity, which still defined Orwell's state, has yielded to the principle of positivity. Needs are not repressed, but stimulated. Confession obtained by force has been replaced by voluntary disclosure. Smartphones have been substituted for torture chambers. Big Brother now wears a friendly face. His friendliness is what makes surveillance so efficient. Bentham's Big Brother was invisible, but he was everywhere in prisoners' minds. Inmates interiorized him. In contrast, the inhabitants of today's digital panopticon never really feel that they are being watched or threatened. Consequently, 'surveillance state' is an imprecise name for describing the digital panopticon. Here, everyone feels free. However, precisely this feeling of freedom - which is nowhere to be found in Orwell's state - is now the problem. The digital panopticon thrives on its occupants' voluntary self-exposure. Self-exploitation and self-illumination follow the same logic. In either case, freedom is exploited. The digital panopticon lacks a Big Brother wresting information from us against our will. Instead, we lay ourselves bare voluntarily.
June 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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He senses the inevitable
June 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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If I grow my hair exactly like this man and start saying “blockchain” a lot I think I got this
Anduril CEO Palmer Lucky
May 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Yep. They’re doing their cruelty in the open because they believe the percentage of people who will join them is larger than the one revolted by them
May 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hegseth running into the end of his leash like a dog is one of the funnier aspects of this nightmare fs. Also admitting to five separate affairs in the first marriage is something
Marriages In 2004, Hegseth married Meredith Schwarz, a graduate of Forest Lake Area High School, at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota; they were voted "most likely to marry" by their graduating class. Meredith filed for divorce in December 2008 after Hegseth admitted to five affairs; he had been dating Samantha Deering, whom he had met at Vets for Freedom. Hegseth married Deering, with whom he has three children, in 2010; they filed for divorce in 2017. In 2019, Hegseth married Jennifer Rauchet, a producer on Fox & Friends, at Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck in New Jersey, in an event attended by the Trump family.
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I instinctively hate this man
April 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I wanna be at the RNC

I wanna grapple with… Dan Bongino!
Taking to social media, Bongino wrote, "FYI, Adam Goldman of the NY Times is getting ready to run another one of their 'journalism' exposé pieces about me spending time in our FBI training facility ground fighting with our dedicated and skilled defensive tactics instructors." "Their big news 'hook' is that after a solid few rounds of grappling, I injured my shoulder," he then added. "Because it's Adam Goldman, you can generally assume he's wrong, and he is, again. The instructor I was grappling with got the best of me, because he's incredibly talented. That's why he's there. And it was my not an 'injury' but a bit of swelling in my right elbow, not shoulder, because I'm 50 years old and I can't recover like I used to."
April 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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How I feel watching all this bullshit go down
William Tecumseh Sherman
April 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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April 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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April 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This BANGER from @brainnotonyet.bsky.social so perfectly understands what’s happening (for a measly 33 likes)
March 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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At 11:44 a.m., the account labeled "Pete Hegseth" posted in Signal a "TEAM UPDATE." I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command's area of responsibility. What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Especially this
16. We took off again and landed fairly quickly. I was then told we were in El Salvador. 17. While on the plane the government officials were asking the men to sign a document and they didn't want to. The government officials were pushing them to sign the documents and threatening them. I heard them discussing the documents and they were about the men admitting they were members of TdA.
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I thought this tweet was just more distasteful clown shit from this unqualified ass, but actually it was worse
March 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM