Mourn the Weenie
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Why can't we have nice things?
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So I discovered something horrible about myself. I don't know who to talk to about this, and I'm not sure if thinking it over by myself would be productive or not, given that my own thoughts led to the horror in the first place.
So I discovered something horrible about myself. I don't know who to talk to about this, and I'm not sure if thinking it over by myself would be productive or not, given that my own thoughts led to the horror in the first place.
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
So I discovered something horrible about myself. I don't know who to talk to about this, and I'm not sure if thinking it over by myself would be productive or not, given that my own thoughts led to the horror in the first place.
This, this is NATIONAL HUMILIATION
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
This, this is NATIONAL HUMILIATION
oh fuck me
in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory
ChatGPT made me delusional
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
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October 31, 2025 at 7:29 AM
oh fuck me
The sheer fucking gall to betray your oaths as a soldier to insist that... the rule of Trump is THE RULE OF LAW???
The funny thing is how inculpatory it is. If it’s true that illiberal states can have rule of law; then the Trumpist war on rule of law cannot even be warranted with reference to illiberal commitments! You just have to admit that you love corrupt bullshit!
chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The sheer fucking gall to betray your oaths as a soldier to insist that... the rule of Trump is THE RULE OF LAW???
The divine right of pedophiles has never before been questioned
Prince Andrew to flee to Court of Mar-A-Lago, attempt to raise army.
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The divine right of pedophiles has never before been questioned
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
You might as well spell out what the results of that loss of acknowledgment would look like.
Just as an example: think of the median lieutenant, captain or major you might have encountered. Now consider if they would really internalize what a society or an army that does not acknowledge “the autonomous, rights-bearing individual“ would really look like.
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You might as well spell out what the results of that loss of acknowledgment would look like.
"Is the rule of Trump the rule of law without the presence of liberalism?"
"Why shucks, yes it is! Just don't mind Adrian Verneule in the back, crying, weeping, shitting his pants, bitching that so many of his authoritarian peers are fucking idiots."
"Why shucks, yes it is! Just don't mind Adrian Verneule in the back, crying, weeping, shitting his pants, bitching that so many of his authoritarian peers are fucking idiots."
chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Is the rule of Trump the rule of law without the presence of liberalism?"
"Why shucks, yes it is! Just don't mind Adrian Verneule in the back, crying, weeping, shitting his pants, bitching that so many of his authoritarian peers are fucking idiots."
"Why shucks, yes it is! Just don't mind Adrian Verneule in the back, crying, weeping, shitting his pants, bitching that so many of his authoritarian peers are fucking idiots."
Let me save braincells by saying:
"What the authoritarian memelords see is dogshit. DOOOOOOOOOOOGSHIT."
"What the authoritarian memelords see is dogshit. DOOOOOOOOOOOGSHIT."
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Let me save braincells by saying:
"What the authoritarian memelords see is dogshit. DOOOOOOOOOOOGSHIT."
"What the authoritarian memelords see is dogshit. DOOOOOOOOOOOGSHIT."
Are you willing to let go of your family's comfort so that you can be comfortable? Keep in mind it's sports today, and it's gonna be something else tomorrow. How far are you willing to go to keep YOUR rights and YOUR livelihoods at the expense of those scapegoated?
Cool story. Sorry, people not being able to compete in sports is simply not on the scale of consideration when others in our tent are literally losing their freedom and their livelihoods.
You can pretend all you want that rational disagreement is "throwing you under the bus", but it's bullshit.
You can pretend all you want that rational disagreement is "throwing you under the bus", but it's bullshit.
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Are you willing to let go of your family's comfort so that you can be comfortable? Keep in mind it's sports today, and it's gonna be something else tomorrow. How far are you willing to go to keep YOUR rights and YOUR livelihoods at the expense of those scapegoated?
A PRIVATE PRISON SYSTEM
THAT WILL HOUSE THE HOMELESS
EXACT PRIVATIONS FROM THEM
INSTEAD OF PUBLIC HOUSING
BECAUSE GOD BE DAMNED
IF THERE BE INCONVENIENCE
(Wildddddddddd America!)
THAT WILL HOUSE THE HOMELESS
EXACT PRIVATIONS FROM THEM
INSTEAD OF PUBLIC HOUSING
BECAUSE GOD BE DAMNED
IF THERE BE INCONVENIENCE
(Wildddddddddd America!)
the comments, are as you expect, bleak
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
A PRIVATE PRISON SYSTEM
THAT WILL HOUSE THE HOMELESS
EXACT PRIVATIONS FROM THEM
INSTEAD OF PUBLIC HOUSING
BECAUSE GOD BE DAMNED
IF THERE BE INCONVENIENCE
(Wildddddddddd America!)
THAT WILL HOUSE THE HOMELESS
EXACT PRIVATIONS FROM THEM
INSTEAD OF PUBLIC HOUSING
BECAUSE GOD BE DAMNED
IF THERE BE INCONVENIENCE
(Wildddddddddd America!)
YOU ONLY GOT FOUR MINUTES TO SAVE CHICAGO
(Hesitating?)
PROPERTY TAX BILL, SAY THREE TIMES
(Hesitating?)
PROPERTY TAX BILL, SAY THREE TIMES
Property tax bill: say it three times, if you dare. Repost this video and sign up to volunteer using the link in the bio to help keep this monster behind the mirror. #chicago #illinois #cookcounty #urbanism #propertytaxes #happyhalloween
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
YOU ONLY GOT FOUR MINUTES TO SAVE CHICAGO
(Hesitating?)
PROPERTY TAX BILL, SAY THREE TIMES
(Hesitating?)
PROPERTY TAX BILL, SAY THREE TIMES
GARLANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
GARLANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Ah, the greatest betrayal of all: not keeping up the illusion that the Soviet Union was a mighty superpower by the 1980s
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ah, the greatest betrayal of all: not keeping up the illusion that the Soviet Union was a mighty superpower by the 1980s
THE KING HAS NO CROWN! NO CLOTHES! NO FUCKING LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
South Korea to award Trump its highest medal, gift him a golden crown reut.rs/4hxKWpL
South Korea to award Trump its highest medal, gift him a golden crown
South Korea will welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a replica gold crown and award him with the "Grand Order of Mugunghwa", the country's highest decoration, the presidential office said.
reut.rs
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
THE KING HAS NO CROWN! NO CLOTHES! NO FUCKING LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This is a nice thread on the subset of Russians who may be opposed to Putin, but who just couldn't understand that when a Ukrainian says "no", it absolutely does not mean "yes".
My problem with so called "good russians" is NOT that they fight putin's regime not hard enough.
Yes, it seems weird that 140 millions of people can't get rid of one senile psychopath even after three years of this pointless bloodbath he ordered.
Yes, it seems weird that 140 millions of people can't get rid of one senile psychopath even after three years of this pointless bloodbath he ordered.
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a nice thread on the subset of Russians who may be opposed to Putin, but who just couldn't understand that when a Ukrainian says "no", it absolutely does not mean "yes".
People need to know the Nazis and the tankies have it bad for Poland, yes
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
jacobin.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
People need to know the Nazis and the tankies have it bad for Poland, yes
I see the Americans (and one of several oddball teams out of Toronto) are finally playing cricket
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I see the Americans (and one of several oddball teams out of Toronto) are finally playing cricket
It can be said that an ideological determination to domination can give way to material accumulation along ideologically approved lines, but human potential is best honed by relatively untrammeled human inquiry, which is at best far less possible under oppressive regimes.
"capitalists do not care about material accumulation and have an ideological dedication to domination" is more or less the precise inverse of Marxism.
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It can be said that an ideological determination to domination can give way to material accumulation along ideologically approved lines, but human potential is best honed by relatively untrammeled human inquiry, which is at best far less possible under oppressive regimes.
GODDAMMIT ARGENTINIANS
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
GODDAMMIT ARGENTINIANS
People are upset that I'd rather have leftist authoritarians dead by whatever means are at hand (even if the means are rightist authoritarians). Too bad, I want liberal democracy everywhere
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
People are upset that I'd rather have leftist authoritarians dead by whatever means are at hand (even if the means are rightist authoritarians). Too bad, I want liberal democracy everywhere
Taney tried to preserve what was there, and lived nearly long enough to see what was there nearly undone (what was undone was slavery, what wasn't was the bigotry that informed it, and Jim Crow to follow).
Taney was a bigoted reactionary of his times. Roberts is a bigoted, full-blown retrograde insurgent who wants to reverse the social progress made in this country over the past 50+ years (possibly back to before the New Deal and Progressive Eras...maybe even undo the entire Age of Enlightenment).
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Taney tried to preserve what was there, and lived nearly long enough to see what was there nearly undone (what was undone was slavery, what wasn't was the bigotry that informed it, and Jim Crow to follow).
There were rich people before Musk. Why haven't rich people gone this far off the deep end?
one of the things I have come to believe is that the failure state of capitalism is not exactly the material phenomenon Marx describes so much as a kind of nihilism that comes from having enough money to buy anything you are legally permitted to purchase
the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.
October 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
There were rich people before Musk. Why haven't rich people gone this far off the deep end?
"What truths will you sacrifice for a quiet life?" one asks, implicitly
Some notes on digital sovereignty, the journalistic crisis of confidence, and Thomas Pynchon.
Zones of freedom
On journalism and digital sovereignty; Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland."
mattdpearce.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"What truths will you sacrifice for a quiet life?" one asks, implicitly
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And ultimately our elites have .NO RED LINE WHATSOEVER. Their overriding psychological need is to be regarded as a serious, sober person by the people around them. So they never stood a chance. Tell them the mark of seriousness is not worrying about this stuff and they’ll delete it from their brains
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And ultimately our elites have .NO RED LINE WHATSOEVER. Their overriding psychological need is to be regarded as a serious, sober person by the people around them. So they never stood a chance. Tell them the mark of seriousness is not worrying about this stuff and they’ll delete it from their brains