Nekename
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Literally every single bad decision this country has made over the past half-century can be attributed to “a lot of voters are panicky racist morons” but left, center, and right all have a vested interest in denying that and keep tying themselves in more ornate knots to avoid confronting it
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Literally every single bad decision this country has made over the past half-century can be attributed to “a lot of voters are panicky racist morons” but left, center, and right all have a vested interest in denying that and keep tying themselves in more ornate knots to avoid confronting it
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
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I love that there’s a Syrian restaurant in my town, yes. But besides it being nice to have access to the food, I think it is Good for someone who had to flee a civil war to succeed in getting a whole life built up and claim a stake in a foreign country.
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I love that there’s a Syrian restaurant in my town, yes. But besides it being nice to have access to the food, I think it is Good for someone who had to flee a civil war to succeed in getting a whole life built up and claim a stake in a foreign country.
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You ever allow yourself to perceive how much good-natured defense of multiculturalism is just “they bring us this food”?
That doesn’t seem like a great attitude.
That doesn’t seem like a great attitude.
November 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
You ever allow yourself to perceive how much good-natured defense of multiculturalism is just “they bring us this food”?
That doesn’t seem like a great attitude.
That doesn’t seem like a great attitude.
"No gambits" has been a core part of my politics ever since people were hoping Trump would win the Republican primary so the general election would be a cakewalk. It turns out bad events just lead to more bad outcomes
“a partial fix is worse than no fix because no fix will motivate a full fix” is a complex second order argument that should probably come with detailed analysis of the best available evidence and most accurate models, rather than sneering derision at anyone who prefers the partial fix to no fix.
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"No gambits" has been a core part of my politics ever since people were hoping Trump would win the Republican primary so the general election would be a cakewalk. It turns out bad events just lead to more bad outcomes
If Labour wants people to vote for them based on values I would recommend having some
August 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If Labour wants people to vote for them based on values I would recommend having some
Recently found out that DC has more deer per square mile than West Virginia by a lot. It's probably somewhere from 3 to 5 times more, and it used to be even worse.
A cancelable opinion I have is that deer are over-populated to a ridiculous degree on the East Coast and we should be hunting a lot more of them. Also Hunters For The Hungry is a cool org.
The Nugent thing mostly objectionable since Nugent is allegedly a huge pedophile not because hunting is bad (hunting deer in Pennsylvania is good)
August 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Recently found out that DC has more deer per square mile than West Virginia by a lot. It's probably somewhere from 3 to 5 times more, and it used to be even worse.
Hard to imagine a better endorsement of ranked choice than how the Zohran-Lander relationship played out
June 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Hard to imagine a better endorsement of ranked choice than how the Zohran-Lander relationship played out
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It's kind of amazing how quickly the Unitary Executive turned into exactly the kind of monstrous 'elective monarchy' (ie what we now call a 'caudillo') the Founders worried the Presidency might become if unchecked.
The greatest empirically falsified fuckup in US jurisprudence since Dred Scott.
The greatest empirically falsified fuckup in US jurisprudence since Dred Scott.
You have my solemn word that I will follow this conflict with all the seriousness and dedication the president did in deciding on the use of force and making the case to Congress and the public. To do otherwise would go against the values of the American people.
June 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It's kind of amazing how quickly the Unitary Executive turned into exactly the kind of monstrous 'elective monarchy' (ie what we now call a 'caudillo') the Founders worried the Presidency might become if unchecked.
The greatest empirically falsified fuckup in US jurisprudence since Dred Scott.
The greatest empirically falsified fuckup in US jurisprudence since Dred Scott.
Pretty straightforwardly true that the Israeli government is one of the greatest geopolitical threats to US interests
Very much seems like the US is entering a war with Iran because Nethanyahu started it. No broader discussion about the US national interest here from the America first guys
June 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Pretty straightforwardly true that the Israeli government is one of the greatest geopolitical threats to US interests
Kinda get why Martin Luther was so mad about indulgences now
in case you were wondering, it’s apparently okay to pass along the blood money
June 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Kinda get why Martin Luther was so mad about indulgences now
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The central ethical question of the 21st century is freedom of movement, and it'll be absolutely inexcapable. There will be no contest
June 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The central ethical question of the 21st century is freedom of movement, and it'll be absolutely inexcapable. There will be no contest
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Partner insisting that I ‘clean the bathtub’ before she comes to stay with me, as though the bathtub is not daily cleaned through as a byproduct of being used to bathe. Love her despite these irrational beliefs.
June 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Partner insisting that I ‘clean the bathtub’ before she comes to stay with me, as though the bathtub is not daily cleaned through as a byproduct of being used to bathe. Love her despite these irrational beliefs.
Seeing solutions to this that amount to "better tools for blocking people" and it's like recommending to someone whose plants are dying that they water their plants more when they already water their plants 3x a day
This is not necessarily an incorrect view. These trends are not great!
May 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Seeing solutions to this that amount to "better tools for blocking people" and it's like recommending to someone whose plants are dying that they water their plants more when they already water their plants 3x a day
This website is full of people who substantively agree on almost everything, so we're stuck yelling at each other about presentation. We agree on X and Y so we yell at people for mentioning only X, or mentioning Y first
Prominent left/liberal folks retconning the COVID school closure thing as some sort of gigantic mistake is one of the nuttiest examples of consent manufacturing I've ever seen.
May 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This website is full of people who substantively agree on almost everything, so we're stuck yelling at each other about presentation. We agree on X and Y so we yell at people for mentioning only X, or mentioning Y first
Yeah completely inconceivable that a guy in his thirties would be a Bulls fan
the right always say they just want immigrants to assimilate!
here you have a "Maryland dad" but he's not *really* from Maryland according to them
he's wearing a Chicago Bulls hat but he's not *really* a Chicago Bulls fan according to them
you'll never be American enough
here you have a "Maryland dad" but he's not *really* from Maryland according to them
he's wearing a Chicago Bulls hat but he's not *really* a Chicago Bulls fan according to them
you'll never be American enough
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yeah completely inconceivable that a guy in his thirties would be a Bulls fan
Sort of true, diseases make you unhealthy first
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Sort of true, diseases make you unhealthy first
Always incredible to see the moment someone's career ambitions died. An absolute killshot
April 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Always incredible to see the moment someone's career ambitions died. An absolute killshot
I think we ought to start taking popular sovereignty more seriously than our current discourse. What would we think of a king who appointed a corrupt minister against the laws of his own kingdom? Why should we think a democratic polity has any more authority to act against the law?
Marine Le Pen is going to jail and won't be able to run in 2027. Judges have applied the law in a case that has exposed extraordinary amounts of criminal activities. Don't make this a question of public opinion or what the far right and foreign leaders think of it. It's the rule of law at work.
March 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I think we ought to start taking popular sovereignty more seriously than our current discourse. What would we think of a king who appointed a corrupt minister against the laws of his own kingdom? Why should we think a democratic polity has any more authority to act against the law?
The idea is to give people options and see what they actually like. Housing prices in urban areas suggests pretty strongly that there are many more people who would prefer living on a transit line to having a big yard, but they don't have the choice
“We don’t need more houses if they aren’t in dense cities!” Ok, but I don’t know how to make a bunch of Americans fundamentally different than they are. People really do like their big houses and their yards. They aren’t pretending.
March 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The idea is to give people options and see what they actually like. Housing prices in urban areas suggests pretty strongly that there are many more people who would prefer living on a transit line to having a big yard, but they don't have the choice
We're watching the American Constitution fail on its own terms.
It's not just failing to live up to the hopes of those of us living in the 21st century. The framers built it so a man could not make himself a king, and it utterly failed to stop that.
It's not just failing to live up to the hopes of those of us living in the 21st century. The framers built it so a man could not make himself a king, and it utterly failed to stop that.
alright here's a Take: checks and balances (and federalism) were supposed to protect against tyranny. But instead they just prevented a "tyranny of the majority" from doing universal health care and gun control, and it turns out they do basically nothing to stop an autocrat
March 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
We're watching the American Constitution fail on its own terms.
It's not just failing to live up to the hopes of those of us living in the 21st century. The framers built it so a man could not make himself a king, and it utterly failed to stop that.
It's not just failing to live up to the hopes of those of us living in the 21st century. The framers built it so a man could not make himself a king, and it utterly failed to stop that.
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nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well
millennials please. please stop this. we were supposed to be better than this
March 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
nostalgia is a sort of society-wide alzheimer's, where you watch it happen to people older than you and it seems inconceivable, and then before you know it it's destroyed your brain as well
Mitch McConnell deciding to make the filibuster the default rule of the Senate was directly responsible for our current political moment
Kind of feels like it captures some zeitgeist for the disconnected voter.
Action itself is the demand.
Action itself is the demand.
March 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Mitch McConnell deciding to make the filibuster the default rule of the Senate was directly responsible for our current political moment