Napoleon Bonarpant
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People should be asking themselves "What would Frederick Douglass say about this?" more often
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Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)
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Chomsky was always a piece of shit. "Bold thinker" my ass, running interference for Pol Pot should have got him yeeted out of the ionosphere before most of his contrarian prick fanboys were even an itch in their fathers' nuts.
fuck right off with this too please.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that.
sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chomsky was always a piece of shit. "Bold thinker" my ass, running interference for Pol Pot should have got him yeeted out of the ionosphere before most of his contrarian prick fanboys were even an itch in their fathers' nuts.
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This US advocate thinks his country should not over-index on the lessons learned from a war fought by two under-capitalized belligerents who are innovating rapidly with UAS and cUAS because they lack tube and rocket artillery and neither can secure air superiority.
But what do I know?
But what do I know?
Small drones have revolutionized warfare in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. One US advocate thinks his country needs an “NRA for drones” in order to catch up.
The US Is Scrambling to Catch Up in Small-Drone Warfare
Enthusiasts on active service are experimenting with cheap, hand-held drones as the Pentagon tries to absorb battlefield lessons from Ukraine.
bloom.bg
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This US advocate thinks his country should not over-index on the lessons learned from a war fought by two under-capitalized belligerents who are innovating rapidly with UAS and cUAS because they lack tube and rocket artillery and neither can secure air superiority.
But what do I know?
But what do I know?
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one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee
Bovino on Abrego Garcia: "When he becomes deportable, he is going to get deported. And he needs to be deported now."
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
one thing that i don't think people remark enough on is Bovino is not a political appointee
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we’re reaching a point in nightlife where most parties are designed for algorithms instead of humans. everything from the dj to the lighting is optimized for max algorithmic capture; human beings are reduced to a lubricant to maximize viral throughput.
we need real community spaces more than ever.
we need real community spaces more than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
we’re reaching a point in nightlife where most parties are designed for algorithms instead of humans. everything from the dj to the lighting is optimized for max algorithmic capture; human beings are reduced to a lubricant to maximize viral throughput.
we need real community spaces more than ever.
we need real community spaces more than ever.
OUT: The Lion of Baghdad
IN: The Catboy of Baghdad
IN: The Catboy of Baghdad
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
OUT: The Lion of Baghdad
IN: The Catboy of Baghdad
IN: The Catboy of Baghdad
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New from me - how AI-generated political videos have become just another part of social media, used to entertain, outrage and monitize attention
theconversation.com/ai-generated...
theconversation.com/ai-generated...
AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving
Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group identity and cashing in on viral content.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New from me - how AI-generated political videos have become just another part of social media, used to entertain, outrage and monitize attention
theconversation.com/ai-generated...
theconversation.com/ai-generated...
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“the real story is the Systematic Problems of the Republic, it is a shame we focus on the tawdry scandal of young Skywalker knocking up a Naboo royal and freaking out about it” mf that’s why we have Darth Vader
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“the real story is the Systematic Problems of the Republic, it is a shame we focus on the tawdry scandal of young Skywalker knocking up a Naboo royal and freaking out about it” mf that’s why we have Darth Vader
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ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
December 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
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the US letting the communists carry the banner of decolonization is maybe *the* geopolitical own goal of the cold war
Vietnam? yeah, totally. we dropped a bunch of bombs, killed a bunch of people, and it was totally pointless because we ended up allied with the government of communist Vietnam in the long term because Vietnam's biggest problem is always China
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
the US letting the communists carry the banner of decolonization is maybe *the* geopolitical own goal of the cold war
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Need a timeline where the US bitch slapped the French in 1945 over Vietnam
the US letting the communists carry the banner of decolonization is maybe *the* geopolitical own goal of the cold war
Vietnam? yeah, totally. we dropped a bunch of bombs, killed a bunch of people, and it was totally pointless because we ended up allied with the government of communist Vietnam in the long term because Vietnam's biggest problem is always China
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Need a timeline where the US bitch slapped the French in 1945 over Vietnam
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sort of bleakly amusing how thorough this process was. when JOHN MCCAIN died FORMER NVA SOLDIERS were mourning him with genuine sympathy
Vietnam? yeah, totally. we dropped a bunch of bombs, killed a bunch of people, and it was totally pointless because we ended up allied with the government of communist Vietnam in the long term because Vietnam's biggest problem is always China
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
sort of bleakly amusing how thorough this process was. when JOHN MCCAIN died FORMER NVA SOLDIERS were mourning him with genuine sympathy
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The Highway of Death was not a massacre or a war crime.
Yes you did. You vaporized an entire coumn of retreating troops in the Highway of Death massacre. You brutalized Koreans, Vietnamese, Laosians, Cambodians, Afghans, Libyan, Pakistanis...the list is pretty long. This is nothing new, it's a feature of US foreign policy.
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Highway of Death was not a massacre or a war crime.
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If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
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Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
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Benghazi ain't going away!
November 5, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Benghazi ain't going away!
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it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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One thing worth thinking about is the reason no quarter is a war crime in a way that many other nonetheless very bad things are not is that recognition lowers the chance of you starring in an independent film against your will.
man, between the UK press on gender/immigration stuff or Fox on this, not a great time in Anglosphere politics
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
One thing worth thinking about is the reason no quarter is a war crime in a way that many other nonetheless very bad things are not is that recognition lowers the chance of you starring in an independent film against your will.
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I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
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The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’
The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."