Politically_Illinois ⚾️
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Encountering a guy totally random with my exact pfp is kinda sending me into a spiral
Like what
Like what
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Encountering a guy totally random with my exact pfp is kinda sending me into a spiral
Like what
Like what
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Precious cars can't be inconvenienced but a wheelchair user? Eat shit gramps.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Precious cars can't be inconvenienced but a wheelchair user? Eat shit gramps.
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This is why they need to make these things use the street, the part of the street with cars
I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is why they need to make these things use the street, the part of the street with cars
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He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty
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I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
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it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
it is incredible that legalizing watergate has been the overriding ideological project of the american right for fifty years
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i have no idea why “the US must adopt the defense procurement strategy of the weaker party fighting a defensive conflict with deep asymmetries in order project power abroad(???)” is becoming a mainstay opinion of the commentariat but here we are
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
i have no idea why “the US must adopt the defense procurement strategy of the weaker party fighting a defensive conflict with deep asymmetries in order project power abroad(???)” is becoming a mainstay opinion of the commentariat but here we are
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Why is he like this? Does he wake up and go: "My vatnik brain compels me to lick the yummy boot of murder and oppression"
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why is he like this? Does he wake up and go: "My vatnik brain compels me to lick the yummy boot of murder and oppression"
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.
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Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics
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lol, lmao, lol
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
lol, lmao, lol
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What if an entire profession declared "only God can judge me"
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What if an entire profession declared "only God can judge me"
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dude you are the fucking governor of Colorado not just some poaster, like you can't be saying people should listen Richard Hannania and the Aella gang bag zoophile guy on main like come on man
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
dude you are the fucking governor of Colorado not just some poaster, like you can't be saying people should listen Richard Hannania and the Aella gang bag zoophile guy on main like come on man
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hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
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it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
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Instead we have think tanks that cheer Golden Dome
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Instead we have think tanks that cheer Golden Dome
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
Tech accelerators pumping the NSS
Industry associations pitching Golden Fleet
Academies hosting open fascists
Our national defense looks more like a MLM run out of a suburban megachurch than an institution capable of deterring or winning war.
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not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
Thanks for validating me, governor
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
not sure how one argues with a straight face anymore that liberal elites did not play an outsized role in the slow-then-sudden disappearance of the cordon sanitaire around open racism and eugenics
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The reason I am so pessimistic about SCOTUS not overturning the 14th amendment is that the rest of the conservative legal intelligentsia has already swung into action to build the justification for it.
Once we've started arguing about this, we've already lost.
Once we've started arguing about this, we've already lost.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The reason I am so pessimistic about SCOTUS not overturning the 14th amendment is that the rest of the conservative legal intelligentsia has already swung into action to build the justification for it.
Once we've started arguing about this, we've already lost.
Once we've started arguing about this, we've already lost.
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
still poleaxed by the idea that you could oppose birthright citizenship and still think of yourself as a liberal in any sense of the term.
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My quibble is that its not 'see this person naked' its 'put this person in a high fidelity porno of any kind your mind can put into a prompt'
cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
December 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My quibble is that its not 'see this person naked' its 'put this person in a high fidelity porno of any kind your mind can put into a prompt'