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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Texans defense is either the best defense ever or gives up 30 yards on 3 mksses tackles
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Texans defense is either the best defense ever or gives up 30 yards on 3 mksses tackles
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it’s time we admit one reason elected dems are such losers is that a number of our primary voters are losers who are intent on electing losers to represent them
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
it’s time we admit one reason elected dems are such losers is that a number of our primary voters are losers who are intent on electing losers to represent them
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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Update: Speaker Johnson says he has "national security" concerns about releasing the Epstein files
Congress' Epstein Files vote tomorrow will be undermined by "national security" www.kenklippenstein.com/p/national-s...
“National Security” Blocks Epstein Files Release
The one word preventing transparency
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Update: Speaker Johnson says he has "national security" concerns about releasing the Epstein files
It continues to shock me how powerful a force racism is in America. It will make a white woman vote for *her own rapist*
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“You are our president. Please start acting like it. Show some class. Show some real leadership. Show that you actually care about the people other than yourself. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment.”
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It continues to shock me how powerful a force racism is in America. It will make a white woman vote for *her own rapist*
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I guess "modern American masculinity is a neotenous emotional state where the culture permits, and even cultivates, juvenile developmental qualities into adulthood" is just a fancy way of saying "everyone is twelve now"
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino "also revered Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein's 1959 military sci-fi classic about an interstellar war between humans and alien bugs - a book his sister says he still reads to this day."
An endless amount of deranged details in this interview with Greg Bovino's sister, but most notably that his uncle produced the Jack Nicholson movie The Border and the depiction of the agent as corrupt radicalized him as a 12-yr-old.
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
"Since then, he was like, 'Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.'"
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I guess "modern American masculinity is a neotenous emotional state where the culture permits, and even cultivates, juvenile developmental qualities into adulthood" is just a fancy way of saying "everyone is twelve now"
Unlimited room in the Big Tent (TM) for White Supremacists like MTG. No room in it for anyone even vaguely left-wing though.
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Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Unlimited room in the Big Tent (TM) for White Supremacists like MTG. No room in it for anyone even vaguely left-wing though.
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The NYT viewed it as being in their best interests (and, I'm guessing, the best interests of their publisher) to *never*, *ever* look into that further. So I guess we'll never know (at least, until more documents come out).
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Name one person at the NYT other than Landon Thomas who did that. Just one! I'll take one!
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The NYT viewed it as being in their best interests (and, I'm guessing, the best interests of their publisher) to *never*, *ever* look into that further. So I guess we'll never know (at least, until more documents come out).
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A helpful summary here of how and why the government have fucked it in an unprecedented, astonishing manner here but straight up, almost all of these problems arise directly from the same issue: these people hadn’t previously been put under significant scrutiny opinium.substack.com/p/step-by-st...
Step-by-step: How the Starmer government sank itself over a year ago
The numbers look eye catching now, but if Keir Starmer leaves office soon, it can be traced back to his first months in office, says James Crouch
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November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A helpful summary here of how and why the government have fucked it in an unprecedented, astonishing manner here but straight up, almost all of these problems arise directly from the same issue: these people hadn’t previously been put under significant scrutiny opinium.substack.com/p/step-by-st...
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
Oh yeah - never a convenient time to have some real talk about the dynamic that the Democrats in the Senate are led by bunch of chumps. Certainly not after they created the conditions for yet another base demoralizing surrender.
This kind of activity is just what you should want to see, if your are a Republican, eager to see the opposition distracted by self-destructive infighting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
"People criticize the Republican party and want to vote for some other party, but, really, wouldn't it be way easier to just take them over by voting in the primaries that they control?"
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“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"People criticize the Republican party and want to vote for some other party, but, really, wouldn't it be way easier to just take them over by voting in the primaries that they control?"
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Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP
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yeah this is with leadership’s blessing and you’ll never convince me otherwise. the whip is a yes, the rest of the yes’s are retiring or 4-6 years out from a primary, this is trash.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
yeah this is with leadership’s blessing and you’ll never convince me otherwise. the whip is a yes, the rest of the yes’s are retiring or 4-6 years out from a primary, this is trash.
I feel so stupid for ever believing that there could be such a thing as a "capitalist, but still somehow anti-fascist" party. Like, of fucking course that's a complete contradiction!
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I feel so stupid for ever believing that there could be such a thing as a "capitalist, but still somehow anti-fascist" party. Like, of fucking course that's a complete contradiction!
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It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It’s not about being on a high horse it’s about using these moments of frustration and crisis and rupture to help people understand how the system works so they get out of their delusional frame of mind
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Right wing democrats are functionally republicans who take on the grim task of putting a D next to their names and fighting hard to keep the left away from the other major political party. Nobody was more disappointed by the election night sweep than them. That was a sign they didn’t do their jobs
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Right wing democrats are functionally republicans who take on the grim task of putting a D next to their names and fighting hard to keep the left away from the other major political party. Nobody was more disappointed by the election night sweep than them. That was a sign they didn’t do their jobs
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What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced
Funny how the Dem leadership **always** finds **just enough** Dem legislators to deliver whatever Republicans want, or (to them, equally important), stopping whatever their base wants.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Funny how the Dem leadership **always** finds **just enough** Dem legislators to deliver whatever Republicans want, or (to them, equally important), stopping whatever their base wants.
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The answer is that the type of people who become media — wealthy, white, nominally liberal — are nasty fucking bigots who get into “gender critical” horseshit as a hobby. It’s the same with how they openly slander Muslims. They desperately want to find niches where bigotry is acceptable
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The answer is that the type of people who become media — wealthy, white, nominally liberal — are nasty fucking bigots who get into “gender critical” horseshit as a hobby. It’s the same with how they openly slander Muslims. They desperately want to find niches where bigotry is acceptable
I'm completely done with these assholes. If there's a Socialist, I'll show up and vote. If not, there's no point.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I'm completely done with these assholes. If there's a Socialist, I'll show up and vote. If not, there's no point.