rev. howard arson
@theophite.bsky.social
god created him and demanded that he die
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This whole galaxy smacks of gender, I holler as I overturn my galactic empire and turn Life Day into the life of shit
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This whole galaxy smacks of gender, I holler as I overturn my galactic empire and turn Life Day into the life of shit
is that what he recommends
Yglesias: I think democrats should win elections by taking culturally moderate positions that don’t alienate voters, and then govern effectively while in office.
Response:
Response:
i think that you cannot identify a single example, anywhere on earth, of your policy recommendations producing the outcome you predict outside of the context of a single election cycle.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
is that what he recommends
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Just a lot of "it's going to happen anyways so I might as well be the one to do it." I can't work that way. I need to really believe that my work is going to make the world better with some reasonable confidence
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Just a lot of "it's going to happen anyways so I might as well be the one to do it." I can't work that way. I need to really believe that my work is going to make the world better with some reasonable confidence
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Heartening to see Larry ‘stepping back’ … CAP, Brookings, Yale Budget Bloomberg, NYT … I was warned about him 30 years ago. Imagine all the people hurt since.
November 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Heartening to see Larry ‘stepping back’ … CAP, Brookings, Yale Budget Bloomberg, NYT … I was warned about him 30 years ago. Imagine all the people hurt since.
getting elected by lying and saying that i'm a kantian
People like the cold light of calculus until they’re left empty handed in the cold light of morning. then that good ol’ Kantian jewel that has its full worth in itself starts to look mighty purty!
here's something i believe: you can do bad things for consequentialist reasons. there are some good things you can only achieve by doing bad things.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
getting elected by lying and saying that i'm a kantian
the real popularist position is that Kamala Harris should have promised HHS to RFK Jr. in order to secure his voters
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the real popularist position is that Kamala Harris should have promised HHS to RFK Jr. in order to secure his voters
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i do not feel comfortable with other people tanking the election over an important issue when other people with other important issues did not do that.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
i do not feel comfortable with other people tanking the election over an important issue when other people with other important issues did not do that.
here's something i believe: you can do bad things for consequentialist reasons. there are some good things you can only achieve by doing bad things.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
had she won, the compromises she made would have been worth it. but you cannot claim that you are entitled to sacrifice others' interests for an objective you did not achieve. you are gambling with house money at that point and have to take responsibility when you lose.
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
here's something i believe: you can do bad things for consequentialist reasons. there are some good things you can only achieve by doing bad things.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
but if you operate by consequentialist logic, you are utterly bound by the consequences. and that means that if you failed, you were morally wrong.
i think that chomsky should teach everyone with an email job an important lesson: don't ever answer emails
guy just emailing epstein right up until the weeks he died
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
i think that chomsky should teach everyone with an email job an important lesson: don't ever answer emails
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Kinda funny how there's just no popularists in a fox hole, every deliverist is a Decide To Win-ist mugged by housing
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Kinda funny how there's just no popularists in a fox hole, every deliverist is a Decide To Win-ist mugged by housing
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
it does seem as though matt has excluded all of the negative electoral outcomes of his prescriptions via one method or another without ever having been able to identify a single positive electoral outcome.
Sure! It seems like they did a good job of adopting election-winning positions but while in office have not delivered good policy outcomes.
That’s why it’s good to have popular views on cultural issues and technocratically sound economic policy.
What’s your take?
That’s why it’s good to have popular views on cultural issues and technocratically sound economic policy.
What’s your take?
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it does seem as though matt has excluded all of the negative electoral outcomes of his prescriptions via one method or another without ever having been able to identify a single positive electoral outcome.
donald trump told them to vote for it because if you cannot control your caucus, you can command them to do what you cannot avoid
I wouldn't expect much. He told them to vote for it. The real trick is if the content of the files is inappropriately redacted or documents are missing, or withheld because of "ongoing investigations," and Congress has to move to compel things Trump doesn't want to give.
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
donald trump told them to vote for it because if you cannot control your caucus, you can command them to do what you cannot avoid
my guess is that what's going on is that the model is somehow sampling from nano banana at a CFG of zero, or with a blank prompt string, which would require the prompt to go to the model on a different RPC than the activation, which honestly doesn't make that much sense?
this specific dynamic makes me crack up every time. like what is actually happening here under the hood
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my guess is that what's going on is that the model is somehow sampling from nano banana at a CFG of zero, or with a blank prompt string, which would require the prompt to go to the model on a different RPC than the activation, which honestly doesn't make that much sense?
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Trump was selling state secrets out of a Mar-A-Lago bathroom. He’d bomb you for a dollar.
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trump was selling state secrets out of a Mar-A-Lago bathroom. He’d bomb you for a dollar.
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Lot of replies arguing that Putin or Netanyahu is worse. I don’t think so. Both of those men are monsters, but at least they both believe, in their own ways, in a national project for their countries that enriched (some) lives.
Trump doesn’t believe in anything but himself, truly, pathologically.
Trump doesn’t believe in anything but himself, truly, pathologically.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Lot of replies arguing that Putin or Netanyahu is worse. I don’t think so. Both of those men are monsters, but at least they both believe, in their own ways, in a national project for their countries that enriched (some) lives.
Trump doesn’t believe in anything but himself, truly, pathologically.
Trump doesn’t believe in anything but himself, truly, pathologically.
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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Indiana don’t have votes, Ohio was essentially status quo, New Hampshire isn’t happening and then they lost a guaranteed seat in Utah.
Lol so let’s say VA/CA happen, we block MO and TX goes down, this was a massive fuck up
"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board."
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Indiana don’t have votes, Ohio was essentially status quo, New Hampshire isn’t happening and then they lost a guaranteed seat in Utah.
beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells?
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skin as part of brain? memebrane ?
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skin as part of brain? memebrane ?
epstein would've loved chatgpt so much. he wouldve gotten ai psychosis immediately and sent a million emails to sam altman. tragic he missed all this
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells?
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skin as part of brain? memebrane ?
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skin as part of brain? memebrane ?
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I do think you can understand the present state of world affairs better if you believe that the worst person alive has, since 2017, been the most powerful person alive the majority of the time.
there is not a single Republican legislator who is a worse person than Trump is and whatever remains of each of their consciences has been sublimated to his whims for a decade now
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I do think you can understand the present state of world affairs better if you believe that the worst person alive has, since 2017, been the most powerful person alive the majority of the time.
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This is funny. Gov. Greg Abbott delayed in scheduling the #TX18 special—which is taking place under the old lines—and almost certainly did so to keep a Dem seat vacant.
The court cites that still-ongoing special as proof that reverting to the old lines would not be disruptive. Oops!
The court cites that still-ongoing special as proof that reverting to the old lines would not be disruptive. Oops!
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is funny. Gov. Greg Abbott delayed in scheduling the #TX18 special—which is taking place under the old lines—and almost certainly did so to keep a Dem seat vacant.
The court cites that still-ongoing special as proof that reverting to the old lines would not be disruptive. Oops!
The court cites that still-ongoing special as proof that reverting to the old lines would not be disruptive. Oops!
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i do like to at least HAVE MY EYE on the risk. i like doing this SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE i run to high-risk choices! if i did not keep my eye on the risks of the things I did, in my life in general, I would be dead.
anyway that's the thing the companies are all doing
anyway that's the thing the companies are all doing
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
i do like to at least HAVE MY EYE on the risk. i like doing this SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE i run to high-risk choices! if i did not keep my eye on the risks of the things I did, in my life in general, I would be dead.
anyway that's the thing the companies are all doing
anyway that's the thing the companies are all doing
i also think that a lot of republicans are holding back normal human behavior via a failing dam and that a lot of them would genuinely like to rip him to pieces with their bare hands
goddamn Republicans were genuinely terrified of leaving Epstein as a weapon for Democrats huh
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i also think that a lot of republicans are holding back normal human behavior via a failing dam and that a lot of them would genuinely like to rip him to pieces with their bare hands
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You: campaign finance and citizens united is what made politics corrupt
Me: McDonnell v. US was a crime against good government. It was a unanimous opinion and everyone on the court in 2016 is responsible for this mess.
We are not the same.
Me: McDonnell v. US was a crime against good government. It was a unanimous opinion and everyone on the court in 2016 is responsible for this mess.
We are not the same.
Coinbase donated to Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event today.
Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You: campaign finance and citizens united is what made politics corrupt
Me: McDonnell v. US was a crime against good government. It was a unanimous opinion and everyone on the court in 2016 is responsible for this mess.
We are not the same.
Me: McDonnell v. US was a crime against good government. It was a unanimous opinion and everyone on the court in 2016 is responsible for this mess.
We are not the same.