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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
National CDCl3 shortage.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
National CDCl3 shortage.
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those core values aren’t just magically going to implant themselves in Americans’ heads, we have to argue for them. but a lot of people have found there’s more social cachet in sneering at them instead. it’s disgusting
October 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
those core values aren’t just magically going to implant themselves in Americans’ heads, we have to argue for them. but a lot of people have found there’s more social cachet in sneering at them instead. it’s disgusting
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I would like to see protestors shouting phrases such as “WE are what is great about America!!!” Or
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.
October 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I would like to see protestors shouting phrases such as “WE are what is great about America!!!” Or
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.
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the good news is a lot of these guys will meet very ugly ends in that scenario, the bad news is so will a lot of us
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the good news is a lot of these guys will meet very ugly ends in that scenario, the bad news is so will a lot of us
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The problem is that while the scandals are reported, the TONE of the reporting and the reactions does not comport with the thing being reported. There were exactly two times in the Trump era where the tone matched the offense: Charlottesville and Jan. 6. And both were huge disasters for Trump.
One of my continuing sources of frustration with the Trump admin is that you see "well, that's much worse than Watergate" stories come out on a near-daily basis and it's not realistically possible to keep track of all of them in your head even as someone highly attentive to news.
October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The problem is that while the scandals are reported, the TONE of the reporting and the reactions does not comport with the thing being reported. There were exactly two times in the Trump era where the tone matched the offense: Charlottesville and Jan. 6. And both were huge disasters for Trump.
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If the anti-establishment left admits that Trump is the worst, logically, they'll have to admit that the past admins weren't as evil as they could've been, and that electoral politics did place constraints on politicians. And that wouldn't fit the narrative.
The thing about Iran-Contra and Watergate was that they WEREN’T flagrant: they had to be exposed.Trump literally does stuff five times worse than Watergate every day, and then tweets an openly neo-Nazi meme about it from the official White House account. It’s a difference in kind, not just degree.
I dunno, man. Iran-Contra and Watergate were pretty flagrant. I have a hard time believing they haven’t been heading down this road where the executive is all-powerful and power is the end, not the means, for a long, long time. Whether that alone qualifies as fascist I don’t know for sure.
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If the anti-establishment left admits that Trump is the worst, logically, they'll have to admit that the past admins weren't as evil as they could've been, and that electoral politics did place constraints on politicians. And that wouldn't fit the narrative.
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“Trump is just Super Reagan” - what you’re really arguing is that things haven’t changed all that much, this is politics as usual, we’re not in a crisis but fighting the same battle we’ve been fighting our whole lives.
The problem is, you’re wrong, Trump isn’t like that at all, we’re in a crisis
The problem is, you’re wrong, Trump isn’t like that at all, we’re in a crisis
October 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Trump is just Super Reagan” - what you’re really arguing is that things haven’t changed all that much, this is politics as usual, we’re not in a crisis but fighting the same battle we’ve been fighting our whole lives.
The problem is, you’re wrong, Trump isn’t like that at all, we’re in a crisis
The problem is, you’re wrong, Trump isn’t like that at all, we’re in a crisis
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People want the world to have a natural moral order of justice but it doesn’t, unless you make it. Israel’s military campaigns, as Dan correctly points out, have been highly successful in achieving their goals, and Israel’s main regional enemies are in a much worse position than before. But …
In the long term? Probably not.
In the short term? Absolutely.
Which was what I said back in August. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
In the short term? Absolutely.
Which was what I said back in August. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
October 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
People want the world to have a natural moral order of justice but it doesn’t, unless you make it. Israel’s military campaigns, as Dan correctly points out, have been highly successful in achieving their goals, and Israel’s main regional enemies are in a much worse position than before. But …
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Instead, what seems to be the interaction here is falling vote share for your 'center' parties (liberal, soc-dem, conservative) does almost nothing for your farther left parties (communist, green), it just juices the fascists.
If you're a leftist, seems a pretty good argument for incrementalism.
If you're a leftist, seems a pretty good argument for incrementalism.
October 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Instead, what seems to be the interaction here is falling vote share for your 'center' parties (liberal, soc-dem, conservative) does almost nothing for your farther left parties (communist, green), it just juices the fascists.
If you're a leftist, seems a pretty good argument for incrementalism.
If you're a leftist, seems a pretty good argument for incrementalism.
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what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?
“I voted for none of this."
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?
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It’s so funny that “you’re overreacting to Trump” is/was a thing that people who soldier themselves serious said. Assume that he drops out of the primary in 2015: I literally cannot think of a single way in which the country is not better off, no matter which of the possible paths things go down
October 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s so funny that “you’re overreacting to Trump” is/was a thing that people who soldier themselves serious said. Assume that he drops out of the primary in 2015: I literally cannot think of a single way in which the country is not better off, no matter which of the possible paths things go down
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me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
October 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM
me, a small farmer: Small farmers in the US aren't poor. Most are middle class at LEAST. Here's the data if you don't believe me
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
City Folks(TM): But have you considered all the Details? This info distresses me. Therefore you, Small Farmer, must be mistaken
ppl from farm country: haha I know right
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Who started this idea that men are broken? It seems they’re just angry about the people they used to be able to boss around not letting them do that anymore.
October 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Who started this idea that men are broken? It seems they’re just angry about the people they used to be able to boss around not letting them do that anymore.
I suppose if you live somewhere long enough, you become a stranger. The “autistic sense of justice” was a frame in response to the “black and white thinking” of whatever-DSM-it-was. And, as with all of this shit, it’s rewritten enough that no one remembers where we started.
I do wish people would stop crediting Greta Thunberg's activism and moral clarity to "autistic sense of justice" as I know several autistic people who do not have an ounce of that. There is no such thing as an autistic sense of justice. That isn't how this shit works
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I suppose if you live somewhere long enough, you become a stranger. The “autistic sense of justice” was a frame in response to the “black and white thinking” of whatever-DSM-it-was. And, as with all of this shit, it’s rewritten enough that no one remembers where we started.
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it is incredibly foolhardy to place all of your hope and faith in a single elected official in a single state. it's also foolhardy to completely abandon an official showing more fight than most at the first sign of weakness. this isn't *as bad* as it is going to get.
October 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
it is incredibly foolhardy to place all of your hope and faith in a single elected official in a single state. it's also foolhardy to completely abandon an official showing more fight than most at the first sign of weakness. this isn't *as bad* as it is going to get.
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I understand criticism of this even less when it’s put in the context of trying to avoid the federalization of his national guard.
Are people just willfully blind to the reality of this situation and the outcomes he is trying to avoid, and what arguments you have to make to avoid those outcomes
Are people just willfully blind to the reality of this situation and the outcomes he is trying to avoid, and what arguments you have to make to avoid those outcomes
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I understand criticism of this even less when it’s put in the context of trying to avoid the federalization of his national guard.
Are people just willfully blind to the reality of this situation and the outcomes he is trying to avoid, and what arguments you have to make to avoid those outcomes
Are people just willfully blind to the reality of this situation and the outcomes he is trying to avoid, and what arguments you have to make to avoid those outcomes
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Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios
Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.
Legacy media failed the country.
October 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios
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Just so you know, the chain bookshops charge publishers for displaying in-store promotional materials, and for things like putting books on the end part of the shelves
And book tours are hard work for authors, most of whom would much rather be trying to write the new book
And book tours are hard work for authors, most of whom would much rather be trying to write the new book
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just so you know, the chain bookshops charge publishers for displaying in-store promotional materials, and for things like putting books on the end part of the shelves
And book tours are hard work for authors, most of whom would much rather be trying to write the new book
And book tours are hard work for authors, most of whom would much rather be trying to write the new book
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hey. remember 19--? remember how warm and cosy everything was? when you wanted food you just got it through the umbilical cord. now you have to breathe by yourself. we're safe back here.
it's the 'now you have to pay bills' at the end that always gives it away; the real nostalgia is for living with your parents and having an allowance.
its so interesting how vaccuous this nostalgia is. like they dont even know what to be nostalgic *for* — yolo hats? monster energy? walmart? teen wolf? just endless products that exist as symbols of consumption
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
hey. remember 19--? remember how warm and cosy everything was? when you wanted food you just got it through the umbilical cord. now you have to breathe by yourself. we're safe back here.
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america's awful medical system got tricked by a con artist into giving people high grade narcotics to treat sore elbows so now you have to have a gunshot wound to be given something stronger than tylenol
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
america's awful medical system got tricked by a con artist into giving people high grade narcotics to treat sore elbows so now you have to have a gunshot wound to be given something stronger than tylenol
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You're very kind, but farmers aren't more important than anybody else. It's a job. Anybody with the right training & resources can do it.
Farmers thinking we're super important & irreplaceable is how we got in this mess.
Farmers thinking we're super important & irreplaceable is how we got in this mess.
💔 The farmer is one of the more important citizens of our lands. It’s truly heartbreaking to see that part of us being destroyed.
September 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
You're very kind, but farmers aren't more important than anybody else. It's a job. Anybody with the right training & resources can do it.
Farmers thinking we're super important & irreplaceable is how we got in this mess.
Farmers thinking we're super important & irreplaceable is how we got in this mess.
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BUT HER EMAILS!
The nation and the world are paying a dear price for Comey’s breach of protocol to expose Clinton while keeping his mouth shut about Trump. It’s unfortunate this has happened to him. Many others are also facing unwarranted difficulties due to Comey’s most regrettable misbehavior.
The nation and the world are paying a dear price for Comey’s breach of protocol to expose Clinton while keeping his mouth shut about Trump. It’s unfortunate this has happened to him. Many others are also facing unwarranted difficulties due to Comey’s most regrettable misbehavior.
September 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
BUT HER EMAILS!
The nation and the world are paying a dear price for Comey’s breach of protocol to expose Clinton while keeping his mouth shut about Trump. It’s unfortunate this has happened to him. Many others are also facing unwarranted difficulties due to Comey’s most regrettable misbehavior.
The nation and the world are paying a dear price for Comey’s breach of protocol to expose Clinton while keeping his mouth shut about Trump. It’s unfortunate this has happened to him. Many others are also facing unwarranted difficulties due to Comey’s most regrettable misbehavior.