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Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

i bet a lot of us are harboring some quiet fantasy where stephen miller gets his comeuppance, where trump is disgraced, where a wave of anti corruption and reform leads to consequences for these animals. but here's the thing. they will be lionized. our new reagan. you know that

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

hot weather. gonna be a great weekend to get the boys together, throw on some ski masks and throw anybody we don't like into an unmarked van. who's going to stop us?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

died of shame just here on my couch

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

submitted 10 days ago • 183 comments

Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

Dear journalists. When the US President is openly accused of paedophilia the story is either impeachment or defamation. If not, the story is how words have lost all meaning, truth has lost all value, and journalists are now completely desensitised to lying and corruption.

submitted 21 days ago • 318 comments

The challenge for Dems is to figure out which parts of this poll best and adopt just those parts

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Me when the US is undefeated in Grand Slams, a few months before being executed by an ICE guy with an IQ of 12

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an idea for reducing car dependence: mandate that all parking lots have to be free and provide parking regardless of whether the person is visiting your business. Guarantee you'll see parking lots turned into better uses of space

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Only Scott Alexander can write thousands of words about how much time to spend parenting and conclude with "so i bought my way out of worrying about this lmao"

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

A good thing about philosophy is our method is "I dunno I thought about some stuff and this seemed about right" and that will simultaneously never be a good method but also never be that bad. We're the constant low average option you're meant to weigh risks against in every decision theory problem.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Connecticut is BY FAR the worst state in the country to drive through.

submitted 28 days ago • 109 comments

At 1pm Eastern today, 200 scientists will be doing a 100 hour livestream about all of the ways that the administration, through DOGE, is endangering us, through the dismantling of the weather and climate science apparatuses. Let people know and tune in. You don't have to watch all 100 hours.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

We have fallen so far from the proud day when Obama closed Gitmo.

submitted 74 days ago • 12 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 74 days ago • 33 comments

The anti-DEI trend is directly related to the incel phenomenon that I call the Mr. Collins issue. In Pride & Prejudice, Charlotte married Mr. Collins because she was going to be someone’s dependent no matter how she sliced things, and so marriage, even to an annoying toad, was her best option.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

I wonder what country survives a trade war? the one that produces 98% of what it needs and also has the capacity to manufacture homes, high speed rail, hospitals, schools, etc at light speed with efficiency or the one that cant fix a crumbling bridge without a dozen useless middlemen taking a cut?

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

So glad we smothered collectivism in the 20th century so that we could unleash individual creativity and productivity, ultimately allowing us to put casino on phone

submitted 82 days ago • 9 comments

"she's an incumbent dem" is reason enough to primary someone. "she's over 80" makes it a layup. anyone telling you otherwise is either happy with the job dems are doing, and so is by all objective measures on the fringe of the american public, or is frankly stupid.

submitted 95 days ago • 47 comments

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

submitted 96 days ago • 1865 comments

So basically we have (A) a fascist party and (B) a party that doesn't want to make too much of a fuss about the fascist party.

submitted 106 days ago • 156 comments

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

submitted 112 days ago • 90 comments

20 years ago we had Johnny Eggs, Bob Eggs and Steve Eggs.

submitted 113 days ago • 5 comments

I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

submitted 120 days ago • 4 comments

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

submitted 136 days ago • 160 comments

I don’t know man. If I were Vice President I wouldn’t be acting like a little bitch on Twitter every day

submitted 140 days ago • 6 comments

Be like DWade.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

A big reason the tech billionaires are so interested in government now is they’re not innovating or building anything of value so they need protectionism & monopolistic leverage

submitted 162 days ago • 23 comments