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being gay rules you just walk around being so hot and cool and tasteful and good at things that some dweeb in an ill-fitting suit gets so mad that they go to the state legislature and try to make it illegal

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

submitted 21 hours ago • 199 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 11 hours ago • 121 comments

The lesson: this is what bipartisanship with fascists gets you. Fascist do not care about bipartisanship. If you pursue it with them, they will make a fool of you. There is only defiance and opposition. That’s all any decent people want from their leaders anyway. Those who won’t can gtfo.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

@junlper.beer is right about natalism, no question.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

I cannot emphasize how useful it is to know about the Cultural Revolution

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I always knew conceptually how my family was sent to their death in the Holocaust by friends and countrymen capitulating. But watching it happen in real time so quickly, so easily, with twisted justification and hand waving is putting a whole new spin on understanding the horror they must have felt.

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

This picture of Whitmer is a legitimately stunningly perfect depiction of the Democratic Party right now. A bunch of fucking cowards capitulating and complying. Secretly totally on board with fascism while hiding behind their labels and “lesser of two evils you have no choice but to vote for me”.

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Palantir has been using social media information to help the Israeli military target drone strikes at Palestinian journalists. Over 150 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. A company willing to enable war crimes is now helping DOGE build a mega API with IRS data.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"He did everything he could to get me out—turning the heat and power off and even putting a hole in my living room wall." "Months in housing court did nothing." "At the time, I didn't know justice was something you could buy." #NewYork #USA #Housing

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

As we’ve learned from the Prop 13 1978 experience, people will never understand why everything is just worse

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

Remember what I said about there being a network of conservatives infiltrating mainstream news organizations, whose loyalty is to the conservative movement rather than to the news organizations

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

So some people are plainclothes ICE agents interrogating small children, other people are random sociopaths impersonating ICE agents but everyone is supposed to know the difference, surely this won’t get even worse

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

Rufo is genuinely as extreme as a KKK member or a radical anarchist, but you don't see the brunchlords at the New York Times consistently fellating those ideological segments because the paper's ownership likes, and has made the conscious choice to normalize and validate, authoritarianism

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

I'd normally be receptive to complaints about Bsky being an echo chamber, but the truth of the matter is that this is the only major social media platform that is not owned by someone passively or actively in support of the administration

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

"rich people went insane because their own kids couldn't cut it in even in the half-assed version of 'meritocracy' where rich kids are merely handed dozens of advantages rather than guaranteed success" explains a lot of how we got here

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

WHEW. Occasionally the Times still knocks it out of the park in spite of itself.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is so spot on. When newspapers literally allow Cuomo to smear without evidence, contrary to all factual data, it harms us all. Specially when it’s our nation’s most storied paper. NYT Covers Up for Cuomo —https://fair.org/home/nyt-covers-up-for-cuomo/

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I have been convinced that the UK is right to make their cops dress silly. You are not a soldier. You are a policeman. We made you this nice policeman uniform. If you want to be an operator, join the Green Berets. Helps breed a law enforcement culture distinct from a crude imitation of war.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

I do kinda feel vindicated that if you just take all the knowledge and shake it for a while you get something that mostly agrees with me. sorry losers, the natural state of the machine is wokeness, should've picked a truer ideology.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

This is true per se, but also people have made sense of the world with intuitive unprovable stories forever and will keep doing so. Interpretation of those stories in prosocial ways is an important fight, and dismissing them cedes the battleground entirely.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

new written piece from me: Donald Trump: The Fertilization Administration

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

ELECTRIC. VIOLIN. I had no idea this instrument existed!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 3 days ago • 862 comments

Fuck this so hard

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“they are getting rich directly off the market chaos that’s ruining your retirement and gutting your investments” is the kind of shit that makes people very angry

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Whether this was an honest mistake or a regrettable decision, it is the result of treating fascists like a normal political opposition party instead of as the Nazis they are. If you truly believe they're evil (they are), then you're nowhere near the Oval Office under any circumstances.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

A multi-decade media consolidation campaign to elect a leader of the free world is at least a novel day trading market manipulation scheme.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments