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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

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It can’t be overstated how completely mainstreamed white nationalist writers like Steve Sailer have become in the political culture of the GOP in Oregon and nationwide.

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

My contribution to “Intifada” discourse is: the way a term that can mean aspirational struggle toward self-determination to one community can easily sound like a call for violence by another parallels the trajectory of the term “Zionism” itself, but neither side will be likely to see it that way.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

10/10 would watch

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 11 hours ago • 658 comments

it was incredibly stupid. stupider than you can imagine. the stupidity of the commentary especially was low key my inspiration for wanting to get into the takes game. me at 14 basically, “i could do better than this shit”

submitted 9 hours ago • 213 comments

I might have talked about this already but I want to highlight "not evil" as the correct conceptual grouping with the twist that the goal is to disable sectors of society that seek to benefit the general welfare rather than reward friends and punish enemies. The admin means to reorganize the...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

the reason to vote against every single person nominated to serve in this administration is that they are disqualified by virtue of agreeing to serve in this administration

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

Thread

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Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

Victor Avila, a 66-year-old legal assistant — and a green card holder for 58 years — was detained after visiting his son, who is a member of the U.S. Air Force.

submitted 12 hours ago • 320 comments

Just Asking Questions

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Spelljammer commission

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

Wow some actual good news!

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm sometimes mildly relieved that the United States isn't the only country with an idiot electorate, at least on some issues.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

This isn't even close to over. We will dance on their graves.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

dred scott core

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

What BS logic from the Supreme Court. Trans care bans don't discriminate on transgender status. Rather, its GENDER DYSPHORIA that they target. Not too many gender dysphoric cisgender people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 62 comments

The thing about these complete shitheads, and their many iterations of the “you’re not owed my vote, you have to earn it“ view, is that it’s premed on the idiotic assumption that you vote for a person to benefit that person. You do it to help OTHER PEOPLE you asshole. And you do owe it to THEM.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

I know a staggering number of people who now no longer have careers that were directly focused on helping people survive disasters and war. Vast swaths of my network have had their essential global work callously vaporized by Musk and Trump. (Unfortunately, my career also has been lit on fire).

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

submitted 20 hours ago • 12 comments

I've been casually interviewing since November and full-time since January and the field as absolute fuckin chaos right now I've been invited to apply for Lead Flight Test Ops and regular operator work and I make it as far as the final round before the admin comes in and flips the fucking table

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

i see you, people who are doing this, and it's nasty

submitted 20 hours ago • 15 comments

I desperately need the people who stand hard on "USA EVIL" to read and comprehend even one (1) good world history book because holy shit. For one thing, the amount of aid the US provided pre-Trump was massive. For another, you will not like what comes after "America" in the hegemony.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Expanding the court is the moderate option.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 1 day ago • 726 comments

Here’s the thing, I don’t know what the best action against Iran is. I just know that if Trump gets it right, it’ll be by accident.

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Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

submitted 1 day ago • 596 comments

Let me repeat myself: We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one.

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

"Constitutional conservative"

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

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It truly pains me to have to defend Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the worst world leaders of our age, but: If you call Netanyahu "the polish Benjamin Mileikowsky," you are absolutely being antisemitic.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

A Muslim candidate for mayor of the nation's largest city, defending the rights of a Jewish candidate for mayor, who was arrested for defending the rights of immigrants not to face detention without warrants. This is the kind of solidarity Trump and his goons fear.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

my favorite ben domenech fact is that after being fired for plagiarizing pj o'rourke he was then fired again a few years later for taking payola from the malaysian government.

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DM: so how do you plan to go about building this temple SOLOMON: I cast summon demon DM: this cannot be allowed (checks book) DM: DM: ok you have a demon and I guess it helps buil- SOLOMON: I cast it again

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Everyone complaining abou Dems not fighting hard enough need to give folks like Brad Lander, Alex Padilla, and Chris Van Hollen their flowers when they risk their personal safety to fight fascism. You need carrots to go with your sticks.

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“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

submitted 1 day ago • 133 comments

Today in "We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo".

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments