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One thing that ties everything together is that it seems like everyone has taken basically everything for granted. They actually can't believe that things can get worth. It's society wide affluenza

submitted 31 minutes ago • 8 comments

The transition and first month of the Trump administration has seen some of the most embarrassing miscalculation by elites in business, in finance, in tech, and in Congress

submitted 47 minutes ago • 21 comments

So he's not posting himself anymore even on TruthSocial

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

submitted 10 hours ago • 148 comments

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 2 hours ago • 237 comments

spending time alone with their families during the pandemic broke them

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

I mean: The incapacity of academic institutions to demystify specialised knowledge for the lay populace has exacerbated the proliferation of anti-intellectualism. This scholarly insularity, by fostering epistemic elitism and alienation, has precipitated a broader distrust of intellectual authority.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

sorry to be so self-promoting, but after all of these conversations i'm having with current and former federal workers, i'm going to have a lot to say about this kind of attitude from musk and from conservatives in the weeks to come.

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

You get fired in the middle of some kind of stakeout because Musk and 72 virgins don’t know how government works.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The NYT does this exact move--presenting someone active in Republican politics as just a regular voter--enough times that it cant be considered an accident. Its part of their MO of laundering GOP talking points to try & help them win.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

conditioning disaster aid that californians have paid into simply to force policies on californians who don’t want them is as straightforward an abrogation of the spirit of the union as one can imagine and red states had better be prepared to accept retributions in kind

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

turns out there is no 'I Win' button capital is preventing Dems from pressing

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the new york times is genuinely evil

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Elon Musk is an existential threat to our democracy and democracies around the world and the fact that he has been allowed to accrue hundreds of billions of dollars is why thats become the case

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Republicans are cowardly little pissbabies. It has been a massive own goal for advocacy groups to not bother with targeting them for protests thus far.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

TBH, I kind of agree that Trump is pretty representative of the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I hope Elon Musk’s adventures in the public sector result in him receiving exactly what he deserves, in a nationally televised ceremony.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Apologies for QTing my own post, but I'm finding it difficult to contain my anger at the journos, lawyers, academics, pols, staffers, thinktankers, etc., all of whom have spent years smugly purporting to be The Adults in the Room and are just now, perhaps, realizing how truly stupid they are.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

lmfao do you know how unpopular you have to be to poll 4 points behind international aid and 12 points behind the IRS here

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

the reason i continue to think this can't last and that thermostatic response is coming is that they're not giving anyone anything positive to hang their hat on. they're trying to tear apart the federal government and the society it underpins, without offering anything substantive to cheer for.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

this article's remarkably straightforward about what's going on here and doesn't pull punches, which is an encouraging development.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

ah and how's it going at our paper of record

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus fucking Christ I mean this so sincerely If you participated in erasing Sam Nordquist's fucking identity at the NYT, a TRANS man from Minnesota who was murdered in New York, I think you are fucking scum. "But I would have gotten fired!" Get fired then. Don't be a fucking coward.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I don't know if I'll ever get over the fact that the US threw away 8 decades of postwar prosperity for literally nothing at all, just the whims of a madman, with no benefit to the country in any way whatsoever. Destroying our relationships with all of our allies to absolutely no purpose.

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

one of the really fundamental unspoken US ideas for a long time was that men above a certain social level should never face consequences. this bought us Trump 2 in two ways, both in the failure to punish him and in the rage about MeToo breaking this rule

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

I genuinely believe most of the anti-Ukraine shit out of lefties is because they're incredibly mad that Ukrainians make liberal democracy look like something that is worth fighting and dying for and this is something that goes all the way back to the Revolution of Dignity

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 5 days ago • 507 comments

the next president should bring perjury charges against every trump cabinet secretary

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Maybe everyone should be forced to advise mid sized companies for a few years because you can only have a conversation about stiffing your suppliers to buy a boat so many times before you realize how awful people can be

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Having thought about this for a day, I think an under discussed hidden political axis in American life is “how do you respond to being managed?”

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I see no actual evidence that the American and Russian negotiators are putting together a peace deal. It looks increasingly like America is negotiating its neutrality in the conflict in exchange for oil. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Timely: AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of this deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city — the only coup d’état in the history of the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORz...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

This is how global times pundits sound like when they consider how Taiwan should just give up any idea of sovereignty

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

the people who regard even the threat of a war with canada as an amusing cocktail-party anecdote and not as a moral abomination drive me mad

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

i want you to do free pr for the democrats

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

the essential problem is that an ideological project could not win the Senate. ever. the 45/35/20 split between conservatives, moderates, and the lib/left is essentially crippling to the party's ability to operate as an ideological project, even without the geographic problems with the lib/left.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments