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What's impossible for ossified party leadership and navel-gazing commentators to understand is that young people as a group are most engaged by big ideas and rhetoric - that's why Obama won, why there was such support for Bernie. Running on Joe Biden's legacy was the precisely wrong pitch to them

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Roko's Basilisk is awesome because a) it's a product of niche forum arguments made to sound like a philosophical conundrum and b) 99% of people learning about it go "huh, that's stupid" but a vulnerable 1% have their minds broken

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mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children

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I didn’t leave twitter to avoid being exposed to ideas I don’t like, I left it to avoid the people who have those ideas. They’re all stupid, disgusting hogs!

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Travel to the US is expected to slide by 5%, contributing to a $64 billion shortfall for the travel industry, according to Tourism Economics which had originally forecast a 9% increase in foreign travel, but revised its estimate to reflect “polarizing Trump Administration policies and rhetoric.”

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OH MY GOD

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Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

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This is very bad and won’t be unwound unless the courts show some spine and severely sanctions those responsible for defying the court ruling.

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Don't think I've shared my favorite scene from the F-Zero anime here yet

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🚨BREAKING🚨: For the first time ever, enjoy the trailer to the cancelled adult-oriented Powerpuff Girls live-action CW reboot. Full trailer here: archive.org/details/Powe...

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Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! (GBC - 2002)

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Quest 64 (N64 - 1998)

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Can we acknowledge that conservatives hated Obama’s tan suit because the light color made his skin look darker?

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Taylor Swift do you like alternative rock

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it is october 2023. drake just tied michael jackson in #1 hits. he worked so hard. he is so happy. whatever lays ahead, his future is bright.

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Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

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Stepping up my boycott of Musk. Instead of not buying a Tesla, now I'm not going to buy two Teslas

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do not listen to the entreaties of the outsiders, my brethren. let no grease hinder your glorious ascent

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THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

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Sabrina Carpenter feels like the kind of girl who would do a ukulele cover of WAP

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Sometimes I worry that I’m getting too normie and that I’ve lost my eye for abstract art. And then I see a painting of a bunch of red and gray splotches and the physicality of the brushstrokes make me literally start to cry. It’s so beautiful. I love being an annoying art guy.

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you know we like to make jokes on here at mark zuckerberg's expense, about how he looks, speaks, and acts. but sometimes you have to step back and remember that all of those mean-spirited things are true. he looks like if you boiled a toad and stretched it out into a guy

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The world's richest man (from South Africa) and a Nazi propagandist from Malaysia spent their Christmas night complaining that the xenophobic base they helped manufacture to elect a nativist needs to understand that we still need to allow immigration for important groups like Nazi space scientists

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Fascism is the politics of aesthetics. It’s why visual propaganda and “masculine” images work so well on them.

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"Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" should be called "Here Comes Santa Claus (Here Comes Santa Claus [Right Down Santa Claus Lane])". Rename the song.

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Revisiting something I wrote earlier this year about the estranged transphobic father to fascist pipeline open.substack.com/pub/autonomy...

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post free or die

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