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The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

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this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

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"That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate; saving what we love." Remember the trolls now in charge hated this idea so much that they broke the world. So tell them to go to hell and live by it instead. Save what we love.

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The irony of cis-straight normative patriarchy: it introduces a METRIC FUCKTON of homoeroticism by believing men and women are so fundamentally different from one another that they can never truly understand one another In this essay I will

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

in this era, I think it's imperative we learn to view penises as value neutral body parts, no more inherently disgusting than seeing a foot, an elbow, or an ass cheek one can be abused by a value neutral body part without the body part signifying abuse; a foot is not a boot, a penis is not a rape

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The rain doesn't stop Eric Adams from being corrupt and it doesn't stop us from protesting either

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

please never forget her owners loved her so deeply. we gotta take back these things as signs of empathy love and kindness and stop giving the dumbest fucking most evil nerds in the world power

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Ahmed lost his account again but he wanted me to share because he’s only $108 away from goal

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A leading DOGE wrecker — Kliger is right at the top — declaring he was converted to the cause by Ron Unz, an open white supremacist who says Jews drink non-Jewish blood.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

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GOOD THREAD 🔥 I kind of feel like Musk thinks of himself as untouchable. He’s literally just repeating what he did at Twitter beat for beat. If you read ‘character limit’, it’s like a roadmap to Musk’s every move. So I don’t think Musk is entirely aware of how DOGE’s actions are inciting anger—

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I think we are really close to a boiling point and I am worried that the federal government is either entirely unaware of that or that they are eager to provoke it in order to get themselves a Reichstag Fire moment in order to overtly suspend the constitution. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

VERY GOOD RESOURCE If you LIKE or DON'T LIKE what you see, call your rep and tell them! reps.fyi

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"[Issue x] is a distraction!" is a corrosive outlook. All outrages are important to fight. Nobody can fight them all, but together we can cover them all. You telling somebody who is fighting an issue that you aren't fighting that what they're doing is a distraction is a distraction. Stop.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

GOOD READ. “If hurting & offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away from them by refusing to express hurt or offence […] Our most effective weapons against AI, & the right wing that has adopted it, […] might be replying “cringe,” “this sucks,” & “this looks like shit.””

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

submitted 23 days ago • 95 comments

Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything

submitted 11 days ago • 69 comments

1/ I’m trying to think about the coup through the lens of money, because that is, ultimately, why the economy hasn’t already fallen off a cliff: I assume the plutocrats that do the investing are either waiting to see or in the process of negotiating their piece of the American Pie.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"There are not two sexes, but a multiplicity of genetic, hormonal, chromosomal, genital, sexual, and sensual configurations. There is no empirical truth to male or female gender beyond an assemblage of normative cultural fictions." (Paul B Preciado, Testo Junkie)

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I admit I have a very hard time imagining that this will survive RFK’s first interaction with Big Pharma, which is a giant portion of the US economy. That said: when the HHS Secretary says ‘I want to send everyone with chronic mental health issues to labor camps’ we should believe him.

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Most Democrats have made it clear they have no interest in leadership and should all resign so real leaders can take their place; tomorrow would be good if it’s too late today.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

It actually means something a bit more nuanced than even that; writing about Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt was describing this essentially unremarkable, kind of dull office worker who nevertheless committed monstrous crimes—the men are ordinary, and yet what they do is extraordinary

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