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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1380 comments

Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.

submitted 5 days ago • 229 comments

Calling it “artificial intelligence” is such an overplayed hand. “Simulated intelligence” would be far more accurate: it only seems intelligent to the outside observer, but its functioning in no way resembles actual acts of the intellect. But the fact is there’s no intelligence being deployed at all

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 8 days ago • 536 comments

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

submitted 10 days ago • 250 comments

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

I remember sitting in a pizza joint once in TX—so many folks from different backgrounds/cultures all sharing the same space, friendly, enjoying the same things, etc. I remember thinking how cool that was, one of the things I love about America. But that is the America Trump and his followers hate.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Nostalgic for the days when impulse control was admired.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Small government is not the same as limited government. In fact, there is an (imperfect) inverse relationship between the size of government and its ability to be limited effectively. Generally, the more power concentrated into the hands of fewer governmental agents, the more unlimited their power.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

In my experience, conservative Christians tend to put undue emphasis on the prohibitions and “thou shalt nots” (in both the OT and NT), as though there’s any ambiguity that in both the old and new covenants, the law can be summed up as “Love God with all your heart; love your neighbor as yourself.”

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“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 14 days ago • 160 comments

MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

submitted 14 days ago • 49 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 15 days ago • 862 comments

I'm all for going after waste, fraud, and abuse. The Department of Defense spends $800+ billion a year. It's never passed a single audit. Ever. USAID was audited three months ago. Is Elon scared to lose all the defense contract money he pockets from the Pentagon?

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

I watched "The Matrix" and thought "Wow, what an incredible reflection on identity and the self, the impulse of human freedom, the need to liberate ourselves from technologies of control" whereas these Silicon Valley bros saw fields of human batteries and thought "yes, yes, let's actually do that."

submitted 17 days ago • 52 comments

fucking hell abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

submitted 19 days ago • 212 comments

Still waiting for Janelle Monaé to hit their folkie era and do an album of duets with Joan Armatrading tho

submitted 19 days ago • 31 comments

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

submitted 19 days ago • 1554 comments

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

submitted 20 days ago • 2128 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 21 days ago • 1977 comments

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

submitted 21 days ago • 397 comments

As China continues to give money and projects to countries to gain influence, we are shutting down our agencies that do that. China is eating our lunch and Trump is the reason. Sorry folks, if you don’t see it you don’t understand how the world works. Period

submitted 21 days ago • 542 comments

Dear the Media, When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse. Love, The public

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

It's bad, T. He's firin' all the Inspector Gadgets.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

submitted 31 days ago • 753 comments

“I hate the corrupt slaveholding, women whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.” ~ Frederick Douglass, 1845

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Let’s hope Foxnews etc breathlessly cover these people being pardoned then committing crimes as much as they did immigrants who were released and committed crimes

submitted 31 days ago • 444 comments

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

submitted 32 days ago • 212 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

submitted 33 days ago • 1217 comments

“Assume positive intent” is among the first principles of interpreting another’s behavior. But it’s mostly useful in absence of other evidence, not in spite of it. If someone’s (abhorrent) new behavior is exactly in keeping with their (abhorrent) old behavior, that’s just their character.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Whether it’s Obama, wearing a tan suit or Elon Musk doing Hitler salutes, both sides have engaged in incendiary behavior

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

yeah you saw what you saw youtube.com/shorts/EGqyq...

submitted 33 days ago • 66 comments