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transferring their chambers to the US guano islands, cutting their staff, banning them from getting air conditioning and giving them exclusively jurisdiction over maritime norovirus cases would be a good idea

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Nothing puts the fear of god in me quite like the five words "potential Lucasfilm President, Dave Filoni"

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

I’m doing my semi-periodic Star Wars (I-VI) marathon, and I hadn’t realized Phantom Menace includes a parliamentarian who steers procedure in the interests of the wealthy. Incredible stuff from George.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Traditionally, tarring and feathering is the minimum punishment meted out to American advocates of divine right monarchy.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I do not think I can be a citizen in this new republic of vice.

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I mean as long as we're throwing out the plain meaning of the constitution, bills of attainder against Supreme Court justices is an option.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

genuinely incredible that it's this high when the media most centrists and liberals consume is still insisting on "wow! nation amazed by the manly muscular moves of musk's team of geniuses" with "nerd scolds warn trump's moves may violate protocol" on A17

submitted 25 days ago • 81 comments

rebuilding state capacity is going to involve the utter destruction of the Republican party, and that means, first of all, transferring every Trump-appointed judge to a circuit in the Guano Islands and cutting their jurisdiction to admiralty cases in the surrounding waters

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Texans will not learn until they suffer. They voted to touch the stove and, by God, they will touch the stove.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

A real mindfuck that threw me for a loop for a while is that non-citizens voting in US elections was fairly common and uncontroversial in the 19th century. To the extent you had to do anything at all, you maybe had to sign something declaring your intent to become a citizen.

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

We’ve got to rescue the law from law professors. I’m tired of this idea that laypeople aren’t qualified to interpret the unambiguous meaning of plain English and need to hear out arguments from legal Kabbalists that words don’t mean what they mean.

submitted 41 days ago • 22 comments

The argument here--that it's morally wrong to judge somebody by the ideas and beliefs they profess and advocate--has somehow become the dominant elite ideology of our era and it's still the stupidest fucking thing I've ever encountered.

submitted 41 days ago • 49 comments

This sure is a moment when civilian control of our city police forces would be helpful!

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Games Done Quick this year has been a great reminder that videogame culture - the actual culture, not aggrieved incels on Youtube - is pretty fucking cool. You'll never hear about some grifter raising millions for charity to riotous applause.

submitted 53 days ago • 28 comments

Nobody has space for groceries or dry goods in their homes because every cupboard is packed to overflowing with old Rock Band controllers

submitted 60 days ago • 19 comments

The environmental movement was a mistake.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry, but this is a motte and bailey argument. It’s conflating the idea that every health system necessarily makes trade-offs with the specific decisions UHC made to squeeze patients for money.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Right like the phrenology incels have managed to develop a form of masculine identity antithetical to traditional manliness, it’s sort of amazing

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

I am a conservative now, in that I think being a grown man spending eight hours a day publicly complaining about the hotness of video game women should be met with shame, contempt, and disdain by the rest of society.

submitted 82 days ago • 57 comments

I wouldn’t have expected New Yorkers, of all people, to have low bagel standards

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I can kinda see why they’re leery of taking action on screenshots themselves. But man you cannot be letting people go off platform to whip up brigades. Soon you’ll have tons of people doing that. The lack of proactive enforcement is going to create an impossible reactive workload.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Abolishing the FDIC would ultimately destroy the community banking sector. It would probably mean Chase ends up with a monopoly on consumer banking.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

submitted 87 days ago • 217 comments

the big advantage of single-payer is that it creates an entity with enough power to tell hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to go fuck themselves. the consistently highest-yielding investment in the United States for a long time now, beyond a few individual stocks, has been hospital REITs.

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

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Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. My Fair Lady Eliza (Audrey Hepburn)

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about The Groups resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/picking-th...

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

I mean if the goal is winning elections, bloodless partisan media that doesn't frag the center-left for attention-economy points is probably better than left media.

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

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Post a ship that’s not star wars or star trek.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Thanksgiving Day outfit

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

There's a good critique to be made of the Progressive wing of the party (particularly in cities) as primarily a vehicle to steer public money to non-profits with bloated administrative costs, but the best the centrist wing can muster is to route all that money to a different set of grifters??

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I hadn’t really appreciated how much managerial work consists of explaining to execs that the company cannot create new hours in the week or days in the month.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments