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if we did this the op-ed pages would basically consist of a bunch of ex-GOP Never Trumpers, resist-lib wine moms, and @jamellebouie.net.

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little timothy chalamet -- i like to call him "little timothy." very slender guy, very slender. but he's playing Bob Dylan now, i hear -- very craggy. twinkdeath, they call it. well, we're looking into that very strongly, and we're gonna end it for good. we've got some of our gayest scientists on it

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

John Locke didn't believe in the Trinity.

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What we saw yesterday was a particularly acute example of a basic feature of MAGA psychology and culture: They're constantly humiliating themselves while believing they're instead the ones powerfully humiliating others.

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Uh... welcome to the resistance... uh... Fox News

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After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

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Look, I want to be a militant anti-theist as much as the next guy, but it just seems obvious that Christianity laid the groundwork for future liberalism and anti-authoritarianism and was itself a significant move in that direction. Plenty of NT passages straightforwardly repudiate Earthly authority.

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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

submitted 3 days ago • 12052 comments

the piss tape is real in the same sense that the walrasian auctioneer is real. its not a literal tape but if you ask yourself "how would trump act if putin had the piss tape" you will reliably make strong predictions about his foreign policy. it's a useful theoretical model

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Voltaire: The First New Atheist

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Critical to understanding people like Musk is that they are emphatically not acting in their self-interest in some narrow economic sense. They're so wealthy that that's irrelevant. He's not lying when he says the stuff about saving civilization.

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Zelenskyy is the leader of the free world.

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No better summation of the period roughly lasting from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War I. The Gilded Age.

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Welcome to the resistance, Richard Hanania.

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I have a lot of faith in American institutions when they aren't being destroyed or subverted.

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In WWIII, when Evropa fights against the Russo-American fascists, what side will Japan take? Will they finish "exit Asia and enter Europe," or will Nintendo and Big Anime force an alliance with the burgers?

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Anarchism is similar to conservatism inasmuch as it is concerned with empowering civil society as distinguished from both business and government.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

You can tell the American Civil War and Reconstruction was a [failed] revolution because there was a lot of ahead-of-its-time radicalism that quickly went away afterward. People with the politics of John Brown or MLK Jr. were in Congress.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Eventually, some sort of coup happens, more damning Russiagate evidence comes out, Trump et al. are tried for treason, and we go through some sort of Reconstruction.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 7 days ago • 2171 comments

The problem with Trump is not that he wants to make billionaires richer. He's far worse than that; he wants to be king. No quarter for that sort of braindead populism. It is a part of the problem.

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radio addresses from the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War:

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Because of the TikTok ban, a friend of mine has been talking to a trans girl from Shanghai. She asked what stereotypes exist about trans people in china: "rust + archlinux"

submitted 40 days ago • 45 comments

Every day it becomes more plausible that there's going to be an executive order banning Rust from running on federal computers for insane culture war reasons

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Thinking this happened because Democrats care too much about "procedural norms" makes you a part of the problem. This happened because one party ignored and undermined those "procedural norms" towards the end of creating a dictatorship. Obviously, those norms are important and should be respected.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I forget that our own military has long been obsessed with Nazi Germany. That's a good thing if the leader tries to do all the exact same Hitler stuff. They're actually vaccinated against it.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

"The fascist military ideal is indistinguishable from gay porn" "Oh yeah, lib? Why do you like to bring up the Sacred Band of Thebes so much, then?" Well, yeah, we're calling you gay because we know you hate it.

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