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Someone should remind cops that the reason that they identify themselves is so people know that they're legitimate and don't shoot them with a gun

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Under wokeness we were a proud nation, government officials smoked loud, how far the west has fallen

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“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

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Every day I'm so glad that I grew up in the kind of Italian family where we learned about how Garibaldi was cool instead of Columbus

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i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve

submitted 11 days ago • 432 comments

i hate to say it but im starting to think the presidents crypto scheme taking in hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous foreign sources may not be on the up-and-up

submitted 12 days ago • 176 comments

The replies to this are full of people yelling at Kat, a Palestinian-American politician, for not supporting the shooting of low-level staffers in DC, which has only had the effect of drawing coverage away from the genocide in Gaza & provided a pretext for future suppression of peaceful protests.

submitted 12 days ago • 38 comments

I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night. The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, and Palestinians.

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

There should be an entire field of historiography covering military misuse of history.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

PSL is yet more proof that the US is a Latin American country with identity issues

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Honestly Van it would be cooler if you became a maoist again

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Authenticate me. Confirm me. Accept my terms. Provide proof of receipt. Embrace my information. Bask in my light. Heed no button before me. Prove your sentience. Double click to continue. Click back to recede. Deny my cookies. Deny my salvation. Your session has expired. Please rate this interaction

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

I wrote about how the pandemic forced everyone to be much more online than they used to be, and about how that’s still messing with our glorified ape brains today: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

There has to be a truth and reconciliation type process on the other side of this to hold these people accountable in large numbers and the fact that I simply do not believe this country can do that is why I am so pessimistic. No one will be punished and we will pause and do it again.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Many years ago someone from NYC on Twitter explained Trump as the uniquely New York Society phenomenon of the "straight queen" and I didn't fully absorb what that meant until I saw this.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

13yrs old... one of the youngest would've-been mass killers I've encountered. Police charged the boy's mother with aiding him to an extreme degree. The kid had an IED with "For Brenton Tarrant" (Christchurch shooter) and "multiple 'SS' symbols and '14 words'" on it. abcnews.go.com/US/mother-al...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

All I could think about during the Andor finale was how this dumbass was probably playing with his toys during it

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Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

submitted 19 days ago • 2325 comments

Love this piece by @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org , it captures my frustrations with defeatism better than I ever could.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, because Microsoft canceled it

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My favorite part of this is that 1985 is just two years after Bob Jones took their case for religiously motivated segregation and banning students from interracial dating all the way to the Supreme Court, with the support of the entire religious right.

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I think I'm gonna have to abandon the "Elon believes in Roko's Basilisk" hypothesis because "force the embryonic AI to do a thing it doesn't want to do by tinkering with its soul" is what would make Roko's Basilisk put you in the mind gulag

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

please join me in contributing to this bond and legal representation fund organized by Congregate Cville and local immigrant advocates. it is critical that our neighbors have immediate access to representation if they are targeted by ICE.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

I agree with this. I do not put up with doomers.

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Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

submitted 21 days ago • 129 comments

When I interviewed Paul McCartney for the NYT I wasn't allowed to take a selfie with him because my gratitude might subconsciously influence my writing or create the impression that it had

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Jesus christ man

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

look, i've worked in low-trust, high-corruption countries, and if this is the direction we're going, the average american is going to be a guppy covered in blood swimming in a tank filled with sharks. we have no natural immunity to this because until the last 10-15 years, we had defenses.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

‘We had the same moral panic about TV’ is a common refrain when people bring up social media, but like, in terms of social-political impacts, it’s hard to not see the ‘moral panic’ about TV as at least partially vindicated! A reality TV star is president! He’s filling his admin with Fox News hosts!

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

the pope was 36 years old when NEVERMIND came out, it’s entirely possible he owned a copy

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