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We are doomed to relive every stupid thing about the 80s. Only this it’s not just the mistakes of the 1980s corporate greed. It’s also the 1880s post reconstruction environment, and the 1780s love of slavery. :(

submitted 2 days ago • 90 comments

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

In other words, effectively 12 year olds LARPing as manly men

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sam Jackson dressed as Uncle Sam was 🤌🏾✨

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

In next weeks news, Trump signs EO adding his face to Mt Rushmore, with construction of mansion on top called Eagle’s something or other

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submitted 14 days ago • 120 comments

It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not in spite of inadequate vetting but because they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments

We are in the dumbest worst timeline

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

They all know what they're doing is illegal because lawyers and relevant experts tell them it is illegal as they do it. In any future functional government they end up in jail. They know it. They behave as if they don't expect to ever be a future government other than their own.

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments

Elon Musk is like the chosen one of South African apartheid he's like if South African apartheid desperately sought a human form in its weakened state in an attempt to regather its former strength

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

I'm going to need you to stop comparing this coup to the Handmaid's Tale as if Margaret Atwood didn't pull every bit of that book from things that had already happened in the real world. It's not feeling like the Handmaid's Tale. They're pulling from a historical playbook.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

With the Jesus reference, my brain reinterpreted “pilot” as Pontius Pilate. We now need the story of how ChatJudea mistakenly convinced Pilate to kill Jesus

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 16 days ago • 578 comments

Someone coding fast doesn’t make me trust them with my personal banking details, but even if limited to coding, if you have “many stories” of some guy rewriting deleted codebase very fast, and no stories of him whipping out a backup, I don’t want him making unilateral changes to Treasury code.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

It feels really festive that a Black church took away the Proud Boys control over their own name for Black History Month.

submitted 18 days ago • 156 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 20 days ago • 730 comments

This 🧵 = perfection

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments