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should democrats be turning a big dial taht says racism? our nation’s most unlovable pundits weigh in

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bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

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and now we wait

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This is so cool human beings could never figure out that someone who only leaves the house once a week to drive directly at trees to the liquor store while crying "I wish I was dead" is having a rough go at it

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A good summary of the right-wing ‘intellectuals’—motivated by personal grievance and vendettas against perceived conspiracies of secret leftist and Jewish elites, alliances with white supremacists and tech billionaires for spoils and lucre, anti-science and anti-democracy thinking. That’s them

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Apparently the new hobby for Rahm after closing black schools and covering up police shootings is transphobia. I thought the transphobic/gender warrior pipeline was only for children’s authors and weird reactionary philosophers.

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A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

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Senator, welcome to Bluesky. Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space? Thanks. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

Elon Musk at CPAC

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The bad news is there’ll be nobody to pay for my pension. The good news is there’ll be much less competition for wild mushrooms.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

51% would prefer the same or more liberal, something something "how to lie with statistics" something something

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Time to bully the ever loving fuck outta Joel Webbon and enact the will of god

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if you are on a plane in the United States the safest thing to do right now is to jump out

submitted 29 days ago • 33 comments

Only if you're not too busy! I get you've got a lot on

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

Chicago, baby.

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Mark Cuban used CENTRISM It wasn't very effective...

submitted 40 days ago • 61 comments

Yes, remember how simple things were in 2003 on this teen drama where a kid from a broken home went to the wealthiest neighborhood conceivable and every rich person there had insane neuroses and problems and couldn’t face life in any meaningful way and how normal that was as opposed to now

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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

submitted 52 days ago • 113 comments

One thing I like about our era of "scaling" is how the big hot thing, LLMs (fake "AI"), follow a reverse law of scaling, in which obtaining even modest incremental improvements requires supplying far greater energy & resources.

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The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

submitted 52 days ago • 699 comments

These people are your enemies

submitted 53 days ago • 422 comments

for sociopaths and narcissists, politics is when you pretend to care about other people. rejecting politics is when you embrace your hateful, reactionary human nature.

submitted 54 days ago • 61 comments

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

submitted 69 days ago • 1709 comments

Vivek Ramaswamy is posting through the high-skilled immigration discourse on the Bad Place and 1. lol thinking Whiplash is a role model 2. This is such a 90s/early 2000s argument? I half expect him to start talking about violent video games.

submitted 70 days ago • 300 comments

GenAI is clearly going to transform society y’all.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

submitted 71 days ago • 79 comments

oh look. a Marine trying to choke a non-white person to death. why wouldn't he feel emboldened when Daniel Perry got away with it and is rewarded?

submitted 76 days ago • 30 comments

i can't even google when a movie comes out without some brain diseased hard right goop pouring through the seams of the internet, what do the authors of the 50,000 articles about how leftys live in an echo chamber have to say about this stuff

submitted 81 days ago • 41 comments

Trash president

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Followers of Jesse Singal auto-updating list, useful if targeted by networked harassment from his account.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Bret Stephens, The Atlantic:

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A psychotic billionaire bought a social media platform and turned it into a cesspool of white supremacists but sure, the people going elsewhere to post are the problem.

submitted 84 days ago • 151 comments

Here’s one interaction I experienced with Jesse Singal. It was over Littman’s discredited ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ (ROGD) PlosOne article. In the thread he selectively quoted, I noted the striking similarities between Wakefield’s bunk autism paper with Littman’s ROGD paper— 1/n

submitted 85 days ago • 17 comments

One of my opinions is "thinking beyond the left right binary" or cetera is mostly just incoherence. The cluster of left/right wing intuitions track plausible collections of views, and it's just refusing to face hard choices or take unpopular stands (most people are incoherent) when people mix views.

submitted 85 days ago • 13 comments

Once again those of us who are anti-Trump but pro-Stupid are being left out of the coalition. This kind of purity politics is what keeps the left from power imo

submitted 92 days ago • 18 comments

"Coordination" can sound conspiratorial, but Jesse Singal is being completely transparent about the fact that he's working directly with the anti-trans campaigners who filed this case.

submitted 90 days ago • 41 comments

false advertising

submitted 89 days ago • 29 comments

Love adding “intersectionality” to assumptions of desert and billionaires.

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“Americans happy with health insurance until they need it”

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You can't stop me, no one can. I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna be the one to cancel Aristotle.

submitted 99 days ago • 15 comments

The media class’ and politicians’ vision of “confrontational approaches” involves tweets and being mean online to people with institutional power and wealth who could just choose not to engage with the one part of the world they cannot control. Anathematic to mid YA authors and mid outlets I guess

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...

submitted 101 days ago • 13 comments

Games are great.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Analytic Philosopher 1: Attempts to describe the cup's fullness are only evaluable relative to a context of assessment Analytic Philosopher 2: no that's wrong

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"What's the lesson here, guys?" "We don’t know.” "C’mon, think about it." "Don't be assholes?" "Don’t be assholes. Especially to…” "To the guy with the thumbs?" "To the guy with the thumbs."

submitted 103 days ago • 31 comments

Ah, I see that non-scientist Jesse Singal is "defending the institution of science" from scientists again.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment