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We should have branded people's foreheads for supporting the invasion of Iraq.

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They are not. We have maybe the worst political system in the developed world, one that makes an unrepresentative sliver of voters with no principles who aren't really paying attention decisive. Every few months, they get profiled like a set of jangling keys and folks want to throw democracy away.

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Stephen Miller wrote this piece for the Duke student newspaper TWENTY YEARS AGO. You won't find a single talking point in here that a) wasn't already a stale Limbaugh-esque talking point in 2005 and b) isn't also the cutting edge of GOP messaging about universities today.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

after twenty years and 4 trillion dollars of VC funding we’ve finally developed mankind’s greatest invention; a version of Clippy that kills an endangered species of beetle every time you ask a question. now i know what you’re thinking: ‘how do we make it illegal for me to not use this shit.t

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Different countries have different ways of saying “papers please” and that’s okay

submitted 9 days ago • 327 comments

you're already doing a bang up job showing our neighbors who we are as jews: people who support genocide while denying it's happening and who accuse anyone who says otherwise of bigotry so that they can lose their livelihoods and/or be deported. it's a solid plan and it's going great for us!

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If you can't say, unambigiously and without caveats and without the kind of language an oil company uses at a press conf after it oopsies a million gallons into a fish hatchery, that disappearing people is bad, you do not have a broken moral compass. You pawned it years ago for career advancement.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

israel hell-bent on making sure every american jew to the left of meir kahane knows they're not welcome

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

In 2003 the Dixie Chicks were cancelled for criticizing the Iraq War by the same people who 13 years later voted for Trump because he was brave enough to criticize the Iraq War and fight back against the evils of “cancel culture.”

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it's my favorite thing to tell new yorkers about. my second favorite is the time our police union used the premier newspaper to libel the first black city council member and there were no consequences

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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 18 days ago • 124 comments

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

submitted 17 days ago • 228 comments

“gangs” in the form of hierarchical criminal enterprises are effectively an urban legend. The concept functions almost exclusively as a tool for prosecutors to apply conspiracy charges and longer sentences to crimes committed by minorities.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

deeply hate the distinction of "American citizens" here. it's also bad if they send non-citizens to a gulag. it's bad if—gasp—they send undocumented people to a gulag. it's bad if they send literally anyone to a gulag!!!

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

submitted 18 days ago • 107 comments

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

submitted 18 days ago • 61 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

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Between this and the experience at Twitter I think there's now enough evidence to say that "not buying toilet paper for the office" is a core aspect of Elon Musk's management philosophy. It also raises some worrying questions about the state of Musk's own ass.

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I can't believe left-leaning people are using this moment to argue for their favored set of trade policies, as if what Trump's engaged in has anything to do with trade. He imposed sanctions on countries because he could & because he thinks he can intimidate the world into submission.

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

In-your-face fuck-ups with grinning impunity are part of MAGA’s appeal and brand. The right to do everything wrong and still come out a winner is at the heart of the double standard they promise their followers, and rub in the faces of their opponents. 100% a feature.

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

“i disagree with everything Khalil was saying, and how he was saying it. im glad the nypd bashed all those kids’ heads in last year and he should maybe be expelled. but the important thing is…wait what was i saying?” we’re truly watching the rhetorical masters at work with these kinds of statements

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

"there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" is supposed to be a salve for your conscience after trying your damndest and failing to find an ethical choice in the marketplace. it's not supposed to be a justification to not even bother trying.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

My advice to disaffected young men is to get a squire p bass and join a band and your whole women only date rich guys reactionary politics vibe will seem pretty silly when a lady breaks up with her real estate boyfriend to date your broke ass

submitted 54 days ago • 133 comments

Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

submitted 59 days ago • 34 comments

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 59 days ago • 127 comments

But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned

submitted 60 days ago • 71 comments

Actually, Trump's policies will harm - America's global competitiveness - national security - the rules-based international order - the deficit - nobody cares about any of this shit, please get real

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The cynicism of the anti woke bullshit of the past decade was transparent the whole time but it’s still worth noting how quiet the defenders of the enlightenment are now

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...

submitted 65 days ago • 61 comments

DOGE's new AI, built to scan federal workers' emails to see if they get to keep their jobs, is the latest in a number of AI schemes from Musk. We might scoff at how dumb these ideas are, but the truth is, they're not even supposed to work. They're built to eliminate accountability.

submitted 65 days ago • 32 comments

Above is what happened to AfD’s support after Musk zoomed in to their rally, below is what happened to the Left’s—if you’re wondering about his ability to play global puppet master.

submitted 66 days ago • 17 comments

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

submitted 66 days ago • 71 comments