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"...if you are not going to be allowed to win a rigged game, you might as well ruin it, and extract just a tiny moment of joy from that." J.Taplin, End Of Reality
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so under 60 days left radio silence on party dissent they're just going to let the fash takeover happen. tech bro billionaires have conned the GOP who have grifted their base who have pandered to Evangies and we're finished with a capital F, folks. Reject the bitcoin UBI; it's a trap. Happy holidays

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people here still aren't over the fact that they have self checkout registers, there's gonna be a customer mutiny and it makes one want to climb to the top of one of the parking lot poles and watch

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Truly worried for my Muslim friends here

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Dr. Oz. AYFKM?!? academic.oup.com/joc/article/...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

this is the kind of slapjackery I'm here for. SNL better run with this while it's 🔥

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

I couldn't wrap my head around what the tech bros and the evangelicals suddenly had in common that could foster such a seemingly *urgent* shotgun elopement both culturally and politically, so I listened to one of the main architects spin it super-villainously: youtu.be/qqHueZNEzig?...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

This app feels like people roaming around shell-shocked after some huge disaster, desperately searching for familiar, friendly faces in a Red Cross shelter

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

i trained for more of a Mad Max desert sitch but okay i can pivot with the best of 'em

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

this'll be a nice companion read on the tail end of The End Of Reality

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

“we must refuse to participate in a mass delusion” @roxanegay.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 16 comments

Biden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The Door We are living in dark and dangerous times. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-ramp...

submitted 105 days ago • 17 comments

They are not planning a four-year term. They are planning an everlasting dictatorship. Are we all clear on this?

submitted 106 days ago • 187 comments

We can live without Twitter but Twitter cannot live without us. It’s as simple as that.

submitted 110 days ago • 626 comments

Reality Check! (Interview with Jonathan Taplin) | Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything www.podchaser.com/podcasts/ben...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if Blueskies know one of the men behind Musk's Twitter purchase is the son of Russian oligarch, Kremlin agent and Trump-Russia figure Petr Aven. Last month's revelation that Musk was quietly in contact with Putin for years seems to confirm the Musk-Twitter op as an election interference op.

submitted 106 days ago • 102 comments

Rule #1

submitted 106 days ago • 237 comments

Love Albert

submitted 106 days ago • 107 comments

when the robots they create become Frankenstein's monster and eats them

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.

submitted 106 days ago • 178 comments

I am listening to a mystery audiobook and the characters use the term “fartlighting” to describe situations where someone says something outrageous to cause a stink. I have needed that term for my entire adult life.

submitted 107 days ago • 164 comments

At the end of last year, as he began pivoting toward open support for Trump, Elon Musk started pushing fellow disinformation merchant Alex Jones hard on Twitter users. Now, less than a year later, he's mysteriously sent his lawyers to intervene in Jones' bankruptcy case. www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/t...

submitted 106 days ago • 125 comments

We need a Revolution of the Normies. I’m not being glib. This is a literal war between two different realities, one where a cabal of psychopathic cult leaders and messianic oligarchs enslaves us — and the other where we get a grip and destroy them instead.

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments

me normally: the unilateral nuclear authority of the president is a calamity in waiting, we must avoid an atomic exchange at all costs me when i have to be in DFW: i wonder if i can convince Trump that Putin called him fat

submitted 107 days ago • 40 comments