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I don’t think this is sustainable for four years. I don’t know what the new equilibrium will be. But eventually you just run out of stuff to break.

submitted 35 minutes ago • 5 comments

If you turn against Trump because your face got eaten, I will of course accept you into the resistance. But I will also remember that you were a selfish dupe who only truly cared when you were harmed.

submitted 43 minutes ago • 1 comment

Calling it now: Germany goes Gaullist after Vance or Elon hatch a too clever by half CIA scheme to bolster the AfD which gets leaked immediately.

submitted 54 minutes ago • 2 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 91 comments

Never underestimate the hatred of the resentful rich. Years ago I caught up with some people I’d known at uni and the thing they were most passionate about was the EU forcing “globalism” on them. They discussed it at greater length and with greater animation than they discussed their own children.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

this is also the case for a lot of postliberal elites

submitted 1 hour ago • 9 comments

The disgraced former German domestic intelligence chief who got fired for inappropriate contacts with the far right, and has gone on to agitate as a far right politician is now at an American political convention where people are making Hitler salutes from the stage.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

???????????? Germany almost took most of Europe because of opinions like this, you idiot. No, the moral imperative you have as a human being is to fight the Nazis back to defend and protect the people you love. That is the moral position.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Merz has won, but what won't be mentioned by anyone at the CDU is that when he took over the party, Merz claimed he would return it to results better than anything Merkel achieved for the party in her time as Chancellor. At 29% he is still 3% below her worst result in 2017.

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

“The 5 bullets email was the administration’s declaration of psychological warfare: Petty on its face and lacking sufficient instructions, its one and only purpose was to scare the shit out of workers already living in peril.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 2 hours ago • 60 comments

Why on earth would a fuckin mailman have a work email, Elon? Explain it to me. Come down to my office, follow me around for 8 hours, and tell me which function of my job necessitates me responding to a fucking email from a ketamine fiend, you stupid bitch.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

what people who don't play games don't understand about him paying other people to do things which he imagines himself as having done then fumbles remarkably badly in ways apparent even to total beginners when he takes control with his unearned confidence is that's all he's ever done with everything

submitted 2 hours ago • 7 comments

I mutter "a mere 8x8 grid" to myself sometimes. unforgettable words

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

I think the implications here are painfully and terrifyingly obvious.

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

Believing humans can be reduced to one "smart" score that translates across disciplines--so someone who is "smart" at, say, running a tech start-up or being a reality TV star must inherently be "smart" at international diplomacy--is one of the most childish worldviews you can have. Truly juvenile.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 5 hours ago • 138 comments

I wonder if you can guess, without reading the headlines, which TWO people in this picture just got fired from the Joint Chiefs. Go ahead, take a wild guess. Pick two.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

The majority of “high agency” people historically had inherited power and wealth, and how smart they were was a random throw of the dice.

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

If you grant that purging the top Black and female military leaders is part of an effort to "root out...military's diversity focus," there are much clearer, more direct, and more true ways to say that.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

same, DoD, same

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I am not joking when I say that the security non-model that is now the present united states federal government means that any successor government, if it will even exist, will need to smoke the rats out from the walls.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

"Before you’re tempted to sneer at Elon for misspelling 'Khan', remember that Genghis Khan himself was unable to spell his own name, having never learned to read or write" uhh OK how is Elon Musk at firing a composite bow from horseback at a gallop?

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

«To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak etc» These are in fact things we are willing to do for a son or daughter, for a close friend. «If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?»

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Amazing work!

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the exact thing democracy was supposed to innovate away, because if you’re a monarchy, you’re rolling the dice whether they’re going to be Catherine the Great or Ivan the Terrible. Incidentally, the Mongols elected their Great Khans from among the eligible clan leaders!

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk has a pathological fixation on certain movies and scenes from movies, and one of them is the "So what do you actually do here?" scene from Office Space. He thinks that scene reflects a social reality where a vast majority of people who work for any organization are dead weight.

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

more convinced than ever that project here is to kill trans people. not just force people back into the closet or deny them medical care, but to literally kill them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

There's a Brooklyn 99 episode where the plot is that Captain Holt is dumb because he confuses boethius with augustine in one of kevin's academic parties and tbh that is a pretty embarassing mistake in the context of the discussion they were showing.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I really doubt they could've put an end to it, because Republicans DNGAF about moral guardians who are ever inconvenient to them in any way. But they could've at least imposed a bit of a political price, and instead they've encouraged more of it through craven weakness.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

"The liberals who described beating Trump as an existential imperative may turn out to have been more right than they knew" WE KNEW IT! WE KNEW IT BETTER THAN YOU! THE WHOLE TIME! YOU WORTHLESS CARBON SINK! PEOPLE LIKE YOU KEPT TELLING US THAT TRUMP WAS NO DIFFERENT FROM THE DEMOCRATS! FUCK! AHHHHH

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

it sucks having a young, innocent, amazing child and thinking about what the future is going to look like

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Isn't it obvious that they're gonna have an AI read them?

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 73 comments

Strong letter from Rep. Gerry Connolly (ranking Dem on House Oversight Committee) to acting OPM Director Chuck Ezell re: 5 bullets email. Calls it “illegal, reckless, and yet another example of the cruel and arbitrary chaos Mr. Musk” has inflicted. Says he must clarify non-response≠resignation.

submitted 16 hours ago • 45 comments

This is horrific "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 6 hours ago • 24 comments

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

submitted 6 hours ago • 505 comments

MY BOY DON'T MISS

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Putting multiple federal law enforcement agencies under the direct control of one person is so obviously illegal and dangerous that nobody ever felt the need to say so. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kas...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

ONCE AGAIN, no Democrat should have been voting for ANY of his nominees

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

Also hilariously bad from a foreign threat vector perspective 🫠

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

please call this what it is, which is government-sanctioned abuse, rape and murder

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

The foundational principle of contemporary American conservatism is that it is better to be unabashedly evil than to be a flawed human being trying to be good but always falling short of perfection. It is a fundamentally anti-human philosophy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

My guess: Musk wanted the email to say that, someone convinced him otherwise, and then he was like fuck it I’ll tweet it anyway. (This is a very Trumpian sequence.)

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment