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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 61 days ago • 1012 comments

imagine what the Nazis could have done if they had the internet. oh wait you don't have to imagine

submitted 70 days ago • 38 comments

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

submitted 74 days ago • 611 comments

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 101 days ago • 516 comments

One good thing to do about this is to protest justices’ appearances at law schools. As a lawyer, I think we need to really work on promoting public disrespect for the Supreme Court. I’m completely serious about this. They fucking hate when you make it real and personal. Do more of that.

submitted 107 days ago • 9 comments

Amen.

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

Art of the Deal. Chapter 1. Surrender. -The End-

submitted 108 days ago • 54 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

submitted 113 days ago • 1162 comments

-The Question: How the hell did we get here? -The Answer: Citizens United.

submitted 122 days ago • 1123 comments

for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

submitted 122 days ago • 62 comments

submitted 136 days ago • 117 comments

Game studio announcements be like, “We laid off all your favourite devs! But don’t worry, all the people actually responsible for the horrible decision-making that led to this massive failure are staying on :) and they will still be driving their new Porsches :) all is well!!!!!”

submitted 142 days ago • 159 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 164 days ago • 715 comments

STEM kids need humanities.

submitted 193 days ago • 116 comments