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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 6 days ago • 442 comments

Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

submitted 9 days ago • 121 comments

it was incredibly stupid. stupider than you can imagine. the stupidity of the commentary especially was low key my inspiration for wanting to get into the takes game. me at 14 basically, “i could do better than this shit”

submitted 9 days ago • 257 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 10 days ago • 173 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

submitted 11 days ago • 700 comments

You would like to think emotional appeals to decency like this would cause people like Lee and his staff to reflect on their choices, but my guess is his staffers passed it around and wrote "lol cry more lib"

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 14 days ago • 593 comments

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 14 days ago • 179 comments

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 15 days ago • 154 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 17 days ago • 596 comments

Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

submitted 18 days ago • 1259 comments

June 5, 2025 will go down in history as The Night of Long Tweets

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

As the prophecy foretold.

submitted 23 days ago • 53 comments

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

All of Bluesky right now.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

"Incidentally, the president’s sudden push for the tourist destination of Alcatraz to once again become a maximum-security prison complex came just hours after a South Florida PBS station aired the 1979 classic film Escape from Alcatraz. The president spent the past weekend... in Palm Beach."

submitted 54 days ago • 163 comments

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submitted 58 days ago • 78 comments

fwiw, “cheap goods from china” really understates the high quality of manufacturing you can get from chinese suppliers these days. also, we can have real prosperity with pro labor economy and a generous social insurance state but they don’t want that!

submitted 85 days ago • 322 comments

it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers

submitted 85 days ago • 226 comments

The totalitarian levels of bad faith and disingenuousness from MAGA is funny at one level but also deeply depressing because it’s the foundation for all this and until it cracks, I’m not quite sure how we get out alive.

submitted 85 days ago • 419 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 87 days ago • 427 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

submitted 87 days ago • 184 comments

Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”

submitted 88 days ago • 416 comments

For a pundit class that was once obsessed with presidential acuity, it’s remarkable how silent they are as Donald Trump — the oldest president in U.S. history — has frequent mental lapses.

submitted 91 days ago • 78 comments

very helpful to democrats that one of the most unpopular people in american politics is front in center in the administration, allowing them to make the very easy case that you should vote for democrats to check elon musk.

submitted 94 days ago • 86 comments

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

submitted 96 days ago • 317 comments

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

submitted 96 days ago • 1960 comments

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

submitted 101 days ago • 712 comments

One thing you really see every day is the different risk appetites between MAGA-era Republicans and Democrats. Basically compulsive, reckless, dangerous constant risk-seeking, versus almost comical levels of risk-aversion.

submitted 108 days ago • 289 comments

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

submitted 113 days ago • 1147 comments

he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey

submitted 116 days ago • 614 comments

After watching the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting in whole, I’m feeling prepared to comment on it in a proper way. Long thread incoming:

submitted 119 days ago • 30 comments

A disgraceful day.

submitted 119 days ago • 1412 comments

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 120 days ago • 180 comments

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

submitted 120 days ago • 98 comments

We're going to lose Canada and Mexico and Europe very, very soon if Trump and Vance aren't careful after this Zelensky disaster. I don't expect they will be careful. We're about to be on a geopolitical island in the middle of North America.

submitted 120 days ago • 804 comments

these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

submitted 120 days ago • 230 comments

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

submitted 122 days ago • 1487 comments