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Richard Dawkins most famous reply to: "What if you're wrong?"

submitted 25 days ago • 365 comments

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 25 days ago • 1022 comments

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

submitted 24 days ago • 568 comments

The Trump regime will round you up off the street and arrest you because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. It's fascism. Call it what it is.

submitted 49 days ago • 297 comments

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

submitted 56 days ago • 499 comments

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

submitted 56 days ago • 825 comments

The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago. In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?

submitted 56 days ago • 666 comments

Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?

submitted 56 days ago • 2490 comments

Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but really feels like there is one of these every day.

submitted 56 days ago • 878 comments

I suspect we're not far from judges getting murdered and Trump pardoning their killers. But there's no Constitutional crisis, right?

submitted 56 days ago • 253 comments

Trump and DOGE fired USDA employees who held vital positions inspecting our food and protecting supply chains from invasive pests. Experts now warn that food could rot while waiting for inspections, which could lead to even higher grocery prices. "Efficiency."

submitted 59 days ago • 101 comments

He always seemed chill but then Wham! he goes full Kajagoogoo like this.

submitted 64 days ago • 649 comments

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

submitted 69 days ago • 1001 comments

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

submitted 96 days ago • 745 comments