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a lot of current gender freakout is due to realization that women for really the first time in human history have legal freedom and material power to live independently from men

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Curtis Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited … are smashed, they shld be replaced by a global spiderweb of…independent mini-countries, each governed by its own…corporation w/o regard to the residents’ opinions.” This reminds me of DOGE, “Network States,” & “Freedom Cities.” You? 1/

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If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

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Uh we officially ended the "spoils system" of US government when the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883

submitted 1 hour ago • 13 comments

I think perceived moderation is a key here

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that transgender workers are protected from this kind of discrimination under Title VII just five years ago and the right has been intent to pretend that just didn't happen ever since

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I'm old enough to remember when Americans weren't terrified of flying airplanes due to preventable collisions. That was 2024 when Trump wasn't President and Musk wasn't running the show.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 60 comments

Decided to play around with the color scheme a bit. Red, white, and blue

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Lieu: "We used to fight the axis of evil. Now Trump apparently wants to join the axis of evil."

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Leadership is doubling down, but GOP members are getting nervous about the budget’s extreme unpopularity. You can call your Representative now at 202-224-3121.

submitted 4 hours ago • 343 comments

A conspiracy theorist actually hating the real wealthy elite who control the government is a rare thing honestly.

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the quickest route to ending this would be for a consortium of states that value their sovereignty to team up use state power against Musk's various commercial properties

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

explaining the AfD: "imagine if Adolf was a lesbian"

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let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

i'd feel so so so much better if this was just a Hooverite-Trussism government, the authoritarian shit is extremely angstifying

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The guy who says "ordo amoris means you are a violent, raging nationalist" is dismissive of the concept of morality

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This is a great way of putting it because by the standards of presidential success that Biden himself understood (from the 1970's-90's, predominantly), he was a tremendously productive and successful president. The problem is that those metrics for success completely missed the moment.

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If y'all think this is bad, wait until you find out about what family owns and finances Desert Tech

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“The UK didn’t have a general election for 10 years because of WW2 - that doesn’t make Winston Churchill a dictator. Zelensky has not banned opposition parties - just the ones openly pro-Russian, just like we banned the fascist party when Hitler was bombing the shit out of us on the nightly basis.”

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 254 comments

This is a very neat way of illustrating the essential weirdness of the Starmer project by @georgewparker.bsky.social:

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with tomorrow’s election in Germany, I’ve been thinking a lot about the transgressive appeal of fascism, not as a coherent ideology, but as a form of gratifying sabotage. Talking to AfD supporters in East Germany, what I came away with weren’t actual grievances but a kind of giddiness

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This is why isolationist nationalism is inherently imperialist - because no country has all the resources it needs. Since an isolationist nationalist regime does not want to rely on allies and trade partners to get the resources it lacks, it feels compelled to try to secure them with conquest.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS is a pretty great 2028 slogan for anyone who wants it

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

I'm rooting for the team against a war of imperial conquest

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This is really one for the "hE's diStRacTing yOu" hall of fame, normally it's "oh he's renaming the gulf to distract you from his attacks on immigrants" like it's at least plausible but wrong. This is just "he's declaring himself a king to distract you from his ruling us like a king" like what

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Except the President of the United States saying those things has geopolitical consequences even in the absence of any further action.

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worth mentioning again that senate democrats’ plan for strategic confirmation votes in exchange for blocking the worst nominees was a complete failure

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I'm sorry but "Kennedy Center dancers protest Trump through dance" is a very 2017 headline. Good signal that Wokeness returns

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Roman Republic bros we up

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If the EU decouples from the US on foreign policy to a significant extent we should actively forge closer ties to South America. Probably unrealistic to ever expect Lula to arm Ukraine, but long term there’d be benefits to SA leaders viewing Europe and the US separately rather than one NATO blob.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Mexico is like the fourth richest country in Latin America at this point, it's punching at the same levels as much more traditionally developed countries like Uruguay and Argentina

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hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

submitted 5 days ago • 355 comments

This means he has the votes without her

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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everything this administration is doing has utterly convinced me that the democratic nominee in 2028 is going to run on a kind of burnished fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption that we have not seen for generations

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i do not understand why elon musk thinks that he can be the power behind the throne while standing in front of the throne and shouting that he is in charge

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

I want to live in an industrial society where I design and build things made out of steel, aluminum, CFRP and nylon. I want to be paid in money. I want my food to come through cold chains. I want planes overhead and trains running along the ground. I want antibiotics and health

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and rich coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.

submitted 5 days ago • 316 comments

I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to yell that politico is not an honest actor before people get it

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

between Governors Hochul and Pritzker, you can imagine a dynamic developing where Democratic politicians compete over becoming the face of effective resistance to Trump. I think there are clear political upsides to winning that race and am mostly surprised that there have been so few runners so far

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

I have special loathing in my heart for people who claim to be leftists while shitting on aid.

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gotta start reviving some of the old revolutionary slogans. no king but king jesus.

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