"Ellie, you're contemptuous of unsophisticated thinkers and also laying out an extremely vociferous case for elitism and anti-populism that is clearly rooted in your emotional issues and insecurity" yes but I am capable of noticing that, and most people legitimately aren't

Fantastic pic of HMS Renown pre 1936 from - Heart of Oak

So many of the pro-Farage and pro-Brexit accounts turn out to be Americans pretending to be British.

“Guys, you shouldn’t fake stuff like this, because at first I got really excited that all my inborn antisemitic beliefs were being confirmed, and now I’m disappointed to learn it was fake…”

I teach human anatomy with cadaver dissection and the answer is an emphatic no. It's not that the cadaver is needed to learn the anatomy but it is need to learn how it looks and feels, what it's like to see it inside of a human. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Also, in the very long run, we will attain something that can be fairly called ‘post-scarcity’. The degrowther crank this guy relies on has no concept of substitution, of scale, or the ability of a more productive economy to consume less physical stuff per value created.

"unfortunately, the screenshots [claiming that the DHS was based on Tel Aviv] were fake" fuck off a bridge and drown and fuck off into hell and fuck the devil once you get there

another thing related to childrearing/childbirth we should make illegal in the new, carceral woke 2

Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought “Hey, what if people’s resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?” and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, it’s very much the reverse

Very similar to how braying that every government program is socialism has made many people in entire cohorts pro socialist.

This kind of lefty is never beating the allegations that they're all just ex-evangelicals who swapped out Jesus for Marx, everlasting need to feel persecuted in order to know you're on the right path included.

A fun thing about being old enough to remember the Balkan wars and getting to work alongside Bosnian refugees is realizing that the fuckers who post this meme are saying those Bosnians deserved to starve to death behind Serbian wire.

Anyway, a U.S. client state is currently doing a genocide bloodier than the Gaza war right now, yet for some reason the perpetrators lack some characteristic which stirs quite the same outrage on Al Gore’s internet. Really makes you think.

sorry, can someone help me find the political movement that didn't develop strategic bombers

What’s that, all those folks out there who say Mamdani didn’t use Lander as a token and then cast him aside once his value had been spent?

I think we can also blame Solzhenitsyn for the widespread myth that anti-communist dissidents were all far-right. He was the single most far-right of all the dissidents. American conservatives promoted him unconditionally, while overlooking his horrible beliefs and flirtations with antisemitism.

MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sen... Jacqueline Prawira’s innovation, featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers,” tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Chomsky is terrible. We chastise the "right" for not listening to experts, but here the far-left has been listening to a linguist about foreign policy and economics. It's ridiculous. He uses big words and seems to say the right things about "wealthy people bad"... then he's best buds with Epstein.

I'm thinking of all the nasty stuff in Chomsky's record. Denying the Cambodian genocide. Supporting Milosevic. Denying the Bosnian genocide. Undermining anti-Communist dissidents in Western academia. Cheering the death of Venezuelan democracy. Spreading Russian propaganda. This is long overdue.

Soviet toy cars.

Dems are not online and they are very proud of not being online. It’s like being proud in 1938 of reading books and not listening to the radio in: good job, how very grown-up of you, and also you’re never going to grasp where all this antisemitism comes from, because you’re not where the people are.

This is literally the consensus belief on this website. And because everyone knows it’s the consensus belief, big tastemaker accounts completely refuse to challenge it, because their game is to say things that they know the majority of their audience will agree with. So the falsehood spreads.

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

“But how many lives and worlds were destroyed my Leia and Mon Mothma’s neoliberal policies? Checkmate space lib.”

A large share of politics coded as “left” on this site is in fact reactionary nostalgia - an inchoate belief that times were better in the good old days and nebulous forces have taken that from us.

From what I studied, there were 3 peaks of antisemitism under communist tyranny. All outgoing from one country, but spreading throughout communist Europe in their time. 1949-1952 Czechoslovakia, 1967-1970 Poland, 1975-1980 Soviet Union.

Ben Thompson argues that while AI is obviously in a bubble, it will create long term benefits in the form of investments in chip fabs in the U.S. and power plants. This is similar to how we got dark fiber and train tracks as infrastructure out of the internet and railway bubbles.

If a group gets mad over condemning fucking swastikas graffitied on a Jewish space, they're not pro-Palestine. They just fucking hate Jews and find the very real plight of Palestinians to be a convenient excuse. All groups like this really want is brutal violence and a reason to jack off to it.

one of these is a mindless machine churning out terrible takes and the other is Grok

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

No surprises there. We have seen across the world in recent years that when you elect populists, not only do they not keep their promises, but they make existing problems worse and create new ones.

glad to be back to drawing in my usual format. don't know why, but drawing a video is so much more relaxing than filming or editing a video to me.

Neo-romantic neo-Luddite social movements against a lonely, atomized, cold, calculating society are how we got RFK Jr laying waste to the greatest achievements of human civilization.

This is an *amazing* level of derangement about generative AI. We are headed for weird anti-AI purity movements where ppl turn on personal computing entirely and start LARPing as Dune mentats, because they think the magic fascism math is hiding in every transformer, search algorithm, and BART.

It’s great to see that many of you out there appreciate and support science and aren’t afraid of a little mRNA.

Leftist antisemites are even worse than the GOP variety. Why, you ask? B/c the GOP admit who they are. Leftists are arrogant, sanctimonious, and above all, disingenuous. Show me just one who cares about deaths in Sudan, China, Ukraine, or even America.

The Sudanese don’t have a dedicated propaganda media ecosystem constantly blasting their messages into the phones of everyone in the West through social media, so it’s unsurprising that most western media outlets couldn’t be bothered to even acknowledge what’s being done in Sudan, much less care.

Before the measles vaccine, humans did not have permanent immunity to *anything* A measles outbreak would come along and wipe out previous immunities, whether from previous infections or vaccinations. A fresh, periodic reset on every other disease.

My ambitious crossover idea for Hazbin Hotel would see our lovable group of misfits and monsters see new challenges and threats from Heaven in the form of the shenanigans unleashed by the characters of Father Ted when the Craggy Island Parochial House finds itself teleported to hell. Fun? Perhaps.

Just my thoughts as well. If Trotsky had taken over Soviet leadership instead of Stalin, he would have been just as awful, if not even worse. All "anti-Stalinist" communists eventually devolved into the exact same patterns of authoritarianism, and they always will.

Since he claimed herd immunity was inevitable, our NIH director invented his own definition to avoid admitting error (from 12/2022). Since people can only die once, obviously the death rate would go down. This is not herd immunity.

SARS-CoV-2 interferes with p53 signalilng. That may not mean much to non-specialists, but as a PhD in that area, it's the biggest possible red flag, and the flag is also on fire. We don't yet know how bad it'll be, but with public health asleep at the wheel (as usual), there's no real upper limit.

The mainstreaming of blatant Protocols-tier antisemitism is one of the worst aspects of this era.

A vaccine is like an airbag. While you’re seatbelt might save you (if you’re wearing it), the airbags are they’re to protect you from the worst possible effects of the crash. GET VACCINATED! Protect yourself and those around you!!

I’m just going to say it - mRNA vaccines for protection against pathogens and cancer are the best.

The problem is that a strong pro-academic freedom consensus in academic spaces was a vital load-bearing element of our free speech regime, and the moment that consensus broke down the whole thing was easily tipped over into the abyss by preexisting anti-speech busybodies. Leftists fucked that up.

Vinay Prasad began his campaign against the pediatric COVID vaccine months before there was any data about it. He also botched basic stats, falsely claiming that COVID only killed 1 in a million kids. He now leads vaccine regulation at the FDA. More...

why are people on the left using "populist" in a positive way now, you shouldn't want your politicians to be populists, "populism" isn't good