The man who spent his entire adult life on campus of #Stanford until a year ago to a podcast booth in DC is talking about "elites breaking public trust" Between David Brooks news and this I feel like I'm in the upside down, where the most pampered men on the planet are the downtrodden "common man"

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The regime-affiliated oligarchs who bought up Twitter, the Washington Post, CBS, and TikTok didn't do so to turn a profit. They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

I wouldn’t have to beat you so hard if you simply complied with this beating

Actually, there should be consequences for being wrong. There has to be consequences for being this wrong. It's literally the only mechanism for accountability in a society where the powerful and affluent act with impunity. Just follow those who got it wrong all along and STFU.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

any pundit or politician who ever unironically said “the woke mind virus” is a) real and b) a problem, should be yeeted. we do not need your opinion anymore. you had a chance, you showed us youre a moron and now its time for you to slink away

Supply lines are like the local hardware and grocery stores wtf are they even talking about

They only get involved because someone is paying them, so they assume *other* people would only get involved because someone is also paying them.

It’s the old reactionary slogan: “When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles”

If the people who lied yesterday about what happened are on the news today when you knew they would lie again then you’re simply not the news

At the very minimum, seems pretty rational to move away from a country trying to annexe you and towards others that aren't, even if it's just because they can't.

There is no pretense that the shooting was meant to incapacitate. It's fully accepted that it was meant to kill even though there clearly was no reason for it.

this will get worse as MAGA gets less popular, bc the conservative media will be continue to chase after a smaller and more radicalized core

Which is a huge part of the problem we have now.

mr president sir, im a lifelong conservative and im just wondering which deeply held belief of mine today you would like me to dump in the trash no questions asked to defend your dementia-fueled insanity sir? preferably something ive been incredibly vocal about my entire life

There is no appeasing. There is no negotiating a deal. The US is a rogue state and our biggest threat.

This why there are no deals and there will never be any deals

Russia does not have a strategy outside of hoping that Europe and Ukraine get tired of fighting before the Russian people get tired of having a shattered economy and suffering a thousand casualties a day. Negotiating won't stop them. Infliction of pain is the only thing they respond to or respect.

Minor League of Nations

betting right now he's going to return to canadian annexation, if only because Mark Carney refuses to stop dunking on him in public speeches

this is legitimately an excellent joke and of course they don't get it.

On the left, English. On the right, Newspeak.

This is just a way for them to bribe him. Everyone knows that, right? A bribery system for the corrupt president because the country he rules turns out to have zero mechanisms for enforcement of its basic laws or constitution. The USA is literally setting the new bar for corruption: absolute.

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

I suppose that “testing the limits of his presidency” is one way to say “doing blatantly unconstitutional and impeachable shit on a daily basis.”

Trump is not the problem. A culture that gave Trump power is the problem. The Republican party. The conservative industry and news media. Trump is the product of this rotten culture. Those will remain when he is dead. They will keep getting more batshit insane until they face consequences.

If you are a Canadian, and you travel to or support the United States in any way, you are a traitor.

Literally just stealing another country's resources and it's not even a scandal in the USA. They're talking about it like it's a totally normal thing and there is no meaningful opposition to it. Degenerate society and culture.

Global empire of total dominance through soft power. Economic systems, culture, international affairs, resource extraction, all of it. Fumbled and thrown away by people because they were too bored and racist

Completely useless.

It's the fact that they'd do it again that forces total disengagement with the US. When he's gone, the culture that allowed him to be re-elected and maintain enough support to do whatever he wants will remain. Don't underestimate how hard the news media would prop him up. They will do it again.

this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

Reminder

"It is natural to be infected repeatedly with respiratory viruses— if we got fewer infections what would that mean for auto-immunity for cancer? We have no clue. We have no idea if we would actually live longer or healthier lives trying to dodge seasonal runny noses and coughs." - Vinay Prasad

Minor correction: you can't make a deal with a country that allows a corrupt madman like Trump to rule it. It's not the man, it's the system, the party, the voters, the conservative industry. Trump is not an aberration on those, he's their inevitable product. When he's gone, that won't change.

This is correct but the blame is equally on the Republican party, its voters and the conservative industry that has captured all major news media in the US. One person cannot do this alone here. This has ~30% support in the US population and a major political party. This is the real problem.

The other standard candle of morality is disability. It's just as effective a standard of fascism as any other discriminated minority. It's very common and almost never socially punished to speak of disabled people as expendable dead weight, even in liberal circles.

It's a fucking lie. The "free speech crisis" was just a collection of duct-taped-together anecdotes plucked from obscurity by right-wing media. These people were never against "conformity" or "censorship," they just wanted to promote conservative ideas and crush liberal ones.

It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.

Like Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the disastrous fall in revenue and success will be far outweighed by their destroying a powerful media outlet that once held powerful people to account. The ROI is not only about profits.