easy to hate these tech billionaires when you ignore the invaluable contributions to society that earned them such wealth. let's have a look, Bezos: web store Thiel: web store transaction middleman Musk: fired from web store transaction middleman for being stupid and annoying ...i rest my case

This gets at the way the term (along with “virtue signaling”) is used—almost exclusively to explain away others’ good behavior as not-really-good to shield the user from shame or criticism about their own antisocial behavior. Anything done publicly can be called “performative”!

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

we love edgy jokes about gas chambers and rape unless it’s jokes about charlie kirk dying, which if you do that, you’ll be punished and deported and free speech revoked

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Tim Heidecker is so good at this.

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

of all the dumb shit that sucks these days, the dumbest and pettiest shit that sucks is the way people fetishize debate. i would like to revert to the old roughly agreed-upon cultural understanding that debate club is for boring friendless nerds

Klein, like many powerful pundits, is living inside an alternate reality that's been created through their phone and television screens. He's grown more powerful inside that alternate reality by working to uphold the pillars of the anti-reality like "hillary clinton lost because she insulted voters"

[as the SS executioner slips a piano wire noose around my neck] let’s talk permitting reform

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

The reaction Disney fans are having makes think maybe the Harry Potter fans are just bigots who don’t care after all.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

As I've said, it was possible to tell oneself from ~1975-2000 that politics was just a debate about policies, but this was an unusual period of our history. Leaders in politics and media didn't grow up in a world where deep factionalism was normal and don't know how to handle our return to it.

This is discourse without any understanding of power. Odious views are a durable feature of reactionaries throughout history but there are times when they say them in public and times when they keep them to private conversation. Pluralistic multiracial democracy requires they be kept to the latter.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

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The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

Just to emphasise the point: The campaign to smear Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite that led to people describing his pronunication of 'Epstein' as a dogwhistle was spearheaded by a man who was Epstein's "best pal" and who defended him when he was jailed for soliciting minors for prostitution.

the thing about nazis is theyre perfectly capable of empathy. theyre not bogeymen crawling from the dark under your bed. theyre not a different species. the fact that you believe otherwise is why you keep getting stumped by "actually this guy had a dog and a family"

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

it's been pretty revelatory that in order to do Kirk the kindness of painting him in a wholesome light here on the hour of his death, one must go to gymnastic lengths to avoid any mention of his literal statements and beliefs which is pretty odd for a celebrated debater

Open debate is for economic policy and whether we should charge for public transportation. Open debate is not whether some human beings are lesser than others. Some ideas are so vile, so odious, that they should not be entertained.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

the same people calling this their reichstag fire moment are mad you're calling them nazis

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

The fact that MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd was fired for accurately (and honestly being rather soft by simply calling him "divisive") describing Charlie Kirk's bigotry is actively concerning.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Raiding homeless encampments is a form of political violence, btw.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

He’s not saying this because of anyone making jokes or celebrating on the internet. The fascists are gonna do what they want regardless of how you act. don’t make it worse by giving the Feds an excuse to knock on your door, but don’t pretend the fascists will respect your humanity and restraint.

Congressional Democrats can’t decide if they should cut a deal with the pedophile dictator who is trying to militarily invade their cities. Seems like a fairly obvious choice to me, but what do I know.

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Michael Jordan

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

A video on the hate campaign against Ms. Rachel for being pro-Palestinian children, but really a video about right-wing attacks on children's early education, but really a video about the importance of emotional literacy. Fantastic watch

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

It always going to be wild to me that Iron Chef has better lighting than most 200+ million dollar Hollywood movies now.

What if "bicycle street, cars as guests" were the starting point for all streets?