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it's really interesting to see the rest of the paragraph that matty named his blog after, considering his metapolitical views these days

people like tucker carlson know how to play the media game and the ny times is happy to be played

LEGALLY COMPELLED!

mine was about mitterrand's policy 180 in 1983

blazers fans going to get a taste of what it's felt like to be an A's fan for the last couple of decades

this is embarrassing. has there been an owner that has come into the league and looked worse from the jump? www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

the irony of people on here telling you to go to therapy, when being on here is literally the opposite of going to therapy

in the future, all content will be beamed directly into our brains and will be shorter and shorter in duration, to the point where it is just milliseconds of extremely condensed packets of informations endlessly scrolling in our minds

one of my favorite things i learned about nietzsche is that he was angrily opposed to the advent of newspapers because he saw them as providing superficial, knee jerk snippets of opinion and information that granted no opportunity for thought and reflection.

This is indeed an unusually good book

so is the "no kings" may day general strike/protest not happening? i was under the impression that that was the next step. not enough time to organize it?

BREAKING: giant piece of shit doesn't care what you think of him

probably going to vote for the class traitor for california governor. just hope he doesn't turn around and stab me in the back...

i get the sentiment behind this, but also feel like this has been the strategy to defeat trump in every election and in every election we are shocked to discover that the more attention trump gets, the more votes he gets, regardless of how negative that attention is

i miss smoke-filled backroom party management...

the funny thing about the triumph of global capitalism is that it has produced a backlash from both the right AND the left *against* international solidarity and the eradication of borders

just saw one of those subway takes where they go off on how the term "people of color" is racist, and i am begging these people to just read a single wikipedia article on the history of the term

imagine a world where academics in social science fields applied what they learn from their research towards improving academia!

pretty disturbing how much time the pregnant character spends in the sauna on that show "rooster"

war on the streets and war in the middle east. instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

this is why i've been saying for a while that a bronze age collapse scenario is not only imaginable but probable

Can confirm

Interesting resource!

simeone doesn't get mentioned enough when people discuss the greatest coaches of all time

thinking about how "the joe rogan of the left" discourse was all about creating a "common sense" that doesn't lean so heavily to the far right. still don't think we have a good answer for this. we need a "low-culture" (internationally) that promotes leftwing ideals.

a truth ever more powerful is that mexico city tops any american city on these fronts

what's the deal with "industry plant" becoming this ubiquitious idea for bands and artists that suddenly breakout. the dynamic of a sudden rise from out-of-nowhere is pretty standard for bands (with all the normal sources of happenstance, marketing, industry-push, etc.). what has changed?

guys guys guys, calm down, the guy wrote "the art of the deal" we are going to be fine

WWII is an example of a sequel that is way better than the original, and whenever the third installment arrives it's not going to be anywhere near as good

NBA teams tanking is rational; NBA teams tanking so blatantly that it forces the NBA to take steps to punish tanking is not rational...

We asked Alex Werth, author of “On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland,” to make a playlist of songs and sounds that he thinks are characteristic of Oakland in some way. Here’s a thread, pulled from this piece: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/black-sonic-...

Listen to a thread!

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

going to go out on a limb here and say no way this divergence happens if the president happens to be a democrat

imagine having the platform that ezra klein has and the ability to introduce listeners to new and interesting thinkers, and to then keep inviting fareed zakaria onto your show for his foreign policy takes...

learning that stan van gundy has terrible politics

OMFG. This is now on the FAA online job application form - for all positions including air traffic controllers!

Here's the HD version

somewhat hard to balance out the fact that the decline in fertility is a good thing (people, especially young women, choosing to delay child birth) with some pretty terrible broader repercussions

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

So that there is no misunderstanding: I've never been friends with Jeffrey Epstein. I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell.

the jair bolsonaro of basketball

they have to make up this shit because they can't say what they want to say, which is "racial equality"

Started/going, Sohrab Ahmari edition

to alleviate poverty and end overpopulation, you should sell your children as food to the rich

the use of orwell has become orwellian