Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Dr. Shaq sounds like it should have been a sitcom in the early 2000s.

the constitution has many flaws but addressing our current circumstances is not among them; the framers were in fact quite concerned about this kind of thing and were clear that it should not happen here what they did not and could not guard against is the people in charge ignoring their plain text

The right has owned the frame game for so long and they have bitched about the media the whole time and amazingly, they still do. They don't just work the refs, they threaten the refs.

The reason that markets and other countries can't trust us is Trump v. United States. If you want peace and prosperity then you need court reform.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

The center: no he won’t. The right: he will and that’s good. The left: this is no different from what every president has done That’s why the message didn’t hit.

That this message didn't hit is kind wild when you look at the time stamp on it

You never see these freaks happy. There is a sort of libidinal joy they perform, mostly for each other, but it comes only from of the immiseration of their enemies. No victory brings relief, just a temporary reprieve of grievance. I do not believe the machinery which drives us and them are the same.

People who consume right wing media aren't looking for the truth. They want a permission structure for indulging their worst instincts, attitudes, and prejudices.

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

The total collapse of America's gatekeeper—media and political elites in particular—since 2021 is really something awful to reflect on, not just the dereliction of duty but the outright rejection that they have any greater responsibilities

the entire 2024 campaign was a national exercise in mass delusion and gaslighting and nothing in my life compares to it. It was a lonely feeling for those of use experiencing reality.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Put snowbanks behind every end zone IMO

i really wish i thought there was a way to fix US politics other than "a critical mass of people stop voting for Republicans" but I'm not sure there is one

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

"Financially devastating but morally exhilarating" is a state of grace our enemies will never know

it remains mindblowing the extent to which "having consistent beliefs" is a cheat code that makes the entire political system violently glitch out

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

All in all, I hope the lesson these guys learn isn’t “Both parties are the same and all politicians are liars” but “I fell for an obvious liar and should reflect on why this particular liar seemed so believable to me”

If a company’s hiring sign says, “Come grow with us,” you’re about to do the job of roughly 3-5 people

Me (emerging from a tank I have driven through your house) now is a time for healing

The reason that bullshitters get away with as much as they do is because too many people want to be bullshitted.

if i’d been the winter caretaker of the overlook hotel it wouldn’t have gone down like that

Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

“This reported piece is not enough like an opinion piece” is a big part of the decline of elite journalism and Weiss is the apotheosis of this.

A Safdie cast is something like Adrien Brody, Jennifer Lopez, the Rent Is Too Damn High guy, Maurice Dubois, Charles Oakley and the guy who did the whistle on the PC Richards commercials

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason. www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiy...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Ideally yes. The problem with that is that regular people end up siding with the unqualified podcasters over the boring competent nerds because the podcasters are the ones in their ears everyday

the strongest form of omerta we have is the taboo on the media saying that the people who rule us are insane clowns who publicly dream of genocide

I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous. The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

Shot. Chaser.

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @jasonkirk.fyi North Central rolls on to the D3 quarterfinals next week. The forecast at Benedetti–Wehrli Stadium on Saturday?

anyway my answer to every single person who wants armed conflict is no you don’t sometimes it is the only option but it it sure worth exploring everything else before you get there because it is always, always bad