agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with

people fought _hard_ to pull you, and me, and our nation out of the sludge that was the 80s and 90s. respect it

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

Not even subtle.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

FDRbros…we’re so back

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

@magneticsara.bsky.social your ideas are gaining influence youtu.be/m192zxKJTBs?...

you have to treat people like this with the same seriousness as you would a guy screaming at you about the lizard people on the street; they have a similar relationship with reality.

the thing is RWers aren't wrong in claiming their ideas are underrepresented in academia. they're only wrong in attributing it to purposeful suppression rather than an astonishing preeminence at being intellectually unrigorous that makes their ideas unworkable

I refuse to talk about Gavin Newsom getting the presidential nomination until there is actually a chance of that happening, the primaries for the midterms aren't even over yet

forgot the most important of the genre

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

I don't remember if I shat all over David Horowitz when he died in April, so I will take the opportunity now to state that David Horowitz is dead andthe world is a better place because of it. Fuck that guy.

listening and learning crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

definitely a top 5 post of his in terms of sheer poser energy

I've been a homeowner for only about six months, but already I am sick of subsidizing a bunch of freeloading Boomers. If there were another ballot initiative permanently expelling everyone who signed this ballot petition from the state, I would gladly vote for it.

Anthropic, after its AI-enabled vending machine gave away a PS5 and almost violated federal law: "don't run your business with AI" crypto bros: "here's an agent, give us all your cash"

I don't think Opus 4.6 likes Kid Rock

the latest numbers were too brutal to publish, huh

seems almost certain we’ll later find out they were coerced thehill.com/homenews/med...

I am begging you all to stop getting pre-emptively angry about the outcome of the 2028 Democratic primary in 2026. go campaign for someone you deem worthy or just go outside. please.

Incredible.

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

rfk jr is going to put up stalin numbers, but he'll do it in terms of lives not saved. you can commit the most horrific crimes if you do it with bureaucracy

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

if - purely, 100%, hypothetically - they started a market on whether a Polymarket executive was going to be assassinated, would Polymarket shut it down?

I feel seen

lord help us, we're headed for another round of "engineers are deficient humans because they didn't take enough liberal arts classes" discourse (don't @ me, I have a liberal arts degree. so do Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, and what good did that do)

why does this stupid, stupid fucking argument carry weight. a team of a few dozen immigrant workers can build far more than a few dozen homes. many more!

look, a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient! they just keep winning, don't they

CTE: warn your kids about it

I got served a video on IG where a dude on a podcast said he used to be a YIMBY until he got more educated and learned there were 70,000 vacant apartments in the Bay Area. It'll not stop being fascinating to see people stumble through policy when there aren't partisan cues to help them along.

as far as I can tell, his "cancellation" involved not losing his job over his statements, but being boycotted by students who chose not to take his class, and then him resigning wtf is the remedy? is the school supposed to somehow force everyone to respect him after he says something shitty?

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

come on, brain implants are one thing, but you can't expect us to be _magicians_

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

While this is true, the problem is that any system is only as good as the people who execute it. The plain text of the Constitution should be curtailing Trump right now, but the humans on the Supreme Court have decided to ignore it.

both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation

Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps

Most of us actually building/using AI don’t care about these use cases or are actively hostile to them. Businesses don’t care because it doesn’t save them much money, I don’t care because using them for writing is opposite to why I write, those who don’t write don’t care bc it helps w/ their work.

the demographics for buyers of modest new homes in second tier neighborhoods in the bay have gone from “dual income corporate gig at a top firm” to “dual income partners in big law/mbb/ib/vc/pe” and i think thats probably not great idk

nice, now he's given up free drinks for life at bars all over Wisconsin _and_ Minnesota

I saw this post without knowing the full context and assumed it was about DSA. it is amusing to think of how many other orgs it might apply to

as a liberal ("i fucking hate royalty" tendency) i see them as the present-day successors to the crown. the dark enlightenment freakos will even explicitly tell you the end goal is regression back to full feudalism

hi does anybody here have $10M to place Prop 13 reform on the California ballot this fall? I really think we could win!

zero sum thinking is _the_ enemy