i'm not saying the democrats wanted to enable this outcome. but i am saying if the democrats DID want to enable this outcome, you'd be hard pressed to find a single choice they would've made differently. they may say otherwise, but only their actions tell the truth.

one would be quite justified in concluding that there is no recourse remaining for preserving America's democracy within the bounds of the electoral process or legal system

This is absolute, undeniable proof this is going to fall apart

Mildly unrelated but Flynn is a fucking awful writer He could say the same thing in a third of the words

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

I'm old enough to remember when Long Island Iced Tea did this (and if you are reading this, so are you) www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/l...

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

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If the goal here was to stop nuclear proliferation, it already has failed: if I was not on friendly terms with the US or their proxies right now and did not currently possess nuclear weapons, I would be moving as fast as possible to develop or acquire them

Every single person who was aware of this and didn't try to stop it should be tried for crimes against humanity These fucking ghouls should never have any influence over any part of public life ever again

every action taken by silicon valley tech giants in the last 5 years can really be summed up in one motivation: what would you do if you wanted to kill the web

Mormons are Schrodinger's Christians: how Christian they are depends on what argument you're trying to win and with who

coates is genuinely a generational writer

This isn't science. It's religion with a scientific veneer. How are these claims falsifiable? It's the ever-looming Second Coming but for people who frequently posture as being "above" religion.

trump take L

bruh

This is a good example of how conservative elites *know* that their ideology doesn't work. There hasn't been a more friendly political climate for sexual harassers in the last 30 years, but the proudly "antiwoke" news channel still doesn't want sexual harassers on staff. I wonder why?

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

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trump take switch

yes I did the voice obviously

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

how long before Pete Hegseth is drunk texting Isaac Chotiner?

This is the single best description of the Democratic party.

did the decline into fascism feel this asinine for observers in the 1920s and 1930s? did they also have a moment where they realized that their new regime was made entirely of perennially toddler-brained assclowns?

The thin baja line

what do you think people *in* Final Fantasy think of the chocobo song? is it like "take me out to the ballgame" and everyone just knows the words and you're always going to hear it at a chocobo event?

Probably says something about the current dialogue on Twitter that the post with the most likes isn’t Bill Kristol or Elons in this exchange

This headline is incredibly misleading. They did not "train" a model for $50. They took an already-trained model (Qwen2.5) funded by a massive corporation (Alibaba) that cost tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars and nudged it to do slightly better in a single domain.

"But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'"

how long do you think it will be before someone uses CRISPR to inject a DOOM binary into some poor bacteria's DNA

This entire thread is interesting, but this post alone feels like it could be it's own thread. The WSJ reported just last year that Altman was trying to raise as much as 7 trillion (TR-trillion) dollars to build AI chips. Would you do anything economically with that much cash to burn? Could you?

The thing about selling shovels in gold rush is that it doesn't work when have a million investors demanding you sell a trillion dollars of shovels

claims from a newspaper based on unsubstantiated tweets from a guy no one can find caused Nvidia stock to drop 15% incredibly stable house of cards they've got here

“The founders of genocide studies seemed committed to the ethos of never again for anybody—‘except for the Palestinians.’” No paywall: jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide...

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okay I'll accept that as close enough to the spirit of the requirement

remember when everyone spent weeks arguing about how israel would never bomb a hospital and since then they’ve just been bombing hospitals and schools every day

Will game devs someday figure out how to make a trailer that is anything besides a two-minute extreme violence reel? The hard cut from Infinity Nikki to Mafia had me laughing until I cried.

cuddly girl winter

there is a special place in hell for people who send screenshots by putting them in excel files

milkshake duck

they were this cute for about five minutes and now they are fighting on top of the cat tower #cats