Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

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lack of congressional approval is not the point you evil bastards

Probably just send their notice to their cell.

people are saying Ds are getting paid off to vote or trump nominees, but I think it's worse in that I'm pretty sure they're doing it on principle. 1

To be clear, scarcity is largely artificial. We have enough resources to provide everyone at least a basic level of life and this fucking line is the main reason we don't distribute them accordingly.

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

To add on, I don't think it's as simple as they are "paid off". The kind of people that get into these positions in the system described are fundamentally immoral, narcissistic and power hungry. They have no wish to stop fascism because at best they don't care or at worst they think they can benefit

Still a fan of Barbara Kellerman's absolutely unhinged performance in this one. Go big or go home.

You would never know based on how its covered where the overwhelming majority of medical science falls on this issue. This is the NYT publishing climate denialism but for healthcare.

Honestly have been saying this for a long time but the electoral politics world almost completely disregards the rights of the child because they don't vote

Rock-A-Doodle

The idea that AI can bring about a sci fi apocalypse is pro AI propaganda. It frames AI like it's the atom bomb. Terrifying, sure. Powerful. Effective. Necessary even if just as a deterrent. Worth investing unlimited funds into.

A hilarious defense for LLMs which famously bloviate and pad. I'm sure they can be hammered into something resembling efficiency but just learn to write concisely yourself. It's faster and more reliable.

This makes sense if you think about it for a single minute. It someone feels strongly enough about Israel for it to influence their vote, they'll probably vote Trump. You're courting a thin section of zionists who support Israel this exact amount and alienating everyone who can identify a genocide.

it's draining enough to live in a world where people can make a living acting as journalists complaining about trans women, but to live in a world where people make a living complaining that bsky is too hostile? embarrassing. clown shoes. you would not last a day in the mines that forged me, scrub.

Welcome to, "Don't ask questions if you don't actually want an honest answer."

If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Altman’s comments are a classic example of dehumanizing people: childhood and education are reduced to “training” for the purposes of economic productivity. These are obviously not the same, but Altman’s words imply the main purpose of humans is to serve capital 3/

You know I try not to be conspiratorial. I tend to assume pressure from multiple sources is a matter of overlapping incentives, not deliberate collusion. Then reality hits me with, "All the social movements you loathe were coordinated with a notorious child trafficker" and it really doesn't help.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Bullying. It works.

there is a reason patronism led to some of the greatest creative output in human history “you don’t have to spend your time and energy working on anything except your art” means more art

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

They hate it when we reject their frame. Like the debate is if AI will be a force for massive good or evil and having someone say, "Hey, maybe it isn't a force at all because it's a mostly useless technology that makes everything it touches worse." Kinda messes up the the game.

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Loathe as I am to answer earnestly to a joke, this is actually one of my favorite things and I enjoy sharing it.

Bluesky is problematic in the way it treats Palestinian people. Pls stop suspending all of our friends. How can they establish mutual trust and build community online for their campaigns to survive when their accounts disappear every five minutes?! Making it easier for scammers to impersonate them!

Of the two people shown here, one has won an election and you would never guess which one based on Will's condescending tone.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

If specifically FD Signifier makes a four hour video about me, I shall simply vanish into the foliage.

Gavin Newsome just seems really polarizing and a risky option if Dems are serious about winning.

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Plagiarism has always been very profitable, we just are deciding to make it legal now for some reason.

Ironically, I was raised in a cult in Oregon. I got better. People do deprogram themselves. I did. I might never have if I hadn't encountered hostility. There is a line to be towed where you want to give people space, but if someone is demanding that their former actions never be brought up, run.

if you care about winning elections, your bosses fucked up. the fault is theirs, for fucking up. the fault is not with the left for pointing out they were fucking up ahead of time

Gonna deviate from my bag of go to hot takes. New 52 Superman/Wonder Woman were almost certainly gonna permanently break up within the year and fans actually canonized their relationship by forcing a reboot. I think the break up was always the plan, but no patience.

It's basically a super power. It's wild. They'll back down almost immediately most of the time.

"In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us." www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

This is doubly crazy because we don't even know who he is gonna run against. Everyone is acting like it's Trump but he is likely to be dead and aside from that, he can't run. Like he won't be on the ballot in a lot of states. Promising your vote at this point is absurd.

Most of the history I update as an adult are things I was taught were good/neutral and were in fact bad (Nuclear attacks, Vietnam, etc) Slavery is the one where I was taught it was bad and later discovered it was so much worse.

Disabled people still don’t have marriage equality. If we fall in love and want to marry, we can’t. Why? Because our benefits are ripped away. We become dependent on our spouse. This increases the odds of becoming trapped in an abusive relationship you can’t afford to leave.