The shut-down federal government has money to shoot live ammunition over a densely packed freeway in a state they despise to intimidate civilians and disrupt commerce, but they don't have money to continue SNAP benefits to feed the hungry past November 1. Make it make sense!

He is just ridiculously good at this.

really gonna need journalists to use their Big People Words Carpet Bombed With Shit, is what you're looking for Todd

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Marx: "society...makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic." Ari: No. Thats bourgeoise.

The idea that any amount of choice and liberty at all is bourgeoise decadence is literally how a liberal would write a communist villain in their fictional stories and ari is actually over here doing it.

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this will kill people.

Here’s a problem. The US is counting on all these countries that owe us money not having climate change induced revolutions and telling us to fuck off

after particularly long work meetings i always shed my worksona by immediately unplugging my headphones and vocalizing as many random noises as i possibly can to get back in the right mindset. i'm worried one day i'll accidentally still be in the zoom and they'll ask what the hell just happened.

The biggest threat to them is our number; we are many, they are few. To this end, we must be prevented at all costs from understanding this. This is the role of the media - to keep us distracted, stupid, pacified, confused, compliant and squabbling amongst ourselves.

I support social democrats running mostly because it will radicalize people and show them 1) it’s not enough 2) they will be sabotaged They serve as a radicalization point. I do not think them misusing the term socialism is helpful though

If you are continually surprised or disappointed in institutions and people in them your analysis / understanding of capitalist society needs some kind of adjustment Consistent surprise means you don’t actually understand the world you live in

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

nothing makes me feel like a lovecraftian protagonist more than watching brand new misinformation sprout from the ground and take root as the next pop sci "fact" to be debunked for the next 15 years because of shoddy fearmongering clickbait journalism which paints an inaccurate picture of the world.

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I genuinely think Ari Drennen does not think of trans people who exist below a certain tax bracket, yet insists on generalizing her incredibly narrow and limited worldview to the experiences of a population pushed out of the formal economy worldwide.

Transsexualism is bourgeois, which is why most of the Western girls I know are crowdfunding their healthcare costs to get it overseas

I honestly think if you are a well off trans person you either recognize that your circumstances are mostly by chance and that the system is keeping your siblings oppressed or you become entirely insufferable.

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I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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everyone would agree that if you believe in what is right, it doesn't matter if it's controversial. i would go a step further and say: you should not even concede to the *idea* that what you believe is controversial. trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.

most people who are against trans rights aren't against it for any principled reason and they need neither to be catered to nor convinced that they were wrong. as soon as the people around them stop acting like trans people are a problem, they will stop thinking trans people are a problem.

"i'm just worried about what happens if we let trans women into the women's restrooms..." are you? why are you worried about that? it's like saying, "i'm just worried what happens if we let pineapple onto pizza". it's a non-sequitur! don't allow them to think that's a normal thing to worry about!

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

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this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

update: Will Powers is a conversion therapist freak of nature & actively harmful. full condemnation.

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Hello again @aaron.bsky.team. Does Bluesky has a special contract with thehive.AI where thehive.AI won’t use Bluesky users posts for their GenAI? Or is Bluesky actually feeding every user post (Art & Writing) to a GenAI system that profits off of copyrighted material not intended for it?

That backlog is also why a user might just suddenly be banned for a post they made last year. That that post was found and used as justification for a ban right after the person questioned a staff member or made a criticism is purely coincidental, of course.

There's a famous IBM quote about how "A computer can never be held accountable, and thus a computer must never make a management decision." "We surrendered our own authority to a shitty computer program! We're not at fault!" is not the slam dunk defense you seem to think it is.

Is this going to be like that thing where you see real-time images of climate disasters online until finally you’re the one taking the photo?

HERE'S HOW BLUESKY CAN STILL WIN (🧵):

Harley is a trans femme icon (wildly popular but everyone gets why wrong, weirdly bad taste in men, completely evil at random intervals, fucked sense of humour, inexplicably highly educated for the career she's in, has committed crimes you've never even heard of, inexplicable fashion sense)

She continued: “You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, overprocessed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

being a lesbian gives u like misogyny shinigami eyes. and anyone who centers men in their lives will treat u like a crazy man hater for being upset about provable statistical inequalities and wanting to center women’s stories.

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

I FOIA'd the FTC for consumer complaints about crypto scammers who pretend to be Elon Musk. People are cashing out their retirement accounts and losing ridiculous sums of money.

it's giving NFTs for dogs

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

AND BOTH THR COOL PEOPLE AND CENTRIST DWEEBS ARE LIKE "HEY, WE'RE PERSONALLY INVESTED IN THIS SITE'S SUCCESS. CAN WE PAY YOU?"!! And the people handed that legendary fucking once-in-a-lifetime windfall are staring at it with contempt and muttering "I wanted the nazi slopbros. This sucks."