Dozens of generations of barbarians did this for Rome, you fucking stupid idiot.

It's almost like America is not as uniquely awful as the memes say she is.

Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points! Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!" "That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM

Being anti immigration is the ultimate luxury belief

I mean if I was a politician I would simply not have the sell your house to Aquaman dipshit on my podcast.

Vought and Musk must never know freedom again after their mass murder of millions.

There is great irony in the automatic, unchanging answer of "you idiot, they're just fancy autocomplete" to any question posed about LLMs.

We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began. However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

Reiterating my belief that any trans person in a blue area who thinks there is no difference between parties has a moral obligation to switch homes with a trans person in Bumfuck, Mississippi who believes otherwise.

Horrific. Also a reason medical research should be publicly funded and public domain, ad nauseam

even if this wasn't just gibbering madness and idiocy (which it is) Trump's killed by latest count 700,000 people, most of them children, all of whom would be alive today if Kamala Harris was the President so worst outcome for Gaza, and the largest act of mass murder in the 21st century.

Didnt the Qing have some dipship fail his LSAT equivalent, declare himself the second coming of Jesus as a way to cope with the failure, and start a rebellion that ended up killing millions?

"Censorship" and "Not platforming something" are not remotely the same, and this infuriating insistence on conflating the two is why I had zero moral choice other than to leave Substack.

You can sort of tell when someone has never had a job where they had to clean up after other people

>story about how a new measure has made transit better for everyone But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?

"Yes, the tech is being rolled out with no input from society except ruthless anti-social capitalist tycoons and resentful managers, a tiny handful of whom are exemplars of judgment or character, but..." is an insanely political position worthy of derision, regardless of what follows the ellipsis.

wow the cotton gin's gains aren't going to labor or pro-social uses but being captured upward oh such unexpected who could have expected this from rolling it out with zero input from any other facet of society besides capital huuuuuuh

The name "Ilia" is itself a Slavicized pronunciation of Hebrew Eliyahu (or more proximately, Greek Elias). Beware telling people they have to pronounce things like in the old country; it's impossible to stay consistent with that principle.

Life hack as a kid, aka, preventing tons of complexes from infesting my thinking, was intuiting basically instantly that adults were just acting out on the same bullshit impulses as kids.

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

New World GDI from Denali to Shipton. A respite from the unhappy Old World. A haven for all mankind.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

I actually do think there’s a war on men. I just think it’s led by boys who are 30-60 years past 18 and not women.

Patriarchy the Sequel: Men 2 Boyz

American urban and transit policies are third-rate before most other developed countries, but culturally there's just no fucking comparison and victory goes to the country that's least maladjusted to the realities* of modernity. *women, queer people, and immigrants are people

America wins because its starting seed is broken and happens to be the last one standing demographically because it's one of the least insane countries about immigration somehow

Imagine winning a historic majority on a "change" ticket and then trying to sell "we're actually too responsible to do much" to the electorate. What's the point of a majority large enough to ban adverbs on a whim, if not to bloody use it?

The time for this sort of nonsense was 30 years ago. Japan cannot depend on itself because it let itself rot in comfort for so long, and lo, as the twilight deepens, people turn to conservative delusions yet again.

Liu Bolin. Iron Fist (2014).

A mortally neglected side of military reform is greatly constraining and clearly defining what constitutes the legitimate use of military order. This is not what an order is for. This is no different than an officer ordering an enlisted to pick up their dry cleaning or mowing their lawn for them.

100%. It's really crazy to me how long it takes for conventional warriors to catch up in battlespaces which call for asymmetric operations

@barackobama.bsky.social this is a war of attrition against Dear Leader and you can actually do some serious damage on a daily basis if you're willing to accept the indignity of the situation. He will absolutely watch.

The robotic inhumanity of corpo manager types (seen on Facebook group about trade union) You'd think they care about whether you finished your work versus just adhering to a clock but nope, they're all freaks.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

Inaccurate. If you read the research, it's about evidence of the Nubian wildcat migrating possibly as an animal commensal with human occupation; the oldest evidence of actual domestication in Europe is still c. 2000BCE most probably coming from trade with the ancient Near East.

the federal government is nearly universally staffed with people who are so dedicated to caring about their neighbors that they volunteer to take a steep pay cut and absurd job instability just to be able to help make your life better without any expectation of thanks consider my ass and my hole

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

America has been a cultural superpower for far longer than it has been a superpower in any other sense, and the greatest one since Rome.

Elon goes woke and adopts they/them as a personal pronoun

TFW emphasizing the great and globally impactful extent of the European far right's negative effect on Ukrainian victory gets described as pro-Russian propaganda. 💀

"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

This is why people on the left need to read Carl Schmitt and take his critique (NOT his proposals) seriously. Structure > policy and the way we've structured democratic institutions has, uh, some weaknesses esp. to the type of shit the Internet age has thrown at us

Of course the one cord I need isn't in The Big Bag of Cords why would it be

I think Obama was vindicated in the long run because the ACA endured against all odds while Bidenomics was rejected in favor of fascism by the electorate.

Apocalypse Now, 1979 Robert Peak. artdaily.com/news/175158/...