Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile! Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes! The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

every day we draw closer to this becoming reality

Whatever else I might say about them, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Somalia all have long standing and mostly warm relationships with the United States. Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire are keystones in West Africa. All of this is incoherent from a strategic standpoint (because this isn’t about strategy).

"I have serious concerns about men playing in women's lacrosse"

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My instinct is it only works for Trump because his lifetime of braggart lying has conditioned a lot of people to simply not take his statements seriously, so if you reveal his truth social insanity to Fox viewers, they discount it. 'Locker room talk.' I don't think Vance will get the same benefit.

It is unfortunate that we must deal with open white nationalism. It is fortunate they have decided to attempt open white nationalism at the time their vibes are absolutely abysmal already.

What this really is, is “I came to this angry because of the Big Account that wanted me to be angry about it, and then I looked at it and the reason I was angry was wrong, but I’m still angry so there has to be some way to justify it.” Very common on here.

How can so many people read this as "i hate immigrants" and not "we dont have enough housing, the large amount of immigrants coming into the US were most vulnerable to this fact"

Damn, he was also awesome in generation kill

the kind of boring and banal truth about AI tools is that they are basically like every other tool in that they work best to complement your existing areas of expertise, have limitations, and do require an investment of time to learn their capabilities and limitations.

Like so much of what passes for right wing intellectualism, it’s just reheated Schmitt. “Narco-terrorism” creates a state of emergency and the sovereign needs unfettered power to act. The law and ideas of popular sovereignty are discarded.

“The nature of the drug terrorist threat does not neatly fit into the classic definitions or manifestations of armed conflict, which ordinarily involves some sort of armed attack with military weapons.” The argument amounts to “the president can kill who he likes if he calls them terrorists”

It is totally possible for data to be wrong. You cannot make definitive conclusions about it’s relative wrongness from your personal experiences when the universe the data is attempting to represent is “an economy composed of 340mn people”. You are not a serious person if you think you can.

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

i really hope next year we can find some way of counterbalancing the focus on evil, stupidity, and greed by highlighting more people who are doing good

LA machinists -- we need 12 of these ASAP. 12x quantity to start, 7075 Pu-Ga, dimensions 8.9 *8.9* 8.9. Dm me if interested in taking this on

Another Army spouse, me, said: “Fuck you, it’s illegal”.

Impeaching DOJ officials would be very useful since there’s a chance of bipartisan support. The process alone would keep the files in the news.

For context: inherent contempt is an extremely rarely used thing, but it basically means "fuck the courts, CONGRESS is arresting you." A little codicil that allows Congress to be judge, jury, and executioner in extremely narrow circumstances

I always point out that a single queer kid feeling slightly more accepted after seeing cheap Pride merch at a Target in Buttcracksville, Idaho is more important than every radical queer theorists’ entire body of work combined, and I will hopefully never budge on that statement

If this is true, I know a lot of folks think the U.S. won’t fight just because the current POTUS wouldn’t want to and boy is that take really, really wrong.

The problem isn't that they hate the VC nuts. The problem is that they hate anyone else they associate with tech or AI now. They're mad that they can't directly harm the VCs, so they're viciously kicking and biting at anyone who vaguely reminds them of the VCs. It's not OK, also counterproductive.

This was written in a lab to piss me off

We can't address climate change if we keep acting like public transit should be a BS make work jobs program instead of something we need to rapidly expand at the lowest cost to the government as possible. Good for Gov Hochul.

I do not have a theory of mind for the kind of person who calls a stranger to be mad at them about something interpersonal.

Surely these stimmies will not be inflationary

This may not be the release you were looking for today, but trust me…it’s a better read. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Yeah I’ve been thinking about writing something on how liberals need to think a bit more Clausewitzian and take into account psychological factors. Aesthetics and performance are legitimate methods of politics.

Underrated how much of political activity operates under the logic of a cargo cult. Actions are taken without consideration of whether they contribute to actually accomplishing a goal, purely because those actions are associated with that goal.

Why edgy anti-lib post when you can edgy turbo-lib post

The thing about everyone being an iconoclast dissident is that it means nobody feels responsible for building or maintaining anything.

Lol we now have AI critics uncritically citing AI slop and blocking anyone who tries to point out the obvious flaws in it, the ouroborous is complete

Modern radicals have learned from better strategists that radicals sometimes carry out acts of sabotage, but they have not learned why.

To be absolutely clear here, what I’m saying is that these people are not interested in actually solving any environmental concerns. They’re interested in being moralizing morons. The only appropriate response is to make fun of them and move on. bsky.app/profile/sky....

Of course mistakes were made. They always are. But if Trump could win running the most dogshit insane campaign in American history, color me skeptical that one PAC running ads about him that weren’t mean enough was what made voters forget January 6. To say it is to refute it!

lol, lmao, lol, lmao

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

January 6th was the most dramatic part, but the real coup (and real treason) was in the fake electors scheme. The riot was only to create a sense of crisis, whereas the fake electors would directly nullify the election.

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

What's going on with that post is how many Gentiles respond to the Israel/Palestine cause in miniature: "I have adopted the Correct Stances that make you a Good person, how DARE you tell me to speak judiciously?" It's adopting the cause for the moral clout to abuse others, not sincere passion.

'globalize the intifada' is motte-and-bailey shit, it's mostly people who want the thrill of being associated with violence but a deniability option when questioned.

January 6th was the most dramatic part, but the real coup (and real treason) was in the fake electors scheme. The riot was only to create a sense of crisis, whereas the fake electors would directly nullify the election.

Lmao, larian was talking about exactly how they use AI, in depth, this spring, but the headline said machine learning so nobody lost their minds www.gamespot.com/articles/bal...

Living through the OWS period when everyone was like "okay if a McDonalds charged just a little more per order we could pay $15/hr" and similar claims about food, and then the moment that started actually happening (Ag and CDL jobs with HUGE increases) people said "Fuck this, fuck you, fuck off"

So if you get lucky and a department of 5, 10, 15, 20 academics doesn't have someone who thinks mil-hist is Icky - well, it enrolls really well - those departments often have very strong mil-hist offerings. But just a few who do think it is icky? The department is ice cold, and won't hire for it.

Very embarrassing that any “realists” support appeasement. Realist theory says: kill the bastards. open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...