The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

a thing no one talks about who hasn't read slaver and eugenics propaganda is how seeped those fuckers were in weird psychosexual shit

For better or worse, in a capitalist system, one important part of what a CEO does is to deliver value for shareholders based on that, the then CEO did a fabulous job

Building a time machine to show all the “Bluesky is a bubble” guys what a forum was

based on these replies and quotes, i'm glad that we all think rape is really fucking funny whenever it happens to a man. i'm glad assault, drugging, racial abuse, professional retribution, illegal surveillance, and physicals threats of violence are a big Joke depending on the audience!!!

Seriously, I'm kinda proud that Bluesky hates him so much that just random bile spewn at him goes viral just on the hate. There's so much wrong with Bluesky, we gotta stop sometimes and see what's right Hating RFK Jr.

If I got to suffer, so do you.

Folks were wrong to say the illegal attack on Iran was the beginning of the Third World War. It was actually a trigger for the Second Thirty Years' War. #DefenestrationOfPrague #SomeoneThrowHegsethOutOfAPentagonWindowPlease

Cannot believe the insanely stupid shit happening with TobyFox right now. I hope that dude is able to separate himself from... ALL of that.

HEY MY BOOBS GOT THEIR YEARLY HEALTH CERTIFICATION This is your reminder to go get that mammogram/blood panel/prostate exam/papsmear/eye exam/dental cleaning/etc scheduled, as is applicable

I would apologize for putting Clavicular in all of your feeds again, but watching him get his ass kicked while the dude kicking his ass talks shit is the best thing I've seen today so please enjoy

Seriously, Moz does amazing work check them out!

Type 2 autistic. I'm processing but interesting to note a lot of information I was given and told to look into is stuff I'm already doing in one form or another including learning how to mask and mimic others along with creating scripts to follow to help clarify my speech patterns.

Grimm brings up a damn good point about how they don't need some mass scale take over of every single polling location to fuck things up BAD, just got to screw with a few places in some swing states to cause mayhem and win by slivers.

Look I very much know that antizionism isn’t antisemitism, I do get that, but the plainly obvious fact right now is that as expressed right now, in this moment, there’s a ton of overlap, some VERY MUCH intentional, and there’s actors working hard to turn the unintentional stuff intentional too.

I'm really getting tired of this crap where so long as your opponent is in the opposing camp it's okay to turn into a hood wearing asshole. Too many times I wonder how much some actually care about progressive causes, or just use it as a shield for their own bigotry because "They're the bad guys"

Bari Weiss was not only not-cancelled, she actively tried to get cancelled and when that didn't work, she just quit and claimed that her coworkers somehow made her quit, and its vey unsurprising who has forgotten all of the actual facts and details of that incident and replaced it with fantasy

Things are getting extremely anti-semitic on here and it will break the site

For those wondering it's even worse than you'd expect that thread. To steal from a post I saw long ago: Have you seen what the fuck we do to women who dare speak up or say no? And you wonder why this shit flies under the radar for decades or someone has to die first?

This is legitly the greatest thing I ever read, and it's REAL.

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

AI evangelists and their political allies are less interested in convincing people that fake things are real than they are in convincing people that real things are fake. The end goal is the collapse of a recognizable, consensus reality and they're making excellent progress toward it.

Had a song that I never could figure out why it kept popping up in my head when I listen to synthwave songs and have been tinkering around with programs trying to recreate it. Finally found the sumbitch, turns out I was way off where it came from. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBY...

A section of an essay I think about frequently (Hanif Abdurraqib): “I think about how often me and the boys I knew and know were taught to love each other through expressions of violence. How, if that is our baseline for love, it might be impossible for us to love anyone well, including ourselves.”

Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.

This sticks to me because this was my child hood and teenage years down around SE Texas. A lot of fears of standing up for others because it could make you a target and seeing it happen to other students in high school.

Much like Sky and a few others, Palmer always finds the most 'normal' people on planet earth that make me feel well adjusted and dare I say normal?

i was a libertarian in my late teens because i thought we wasted too much money on shit we didn't need to waste it on. i got older and realized the things we wasted the most money on were wars.

Holy shit. It's literal "I was doing it for the lolz" kind of horse shit logic. My god how much bigotry got enabled the past fifteen plus years because the stupidest folks you know just wanted to be "transgressive"?

Autism Testing. First part was a pretty comprehensive survey done of my life, from childhood to adult hood, asking a ton of questions about developmental issues or view points on how things were for me growing up. Second part is later and it's in person testing.

Mike Johnson and Josh Hawley My freaking nose is on the crown of my head from how hard I cringed at the idea of more of these psychos being in office.

what did y'all think touching the stove meant? vibes? papers? essays?

Saw others do this, joined in. For those wondering, Lunar 1 and 2 to me is one giant game but Blue I liked just a bit more than Silver. Missing games that should be there: Megaman franchise, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania III, Earthbound

It's this dude. Everything is about to become stupider.

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

The shop I was managing in 1987 got staked out for an armed robbery by the flying squad twice in one month. (Stake-out #2 was my curtain call: time not just for a new job, but back to uni and a whole new career path.)

Britishism, now obsolete, for police rapid response unit, often responding to armed robberies eg. bank raids. In the late 1980s in Yorkshire they thought they were The Sweeney: plain clothes, fast cars, handguns.

I'm conflicted. 1) That chinless rapist wants me to believe he's gonna actually go to Dubai? 2) I can't believe I'm rooting for explosive ordinance to do the funniest thing on earth.

So, we have some family friends who are Russian. About five years ago, they started renting from my folks, and they are here on an asyum visa; though they will not talk about it, they were obvious dissidents of some kind. Anyway, their kids are my kids ages, so of course my folks were on board

Our legal system has primed them to think that if they can outspend their opponent, they will always win. On the very few occasions they don’t win, they’re shocked and think it’s bias that they have to follow the laws, like a peasant.

As much as I love some podcasters and some of their POVs in regards to history or events, I keep coming back to why I get so pissed off about idolizing these folks or trusting them so much, jesus fucking christ this is beyond sleazy as fuck.

he's drugging these people with sodium pentothal, there is no other way to explain it

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

The size of this W Is large

and in a few years we're going to say the same thing about the nazi tattoos being a sign, but it didn't matter because there were libs to own.

an entire political party of noah smith’s creepy asian fetish

... holy shit this is actually really good...