The point of this, and the point of the ICE raids, and the point of political retribution at blue states, is all the same thing: Break the country in half and convince half of it that (what you are currently doing to the other half) is (what they will do to you). You're building incentives.

There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland. If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.

This is a very good thread and it points out all the dynamics that make moderation both hard and exhausting, and only rewarding in the long run. You have to do it anyway.

It's funny that "we've been working on this plan this whole time" is producing "what we want is just to go back to 2007 healthcare but we pinky swear it will be better". I know Americans have no object permanence but to so baldly rely on that as the foundation for your political messaging is wild

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I really don't think these ICE guys are penciling out where this goes

also, while we should obviously talk about global inequality, i'm very skeptical of a 'root causes' argument that goes "if you want to reduce migration, you need to help developing countries, prevent conflicts, etc" that, to me, seems to grant the premise that immigration is a problem, it isn't!

Circumstances under which I would be cool with the US invading Greenland: 1) An interdimensional portal opens in downtown Nuuk, from which spews a devouring horde of abominations that must be stopped at any cost

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Yes but also the world watched us turn away Holocaust refugees and the world watched us bomb Cambodia and yes the current occupant is quite bad but I can assure you Iran hasn't been keen on us for longer than the Ayatolla has been in charge.

Everybody replying to this is sleeping on I Come In Peace

I would not send George any money, for a number of reasons, please do not regard this in any way as a positive post about Georgie... but NY-12 is D+33. I don't think George is quite so stupid as to think he is going to win there.

I will now offer the harshest criticism I have yet published on this forum about my wife: We have nine containers of nuts that are roasted but not salted

God I love Chef Choi shuffling into every room with his shoulders hunched up to his ears like he’s already apologizing for something. I know that man has never made eye contact once in his life

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you know, as a child of the 80's, I think I can explain the Silicone Valley takeover and what it's become: you have to a) remember "Revenge of the Nerds" b) remember it's a HORROR movie

BTW you can make risotto in the oven, in case you didn't know I don't know why this is apparently privileged information, but it's true, and it's WAY easier than all that nonsense with standing over a stove constantly stirring for 45 minutes

A bunch of them were tried and convicted! A bunch of the ones pardoned did more crimes! These are not good people!

It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.

You can make a community more inclusive by kicking people out! Welcome to paradoxical social dynamics! Thank you for following this thread, please share it with whoever needs to see it.

I mean it's upsetting to folks that there's a whole chapter defending slavery

Amnesty International also lists all kinds of writing campaigns they need people for: www.amnestyusa.org/get-involved...

If it comes to pass the Donald Trump invades a by-treaty ally it isn't enough to impeach him he needs to be then extradited to Denmark.

I get that nothing will come of this but if you want people to think a thing is bad you have to do things like this over and over, no matter how futile it feels or is. There's a reason the GOP voted at least 60 times on pointless attempts to repeal the ACA between 2010 and 2016.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding one constructive real world offline thing you can do to use your particular skills in service of fighting fascism as a psychological defense against the constant drumbeat of fuckery

Re: is social media inherently toxic I did a side project in grad school trying to answer “did social media create more jerks, or did social media make it easier for existing jerks to find and bother me?” The answer: yes

I read this as: Red: Had a Primary Residence Here Orange: Have Spent at least One Night Yellow: Have Gotten off the Freeway and stopped to see at least two Sights Green: Have Gotten off the Freeway and stopped to see at least one Sight Blue: Only Got Off The Freeway to get gas/bathroom

I mean it's what they're doing here, so it makes sense that they think this is "taking control" there.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Call this guy back to Rome (omnious) (Bishop Barron, not Rich)

I feel like Steve O politely asking Bill Maher to not smoke weed on his podcast because Steve O has had a lot of struggles with sobriety and Bill Maher being like Waaaa nooo me neeeeed weeeeed me seventy years olllllld is very indicative of who we treat as serious people in America

DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. DO NOT FEED WILDLIFE AND HABITUATE IT TO HANGING OUT AROUND HUMANS. DO NOT HANDLE WOUNDED WILDLIFE, CALL A PROFESSIONAL. EXTREMELY DO NOT BREASTFEED BATS.

"Age divides are substantial. Among the Current GOP under 50, a notable minority report that they themselves openly express racist (31%) or antisemitic (25%) views." Groyper Theory holds.

No one working at Mercedes Benz in 1935 was like “we should take a principled anti-Gestapo stance, to pick up Hindenburg fans”. Instead they were negotiating the favorable slave labor rates the Nazis were going to charge them in exchange for giving Hitler a few nice limos

five years ago the president of the united states incited an insurrection in order to try to retain power and it is a comprehensive failure at every level - media, law enforcement, courts, politicians and most of all the voters - that he has returned to power and threatens the stability of the world

This is why keeping the government open to save SCHIP and TANF doesn't work any more as a baseline strategy.

Do you want to be able to get messages to your Congressperson that they will care about? This is how you do that.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Do you know what Americans support in the 90+% bracket? Literally almost nothing! "Price gougers in emergencies suck" is about it!

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Female elephant seals dive so deep that their annual migration adds up to nearly 9,000 miles when you count the vertical travel. Only a handful of whales dive deeper.

The Party of Family Values

It's weird that a bunch of guys watched this movie, thought it was the baddest thing ever, didn't form fight clubs... and then years later hired a bully to beat people up that they couldn't be chuffed to do themselves.

I will set the over/under on "documents released by Jan 31st" at 127,392

It's Tuesday on the east coast, but lucky for you, we're based in California, so this offer is still good for a few more hours...

What's not written here is that Scott Adams did not undergo the standard prostate cancer treatment arc, but instead wanted to prove that IVERMECTIN CURES CANCER And all he proved is that IVERMECTIN DOES NOT CURE CANCER. This is, by far, the funniest thing Scott Adams has ever done.

Ppl ask how a chatbot could give someone psychosis and it’s not the chatbot-as-tech but the dialog and storytelling the chatbot engages in with a vulnerable person in the right way (for that person)—which could be carried out by another human, but the delivery mechanism of LLMs makes it available.

I've been obsessed with color math lately! bsky.app/profile/kyle...