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This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source

Hitting the shows for an audience of 1.

The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court

Is it a bad sign that reposting something like this with an Orwell quote feels tired and cliché?

damn right!

The wildest part about this is how Tennessee Republicans go around telling people how much they’ve invested in our public schools — as they steer hundreds of Millions to private schools via @GovBillLee’s vouchers

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

When fascists call for unity, it means "you quit fighting back." Always. Every time.

“People react to those kind of things.” Except, of course, for calling for the execution of political enemies, or calling them traitors, or saying they hate America, or that they eat dog and cats, or that they are destroying America. Nobody reacts to that.”

Historians can spend whole lifetimes trying to accurately recreate a few minutes of time. Most of us remember at best just a fraction of the stuff we actually experienced.

Eyewitness accounts in the immediate wake of disaster and violence are often TERRIBLY inaccurate. And within hours, people will have talked and spread enough conflicting narratives that everybody's "memories" are at least like 30% cobbled together after-the-fact.

I get it's funny how much instant misinfo there was about a shooting at a gathering of journalists. But this is completely normal. I have seen people who had a 9mm pistol pulled on them say the shooter had an AR-15. I have folks cry "shots fired" when none were and then ignore gunfire a block away.

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Feels like this should be a story the press covers.

One of my stronger parenting beliefs is that if you offload storytime to AI you are failing as a parent and your kids will one day look back at those moments with disappointment

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Sowing/Reaping

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

But which version and in which language

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

America’s options with Iran are still humiliation or escalation. Trump got the U.S. into a bad strategic position. That core dynamic hasn’t changed.

Someone will always say "It's just a tool! When used appropriately its revolutionary!" Yes, and so is morphine, when used appropriately by professionals. But we don't stick morphine dispensers in every home and carry one in our pockets, do we?

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.

What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …

has...anyone ever heard someone use the phrase "justice involved population" before now? I've only ever heard "incarcerated people" and similar terms.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Palantir put plans for techno-fascism in a document. Like a techno-fascist manifesto with themselves at the center. Features fascistic distortions of language and declarations of inherent superiority that should be acknowledged and made permanent, but driven by and with a more central role for tech.

its just funny to me that the avatar of conservative masculinity is such a moist subservient cuck

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

I think Charlie Kirk was a terrible influence on society and politics, but even I think this is a mockery of his memory.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Hands down, undisputed inadvertently-funniest president ever.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

Ari Melber's show put together a supercut of an 8-minute Trump rant about snakes that raised concerns about his mental wellbeing

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Trump officials have been peddling the same lies to survive the daily news cycle for the past 6 weeks, and people keep buying what they’re selling. ‘We won the war. Tomorrow you’ll see. Prices are coming down. Tomorrow you’ll see. We’ll kill them. Tomorrow you’ll see.’

It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing.

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.