They will cite their own failure as proof that we overreacted.

I'll go against the BlueSky crowd here and say this is a good thing. Public sector unions have perverse incentives relative to private sector unions.

Mamdani delayed pension payments and received money from NY state; a combination of "kicking the can down the road" and "transferring debt to the state". He didn't improve the efficiency of government so much that a 12 billion deficit was wiped away. He is being misleading.

People choose hopelessness because hope demands something of you and hopelessness does not.

This website will never recognize that Kyle Rittenhouse (despite being a MAGA douche) did, in fact, act in self-defense, because nuance around a hated figure is not something most people can emotionally handle.

I'm sorry, I think racism is bad, I think the current admin is racist as hell, but I'm not capitalizing "black" while lowercasing white as some kind of weird linguistic "corrective racism"

You can basically copy-paste left and right-wing populism by replacing "immigrants/marxists/wokeness" with "corporations/billionaires" and changing almost nothing else.

I'm the most basic bitch centrist liberal you can find, and even I find Ezra Klein's whitewashing of reactionary figures intolerable.

Your definition of Israel-hating, as far as I can tell, is being willing to criticize Israel's military for human rights violations just at all, in any context.

Reading Jane Austen is too high a price to get laid.

NATO expansion is the antiwar position.

It's beautiful.

People simultaneously don't want LLMs to have their scales tipped by value judgments from Silicon Valley but also want it to be impossible for LLMs to tell you how to build a pipe bomb or commit suicide. These seem irreconcilable.

“This thing sucks, therefore it must necessarily suck in every way I can imagine, and anyone disagreeing is endorsing the thing itself.”

FIRE has been consistent in going after violations of free speech, especially on college campuses, regardless of the partisan politics involved, but even after like the 1000th time of doing so AGAINST the right, people on here still accuse them of being right-wing for some reason.

I wonder what @iammrbeat.bsky.social thinks of this.

What the fuck?

Correct.

The correct response to "What is a woman?" is "Who won the 2020 presidential election?"

The same thing has been said about everything going all the way back to literally books (which Socrates/Plato thought made you dumb; you should just KNOW STUFF)

I mean the behavior itself is obviously assault and the guy should be charged accordingly, but I don't know how I feel about treating Uber as liable.

I do think religions that have a "blood and soil" belief about a specific parcel of land probably need to give up that belief. It doesn't mean they need to give up their religious beliefs wholesale. But I'm not going to pretend all religious beliefs are good. Not with Judaism and not with Islam.

I 100% understand the animosity towards billionaires right now, but pretending that Trump was installed by billionaires is foolish. That's not how fascism works. The billionaires saw an opportunity, but they did not create it.

The comments on this are proof that being on BlueSky doesn't mean you're smart.

You can poke fun, but what she actually discovered was rubber duck debugging. You get the same effect from writing an email to a person to ask a question.

If any word has been abused beyond recognition, it's "objectification". People use it to basically mean "any time you look at anyone to enjoy the fact that they are sexy" when this is a perfectly ordinary part of human sexuality for all genders, orientations, etc.

Now work on stopping the incoming attempt to mandate age verification to use a computer operating system e.g. requiring a user to provide their personal identification information to use a computing device.

Old cartoon and still more relevant than ever 🙄

Wonder how many of these congresspeople are going to vote in favor of federal legislation to force computer operating systems to verify your age via providing your identity information after being "privacy focused" on this bill. Privacy is important; I just wish I believed they actually cared.

Capitalism is when an American does something I don't like. The more I don't like it, the more capitalism it is.

Popular Front or Bust As @aselrod.bsky.social argues, that goes in all directions. Nominee more left or more centrist than you? Get on board anyway. Democracy, rights and rule of law have to be the priority. Policy matters a lot, but is secondary to a system that makes policy improvement possible.

trying to post through it rn

Genetic determinism is a strawman of the position that people are not born blank slates. Obviously the truth is that people are a result of a combination of factors which include genetics, environment, and experience.

A table seating 11 people and a tankie is a table seating 12 tankies.

Fascism is less a coherent ideology and more a mass cultural psychosis with detectable patterns of thought.

look, there are only two political orientations, right wing and the exact same kind of communist as me

I think it's fair if the intent of the critique is to point out that someone who calls themself a Christian is not living by the rules they claimed to sign up for. Signed, A Non-Christian

When people say they want a liberal Joe Rogan, they mean someone with that level of reach and influence, not that they resemble Joe Rogan in any other capacity.

Remember when Nick Fuentes accidentally streamed gay porn after his steam ended and claimed the IDF hacked him to discredit him? Good times.

When people talk about a corporation having "record profits", how often are they literally just not accounting for inflation? If you made the same amount of actual money every year, you would always have "record profits" in absolute terms.

But yeah, Basically the far left reaction to the Hungarian election:

No liberal or leftist could have in a million years proven evangelicalism is cruelty masquerading as spirituality as thoroughly as Trump has.

Ezra Klein seems pathologically committed to being wrong on everything. It truly is bizarre.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

I have no idea how to get there, but there will never be peace between Israel and Palestine until both groups let go of "blood and soil" and the idea that their religion is more important than someone else's. Once you have that, pretty much any solution (single state, two state) will be workable.

The people of Israel and Palestine both have a right to live under a just and fair government. No state, including Israel, has a "right to exist" though. We must separate the well-being of Israeli people from any particular nation-state arrangement.