They've decided that non-violent self help is violence against them because it is the only way they can justify preemptive violence, violence in the moment, & reactive/responsive violence. 9/

They have subverted tolerance into a one sided demand that everyone must tolerate them, their beliefs, & their behavior, but they don't have to tolerate anyone else, anyone else's beliefs, &/or anyone else's behavior. 5/

If you try to avoid them, they get angry & demand your interest. Trump himself has always been a walking reverse panopticon, where everyone is confined by the force of his megalomania & narcissism, but unlike a penitentiary where he watches all of us, we're forced to watch him. 3/

it's not often that entire highschools durably learn a lesson about physics, and underestimating opponents, and if we're lucky, about the concept of fighting words, all in one day. pedagogical excellence

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Antisemitism is literally a strategy going back centuries to distract people from the real enemy, the aristocracy. This is extremely well documented.

Also, being antisemitic won’t stop the genocide in Gaza as evidenced by the fact that there is tons of antisemitism everywhere and yet the genocide in Gaza continues.

Being antisemitic about Epstein doesn’t hurt him, he’s already dead. But it does hurt me.

"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that

Maybe when they named themselves after genocidaires we coulda known … (I knew)

If they can stop voting based on whimsy by targeting women THAT IS HOW THEY STOPPED VOTING IN THE SOUTH FOR DECADES WITH BLACK PEOPLE THIS IS NOT NEW I know the “smart” people who don’t think Americans know fascism normalized it but NO THIS AINT A DRILL THIS IS HOW THEY WIN

Periodic reminder that his career only exists because he went on a date with Monica Lewinsky and wrote a gross gossipy sexist story about it.

If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me. I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels. Please learn, prepare, and get ready.

The SAVE act also forces states to submit their voter registration lists to the DHS! I know we’ve been focused on voter ID but that’s only the tip of the iceberg !

Never forget that the Nazis, in the greatest self-own of all time, started looking for Jewish ancestry in their own scientists if those scientists seemed too smart.

The professional grade logistics of the 9,723 individual pop-up leftist supply depots are running laps around the people paid to do these jobs

real 'skinner out of touch' meme moment for me today

Funny how these dudes always want a tradwife but clutches pearls when they are asked to be trad-husbands.

I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.

Despicable.

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It a thousand percent will not

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Another good reason not to argue with shitty people on this site. Block and move on.

I have no sympathy for Pam Bondi and also, girl, this is why you don’t shill for the anti-woman party they were always going to turn on you MAGA knows everything about love-bombing and nothing about love

Someone needs to educate @banrion6.bsky.social on basic biology like the fact that depending on when you measure it (such as right before puberty), cis girls on average actually have more testosterone than cis boys. TERFs are so bad at science.

Re: Will Stancil

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

I mean, also, LLMs both *must* respond somehow to the prompt and are trained to be accommodating, so if you ask an LLM to find fallacies in content it will find them, whether or not they’re actually fallacies.

The problem with this is that it does not allow students to develop the skills to do this on their own. Also, NEVER use AI to identify fallacies in arguments in this way. Fallacies like the ones listed don't render the arguments invalid and promote a particular image of how discourse takes place.

Re: the normalization of white nationalist-derived antisemitic language among younger online leftists.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. This has generally not been considered one of God’s better ideas.

Man shocked that a woman would block a follower for endorsing misogynist behavior.

Do not let the massive propaganda campaign convince you otherwise ice is absolutely hammering the city and surrounding areas. Multiple convoys are being reported around the city, abductions are still happening and the secret police are still on the ground openly.

Anytime someone says the gay community doesn't have a misogyny problem, I show them this, Gage.

It’s fascinating how often men tip their hand that they’re just waiting for an “excuse” to be misogynist. (E.g. “If women are equal to men then I can finally hit them!”) In this case, a woman said that a particular voting choice made people “losers” (insult but not slur) and dude jumps in w/ slur.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

This is mostly a good thread, but this is some victim-blaming. I agree that Zionist conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism makes it harder to *fight* antisemitism, but the antisemitism was always there.

We can do a much better job at explaining antisemitism to leftists. Antisemitism is particularly insidious precisely because of its flexibility — people slipping into antisemitic tropes use Jewishness alternately as an ethnicity, a race, a nationality and a religion, often without realizing.

Antisemitism is alive and well on the left. And if you're a leftist tempted to reply with a no-true-Scotsman "liberals not leftist" argument, consider that antisemitism is alive and well among both leftists and liberals and your comment does not help anyone.

Also imprisoning women doesn’t not require incarcerating women, historically this has been achieved by confining women to their family homes and rendering them economically and legally dependent on men.

The same drug might be able to offer total pain relief for period cramps, but that was “not a public health priority,” unlike keeping men’s dicks hard longer. It is hard to overstate the degree to which men get off on women’s suffering. Why are there male review panels for women’s health?

Having grown up in Wisconsin, attended UW-Madison, etc. Minnesota was a rival we made fun of. And the level of cold anger I feel at seeing them abused like this makes it hard to sleep at night. We like to make fun of them and also THOSE ARE *MY* PEOPLE, THE SALT OF THE EARTH.

The woman in the bathrobe below is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social.

The is a good place. And it should not be under occupation from our own government.