I just wanted to know why people are always accusing each other of being narcissists and now I don’t know anything

Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X. Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.

International rule of law was supposed to matter. For instance, what now stops China from invading Taiwan? Or how about Ukraine special forces kidnapping Putin? Trump’s actions are *mad king* shit.

It should really cause people to rethink politics that Harris promising so many explicit and tangible economic benefits for people not only didnt move lots of voters BUT also was completely forgotten about/ignored by people who claim to care about these issues.

Bernie Bros did the same about student loan forgiveness... never gave Biden any credit for it (perpetually moving the goal posts)

Your second to last RT is about Trump purging trans people from the military, why were trans people allowed to serve in the military until Trump took over? Seems like that was a left of center policy enacted by Biden

so basically our rich oligarchs launched a racist propaganda media campaign to demonize taxpayer-funded childcare, our garbage oligarch press parroted the attack, and now they're going to steal that money to put into their assorted cryptocurrency grifts

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

I think Colorado should execute Tina Peters to send a message.

Correct take lol

everyone thinks they’re a bayesian until they have to update their priors

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This is the most clarifying tweet i have ever read

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Money is made up and therefore infinite but resources are limited and not perfectly substitutable. Odd as it sounds you may be able to construct a data center but not house people because land in LA and land in rural Louisiana are not substitute goods in 90% of peoples minds?

So…. How does the cross pressure of dictator fellatio on one side vs tech bro ai fascism on the other resolve itself in a taiwanese blockade? econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Stephen Miller must be tried and sentenced to death for this. Utterly depraved

One of the biggest advantages that Republicans have over Democrats is that Republicans control a nation-wide terrorist network and Democrats do not.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

This is transit's biggest structural challenge: all of its costs for users are marginal, whereas with a car most of the costs are fixed (acquisition, registration, etc.). One strategy is to increase marginal costs for cars (tolls, parking, gas) and shift some transit costs to fixed (monthly pass).

The Trump Trilemma abides

UK Labour doing exactly what Nate Silver wants it to do has led it becoming the 4th most popular party in the kingdom.

Most underrated Biden admin mistake was bailing out Silicon Valley Bank. SVB bet big on low interest rates and lost. Rich tech VCs who put too many eggs in that basket generated a bank run, then called for govt money. Got their bailout, helped elect Trump, and now reaping rewards from corruption.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

@teleportnow.bsky.social another example

@mattyglesias.bsky.social yeah what about this…. 🤔

@teleportnow.bsky.social take a peek at this thread as an illustration to what i was getting at yesterday. This media apparatus creates the conditions for trumpism to thrive and forced opponents to only be reactive by design. If we dont fix it we’re fucked no matter who the presidential nominee is

But step back and look at the machinery and you see how sturdy this media/WH infrastructure is. If they want to make a humiliating Democratic scandal the biggest story in the country, they can do it. Dems who think it'll go away if they "win" with local media are going to lose.

again chicagoans need to grow a set and stand up for themselves. deep dish is the superior pizza, you don’t have to do this cowardly whimpering “oh actually we like thin crust that’s cut into squares for no damned reason” thing. this is why the rancid packers have been clowning you for 30 years

Yup, rto, fuck clean air and let covid rip, destroy the social safety net that existed for 10 minutes all comes from rich ppl being annoyed that normie employees had 6% more leverage

Watching people go "actually it's racist to not think that COVID was cooked up in an evil Chinese biological research lab because the alternative is that Chinese people eat bats" and deciding I need to just log the fuck off Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sinatra has gone woke

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

Just realized Taco Bell is offering a $5 / $7 / $9 menu They used to offer a $.59 / $.79 / $.99 menu America is a failed experiment

good piece, #3 seems most likely to me. not AI productivity but a probably temporary shift in composition. however if I had to bet (and technically I am betting by not selling VTSAX) I think we will see AI productivity gains in 2026

Do we need to run Kalecki and Kindleberger reading circles on here or something?

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros. Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue." Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues" Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"

My opinion as an unbiased journalist analyzing the president’s speech is that the Republican Party should be outlawed

Seconds to Chaos in Chicago: Car door ripped open and phone smashed to the ground as Citizen Records ICE in public. When "rights" aren't respected on the street, your safety is the priority. Watch your back, friends.

This motherfucking shit stain can go straight to hell where she belongs. Every last one of the people aiding and abetting this are the scum of the earth (posted as todays cbp helicopters hover over my house 😡)

Actual cancel culture

No, he has signed an executive order demanding states obey him even though his edict has no legal force. It cannot "block" anything.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.

key part of modern american conservatism is people viewing their children as their property imo

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

it's interesting how little the gop messaging apparatus, from the press secretary to election mailers, deviates from "i know you are but what am i"