the mississippi river is so indecisive like oh my god girl just pick one

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Oracle, Palantir, Andreesen Horowitz, and everything Elon owns should be the primary corporate targets of the incoming Dem Congress (with an eye to a hostile takeover of Palantir and SpaceX by a future Dem trifecta, and to the mere destruction of the others).

this is why you smash and melt them instead of merely putting them in a box somewhere

My take on this is that I am completely fine with the omnicause (a requirement that orgs broadly associated with the left not take positions actively harmful to the broader cause) but think the omnicause (a practice where every group speaks on every issue) is counterproductive

If this tweet just said "landlords" instead of "developers" it would make perfect sense, but for some reason a whole lot of leftists see productive capitalists rather than rentier parasites as the leading villain of the housing crisis for some reason.

I think the point to be made is that we will likely lose. But we ought to make the bastards work for it Heck, this was half the point of the Civil Rights Movement. It's not that the protests will persuade, it's that they'll make clear the evil of what we are facing.

I am the furthest possible thing from a “hell yeah, cool zone” guy. There is nothing self actualizing about political violence. I am not one of those people who write about it one handed and thinks that the revolution will cure their depression. And I am telling you we are already heading there.

Just in case anyone was wondering what kind of scam this is when an "artist" responds to your art idea looking to draw something for you. It's just a chatbot pushing you to click a poison URL. It's always just a chatbot scamming you.

you: KOBOLD!? it’s been six years!! i thought you were kidnapped, or ran away, or worse… kobold, holding a grocery bag: got grocies :} you: …that’s it? what could have possibly made it take six years?? kobold: got lost :{

Glup Shitto (good): Little gremlin man in the cantina who has a 13 page Wookieepedia page Glup Shitto (bad): Darth Maul comes back for the third time as a cool guy crime lord who does nothing but aura farm.

Lunch break thought: it remains profoundly sad how much of the economy has been turned over to scams that pretend to be gambling which pretends to be an investment. Do you want to gamble your money with odds that are actually good? Index. Funds. But I guess that's not masculinity-affirming enough.

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

🔥 GREAT SOCIETY DEMOCRAT 🔥

in 24 Trump was like "I will do X" and Dems were like "this crazy mf is going to do X, he says it out of his own mouth" and a critical mass of voters were like "the man on my phone says nuh-uh. Mr. Trump, the expert business genius is going to personally give me manna from heaven"

This is exactly right. If we say “we’re not gonna impeach him bc it’s not politically viable” we admit that our rules and morality were just a matter of popular convenience rather than principle.

The game where every time someone acts crazy about Trump we all have to pretend he’s some beloved figure or just a normal president is perverse. Trump is a lunatic, he does things every single day that would end any prior administration, and the media’s weird fetish for normalizing it is repulsive

Yeah, if I was the feds, I would be scared shitless of this. This is so much scarier than any of the white supremacist manifestos.

It’s definitely not good that there’s a screaming mob that think using Claude kills whales, but it does mean there’s a cross-pressure against “this ChatGPT wrapper CHANGES everything. here’s how:” type shit. I pay much more attention to and take more seriously AI optimist claims I see on here.

steve the whatever

What can you even say at this point

The headlines before the Dow opening 300 points up God I hate this stupid fucking country

Pro-Israel dems feel absolutely zero obligation to understand anything they’re talking about All that’s required is to sneer at silly activists for not understanding the practical realities of the situation You don’t need to actually understand things yourself The sneering is the important part

the thing is that sometimes there are cases when the fans are actually right and it’s still not a good idea to listen to them because then you start listening to them when they aren’t, which is most of the time

i dislike lying not just because it makes others not trust "your side", but because it destroys "your own side's" understanding and ability to analyze a situation. it makes people who you're "on the same side with" look like idiots who drunk the kool aid, and they're less able to defend themselves.

Gentrification can mean (1) displacement (2) the commercial infrastructure in an area turning into generic yuppieslop (3) new people moving in at all (4) any improvement to the neighborhood's infrastructure at all. 1 is very bad, 2 is bad but less bad, 3 is neutral, 4 is obviously good

If they made Star Trek today Kirk wouldn’t be captaining the ship he’d be like, attending the starfleet academy or something *puts finger to earpiece* huh? they what?

Markets hearing there’s a ceasefire and the blockade will be lifted vs Markets hearing the ceasefire doesn’t exist and also Trump is adding a second blockade to the first blockade

The Hasan Piker discourse is tiring because people are conflating two separate questions: -Has this one person said stupid and offensive things? (Yes) -Are groups like Third Way using this as a way to try to restrict acceptable criticism of Israel? (Also yes)

Until 2026, even folks who really, *really* wanted to commit to war with Iran eventually hit a point where they had to look at a map. At which point, they generally sucked their teeth and either changed the subject or retreated to threatening mumbles. You had to be a real fucking idiot to do it.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

“Okay so the guy on first base is Who, What’s on second-“ DOES GRACE KNOW THEIR NAMES QUESTION “Yes” WHO IS ON FIRST QUESTION “Yes” THE NAME OF PLAYER ON FIRST BASE “Who” THE NAME OF PLAYER ON FIRST BASE “Who is on first!” WHY IS GRACE ASKING ROCKY WHO IS ON FIRST QUESTION “Exactly!”

Been thinking about The Walt Disney Corporation™ recently and I don’t think my proposal is guaranteed to work but if it fails it’d at least be funny

Frederick Douglass was American and so were his enslavers. Lynch mobs were American and so were their victims. Bull Connor and Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace and Malcolm X, Orval Faubus and Ruby Bridges: each as American as the others. Who do you choose to define as "we," and why?

The thing about accepting the murder of the powerful as political action is you never get to actually murder the powerful, you get to murder The Enemy, and usual you get to murder The Enemy That Is Easiest To Kill. Which is, basically, never the rich and powerful

Luke: So, Yoda, that’s basically what my Jedi training is like in 3 ABY. What’s your analysis of the situation? What wisdom can you teach me? Yoda: A space station the size of a moon they built? Luke: Do I have the skills to defeat Darth Vader? Yoda: A moon like in the fucking sky?

The problem is that Trump has proven that he'll break any deal the moment he feels like it, so Iran has zero ability to ensure any deal will stick, even if Trump would and could say yes. But Iran doesn't need to ask anyone's permission to control Hormuz; indeed no one can stop them.

you have committed a climate crime by posting on an app that is backed by data centers, I'm calling antifa

I think the failure - or refusal - to recognize that difference has made it hard for some to effectively criticize the situation when, for instance, it becomes clear that the United States is moving across the 'Russia line' from 'war' to 'war-crime.' Which we've been doing since the boat strikes.

"But they don't have the votes for impeachment so you can't criticize them for not saying it" is fallacious. Dems don't have the votes to do anything. Even post-midterms, they still wouldn't have the votes to override vetoes, either. It's nonsensical to say they therefore shouldn't advocate stuff.

Honestly I don’t think the rest of the political universe is conveying how much Trump and Hegseth are flailing. Each whipsaw change in direction is reported, sometimes critically, but it’s the accumulation of insanely reckless course changes - sometimes 180 degrees in 12 hours - that’s important.

It is mildly bad form to quote dunk on someone with like 12 followers, but the way some people here whine about it you’d think small accounts were protected by the civil rights act or something. Don’t interact with people you don’t wanna possibly interact back with you!

So Erin Reed blocked me over this one but I’m going to take a few minutes to point out why this “reporting” is so bad and repost a few times to hopefully spread the word. TL;DR Erin either doesn’t understand anything about NYC law or politics or is outright lying about what’s happening here.

"It probably had its own reasons" (10 minute doodle, might ink later if I feel like it/find time)

Every AI takes over the world scenario envisions terminator type robot-wars or it unleashing plagues or whatever. but why wouldn't a super-intelligent AI be able to convince humans to fight for its cause? wouldn't be an abstract ideal/distant politician, but a 'leader' you could personally talk to

When you’re the subject of this kind of dogpile blocking doesn’t matter nearly as much as people think. A lot of what circulates is screenshots. You’re not a person they’re engaging with, you’re a device they’re using for a kind of ritualized sadism they find enjoyable.

frankly I think the invention of quote-tweets has been catastrophic for society and they should probably be un-invented

A very common response to people upset about getting death threats is “that’s just how things are on the Internet, you have to expect you’ll get hate sometimes” Well It’s also normal that people will sometimes say something vague. Maybe it’s not the end of the world, worthy of death threats