I’m gonna try and spend less time online. definitely has nothing to do with the existential dread I feel about the world

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Goodbye Charlie Kirk.

I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.

It’s been five fucking hours.

I do think it’s interesting to see some leftists act like what happened today won’t make republicans worse at all. As if they can’t get any worse Yall we should all know it can literally always get worse Sure, they don’t need an excuse to take away rights, but an excuse sure does help make it easier

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

this is going to create the worst political discourse we've ever seen and it wont even be close. aside from the fact that his children lost a father (even if hes a shitty one, idk), anyone celebrating this isnt considering how this is going to rile the right up even further and harm so mnay people.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I'm honestly terrified of what the right will use this as justification for. They're itching to engage in violence against their enemies and this will give them the excuse to do so. This is why political violence is never acceptable. It just descends into uncontrollable chaos and more violence.

Be very careful about you post right now. I'll block anyone calling for violence.

"that's not funny, no one should lose their lives to gun violence" so true! that's what we've been saying all along. I'm so glad you agree

this is far more tragic and important btw

Remember. Shut the fuck up. This was always true before, but even more so now with a government that is just ITCHING to arrest anyone it can for anything. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

be very careful about what you post online

man I just don’t think anything that comes out of this is going to be good

Political Violence is crying over a podcaster while ignoring a school shooting.

One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.

Deadass anything less than a Nuremberg trial for these fuckers is not enough at this point. You have to be a truly fucked up person to think this

The AI bubbling popping if Harris was in office would be bad but probably not recession inducing. Under Trump this will remove the one growth engine still running in America when it collapses, and the magnificent 7 will come back down to earth and crash the entire stock market

This is now my new standard for how democrats should respond to these losers

This famously did wonders for democrats when they tried to do this

Banks: We will not let you have smut about furries or fairies or whatever you sick sick sick sickos Also banks: Oh hello Mr. International Pedophile how can we move your money today?

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

Clinton’s email server was like one tenth as bad morally but got dog pilled so much fuck harder. No one defended her. Our media is so cool!

The QAnon folks were making child trafficking conspiracy theories from wayfair furniture ads but here's a picture of the most notorious child sex trafficker with a check from Trump with obvious references to trafficking girls and not a peep out of them.

this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously

Unlike you posers, I never needed AI to do this

there will be a substantial market in the short to medium term for services that intentionally and expressly exclude derivative AI slop from their catalogues

the only reason we’re not in a recession is because nobody wants to admit that republicans are bad at the economy

Late stage capitalism at its finest: the school shooting industry

I don't want to be controversial but it's low key goated when you pee for so long that a fart that's been hiding since the Obama administration dislodges and The manager at FiveGuys: you have to order something if you want to be here

Positive views of big business have been tanking in the last few years, while capitalism is also on the downturn I break down the data here -> usapolling.substack.com/p/capitalism...

See, only fringe figures like the Israeli defense minister are framing Israeli action as collective punishment

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

Modern capitalism does a better job of proving its insanity than at any point in history. Never before have we spent enormous amounts of capital on computers that can send job applications, and then also reject them. For literally zero benefit in return Beautiful

$30,000,000 to fucking do what??? 😭 what here is worth 30 MILLION REAL LIFE DOLLARS

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

The Economist was not alone, at all, in its terrible both-sidering of the “free speech” debate, but this cover is basically a Platonic Ideal of “aged like milk.” On the left: students yelling at speakers. On the right: state power used to silence speech.

Today Apple will announce a big fat phone with what Tim Cook calls "the juiciest ass we've ever put on a consumer device"

Congestion pricing is another great example that when you just do bold progressive policy and don’t hamstring it with limitations it usually just fucking works lol

The right has built a social architecture of state-enforced harassment for implementing ideological and social control through participatory engagement and bottom-up escalation of individual’s grievances via personal media creation and sharing (cf trading up the media chain)

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.