However much we hate Kennedy and the rest of the people cynically destroying public health, it is not enough. All of them should be purged from their position in society and die penniless denied the medicine they use for themselves but fear monger about in public.

"please subscribe" left is honestly a great term because a lot of beefing does really boil down to content access and who is perceived to be entitled to it

NFL: I consent Bad Bunny: I consent GUL DUKAT: isn't there somebody you forgot to ask

For a lot of folks, it’s not that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous that requires intense secrecy, it’s that they practice intense secrecy to convince themselves that protesting is something revolutionary and dangerous

I think this is the part where I point out the Latvians for a while preserved the KGB station in downtown Riga as a museum, and its Latvian name in English translated to “The Museum of the Occupatuon 1919-1990”

Missing Beethoven is a big oof. That's like one of two or three things people usually know about him.

"Tell me you don't cook without telling me you don't cook." Both of those have many uses.

Sometimes it do be like that

How much anti-woke is just people confusing 'systemic' with 'systematic'?

The reason people believe things like "eating out is cheaper than cooking" is because most people don't pay very close attention to what they spend on food, which is a pretty small overall share of spending. It's also why it's improbable US politics hinge on a 2-4% annual rise in grocery prices.

imo of all the formal political institutions in US life, the judiciary has given the best account of itself by a pretty large margin (with the obvious exception of SCOTUS) and a younger me was way more dismissive of the courts than history would prove deserved

Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks “The three of you want a drink?” The first one says “I don’t know” The second one says “I don’t know” The third one says “yes”

The Atlantic is six years younger.

If I wrote a dystopian novel and called two characters murdered by the fascist state "Ms. Good" and "Mr. Pretti" it would be awful writing (yes I GET it they want to destroy everything GOOD and PRETTY) and yet here we are, that is literally what they want and we live in a badly-written dystopia

I want to echo this. Like no, there is not a Carnap/Quine/Lewis/Rawls-type figure active in the field right now. But the "normal science" everyone is doing is at a much higher level than "normal science" papers from 30-50 years ago.

I wonder if anyone will learn a damn thing when 'multipolarity' just equates to a return to sphere of influence politcs and China does not give two shits about the global south

Did ICE actually bleed though? Are ear owies from whistles "bleeding" now?

I have literally never started a class like this.

If only a 19th century Russian author had written a long novel about a protagonist who tried to act out just this world view, and we had then made it required reading as part of our education/formation.

In trump 2 being banned from Posting is worse than having all your insignia stripped off in front of everyone before youre hung

True freedom is not being unable to find a local shop! Convenience is Stalinist! Kids walking to school is an authoritarian hellscape, & having a local GP is the same as being in a gulag. In other news, the carbon monoxide leak at the Telegraph offices still hasn’t been fixed.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Face meet Leopard.

basically everything about dem elite behavior makes perfect sense if you realize they responded to 2024 by giving up on the idea that americans are even capable of civic virtue.

"l'etat, c'est moi" was more elegant.

this is one of the more psychotic things about this shit. yes they are absolutely terrorizing people and communities. yes they are motivated by racism and xenophobia. no, they are not actually deporting that many people relative to baseline.

The Vice President playing politics with the death of a US citizen, impugning the deceased one day later, before an investigation has even been conducted.

I just encountered the term "Donroe Doctrine" for US Latam policy under this regime, and I love it.

New paper out in Nous

Times New Roman sucks. Garamond 4 Life.

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

If only we still required our university students to learn all of the liberal arts (like 80 year old history).

That is not remotely the point Jesus was making by breaking Sabbath law. It is instead a flat denial of the rule of law in favour of the rule of men.

yeah sorry you don't get to do blood and soil bullshit and pretend you're a liberal

Clearly we need more healthcare CEOs on twitter

The problem with this article is they asked too many lawyers and not enough historians. As a historian, I'd say the legality of Trump's immunity and pardons depends on how he leaves office. At 40 over 55 approval? He's immune. At 25 over 65? He's probably not immune & self-pardons aren't legal.

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.

Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay) www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

How is it possible that every successive sentence gets crazier

We live in an episode of Veep

Small domino: Donald Trump runs for president in 2015. Large domino: Tylenol no longer sold in the USA.

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

i hate "fuck off i got mine" and all the other kinds of puerile selfish nativism

We literally have laws!!! Who will stop this!!!