There’s an established penalty for ordering the killing of shipwrecked sailors (even during a war, which we are manifestly not in) and we should apply that penalty. I would say it’s vitally important to apply that penalty, in fact.

Social scientists spent the last 50 years arguing that racism is still prevalent in US even if it's covert (racism w/ a veneer), unconscious (racism w/out intent), or systemic (racism w/out racists). Along comes MAGA, which embraces gutter racism while claiming that teaching about racism is racist.

Some Palestine solidarity people hate Jews! It sucks but it is what it is. We can just tell them to fuck off and not have it change our evaluation of whether Israel is running a genocidal apartheid regime.

There's this agepol thing on tarrifs where older libs view tarrifs as this complicated thing that Democrats also sometimes support, but to anyone under 40 who isn't engaged with political history, tarrifs are this thing trump just pulled out of the 19th century to make us poor for no reason

also like i am still hung up on "we're wolves not sheep" when the actual truth about humanity is we're the thing that domesticated both of them

Everything is gender except gender, which is poorly remembered gay fanfiction

FBI: Have You Seen This Man?

"Is that what you meant by Big Beautiful Bill, Mr. President?"

I think a lot about how elite institutions groom you towards this deference.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Why should I suffer compared to some spic in Chicago?

Blank Fartslinger, more like

Trump does not even have a nub of a brain left. He is completely gone into his own demented fan fiction self-insert AU story with basically no reference to the real world.

I really believe this was influential among first time 18-26 male voters in ‘24

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

100 percent. I think he benefits from what most great orators benefit from: he knows himself—and more importantly, he talks to (and understands) what moves people. And, as far as I can tell, he believes what he’s saying.

This is genuine betrayal of his party. I really don't think I'm being hyperbolic.

Imagine walking into work and your boss slams a new screwdriver down on your desk, but it has a weird oval-shaped and an odd handle. "THIS IS IT KID. THIS. IS. IT. THIS WILL MAKE US 10X BETTER. 100x BETTER! BRUSH UP ON YOUR SKILLS KID BECAUSE WE SPENT A LOTTA MONEY TO GET THIS IN YOUR HANDS."

Being a Republican is no longer a legitimate or acceptable position. When exactly that line was crossed is academic; what matters is acknowledging and enforcing the reality now.

the assumptions made about the target audience by making the first two items "OnlyFans' and 'child support' are kind of incredible

Is there a Mr. Rachel...

There’s no greater sign of online breaking people’s brains than the greatest possible sin becoming ‘being annoying to me personally’

There are a shocking number of people who describe themselves as anarchist or some other flavor of left that says "A person owes the minimum required to society and society owes the maximum needed to the individual." While maybe true in a sense the phrasing gives away the game there.

A lot of these writers seem to exist in a bizarre fugue where there are merely stances and archetypes engaged in a timeless dance. Something stranger and thinner than idealism, even, which is already pretty strange and thin.

Like "mad king stops the grain dole" is truly the stuff of revolutions

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

It is a social environment that half of the most powerful Americans spend 6+ hours a day in. In that environment, if you stand up for basic principles like “racism is bad” or “being a Nazi is a big deal and unacceptable,” you will be mocked by tens of thousands of people as a screechy moralist.

It is Twitter! Like guys I’m telling you the thing that is collapsing basic norms and making white supremacy mainstream again and giving our formally centrist pundits a Strange New Respect for completely overt neo-Nazis is Twitter! You HAVE to stop ignoring it. It is going to destroy our society

very rare to see someone say out loud what i suspect, which is that there are plenty of people evaluate my work based on my profile picture and not the actual words i use

Scroll down to the "Major Events Timeline." Then read through it. Make sure you get all the way to the end. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

lmao holy shit

It's gonna blow up in their faces but uh we're all in the splash zone too

my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.

> disney villain style thunderclap over RNC in 2016 when nominated > record cold winter in dc when sworn in second time > men and women become physically deformed (mar a lago makeup) > one cabinet official killed a dog and looks like temu cruella de ville > another wants to spread diseases

a mass psychosis has seized our country. a quarter of the population has entered a hallucinatory frenzy, believing that paradise is just around the corner if they simply indulge their desire to purge lower races and install an emperor. the rest have slipped into a coma, unable to decide what is real

when the large number of very talented journalists working there gets to cover stories that aren't being distorted to fit into the leadership's self-decided narratives, the coverage - along with the NYT's huge resources - is often excellent. when the leadership sets the agenda, it's crap.

I think this is correct, but part of what they thought was true as captured in scripture are claims that science does weigh in on. The “it’s not a science textbook!” response to preserve its value as divine revelation can be overly dismissive of that fact.

i asked if she meant tickets to watch or to actually pull the trigger and she replied “well…i don’t know”

There are three ways to make money in tech: 1. Make a premium product 2. Sell users' eyeballs 3. Sell to *businesses* and let consumers + small/home office ride along for free or cheap. For a while Apple was 1, Google/FB was 2, and most others (ORCL, AWS, etc) was 3, but now it's all jumbled up

i don't have much of an opinion on what kinds of sex work should be legal, but i have a very strong opinion that journalism should not be a kind of sex work

I am approaching the most intractable AI failure case - none of the people around me understand that the AI isn't working and the effort required to maybe make it work is too much and it isn't just an issue of trying a little harder with prompt writing.

The value of democracy is not, in any meaningful sense, that it selects better leaders than other systems. The chief virtue is that the metaphorical torches and pitchforks remain metaphorical noticeably more often.

i think this is the logical endpoint of obsession with 'dating' as opposed to 'relationships'

This is dangerously close to the pope turning to camera and specifying he's the exact kind of lib I am

i think the root problem is in trying to use one tool for two very different use cases: spending time with your friends and being social with them, vs spreading sensitive, factually rooted information. the current behavior is better for the former, but what you described is better for the latter.

Signaling my in-group membership by agreeing that the loom doesn't actually "weave" anything