I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

reddit is truly the Barnes and Noble of the internet. old heads might still resent it for killing off smaller forums but now that that model as a whole is being supplanted people are beginning to appreciate it more

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

I've said it before and I'll say it again "We can't fix the Dems, we need a new viable third party" is the political equivalent of "we can't fix Earth's environment, let's colonize Mars" In that however hard the first one might be - maybe very! - the second one is orders of magnitude harder

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

he's going to dissolve into a pile of lipids within a year and he knows it and he's trying to desperately do an "I made a giant Ozymandias statue from the short poem Ozymandias Was Entirely Forgotten Despite His Large Statue" before he dies it's so fucking maddening that we have to deal with it

As a tweet or skeet or something before the election went: Average citizen of Armenia: the implications for regional politics if Trump wins are existential for my country PA voter who will decide the election, looking at his ballot for the first time the day of: Why isn't joe Biden on here?

x is the racist pedophile platform and threads is twitter for dummies and bluesky is exclusively for talking about will stancil

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

whatever dem wants to run for president in 2028 is going to need, basically, a project 2029 plan to screen existing federal workers and rebuild federal administrative capacity, and it's going to be really, really tough, they're going to be running on empty for *awhile*

I also think it's more literal, like what we now know is there's a sprawling network of influential pedophiles in academia (including Harvard) and maybe they didn't want Claudine Gay running Harvard because they thought she might stop them from raping students bsky.app/profile/dimc...

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

by my reading, he has the power to direct that result, no court in the United States can inquire into his motive, he is immune to criminal charges resulting from his exercise of that power, and any evidence resulting from his interaction with the DOJ is subject to absolute privilege.

This gets us one step closer toward the final form of Tesla, where the only thing it sells is pieces of paper that say “we swear this isn’t a Ponzi scheme.”

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

We have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves

"ICE is why the economy sucks" is a very powerful argument because 1) fuck ICE 2) "thinks past the sale" of convincing people the economy sucks 3) kinda true but in an obviously suspect and debatable way, trapping your opponents into arguing into your frame. bsky.app/profile/tadt...

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

the thing that really sucks is that the actions that are necessary in the "voters actually learned" universe and the ones that are necessary in the "thermostatic backlash forever" universe are pretty disjoint and we won't know which one we're in until we commit

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.

never let your imposter syndrome get to you when people like this exist

If you want to know if a severe winter storm is headed for Texas, the two most reliable indications are (1) looking at the weather forecast; and (2) looking to see if Ted Cruz is on a plane headed to warmer place with a palm-lined beach.

NYT's house style is genuinely deranged

Basically correct I think

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

According to the regime jurists on the Eighth Circuit, the regime suffers greater harm in having to comply with the Constitution than do citizens having chemical weapons emptied directly into their eye sockets.

i will unironically be a single-issue voter in the 2028 primary for anyone who calls for the summary conviction and execution of this agent in particular

congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

I do think there’s probably something to be said for Biden aging meaning he became slower and more hesitant while Trump aging has meant he has become only more belligerent and shouty, and how that is read differently by Americans (for whom, as usual, Confidence Is King)

What does he know

It is a genuine problem for US foreign policy that the average halfwit on Capitol Hill is cognitively incapable of grasping “We didn’t murder you because we might not get away with it” is received differently than “We didn’t murder you because we are friends.”

ICE: "followed by will stancil"

oh sure, the internet just looooooves a Lady x Knight ship when it’s on AO3. but when I, former United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema…

please do not read any of the secret documents I left in my unlocked car when I ran away before. I was scared and had to run away to get a bigger gun and it’s not fair for you guys to grab those documents while I was gone. those are mine, and I need them for my big mission. please give them back

I will live my entire life feeling robbed that we will never get to experience LA with the built form of Tokyo would have been the greatest city on earth by far

They put 6 kids in the ER by tossing a flashbang into their dad's car while they were in it. Periodic reminder that ICE agents' lives must be *ruined* after we get back into power. Fired for cause, names and faces publicized, banned from federal service for life, and any state services we fund.

"Our dedicated boys keeping the peace in newly annexed Greenland," CBS News/The Free Press, 2027

very much like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, where the fact of the administration's wrongs against you makes you an enemy to be fought by all available means.

honestly big issue with deep red/blue states is that the real election becomes the primaries and then you have no real way of parsing the actual ideological make up/balance of government except through intense ball knowing, which is a bad way to run a democracy

it's great to know if a federal agent shoots you in the face the entire government will publicly slander you as a domestic terrorist before ambulances even arrive

tbh I think one of the things that I rly like about vanilla minecraft's design philosophy is that they add a lot of things but engagement with them is almost always optional. there's a lot of stuff to learn but it's far from the average mod pack experience where youre always looking up progression