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downstream a ways but when Canada called on Saudi Arabia to release imprisoned women's rights activists in 2018 and the official SA twitter account posted this. They took it down oc but for me it underlines two decades of post 9-11 farce

Someone should ask CBS news commentator and Free Press writer Elliot Ackerman why he hired two PR firms and two law firms, along with other measures, to try to suppress my reporting on him and his CIA mentor. In the meantime, I'm going back to work.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

When people like Anne Applebaum talk about the far-right they don't mean the Middle East because they exceptionalize the region so much that its developments exist outside time. The region is filled with far-right leaders that she happens to support.

foregrounding popularism here is like foregrounding “originalism” criticizing the Supreme Court. That’s just the flavor text and an occasional justification. It ain’t an accident that those neolib blob weirdos are listened to. Thread gets more to the heart of it later

Elon Musk is going to kill himself, evidently

I understand dunking on the brokehearts but: psst dudes there is a better way. You *will* have to care about other humans but, one weird trick, it makes life better. And you still can "do your own research" as our fake opposition party is structurally against marxism-leninism.

We're all acting like this is such an egregious thing to hear an American military commander say when we just lived through 20 years of them swearing they were "turning a corner" in Afghanistan and the Taliban were totally defeated year after year.

In the sense that a technology is being mistaken for a god, AI isn’t actually a new phenomenon, because that already happened with money.

An increasingly anxious ruling class, deeply worried about a public that doesn’t listen to them and doesn’t particularly view them as legit, casually wondering if maybe the country needs a lot more big strapping lads in uniform to focus minds on loving the flag and taking instructions, eh

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As I’ve said for years: when the right - and particularly the crackpot racist far right - talk about freedom and free speech, they are talking about *their personal, unlimited freedom*. Their freedom permits, and often actively requires, policemen thrashing you in the head with batons.

"Sure you could make this concise and accurate statement but instead you should make very specific longwinded criticisms of Israel. Generalisations are unacceptable. No I didn't have any problem with the entire British left being labelled as antisemites, why do you ask?"

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

would agree but love matt (and the toddler is a-ok as far as I know)

Russiagate was a bogus conspiracy theory ten years ago and it is still bullshit. U.S. fascism is homegrown, from the deep soil of genocide and slavery, the natural tendency of imperialism/monopoly capitalism in crisis.

apropos of nothing in particular remember when the NYPD kidnapped and publicly threatened de Blasio’s daughter

re: the weasely "The Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing Sanaa’s airport to prevent an Iranian aircraft from landing": they bombed where an Iranian aircraft carrying a Houthi delegation returning from Ayatollah Ali Khamene's funeral was going to land. SA confirmed www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

if you were wondering how he only served 13 months in prison after raping multiple minors, it's because he served zero jail time for raping multiple minors. the only jail time he served was for financial crimes covering up sexually abusing children. he kept his congressional pension up to now

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

See people blaming “consultant class” but that’s functionally just the interface for billionaires and power; the consultant class aren’t stupid, they’re a pass through

a v. good game for $6 (before Oct 1), goofy but clever, generally easyish (at least first 10 hours / I haven't unlocked bunker) but satisfying button-masher and has more variety than you'd expect

It is pretty crazy how much grace any of these tools can get from the ostensibly (absolutely not) left wing press, just a laundry opportunity any time they want one really. Sure we’ll help you launch your post Trump play, thanks for thinking of us

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

it rained at John McCain's funeral because God was crying (McCain's spirit took control of the ghost plane to heaven and he lost control and ditched it into an angel orphanage)

I know they mean "problem" in a narrow amoral sense but even there it's mostly just late empire capitalism. The procurement, goals, policy, contracting, wars, "lessons learned", "alliances", graft, culture and, sure, politicians. Systemic issue.

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Could have asked any halfway respectable person who followed stuff like this and known things were going to go real south from the get go. (Some of the analysts probably knew too they just tried/had to float a soothing outlook as long as they could.)

i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.

fucked up how it be like that and it do

what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem

This week’s episode is an interview with @jduffyrice.bsky.social about her new show, which covers the case of an innocent man who was convicted of murder on the theory that he’s in a ninja syndicate.

Manning these kind of foxholes is doing the worst people, and the worst fascist timeline, such a service. Took me a long time to figure that out. You can figure it out too but the royal road really is fixing your heart and building solidarity with the rest of us.