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i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
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This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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A trend that has been trending through every presidency of my lifetime. It’s notable that the lines crossed under Biden. This is the Neoliberal Era in one chart. It’s what happens when conservatives dominate our institutions with centrists as opposition. It’s what happens when spending is speech.
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
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it's galling really. these establishment democrat super fans smugly blaming you for their heroes' decision that any -- ANY -- public suggestion that there was anything other than unconditional support for israelis bathing themselves in gazans' blood was simply not acceptable
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The degree of judicial activism here is actually shocking imo
New: Trump-appointed Judge Joshua Divine issued an opinion taking the position that prosecutors today may be free to seek the death penalty in cases involving sexual offenses against children despite a landmark 2008 Supreme Court ruling against such punishments. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern
i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here
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