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do "race realists" believe that koreans have a genetic predisposition towards league of legends

It is beyond me how anyone, let alone a Catholic, can in good conscience continue to support Trump. His racist, vile and disgusting remarks are far removed from what a Christian is called to be. There are no more excuses that can be made to espouse such behavior.

I remember that when my brother didn’t want to listen to this, my dad exclaimed, “They sold more records last year than Sheryl Crow.” (My brother then retorted that he didn’t like Sheryl Crow either.)

I’ll play, but only main acts (no opening bands) and no music festivals: Tool A Perfect Circle Nine Inch Nails Godspeed You! Black Emperor Parov Stelar Primus Helmet Corrosion of Conformity Velvet Revolver Foo Fighters

Listen to Pope Leo XIV. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

Glonzo’s bloodlust must be slaked.

They keep cramming more America into Americana.

I’ve been chuckling at this patch for a while. The more I stare, the more funny it gets.

Crucial to read contemporary Tyler Cowen as the confessions of a man who knows he has fallen but cannot help himself. He’s lost his moral grounding and curiousity, and become a parrot for social media and the right wing griftosphere.

Overheard from a group of four guys on the subway: “Yo, why are you doomscrolling? You’re with the bros”

The 155 cannot catch a break. Ufff.

Need a survey that asks Americans what percent of a post they read before making an angry reply.

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Huh…

The collapse of organized religion has just meant the boom in massively dumber disorganized religion. Absolute peasant brain on display here.

I was just thinking this the other day.

I pity those who go prospecting for geopolitical insights from techbro podcasts like the All In Podcast. It's like learning seamanship from a guy who once rented a jet ski in Cabo.

60-foot-long eight-armed monsters in the deep…

I have to agree.

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

Glad to announce that Rob Lee and I launched our Substack! And our article about Russian Drone Line was published at FPRI: www.fpri.org/article/2026...

Blasphemous. It’s stunning to see a US Bishop standing right there on the stage while Paula White compares Trump to Jesus Christ.

For someone who talked incessantly about reputation, Nassim Taleb has totally and utterly destroyed his many times over.

HUNDREDS OF TIMES?!?!?

All this was a choice. I can’t get over how all of this was a choice. A plurality of American voters saw corruption, bigotry, pandemic, economic crisis, coup attempt, and criminal conviction, then opted for more.

you don't have to like it, but this is what peak progressivism looks like the left will go so much farther if it embraces patriotism and joy as a rallying cry to aspire for the country to be better

While I think @mattyglesias.bsky.social is right about some stuff, I think he could accept that sometimes you van change the definition of “moderate” (i.e. redefine it for the voters, who then adopt that position).

bitcoin might be the only thing in the world where its cultural value could go up if the people who loved it the most never opened their mouths

@mattyglesias.bsky.social has been saying this for a while now.

Catholic priest at Mass this morning: “Let’s be honest. It was never about deporting criminals from our country. But, it was always about deporting people based simply on the color of their skin alone.”

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

The transatlantic alliance, which a war on Greenland would destroy, underpins a half century of American prosperity and liberty. If you don’t see that, you’re an idiot, a Trump cultist or a paid Russian troll. 2/

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

What’s Megan’s problem? Seriously.

Every hand can help. So far they have built 7000 wood burning stoves for Ukraine.

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.