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pathulhu42.bsky.social
pathulhu42.bsky.social
@pathulhu42.bsky.social
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people prefer the certainty of finality over the lack thereof of an unwritten future
The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.
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YouTube was at its best when it was mostly CDi-based YTPs and goofy Fresh Prince/Space Jam themed remixes, and it’s been all downhill from there:
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i don't agree at all. the biggest contribution the internet had to our current global reactionary tantrum is speeding up the process. imo without social media we would at best be where we are currently maybe a decade or 2 from now, at worst same pace with different warning signs
This is a descriptive, not a normative claim: the Chinese strategy of firewalls increasingly looks like the right one. Bribe a few republicans to keep the slop hose on abroad, while tightly controlling what can be used domestically. They won the argument on this particular.
i don't agree at all. the biggest contribution the internet had to our current global reactionary tantrum is speeding up the process. imo without social media we would at best be where we are currently maybe a decade or 2 from now, at worst same pace with different warning signs
This is a descriptive, not a normative claim: the Chinese strategy of firewalls increasingly looks like the right one. Bribe a few republicans to keep the slop hose on abroad, while tightly controlling what can be used domestically. They won the argument on this particular.
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🤦♀️ Literally, the world is in flames over the thirst for legacies. bsky.app/profile/yair...
Netanyahu was forced to reveal today that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year, and is undergoing treatment. The image is from this week.
hungarian elections today #hungary #beastmode youtu.be/tC0DKieA4sk
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It's important for anyone who wants to be the Democratic nominee for president to outline exactly how they'll use the power of the executive branch to dismantle the conservative legal movement. Which law schools will you attack and which nonprofits will you sick the IRS on?
Even if Trump loses at the Supreme Court, I promise you that opposition to birthright citizenship is already mandatory for any future Trump judicial nominees. The conservative legal movement never treats a decision it dislikes as "settled." It just waits for another shot.
authoritarianism, personalism especially, is an exhausting and dehumanizing environment to live in. it's engineered to be so on purpose because we are ruled by internet trolls. everyone is worried about what will happen next every day, every hour, every minute. im fucking sick of it
everything is more inconvenient and expensive, nothing works anymore, goons might invade your city and kidnap you or your neighbors, and there’s a loud asshole forcing you to pay attention to him at all times
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Congress has the power to reform the Supreme Court and take back the power that SCOTUS has taken from the legislative branch. Given that power - and given the importance of co-equal branches - I'd argue that gives us the responsibility to use it. Here's how. thehill.com/opinion/judi...
this is because our government is so racist it would rather drown itself than allow brown people to study in its schools
America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered. The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim. From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
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the reason trump has an unbreakable core of supporters and caught swingy independents in his '24 net is because he is a moron. not a moron whisperer or pretending to be, but a bona fide dumb fuck. in a literal sense he is a dog whistle blowing notes that political hobbyists physically cannot hear
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Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website. The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.
Literally Zohran and AOC and Bernie all still use “the Nazi site” which makes the tarring of everyone who does as essentially Nazis seem increasingly farcical. It is, unfortunately, still the commons. I’m not happy a Nazi owns the commons either but Bluesky has singularly failed to be an alternative
it's both vindication and defeat because it proves that someone will do it when the situation is that dire but also that it was evelyn normielib who went for it before the social media revolutionary
No this doesn’t defeat the firebomb a wal mart tweet. It vindicates it! If you gonna firebomb a Walmart you don’t tweet about firebombing a Walmart, you just do it and don’t say SHIT to nobody. Evelyn Normielib is clean on opsec.
serious answer would be to research petromasculinity, but in short there's a vision of physical self sacrifice and nostalgia for a bygone age of manly men working dangerous honest jobs that conservatives love, and renewables violate their ideology
Not disagreeing, but how is it not manly to build wind turbines out on the high plains near Amarillo?
a genuine question to ask, how much of america's soft power decline is relative, on account of being culturally based, is due to other countries getting better at projecting their own?
I mean, yes, but let's also just remember what this entire website (Americans in the hemispheric sense and non-Americans alike) was posting about furiously less than two days ago. American soft power may be in decline but pretending it's dead is wishful thinking.
Post your disappointment on the game of life 6 years of my life have gone by and nothing. i have had some inkling of expectations for this since 2014 when i was barely a freshman in highschool
Post your disappointment on the game of life I remember as a Tom and Jerry fan getting this on Easter only to be greeted with the most lame ass wannabe Disney plot imaginable
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