Bill Cipher

it low-key is pretty pathetic how servile many celebrities, artists etc. very willing to take Brave Stances in the westare when it comes to anything that pisses off Beijing.

“Man I can’t tell these ayiyiyiyiyi-ing towelheaded goatherding camel jockeys apart, who cares, we should just nuke ‘em all, steal their oil, and get out of the Middle East lmao” “GUYS DID YOU HEAR HIM HE SAID WE SHOULD GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST”

muh blair mountain muh west virginyuh coal workers muh populism

It's a real problem that so many people anywhere left of center in this country think that the path to victory for them lies in electing Republicans until Democrats do exactly what they tell them to.

as other people have said, they wouldn’t work so hard to kneecap democracy if it weren’t a powerful weapon against them

Glory to the people of Brazil and Serbia. The fascists must be beaten, and they can be. We will overcome them, and we will win. 🇧🇷🇸🇰 ↙↙↙

It’s funny how western leftists seem amazed at features of Asian societies as public infrastructure that is quickly repaired or public transportation that is always on time without seeming to realize that the secret sauce is worker exploitation

mfw it worked

"Liberal Democrat Policies"

The white working class abandoned the Party of FDR when Kennedy didn't order the Army to kill Dr. King. Lumpenproletariat uber alles.

I come from the working class and, from the bottom of my heart, absolutely mother*fuck* the working class, in this house we give the PMC the respect it deserves

the problem with american leftists is that they refuse to comprehend that the american public isn't the poor oppressed industrial proletariat of yesteryear, but decadent violent rich assholes who depend on a disposable class of migrant laborers (historically black peasantry) to work for them

web1 - basic websites web2 - social media web3 - decentralization web4 - LLMs hack everything

have pondered this for a bit, and I think my best (too short) answer is "the current GOP is pretty much exclusively run by people who think most victims of sex abuse are liars"

purposely opting yourself out of society and focusing on your cool kid subculture instead of making the world better is the whole point of modern leftism tbf

*Lyndon LaRouche voice* “if Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk walked into wall street and told traders to lick the floor in front of a live audience, i sincerely believe they would do it”

…This is just “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality,” but with Batman and progressivism, isn’t it?

Well thank god France has solved pedophilia

A lot of aspects of "left-wing" antisemitism are dispiriting and depressing, but "why would people fleeing pogroms and genocide not identify with the country perpetrating said pogroms and genocide? must be a global Jewish conspiracy" puts the lie to so many of the values these people purport to hold

I don’t know why this has become part of an our politics but this isn’t even the only “say these exact words or I’ll take it as proof you believe the exact opposite of them!!!!” thing, it’s so stupid

peggy flanagan: i want to commit acts of violence against immigration and customs enforcement replies: wHy Do yOU LoVE iCe??!!1!?

Tbh the insane Trumpian reaction was probably locked in the moment those planes hit the towers and Bush responded to it with anything short of dropping a B61 on Mecca

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

people will argue LLMs are conscious because they can talk, and i would argue that most *people* who talk don't have inner lives either and are basically just glorified autocompletes as well.

Most communists believe that the war in 🇺🇦 is an offensive one by 🇺🇦 on behalf of NATO to regime-change 🇷🇺 and abort the imminent resurgence of the USSR as a counterweight to 🇺🇸 unipolar hegemony By this standard 🇷🇺 is doing very well and 🇺🇦 very poorly since AFU tanks aren’t in Moscow’s suburbs

this is such a catastrophic overcorrection to the myth of the luddites: they were indeed not just rabid primitivists but they were petit bourgeois rent seeking artisans trying to fight against modernization because it leveled the playing field too much and outproduced them

"Nah im built different. I can turn back the wheel with my great leap forward or enough reactionary thought and oh fuck, oh jesus christ, theres blood everywhere"

the amount of american leftists that basically have the khmer rouges attitude towards intellectuals, cities, and technology is insane

guys. guys. we live in a modern society. please stop trying to go backwards.

"the enlightenment was good actually" is somehow controversial on every part of the political spectrum now and i find that to be completely insane

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

One of the weirdest things our supposed leftist writers do is assume the only way to get something is to buy it. Like you can get tons of new titles for free at the library. It’s this weird assumption that social nets, gov services, etc don’t exist, only capital-provided solutions do

If you would please consult the sacred texts.

I don't think someone with a trans flag in bio has fully thought through the implications of "only do something the medieval peasant I imagine would feel safe about"

Also, Democrats winning *did* mean far fewer drone strikes. That really did happen

I love this clip because LL Cool J here is an *actual* curious person open to learning and excited to find out new things vs Joe Rogan who just pretends to be one.

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