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Incidentally fight/don't-fight maps pretty well onto not-crank/crank in terms of Dem constituencies There is actually a coherent political concept, in the current era, behind AOC-Kristol-Bouie Thought
My very strong suspicion is that the left/right axis and the fight/don't-fight axis are in the process of unlinking, and that the fight/don't-fight split is emerging as the core struggle in the Democratic Party.
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Do you mean "artificial intelligence" or "really dumb search terms?" Because they are probably going to deport people from The Bahamas the way they've been using "AI" lately...
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getting into the leo frank conspiracy theory is hardcore nazi shit. hardcore. the most hardcore. this woman has no place in public life
Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online: 🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank 🔎 Great Replacement theory 🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism 🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party
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Pretty clear. The goal here was to do a kind of ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine. They pushed Zelensky past his limit. Trump now says, in essence, you're own your own with Russia. Up to the free states of Europe now.
Trump declares that Zelensky is “not ready for peace,” accuses him of trying to prolong the war using U.S. leverage, and says he’s not welcome back at the White House “until he’s ready for peace.”
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Replying to @dim0kq.bsky.social
I also hint on what would be a just peace for Ukrainians. Read the full opinion here - english.nv.ua/opinion/why...
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Thread on why you don't hate legacy media nearly as much as you should.
(1/X) The next four years are likely to be a disaster in many regards: more plane crashes, more outbreaks of measles and other infectious diseases, snafus with tax refunds and Medicaid payments, terrorist attacks, and probably a recession. The media will tell us none of it is Trump's fault...
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This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over order that State/USAID pay owed contracts by the end of the day. This is coming out of Judge Ali’s Feb. 13 TRO, which he ordered the government to adhere to — with a deadline — in a new order issued on Tuesday.
There's this tendency among right wing politicians and silicon valley types to say the dumbest shit and frame it in this "why do you hate efficiency" or other "just asking questions" ways, knowing their bots and (even dumber) followers will just parrot it. 1/
"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
There's this tendency among right wing politicians and silicon valley types to say the dumbest shit and frame it in this "why do you hate efficiency" or other "just asking questions" ways, knowing their bots and (even dumber) followers will just parrot it. 1/
"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
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Anyone want to wager whether Russia or China would go along with this? Do these illiterates know what happened to the small and medium German states once the Holy Roman Empire was gone?
Even calling Yarvin (or any of these people) midwit is too complimentary. Every part of this is unworkable (and undesirable). Even if they could get it to temporarily happen, all these microduchies would get swallowed up by those that could finance large states.
Exactly. Elon doesn't care when he lies but he looks like a moron when he says things like the USG doesn't use SQL. And his broccoli boys are so incompetent they didn't filter out judicial or natsec accounts from the DOGE email. These subjunior devs can't write a line of code without Copilot.
Stories like this matter because Elon still has lots of soldiers who genuinely believe that he lives up to his "first principles" patter, and puts merit and efficacy first. Experienced tech folks need to make it clear that he and his goons are partisan hacks with "limited technical understanding."
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So many rich guys living a fantasy where they're freeing children from traffickers even as they back a rapist in the White House who is pardoning sex criminals, gutting CSAM investigations, separating kids from parents at the border and endorsing the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia.
You really have no idea where this corporate press release will end up, I encourage you to read the whole thing www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Just as I said, surrendering to Russia makes WWIII more likely, if not imminent, not less.
Polish general Rajmund Andrzejczak: "If Russia attacks even an inch of Lithuanian territory, the response will come immediately. Not on the first day, but in the first minute. We will hit all strategic targets within a radius of 300 km. We will attack St. Petersburg directly". (October 2024 onet.pl)
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‼️ Exceptionally interesting and not particularly optimistic quotes regarding the current state and near future of the Russian economy by Russian business leaders. ⬇️ Worth the read! x.com/natalkakyiv/...
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