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there are no monsters, only men

The deepest and truest answer to Yglesias's point, by the way, is that no man is an island, that all of humankind are bound together in an inescapable web of mutual dependence and therefore obligation, and that this entails the moral necessity of some kind of world government

Wonder if there's something to look into here with the NYU of it all. His gigantic son goes to that school, which doesn't make much sense, considering what NYU is and what he is. Why?

ruthless "pragmatists" who turn their nose up out of electoral victory concerns at red state trans refusers to force down voting for anti-trans Dems should have no worries, their cowardice and Republican oppression has already driven out enough trans voters to make the argument moot

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Lula Goes HARD

Lula has won. I will get a pussy

lula fuckin did it man

An attempt to document important facts concerning AI Safety, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationalism and San Francisco Effective Altruism tldr definitely a millenarian death cult www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

i fuckin hate Oklahoma for being a shithole run by fascists but what makes it better than Texas is that at least no one from Oklahoma acts like it ain't anything more than mid. Mid is still delusional, Oklahoma's a shithole, but it's still more modest than Texas

any time i hear about the prohibition and risks of drunk driving, all I can think of is how 99% of bars and liquor stores in the south have a parking lot.

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

They took pictures of my teeth and now they're in front of me. No...please .... my bones. I think those should be private. Put them away, thank you

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

idk what they got goin on at the grocery store but if ur a real life, frfr person, youve got something fucked up if ur buying 13 dollar frozen spinach quiches

To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?

sending this to my dad to make him mad at Trump tagging @sharonk.bsky.social bc the american beef industry shrinking is good for the climate

the city is the best answer for mass human settlement and the invention that enabled the suburb is causing a mass extinction event due to significantly increasing the temperature of the atmosphere

that’s right

The Israeli political consensus is that it is essential for the State of Israel to continue to deny self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population indefinitely, and virtually no mainstream American analysis will even engage with this.