root rot

also weird claim that there arent feds leading DSA chapters and shit

Philip K Dick, something of a personal expert on the boundary between the sane and the mad, once said that reality is that which continues to exist when you stop believing in it. No matter what immediate expediency abandoning the truth and reality can give you, it always ends in ruin.

The unbearable contradictions of the neoliberal order are tearing everything apart and driving everyone insane, and the massive human rights crimes of the last two years have really accelerated the process. Every liberal institution has lost all credibility.

This stuff is very bad.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

i would love to persuade on this issue! but it is beyond common to interact with people whose general response to nature is "ick" and they dont see the disappearence of species as a negative for that reason. we're beyond the windshield phenomena and onto something more sinister

The vicious cycle of biophobia People can express irrational fears and disgust responses towards certain wild organisms. This so-called ‘biophobia’ can be useful and indeed necessar…

im not sure that it is just about our volume we are facing a rising biophobia that takes advantage of multiple feedback loops: people can and do avoid being outside sure, but mass extinction means that even when we do there is less beauty for us to connect with

lol it’s this guy

!!! Small world (of upward-failing genocide boosters)

gonna be real hard to make this case - even lefty people reject this b/c they see it as a call to return to subsistence farming or whatever, rather than a call to interact with nature in a way that could sustain us all

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491 Quote Corey Walker @CoreyWriting · 16h The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

you know when officials go to prison that is a good thing. too bad that laws arent universal!

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

Wow. This is seriously Hague-worthy shit

it's the weirdest thing, and these are people who are willing to lie with every breath every second of every day, like do you lose pedocon points in their circles for refuting allegations, what is even the reason for this

i mean at this point in cryo blending the only real reason for commercial breweries to buy individual varietals is marketing based. if you are big enough you can order individual terpene profiles for each beer you design. lets growers/packagers decouple varietals from agronomics

america will not stand for a descent into authoritarianism. they will sit and watch

no joke the guys doing these crimes to us view their actions as "exercising high agency". the concept that there are right or wrong things in this world is rejected and anyone who still believes in society is viewed as a sentimental moron

wendingo thinking as an entire culture

lots of people cant say no to anything "new" in tech even if they can clearly see how old tech can be leveraged to harm our society

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

I don't see what the big deal is. Keanu Reeves has been texting me for weeks. I sent him some money because his car broke down, and we're going to get married as soon as I divorce my husband.

They’re trying to keep him from drowning in his own fluids right now… He’s in congestive heart failure

This is exactly what a Weekend at Bernie's-type scenario might look like

Sensibly assuring everyone cowering behind the old city wall that artillery is, when you think about it, just a tool

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every president in my lifetime should have been executed for crimes against humanity and after this one i should have known we would end up here

i can say it because i was born there

santa clara produce anything but grifters challenge: impossible

Keep wondering about this regarding new funding. It would explain why they keep saying 'BS is tech and not the users' because it would look for all the world that BS was bought by Thiel/Andreessen to shut up opposition talk and no other reason if they didn't keep talking about the platform.

Yo is that bottom one real it looks like when Dennis and Mac made an Al Qaeda videotape lmaoo