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Get bent w the phrase “purity test” ffs. Do people not get what they’re saying is “do not have standards”? “Do not change your mind when you learn new facts that are v troubling — & stfu when a person’s actions & explanations around those facts are shifty, hostile & display a lack of maturity?” 🤡

I hope everyone going to the protests today has a nice time and that nothing bad happens to them.

I also hope that they will be thinking of what their next steps will be if there are still kings afterwards.

*conservatives* are more free to speak their minds, which means Americans are more free, because the people being censored are "un-American"

that's the essence of conservative logic

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

They've had years and infinite money, and yet there has been no AI book that everyone is reading, no AI music artist that has the song of the summer, no AI movie anyone wants to watch. Seems like they should have even one of those before they get to say that's the future

Every third character is named something like Glunko Spingle, would Sheev even stand out as silly?

PANEL 1: A guy sporting a pin shaped like a monster leans over to a big glass tube full of skin in the close foreground. GUY: Hey Geoff. I see you're not wearing a Bone Farmer memorial pin? PANEL 2: GEOFF, the skin pile, starts to talk, over the shoulder of the GUY. GEOFF: I mean, it'd be kind of tough to– GUY: It's bone farmer memorial day. GUY: We're all remembering all the good stuff he did. PANEL 3: The GUY dabs away a tear. GEOFF: Like what? Name one thing. GUY: Shh! I'm remembering it all right now. Silently. PANEL 4: THE GUY, dialing a phone. GUY: It's like you don't even know the rules of the day? GUY: I'm going to call the cops.

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The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read

And incredibly damning

Huge recommendation

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

What genres are you interested in?

super hans was right

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff

Everyone: oh, like what?

Every centrist hagiographer: very important things

Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said?

Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

this is just a historical observation but one of the things that creates the conditions for political violence is when the entire political establishment decides to join in on the oppression of the same people, therefore making the improvement of their conditions via legitimate means impossible

"but what if the right wing take this shooting as an excuse to do stochastic terrorism in turn"

ok so first of all congrats about finally getting out of that fifteen year coma but before you say anything else ive got some very bad news about like literally everything

These demands for gratitude are statements of implied supremacy bordering on the language of abusers: What you do has no validity unless you are endlessly obsequious to those who claim to be your betters.

The most poisonous idea that has gotten into any kind of political organising is the idea that power cares about your argument.

It should be clear, given how much talking the people with power do in the open these days, that these are not people who are capable of understanding an argument.

Most (good) solutions are proposed not by newcomers, but by people who understand an issue deeply.

There are exceptions, of course, but generally, if a solution seems "obvious", it's because you don't understand the problem as well as you think. 🧵

Every conservative is the hardest-ass direct-confrontation animal you've ever heard until they see a single homeless person or cool S spraypainted on a wall, then they shit themselves so hard there's bone marrow in it.

The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework

oh is tourism down across the board in the united states, that’s crazy

our new slogan “we will throw you in a fucking prison camp” doesn’t seem to be gaining traction with the tourism sector

It’s been said that a lot of American politics can be explained by poor people thinking of themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” but I think in 2025 we need to add that toms of people think of themselves as temporarily imprisoned concentration camp guards

Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.

the “the left needs to stop shaming masculinity!!!” talking point is always so funny to me bc it isnt the left who is telling men theyre inherently violent lust-driven creatures enslaved to their own biology who need to cruelly dominate everyone and everything or else theyre worthless

"the child actually has pre-existing conditions" is exactly, exactly the same sort of argumentation I've seen Holocaust deniers use. "Oh no it wasn't the gas Chambers it was typhus."

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.

Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.

As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

Tweet from AIPAC: "Despicable blood libel from @SenSanders . Shocking but not surprising that Sanders doesn’t even mention Hamas in this hate-filled rant. Why is @BernieSanders so afraid to call out Hamas for rejecting ceasefire offers that would stop the fighting, free hostages, and surge aid?"

Saying that Bernie Sanders, a Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust, is committing "blood libel" for criticizing the Netanyahu government's starvation campaign stretches the meaning of that term so much as to render it meaningless.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.