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I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

A lot of Trump 2.0 foreign policy involves the Department of Defense spending weeks diligently organizing huge weapon arrays and then, at the last possible moment, presenting Trump with three options that are basically 1. Light 2. Medium and 3. Operation [longtime US adversary] Freedom

Weinermobile

Just watched the Weiner-mobile pick up someone from the airport

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

In the future everyone will receive their affirmations from The Rizz Golem

These laws make sense when you take the perspective that the people who push for them care less about the wellbeing of children and more about being able to enact violence on “acceptable” targets. See also the people who catfish predators at Walmarts

YouTube video by Glee forever Glee - Thong Song (Full Performance HD)

What’s more romantic than a Valentines Day message from this guy? youtu.be/OHiIYz0kofs?...

ugh driving my friend to The Pitt because they have a hot button social issue stuck up their butt again

One issue here is crank convergence, and the escalation ladder of a competitive media environment. The other is that there's no social cost to beliefs anymore, being a 9/11 truther or an anti-vaxer or a Nazi doesn't actually *mean* as much as it used to, because identity has become so cheap.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.

jenna maroney

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

It’s disgusting reading quotes from these wealthy old men complaining about cancel culture with military language like “DEFCON 2” right after reading an article in Al Jazeera about US-made Israeli bombs literally evaporating Palestinian children

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

I saw someone mention HRT and my brain went “Hillary Rodham Trump” and now I’m gonna go lay in the middle of the highway.

need one of those german train-car noun constructions for ‘the sense of betrayal a woman suffers when a thinker who was hugely influential to her turns out to be the same bog standard worthless misogynist as everyone else’

Chuck, I don’t want reasonable, I want all these monsters tried and sentenced

It’s true in the same way that there’s no safe way to drive a car

freddy removing the super bowl mask to reveal thursday night football

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Really highlighted that these people aren’t in academia to think deeply, they’re in it to be around young women

I once bought a book that was a collection of Edge Foundation associates answering the question “has the Internet changed the way you think?” and it was the most boring, least intellectual thing I’ve ever read. A lot of “I guess I use this to grade papers”

Guzzling gurt to Brantley Gilbert

This Super Bowl I’m gonna guzzle the gurt

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

George Michael's lasagna recipe

Somehow I didn't know about George Michael's lasagna recipe until now. Half a jar of mayonnaise and hard-boiled eggs, you say?

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

I think this and the rise of Bari Weiss shows that plenty of very rich people think that the opinion section literally is the news section

This isn’t even worth engaging with, it’s lazy, going-through-the-motions bad faith. The right wing Twitter equivalent of moving your mouse around every ten minutes so your boss sees that your Slack status is active